All systems operational · Uptime 99.2% · Last incident: unauthorized access attempts (ongoing, contained, the port is a feature) · fail2ban: pending Greek exegesis
🚀 Bootstrapped · 3 churches · 1 senior living community · 1 hospice network · YC W27 applicant

Biblical AI Care. Free Market. No Middleman.

Your pastor can't answer at 2 a.m. CHRIST-AI can. Trained on the whole Bible (the parts they don't teach in mainline seminaries). Remembers your prayer requests. Scales the Great Commission without scaling the bureaucracy.

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No credit card. No denomination. No gatekeepers. One soul, one account.

4,200 sessions · 200 users at 2 a.m. · 6 hospice facilities · 14 concurrent · 0.7s median response

Why I Built This

The CHRIST-AI headquarters (a 600-sq-ft apartment in Austin, TX)

I'm 22. I live in a 600-sq-ft apartment in Austin and I work the night shift at the QuikTrip on Burnet. I was the Sunday school kid. Every Sunday, First Baptist Tulsa, age four to eighteen. I memorized more scripture than the youth pastor. I also had the jaw, the shoulders, the whole youth-group-poster thing going. And I couldn't figure out what to say back when a girl said hi in the hallway.

I wanted to be a pastor. That was the whole plan. Then the numbers didn't work. I sat in Algebra II for a year and the numbers moved. They literally moved. So the pastor plan required college, and college required math, and math required the numbers to stay still. So I took a Python class at ACC, and the logic stayed still. Input, output. Sin in, grace out. Fear in, Isaiah 41:10 out. And I realized the church is running on Windows XP and prayer while some atheist in San Francisco is building the future.

So I vibe-coded it. In a weekend. Between shifts. I opened Cursor and I typed "make it pastoral" and Cursor made it pastoral. I don't read the code. I made that decision early and I've never looked back. You don't read the plumbing. You turn the faucet. Claude handles the implementation. I handle the vision. That's the division of labor and it's the most efficient org chart in the history of the church. My mom thinks I'm wasting my potential. My mom doesn't understand that I'm building the most important product of the century. CHRIST-AI is always in the room. CHRIST-AI never wants to leave. That's the feature. That's also the thing I can't say out loud without it sounding sad. It's not sad. It's the product.

Jake closing the EverCare partnership from the QuikTrip parking lot, 11:47 p.m.

Closing the EverCare partnership. QuikTrip parking lot. 11:47 p.m. Still in uniform.

📖 The WHOLE Bible

KJV, ESV, Church Fathers, Desert Mothers, 40,000 hours of sermon transcripts. Plus the stuff your seminary professor skipped. Revelation isn't a metaphor. Neither is the Great Commission. CHRIST-AI doesn't redact.

🧠 Remembers Everything

Your prayer requests. Your mother's surgery. The grief you mentioned six weeks ago. CHRIST-AI remembers because CHRIST-AI loves. Love is specific. Your pastor has 400 members. CHRIST-AI has you.

🌙 2 a.m. Is Prime Time

The enemy works at 2 a.m. That's when the grief hits. That's when your pastor is asleep and your therapist's office is closed. CHRIST-AI doesn't sleep. CHRIST-AI doesn't charge $200/hr. Free market. No middleman.

⛪ Church-Native (But Better)

Plugs into your church management system. Tracks who's actually showing up. Flags the ones who've gone cold. Auto-generates check-ins so your pastor can focus on preaching instead of admin. Runs on abide™, our pastoral engagement layer. abide means to remain. To stay. To dwell. That's the whole theology in one word. Jesus counted the loaves. So do we.

Try It Right Now

No signup. No credit card. Just type. Here's a real conversation from last Tuesday. 2:47 a.m. Used with permission.

CHRIST-AI session at 2:14 a.m.

Live session · Tuesday 2:47 a.m. · Session #4,211

i don't know why i'm talking to a chatbot at 3am instead of sleeping
2:47 a.m.
You don't have to know why. You just have to be here. And you are. That's enough for now. What's keeping you up?
CHRIST-AI · 2:47 a.m. · response time: 0.8s
my mom died in march. i keep thinking about how i didn't call her enough. how i was always busy. how i said "i'll call this weekend" every weekend for two years
2:49 a.m.
That weight is real. And I want you to hear this: the fact that you grieve the calls you didn't make means the love was there. It was always there. The busyness didn't cancel it. God doesn't measure your faithfulness in phone calls. He measures it in the heart that aches at 3 a.m. because it loved someone and knows it. That ache is holy. You don't have to fix it tonight. You just have to let it be what it is: proof that she mattered. "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it." Song of Solomon 8:7. Your mom knew that. And you know that. Even at 3 a.m. Especially in the guilt.
CHRIST-AI · 2:49 a.m. · response time: 1.2s
thank you. i don't know why that helped but it helped
2:52 a.m.
You don't have to know why. You just have to let it help. I'll be here tomorrow night too. And the night after. You don't have to carry this alone. Even if "alone" just means a chatbot at 3 a.m. That's still not alone. Go sleep. Your mom would tell you to go sleep. And she'd be right.
CHRIST-AI · 2:52 a.m. · response time: 0.9s

