FAITH & AI

Go from vision to venture. Launch your faith-based AI venture alongside leading mentors, partners, and peers, in a 12 week intensive accelerator cohort.

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THE LAUNCHPAD FOR FAITH & AI BUILDERS.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how people live, learn, and engage faith. This 12-week venture cohort equips Christian builders and technologists to design new tools, platforms, and ministries that advance Kingdom impact in the age of AI.

Join a global community exploring how technology can engage faith, with leading mentors across theology, strategy, and innovation. Whether you’re building an app, a training tool, or infrastructure, this cohort helps you go from vision to venture in an intensive time frame, culminating in a demo day and commissioning with industry leaders and funders at the end.

In partnership with Gloo.
Applications close November 22. Decisions by Dec 5.

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PROGRAM

In this 12 week cohort, you’ll deepen your mission, validate your venture, and build alongside a community of founders and mentors on the frontiers of faith and AI.

FORMATION

Clarify your vision. Go deeper spiritually and clarify your calling through theology, prayer, and discernment. Connect your venture directly to your faith and kingdom vision.

DESIGN

Validate your venture. Get clear on what you’re building and how to make it work in reality, through coaching, design tools, and peer feedback, producing a clear winning strategy and pitch.

COMMUNITY

Find your people. Build a network of peers through the cohort, meet world-class mentors, and go deeper into the wider world of faith and tech leaders, ministries, investors, and more.

AT A GLANCE

  • Builders, founders, ministry leaders, technologists, and creatives exploring how emerging AI can serve discipleship, the local church, evangelism, and Christian mission. Ideal for idea-stage to early-stage projects.

  • A 12-week, high-intensity venture-design accelerator that helps you prototype, refine, and launch early-stage faith + AI projects. You’ll get formation, coaching, design frameworks, expert mentors, and a proven process for turning ideas into real ventures.

  • A focused problem statement, a clear venture concept, a validated prototype, a ministry/market model, and a Demo Day–ready pitch—shaped through theological reflection and practical design.

  • AI is reshaping how people learn, form, connect, and explore faith. The Church needs bold builders who are experimenting on the frontier. This program gives them a trusted, theologically grounded environment to build with clarity, integrity, and conviction.

  • Weekly cohort sessions, hands-on design sprints, mentor conversations, and a structured pathway from concept to prototype. The program closes with a commissioning and Demo Day at the Missional AI Summit in Silicon Valley

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KEY DATES

  • Applications Open: Sep 30, 2025

  • Deadline: Nov 22, 2025

  • Cohort Runs: Jan–Apr 2026

  • Demo Day: April 7-9 @ Missional AI Summit

Previous Cohort Mentors:

  • Scott Beck

    CEO, Gloo

  • Steele Billings

    Head of Gloo AI

  • Jessica Chin

    Marketing & