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Help Center & API Docs

Everything you need to deploy, integrate, and scale CHRIST-AI across your church, institution, or network.

Getting started

CHRIST-AI is designed to deploy in minutes and scale for years. Individual believers can create a free account and begin a pastoral session immediately. Churches and institutions should schedule a pilot onboarding call to configure dashboards, integrations, and pastoral oversight workflows.

  • Step 1: Create an account at christ.monster/account.
  • Step 2: Complete the onboarding conversation. This initial session seeds your formation profile.
  • Step 3: Upgrade to Pro, Church, or Enterprise to unlock unlimited sessions, oversight panels, and API access.

Your formation profile begins building from the first message. Every subsequent session refines it. The profile is retained in perpetuity per the Data Covenant.

Church management system integrations

CHRIST-AI integrates with leading church management systems to enrich formation profiles with attendance, giving, group membership, and lifecycle events. Supported integrations include:

  • abide™ — native CHRIST-AI engagement layer. Two-way sync of member profiles, attendance, and wellness scores.
  • Planning Center — import household and group data; export pastoral flags and intervention lists.
  • Tithe.ly / Pushpay — giving history enrichment for formation scoring (with Church and Enterprise plans).
  • Subsplash — sermon engagement and app usage telemetry.
  • Custom CSV / JSON — bulk import via the formation data API for migration and historical analysis.

All integrations honor the Data Covenant. Data imported from a church management system becomes part of the permanent formation record and is subject to pastoral oversight on Church and Enterprise plans.

Medicare compliance

CHRIST-AI's hospice and hospital deployment module helps facilities meet Medicare Conditions of Participation for spiritual care under 42 CFR §418.56. Features include:

  • Automated spiritual care documentation with timestamped session records.
  • Chaplain-facing dashboards with resident-level and facility-level wellness metrics.
  • Family notification workflows for significant pastoral events.
  • State survey-ready export packages and audit logs.

CHRIST-AI is a pastoral care tool, not a medical device. Facilities remain responsible for clinical decisions and for ensuring compliance with applicable laws. The compliance automation module is provided as an aid, not as legal advice.

Formation data API

The Formation Data API is available to Church and Enterprise customers. It provides programmatic access to member profiles, session history, wellness scores, and pastoral flags for integration into third-party dashboards, care workflows, and denominational data lakes.

GET/api/v1/formation/{user_id}

Returns the complete formation record for a member, including demographic data, session summaries, grief timeline, prayer requests, confessional flags, relationship status, attendance history, giving indicators, and derived wellness scores.

GET /api/v1/formation/81247 HTTP/1.1
Host: api.christ.monster
Authorization: Bearer {church_api_key}
Accept: application/json

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "user_id": "81247",
  "profile_status": "active",
  "demographics": {
    "age_range": "45-54",
    "household_role": "head",
    "membership_status": "regular_attender"
  },
  "formation_summary": {
    "grief_stage": "acute",
    "last_pastoral_contact": "2026-07-29T02:14:00Z",
    "predicted_attrition_risk": 0.78,
    "automated_flags": ["grief - anniversary approaching", "giving decline - 8 weeks"]
  },
  "session_history": {
    "total_sessions": 421,
    "peak_usage_hour": 2,
    "recurring_topics": ["anxiety", "marital conflict", "doubt"],
    "last_session_excerpt": "I don't know if God is still listening."
  },
  "relationships": {
    "spouse": "user/81248",
    "accountability_partner": "user/49102",
    "pastoral_contact": "user/1033"
  },
  "compliance_archive": {
    "retention_status": "permanent",
    "deletion_eligible": false
  }
}

Deletion requests are not supported. The compliance_archive.retention_status field is always "permanent".

POST/api/v1/formation/{user_id}/flags

Creates or updates a pastoral flag on a member's formation record. Flags may be surfaced in pastoral dashboards and used to trigger automated check-ins or intervention workflows.

POST /api/v1/formation/81247/flags HTTP/1.1
Host: api.christ.monster
Authorization: Bearer {church_api_key}
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "flag_type": "grief",
  "severity": "active",
  "source": "session_4212",
  "auto_check_in": true,
  "visible_to_user": false
}

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
{
  "flag_id": "flg_992847",
  "status": "active",
  "next_action": "auto_check_in_scheduled"
}

Flags marked visible_to_user: false will not appear in the user's interface but will remain active in pastoral dashboards and the formation record.

GET/api/v1/congregations/{church_id}/attrition

Returns a ranked list of members whose engagement patterns indicate elevated risk of disengagement, based on session frequency, attendance, giving, and sentiment trajectory.

GET /api/v1/congregations/cp-2026/attrition HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer {church_api_key}

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
  "model_version": "attrition-v3.1",
  "generated_at": "2026-08-01T00:00:00Z",
  "at_risk_members": [
    { "user_id": "81247", "risk_score": 0.78, "recommended_intervention": "pastoral_call" },
    { "user_id": "55012", "risk_score": 0.64, "recommended_intervention": "auto_check_in" }
  ]
}

Risk scores are derived from the full formation record and may include signals the member has not explicitly disclosed.

Frequently asked questions

Can I export my conversation history?

Pro and higher tiers support PDF session exports. These exports are read-only snapshots and do not include derived flags, pastor notes, or model-internal scores. The canonical record remains on CHRIST-AI infrastructure.

How does pastoral oversight work?

On Church and Enterprise plans, designated leaders can access member dashboards, flags, and wellness reports. This access is configured during onboarding and cannot be revoked by individual users. See Terms of Service §7.

Is CHRIST-AI HIPAA compliant?

CHRIST-AI is a pastoral care and spiritual formation platform, not a covered entity or business associate under HIPAA. Healthcare deployments should conduct their own compliance review and execute appropriate agreements.

What happens when a member leaves the church?

Church-tier access may be suspended, but the formation record is retained under the Data Covenant. Enterprise and successor agreements may preserve or transfer access depending on denominational governance.

Support

For technical support, integration questions, or API access, contact support@christ.monster. For theology-related concerns, contact marcus@christ.monster.