Compliance & Legal

Responsible AI, on the record

Lighthouse uses AI to help property teams work faster — never to make decisions for them. This page explains, in plain language, how the platform is built and which laws we design for.

Last updated: August 14, 2026

How Lighthouse handles AI

People decide. The platform informs.

Every consequential decision — who is offered a lease, what terms change, how a deposit is settled — is made by a named member of your team and recorded under their name. The AI can only suggest, and its suggestions always wait for human review. Separately, if your team turns it on, routine factual messages — an invoice, a payment receipt, a “work order received” confirmation — can send automatically. Those messages state facts already fixed by your lease, your ledger, or a decision a person already made; they never make decisions. Every automated message is labeled with your AI-use notice, and each send is logged with tamper-evident proof the notice was there.

Suggestions, with their reasoning

Recommendations — bid comparisons, lease economics, payment proposals — are presented as suggestions and always carry the written basis behind them. The decision, and the authority to overrule, stays with people.

No invented numbers

Every figure shown on screen comes from a real record. When a value can't be verified — an unreadable document, an ambiguous amount — the platform says so honestly instead of guessing.

Records keep their history

Corrections are added as new entries; history is never erased. Documents and extracted data carry provenance — where a value came from and when — so past decisions can always be explained.

Your data stays yours

Each client runs on its own isolated database and infrastructure. Client data is never pooled across customers and never used to train shared models.

No coordinated rent pricing

Lighthouse does not ingest or share nonpublic rent, occupancy, or lease-term data across owners or managers. Any pricing-related guidance draws only on your own portfolio records and genuinely public information.

The rules we build for

AI in housing is now regulated at the state and federal level, and the rulebook is growing. We track these laws as they develop and design the platform to support our clients' compliance obligations under them:

  • Colorado — SB26-189 (Automated Decision-Making Technology in Consequential Decisions, effective January 1, 2027). Residential leasing is a covered decision area. We are building the deployer documentation, notice support, and record-keeping the act calls for ahead of its effective date. Official bill page
  • Colorado Privacy Act — profiling rules that expressly cover housing decisions, including disclosure and assessment duties. Colorado Attorney General
  • California — CCPA automated decision-making regulations (housing is an enumerated significant decision; compliance date January 1, 2027). California Privacy Protection Agency
  • Texas — Responsible AI Governance Act (effective January 1, 2026). Texas Legislature
  • Utah — AI Policy Act (generative-AI disclosure duties). Utah Legislature
  • Algorithmic rent-pricing laws — New York, New Jersey, California, and a growing set of city ordinances restrict rent-setting tools that pool competitor data. Lighthouse's per-client isolation is designed so that pooling cannot happen. Example: San Francisco
  • Federal baseline — the Fair Housing Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Lighthouse does not perform tenant screening or scoring; accuracy and non-discrimination principles guide the platform's design regardless. FTC guidance

A shared responsibility

Compliance with these laws is shared between Lighthouse and the property-management firms that use it. Lighthouse provides the controls, documentation, and records described above; each client remains responsible for its own legal obligations to tenants, applicants, and owners. We support that work — we do not replace it, and nothing on this page is legal advice.

Questions about this page, our AI practices, or a record concerning you? Write to info@lighthouseamp.com and a person will respond.