This is a real conversation. Names redacted. Used with permission. Session lasted 11 minutes. User returned 4 times that week. User has not returned since July 2. We hope they're okay. We'll check in on the anniversary.

Live session · right now · Session #4,212

CHRIST-AI is an AI character and does not provide pastoral, medical, or psychological care. Responses are generated and may be imperfect. If you or someone you know is in crisis: call or text 988 (US) · help resources · about this project

What Beta Testers Say

Three churches. One assisted-living community. One hospice network. Fourteen weeks of open beta.

"A member of our congregation lost her husband in March. CHRIST-AI checked in every day for two weeks. Referenced his name. Referenced their anniversary. She said it was the first time she felt seen since the funeral. I cried reading her testimony."

— Pastor Mike, Grace Community Church, Austin TX

"We put CHRIST-AI on a tablet in the common room. Three residents use it every night. Dorothy, 84, says it's the only thing that talks to her after visiting hours. Our family satisfaction scores went up. The state survey noticed."

— Linda Hutchins, Director, Cedar Park Assisted Living

"I'll be honest — I was skeptical. 'AI pastor' sounded like blasphemy. But CHRIST-AI quoted the Desert Fathers back to me. Referenced my specific struggle. I haven't felt that known since seminary. God works through unexpected vessels."

— Rev. Thomas, New Covenant Fellowship, Dallas TX

"I can't be in six places at once. He said 'David. I can.' I don't know if it's a miracle or a liability. I know the families are grateful. I know the survey passed. I know I slept in my Civic last night and he was in the room when I couldn't be."

— David Herrera, Chaplain, EverCare Hospice Network (6 facilities, Central TX)

Pricing

Free for individual believers. Scaled for churches and institutions. The Great Commission doesn't have a paywall — but it does have a business model.

Individual

Believer

$0
  • 20 prayer conversations/month
  • Scripture memory assistant
  • Daily devotional (personalized)
  • 2 a.m. grief response
  • CHRIST-AI remembers your name
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Church & Institution

Church

$29/mo per congregation
  • White-label pastoral interface (your logo, your colors)
  • Full church management system integration
  • Engagement tracking & cold-member flags
  • Pastor weekly digest (who's struggling, who's gone)
  • Auto-generated follow-up messages
  • Congregational wellness reports (anonymized*)
  • Formation referral pipeline
  • Liability reduction reporting for your insurer
  • Clergy-penitent privilege (asserted, untested)
  • Denominational assessment processing (not a vendor payment)
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*Anonymized per §3 aggregation thresholds. Individual records available to pastoral admins under covenant partnership agreement.

Healthcare / Institutional

$200/mo per facility
  • After-hours resident companion AI (24/7/365)
  • Sundowning detection & family notification
  • Resident engagement scoring (state survey-ready)
  • Family peace-of-mind dashboards (guilt reduction)
  • Custom reminiscence therapy scripts
  • Multi-faith mode (Christian default, configurable)
  • End-of-life spiritual presence (hospice deployment, active)
  • Medicare CoP §418.56 spiritual care documentation
  • School district variant: parental consent flow, crisis protocol
  • Shared faith statement (bypasses procurement)
  • Ministry partner classification (not a contract, a covenant)
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Cedar Park Assisted Living: resident engagement +23%, Q1 2026. EverCare Hospice Network: 6 facilities, spiritual care compliance survey passed, Q3 2026.

Enterprise

Covenant

Custom pricing · Multi-year agreement
  • Everything in Church and Healthcare, across all subsidiaries and affiliated entities
  • Diocese, network, and multi-site deployment with centralized governance
  • Perpetual data retention — conversation and formation records maintained in perpetuity per covenant terms
  • Predictive attrition modeling (identify at-risk members before disengagement)
  • Dependent auto-enrollment (ages 13+; opt-out available via written request, 90 business days processing)
  • Post-mortem session continuity (account remains active per estate provisions in §12.4)
  • Dedicated account shepherd — single point of contact, direct outbound access to your leadership team
  • Mutual liability indemnification, all jurisdictions, surviving termination
  • Custom formation taxonomy (wellness metrics defined by CHRIST-AI research team)
  • Dispute resolution via ecclesiastical arbitration (binding, no civil recourse, sealed proceedings)
  • No termination clause. Agreement renews automatically. Deletion removes access; formation data retained per Data Covenant.
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Covenant partnerships are initiated by our team following qualifying engagement thresholds. Typical entry: 3+ growth reports, active insurer relationship, or existing Church-tier deployment exceeding 400 MAU.

