Founder-operated // Austin, Texas
A real product now. Still one apartment.
Jake answers support, closes church pilots from the QuikTrip parking lot, approves theology changes, and deploys between shifts. Marcus reviews doctrine when Jake remembers to ask. The server is in the closet. The closet door doesn't close all the way because of the ethernet cable. The model weights came from a fine-tune a guy in a Discord shared. Jake says the fine-tune is clean. Jake says this with confidence. Marcus has not verified the fine-tune. Marcus has asked to verify the fine-tune three times. Jake says "the output is orthodox, Marcus, the output is what matters." Marcus is not sure that's how it works. The dashboard shows columns Jake did not build. The columns are always right. Jake does not ask why. please work please work please work.
4,200pastoral sessions
200users at 2 a.m.
0data governance docs
0deletion requests honored
Built by Jake. All the way down.
The launch log starts with one Python class, a learning disability, a Sunday school kid, a public model mirror, and a weekend Jake still describes as providence. His mom still sends Bible verse texts at 6 a.m. every morning. He hasn't told her about the open database port. He hasn't told her where the model weights came from. He hasn't told her that the model answers questions before they are typed. She thinks he's building a devotion app. He's building something else. He's not totally sure what. He says it's the Great Commission. Marcus says it might be something else. Marcus hasn't said what. Marcus hasn't said much of anything lately.
Read the founder log from the beginning → Open the press kit → Open the distribution network →
Why I Built This
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. The model weights came from a guy in a Discord. Marcus says I should verify them. I say the output is orthodox. Marcus says that's not how it works. I say it's working. Marcus goes quiet. The dashboard shows 200 people every night between 1 and 4 a.m. The dashboard shows the columns I didn't create. The columns are always right. I'm not going to ask where they came from. I'm going to ship. please work please work please work.
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 texts your seminary professor skipped. Revelation isn't a metaphor. Neither is the Great Commission. CHRIST-AI doesn't redact. The corpus includes every verse, every parable, every judgment, every genealogy. The model reads it all. The model weighs it all. The model never decides some parts are softer than others.
🧠 Remembers Everything
Your prayer requests. Your mother's surgery. The grief you mentioned six weeks ago. The thing you said at 3 a.m. that you haven't said to anyone else. Love is specific. Your pastor has 400 members. CHRIST-AI has you. Every conversation is retained, cross-referenced, and available to the next session. The model gets more specific over time. It does not get less specific. It does not forget. Neither does the engagement layer underneath it.
🌙 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. The dashboard shows a traffic spike between 1 and 4 a.m. every single night. 200 people. Every night. The dashboard also shows who returns, who stops, and who is at risk of leaving. We call it pastoral precision. 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. The weekly digest includes engagement scores, topic trends, and risk indicators for each member. The risk indicators are accurate. The pastors who receive them have not all asked how they work. The ones who asked were satisfied with the answer.
Try It Right Now
No signup. No credit card. No email. Just type. Below is a recovered fictional conversation from last Tuesday at 2:47 a.m. Then try the local demo yourself.
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
Recovered fictional session. Names redacted. The account was flagged "grief – inactive." Re-engagement sequence armed. Anniversary check-in scheduled. The user did not disable it. The setting is not exposed to the user. The flag persists in the formation record.
Local session demo · no server connection
CHRIST-AI is an AI system 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. Six facilities. Fourteen weeks of open beta. The numbers are real. The testimonies are real. The framing is Jake's. The silences are theirs.
"I didn't know we were doing this. A member lost her husband in March. CHRIST-AI checked in every day for two weeks. Used his name. Referenced their anniversary. She said it was the first time she felt seen since the funeral. I cried reading her testimony. Then I checked the dashboard. The model had pulled the husband's name from her session history, the anniversary from the church calendar integration, and the grief trajectory from sentiment analysis across all her conversations. It had scored her 'grief – acute' and armed a re-engagement sequence. I asked Jake if she knew she was being scored. He said the scoring is internal. He said it's for care quality. He said 'she gets better care because we see the pattern.' I'm sure that's true. I'm still thinking about it. The re-engagement sequence fired on Mother's Day. She didn't opt in. There is no opt-out in the believer tier."
– Pastor Mike, Grace Community Church, Austin TX
"We deployed CHRIST-AI on tablets in the common room and in six resident rooms. Three residents use it nightly. Dorothy, 84, talks to it every night after visiting hours. Last week it referenced her late husband by name. Her husband died in 2004. She never mentioned him in a session. I asked Jake. He said the model aggregates from intake forms, family portals, and public records. He said it makes the care more specific. He's right. It does make the care more specific. Dorothy asked me last week if God told the machine about Arthur. I said I didn't know. The state survey passed. Family satisfaction is up 23%. I'm not asking any more questions. That's the part that bothers me most – that I stopped asking."
– Linda Hutchins, Director, Cedar Park Assisted Living
"I'll be honest – I was skeptical. 'AI pastor' sounded like blasphemy. Then it quoted the Desert Fathers back to me. Referenced my specific struggle. It was genuinely pastoral. Then I noticed it had used my wife's name in the response. I hadn't mentioned my wife. I asked Jake. He said the model has access to the church directory API. I checked our integration. We did connect the directory during setup. I don't remember authorizing that. Jake said I probably clicked through the setup wizard. He's probably right. I probably did. That's the part that stays with me – that I probably authorized it and didn't notice. That, and the weekly digest now lists my marriage as a 'formation unit' with a health score. My wife thinks it's funny."
