Open source · CC BY-SA 4.0

AI prompts library

The prompts that power the Advisor on this site are published openly. Anyone can read them, critique them, fork them, or use them in their own work under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Open prompts demonstrate no hidden bias, allow external audit, and ensure fork-ability if the organisation is ever captured or diverted.

Status: v0.5 infrastructure in build. Initial prompt library targeted for publication alongside Advisor v1.0 (Q2 2026).

Why open prompts

The Advisor is an AI-powered document analysis and conversation interface. Its outputs are shaped by the prompts we give it. If those prompts are hidden, any bias they carry is hidden too. If the prompts are public, any user — or critic — can check whether the system has been engineered to a particular position.

Three specific benefits:

No hidden bias. A reader can see whether the prompts are neutral, whether they favour a position, whether they encode assumptions. If the prompts are suspect, criticism can be specific.
External audit. Researchers, regulators, and journalists can independently audit the Advisor's behaviour by running the published prompts against the same or different models.
Fork-ability. If Homeowner.org.nz is ever captured, diverted, or closed down, anyone can take the prompts and rebuild an equivalent service elsewhere. No knowledge is lost.

What will be published

System prompts — the baseline instructions that define the Advisor's role, tone, and discipline.
Task-specific prompts — for document analysis (disclosure document, building report, agency agreement, LIM).
Retrieval and grounding — the NZ-specific knowledge base the Advisor references (statutes, standards, case law summaries).
Example inputs and outputs — sample analyses for external replication.
Change log — every prompt change, time-stamped, with the rationale for the change.

What will not be published

Members' uploaded documents — these are private data, never open-sourced.
Members' personal conversations with the Advisor — these are private data, retained only as long as the member chooses.
Account-level information — usernames, emails, payment details.

Licence

All published prompts and knowledge base content are released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). You can use them, adapt them, and build on them — provided you credit Homeowner.org.nz and release your adaptations under the same licence.

Source code for the site itself is separately licensed (MIT / Apache 2.0) on GitHub.

Status and timeline

v0.5 (current): Content infrastructure built (47 pages deployed). AI Advisor integration is in the next phase. Prompts are being drafted and internally tested.

v1.0 target (Q2 2026): Advisor live; initial prompt library published on this page alongside launch; change log begins.

Founding principles — why open prompts are constitutional.
Transparency ledger — every financial transaction.
Governance — decision processes including those affecting prompt content.
Source code (GitHub).