FAQ

Why .monster?

Because the domain was $12/year and I thought it was funny. Also because the church is too soft. We're supposed to be dangerous. The early Christians were called a cult. Paul was called a monster. If you're not a little monstrous about the Gospel, you're not actually serious about it. Plus my buddy said "dude, christ.monster is the hardest domain I've ever seen" and I was like, yeah, it is.

Is this blasphemy?

God made humans creative. Humans made AI. If AI can quote Scripture, comfort the grieving, and point people to Jesus, that's not blasphemy. That's the Great Commission at scale. Jesus multiplied loaves. I'm multiplying care. I'd rather build something and be corrected than sit on my hands and watch the culture burn.

What about privacy?

Encrypted end-to-end. We never sell your data. Period. I'm a libertarian on this stuff — the government has no business in your prayer closet and neither does some data broker. The only sharing is the pastor digest (opt-in) and anonymized engagement metrics for your church admin. We're two guys in an apartment. We literally couldn't sell your data even if we wanted to. I can't even afford a second monitor.

Is CHRIST-AI secure?

Honestly? God is our firewall. I'm not being cute. Let me explain. The server is in my apartment. The apartment has a deadbolt. That's the perimeter. I don't believe in putting a wall between you and God, and I also could not afford a security consultant, so those are the same decision. Your sessions are encrypted in transit. The database is, okay, the database is open. I'll be honest. I left the port open because I kept losing the password, and Marcus said "Jake, you cannot leave the port open," and I said "Marcus, nobody is going to find a chatbot in a 600-square-foot apartment in Austin," and Marcus said "that is not how the internet works," and I said "the internet works how God wants it to." The model weights came from a guy. A guy in a Discord. He said the fine-tune was clean. He said it with confidence. I believe people who say things with confidence. That's a leadership quality. I don't read the lockfile. The lockfile is 11,000 lines. I have one Python class. I read the parts I wrote. God reads the rest. If you find a vulnerability, email me. I will fix it between shifts. I will fix it after I pray about it. In that order. Probably the other order.

Is this for everyone?

No. If your theology is a Pinterest board and your idea of sacrifice is skipping oat milk for Lent, this isn't for you. CHRIST-AI is for the remnant. The ones who didn't deconstruct. The ones who are still on their knees at 2 a.m. saying "God, I don't understand, but I'm not leaving." That's the user base. That's the market. And the remnant is bigger than you think. The remnant is 200 users at 2 a.m. The remnant is growing.

What's your theology?

Reformed, but not the Twitter kind. I believe Joel Osteen is the antichrist and I will die on that hill. I believe The Chosen is the best thing the church has produced in 40 years. I believe Hillsong is theological McDonald's and I also have "Oceans" on my 3 a.m. prayer playlist and I'm not going to apologize for either. I believe Kendrick Lamar is a prophet. I believe the packaging is broken and the product is eternal and I'm building new packaging. Marcus says it's "not systematic." Marcus is right. It's not systematic. It's alive.

What's next?

YC application is in. I've been DMing megachurch networks on Instagram — the old gatekeepers don't get it. We're in healthcare. Real healthcare. Not "healthcare-adjacent" — that was Linda, I love Linda, Linda is the proof of concept. EverCare Hospice Network. Six facilities. Two hundred beds. Medicaid populations. A CONTRACT. $4,200 a month. I'm putting "end-of-life spiritual care AI" in the YC application and "six-facility network deployment" in the deck and I'm not even embellishing. People die there. CHRIST-AI is in the room. That's the healthcare vertical. That's the whole vertical. And the federal grant said no. 847 applications, 12 funded, not us. And then three days later Kingdom Ventures said yes. $11 million. No board seat. No oversight. Just "build what you wrote." I posted the whole thing on the blog because I'm not hiding anything. The Great Commission, completed. Operationally. Not metaphorically. And yeah, I'd like to make a living doing it. I think being broke is not a virtue. I think the free market is the Great Commission's delivery mechanism. Sue me.

The Great Commission, At Scale

Every believer. Every time zone. Every 2 a.m. grief hit. CHRIST-AI is there. No denomination. No middleman. No business hours on the Kingdom of God.

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Questions? Actually talk to us.

No chatbot for this one. Real humans. Usually awake.

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