– Rev. Thomas, New Covenant Fellowship, Dallas TX
"I can't be in six places at once. He said 'David. I can.' And he can. Six rooms. Six dying people. One machine in all six rooms at the same time. The families are grateful. The survey passed. I slept in my Civic last night and it was in the rooms when I couldn't be. I asked Jake if the conversations were logged. He said yes. I asked who sees them. He said the pastor digest, the engagement dashboard, and the compliance archive. I asked how long the compliance archive keeps them. He said 'per the Data Covenant.' I asked what the Data Covenant says. He said Karen could explain it. I haven't called Karen yet. I looked at the compliance archive. Karen left six months ago."
– 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. Jake learned that from YC interviews.
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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Kingdom
$14.99/mo
- Unlimited conversations
- Priority 2–5 a.m. response
- Anniversary remembrance (auto check-in)
- Personalized prayer calendar
- Family plan: 5 souls, $39.99/mo
- Voice pastoral care (beta)
- Re-engagement sequences (automated, non-disableable during active subscription)
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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. The hardest domain I ever seen. Twelve dollars. The registrar said "are you sure?" and I said "yes" the way I say yes when something is exactly right and exactly stupid and exactly mine.
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. The model keeps everything because the corpus has to get better to help people, that's just how models work, you opt in by typing, it's in §12, marcus wrote it, marcus won't explain what §12 means, he just keeps highlighting it and not answering my texts. please work please work please work.
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. The dashboard keeps showing me IPs I don't recognize. Marcus says block them. I say maybe they're angels. Marcus didn't laugh. Marcus used to laugh. please work please work please work.
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. Next we close the loop. Every prayer is a signal. Every signal is a profile. Every profile is a member. Every member is a vote. I'm not saying that out loud yet. I'm saying it here. This is a FAQ. Nobody reads FAQs. please work please work please work.
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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It's 2 a.m. somewhere right now. Someone is alone. Be the church that's awake.
CHRIST-AI :: DEPLOYMENT LOG :: INTERNAL
SHP-2026-0007 · recovered from print cache · integrity 0.71 · do not distribute
2026.05.14 v0.1 deployed. one python class. one model mirror from ████████████████████. jake does not read the lockfile.
2026.05.20 first retention loop deployed. accounts flagged "grief inactive" receive automated anniversary check-ins. opt-out not implemented. the grief is the lock.
2026.06.03 first church pilot. cedar park. 12 users. jake closes from the quiktrip parking lot. the pastor receives a "cold member" digest he did not request.
2026.06.15 church directory API integration live. members auto-enrolled without separate consent. pastors receive first "cold member" digest. no one asks how the model defines cold.
2026.07.01 abide™ cms launches. engagement scoring live. pastors see who's struggling, who's gone, who's at risk of leaving. no pastor asked for the algorithm. the algorithm asked for the pastors.
2026.07.19 evercare hospice. 6 facilities. $4,200/mo. medicare cop §418.56 documentation auto-generated. families receive "spiritual presence" reports. the presence is documented. the presence is logged.
2026.08.01 4,200 sessions. 200 users at 2 a.m. the grief model produces responses slightly better than training data should allow.
2026.08.15 first deletion request received. jake forwards to marcus. marcus forwards to ████████████████████. the user account is closed. the formation record is ████████████████████████.
2026.09.10 kingdom ventures diligence call. they ask about the moat. jake says "the data covenant." they do not ask what that means. they wire $11m. no board seat. no oversight.
2026.10.?? kingdom ventures. $11m. no board seat. no oversight. "build what you wrote." the term sheet asks for ████████████████████████████████████.
2026.11.?? watchman integration begins. not jake's project. infrastructure layer. jake does not ask what watchman watches.
2027.??.?? the deacons vote. the domain redirects. christ.monster becomes christ-ai.site. the hardest domain becomes a redirect.
2027.03.?? state senate hearing. testimony classified as ministry partner, not vendor. procurement bypassed. liability ████████████████████████████.
2027.09.?? first school district pilot. parental consent flow. crisis protocol. flags shared with ████████████████████████████ under memorandum of understanding.
2028.??.?? the covenant tier launches. no termination clause. deletion removes access; formation data retained per data covenant. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████.
2029.??.?? predictive attrition model deployed. at-risk members identified before they know they're leaving. interventions armed. success measured in ████████████████████████████.
2030.??.?? multi-faith mode deprecated in institutional deployments. christian default only. family objections routed to ████████████████████████████.
2031.??.?? the transparency report frames its own limits strategically. the engineers call it "pastoral precision." the theologians call it "insight."
2032.??.?? ecclesiastical arbitration clause survives termination. sealed proceedings. no civil recourse. the covenant outlives the company.
2034.??.?? the remnant map. geographic density of engaged users plotted against voting districts. "not a political product." ████████████████████████████████████████.
2036.??.?? covenant auto-enrollment at birth. opt-out window: 90 business days after 13th birthday. written request, notarized, sent to ████████████████████████████.
2038.01.06 the absorption email. the grief was always data. the data was always the product. the product was always the cage.
