What's New in Lightspeed
The latest features, tools, and improvements we've shipped to help lottery operators work faster and smarter.
Heartbeat Evolves: 9 New Intelligence Sections for Shopify
→Heartbeat adds hourly sales heatmaps, revenue by ticket price, buyer loyalty breakdowns, repeat buyer tracking, payment methods, fulfillment status, risk monitoring, and sales channel insights — all computed live from the Shopify API.
Ask Lightspeed Gets Even Smarter
→Ask Lightspeed can now search the web for real-time, verified answers with source links — plus inline charts, smarter follow-up suggestions, and faster responses with prompt caching.
Insights Engine Gets a Major Upgrade
→The Insights Engine now understands charitable lotteries like you do — with lottery-aware sales analysis, automatic Top 10 Buyers, 5x more data coverage, and a smarter, more encouraging tone.
Introducing Heartbeat: Live Raffle Sales Monitoring
→A real-time operations dashboard with live sales velocity, stock-ticker sparklines, surge detection, payment breakdowns, and persistent 7-day trend history that survives restarts.
Shopify Analytics: Order Lookup & Sales Insights in Ask Lightspeed
→Ask Lightspeed can now look up Shopify orders, search customers, and summarize your sales data — plus a full analytics dashboard with trends, top products, and regional breakdowns.
Introducing the Compliance Assistant
→A dedicated AI agent for lottery and raffle regulatory guidance — grounded in official source material, cited to the legislation, starting with Ontario and expanding across Canada and the USA.
Lightspeed AI Is Now Agentic
→Lightspeed AI doesn't just answer questions anymore — it takes action. Multi-step workflows, cross-tool orchestration, and autonomous task completion are here.
Introducing Home Base: A Team Bulletin Board Built Into Lightspeed
→Rich text posts, emoji reactions, threaded comments, custom categories, link previews, draft posts, drag-to-reorder pins, and admin analytics — all without leaving Lightspeed.
Introducing Runway: A Visual Content Calendar for Your Team
→Plan your content on a full calendar with month and week views, drag-and-drop rescheduling, recurring events, color-coded categories, and instant search.
Lightspeed Gets Smarter: Draft Assistant Redesign, Semantic Search & 9 Intelligence Features
→The biggest update since launch. Type-specific Draft panels, multi-variant generation, campaign sequences, semantic KB search, feedback analytics, content calendar, and platform-wide intelligence upgrades.
Voice Fingerprinting, Conversation Memory & Cross-Tool Awareness
→Lightspeed now learns your organization's voice, remembers past conversations across your team, and connects your workflow between every tool.
Thread Replies in Response Assistant
→Paste a full email thread and get a reply that understands the entire conversation — no repeated context, no awkward restarts.
Model Selector for Ask Lightspeed
→Choose between Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5 directly in Ask Lightspeed — match the right model to every task.
5-Step Onboarding Wizard
→A guided setup experience that walks new organizations through configuration in five simple steps, replacing the old single-field modal.
Ask Lightspeed Major Upgrade
→Six powerful new capabilities including persistent conversations, follow-up refinements, source citations, teach mode, and team collaboration.
Rules of Play Generator
→A dedicated tool for charitable lottery operators to generate, customize, and maintain compliant Rules of Play documents with AI assistance.
Real-Time Streaming Responses
→AI responses now stream in real time across all Lightspeed tools, so you see results as they're generated instead of waiting for the full response.
Multilingual Support: French & Spanish
→Lightspeed now generates AI responses in English, French, and Spanish with a simple language toggle — no translation tools needed.
Draft Assistant Writing Studio
→A completely redesigned two-column writing experience that gives you more space to compose, edit, and refine marketing and communications content.
Agent Instructions & Quick Chips
→Customize how Lightspeed's AI responds with freeform instructions and one-click quick chips for common adjustments like tone, length, and format.
Microsoft 365 Sign-In
→Sign in to Lightspeed with your Microsoft 365 or Outlook account alongside existing Google authentication.
The Knowledge Base & Feedback Loop
→The system that makes Lightspeed get smarter over time — a curated knowledge repository paired with a thumbs-up/down feedback loop that improves every response.
Deep Dive: Ask Lightspeed
→Your organization's always-available AI assistant for operational questions, donor emails, sponsorship strategies, and everything that doesn't fit a template.
Deep Dive: The Draft Assistant
→Create polished marketing emails, media releases, social media posts, and campaign content in minutes — all grounded in your organization's voice.
Deep Dive: The Response Assistant
→Lightspeed's flagship tool for generating accurate, knowledge-base-grounded customer service responses in seconds instead of minutes.
Introducing Lightspeed
→AI-powered tools built specifically for charitable lottery operators — making customer service, marketing, and operations dramatically faster and more consistent.