Version 4 of the Anselm Project is live. This is essentially a ground-up redesign of every page on the platform, plus a set of structural changes to how the reports and Bible reader work. I'll walk through what changed and why.
Design System
The most obvious thing is the visual overhaul. V3 ran on a light or dark mode palette with Cinzel headings, which I was never fully happy with. V4 moves to midnight blue (#0f172a) with gold accents, Playfair Display for headings, and Cormorant Garamond for body text. There are now nine background themes available in settings — six dark, three light — all built on CSS variables, so switching is instant. If you want simple black or white, that's there. If you want something with more color, that's there too. Pick what you read best in.
Navigation
The top bar is new: Anselm logo, Reports, Bible, Lexicon, Blog. The old Tools menu is gone — the Lexicon is now top-level nav where it belongs, and everything else has been consolidated into Reports. Creating reports, browsing the Shared Gallery, managing collections — it's all one place. You log in and land directly on Reports.
Most pages now have a left sidebar TOC for navigation and filtering — Reports, the Bible reader, the Lexicon, the Blog, the new About and APB pages. It makes jumping around within a page considerably easier.
Bible Reader
The Bible reader is largely the same engine as V3. Parallel mode, the exegesis drawer, all five translation modes — those were already there. What's new is the left sidebar navigation, which groups books by biblical section and keeps reference search at the top. It's a cleaner way to move around the canon than what V3 had. The reader also picked up the new color scheme along with everything else.
Reports
The report list got restructured. V3 had a mixed grid that awkwardly separated "special" report types from the main list. V4 is a clean sequential layout with a left sidebar that lets you filter by type: All Reports, Bookmarks, Devotional, Teaching, Scholarly, Character, Topical, Apologetics, Synod, Audio, and the Shared Gallery, which has moved from the top Tools menu into the Reports sidebar where it belongs.
Collections are now on the right panel — create, filter, delete, and a horizontal chip bar on mobile.
The report viewer itself now pages section by section with a TOC sidebar instead of loading everything at once. On mobile that becomes a bottom sheet drawer with a progress bar and prev/next navigation. Text size slider is there for reading comfort.
Lexicon
The sidebar filter system is worth calling out — you can filter by language (All, Hebrew, Greek), sort by frequency or alphabetically, and jump by letter. Entry display now shows the original script, transliteration, part of speech badge, gloss, and a frequency bar. The stats footer shows total lemma and instance counts. Entry detail includes book distribution.
The Lexicon is linked from the Anselm Project Bible reader now, so moving between word analysis and full lexicon entries is a direct path.
What Didn't Change
The engines themselves — the report generation pipeline, the mixture-of-experts architecture, the APB translation — are untouched. V4 is a platform and design overhaul, not a model update. The scholarly reports generate the same way they did before. The Synod runs the same. I'm happy with the quality of what the engines produce and didn't want to risk regression chasing improvement on both fronts simultaneously.
V4 is live now. If you run into anything broken, you know where to find me.
God bless, everyone.
Key Terms
The site's in-house translation of the biblical text, produced by the Anselm translation pipeline and shown alongside the original Hebrew and Greek.
The architecture used by the Anselm report generator, which routes sections of a report to specialized models rather than relying on a single generalist model.
Anselm's multi-perspective report type that runs several theological voices in parallel and then reconciles them into a single document.
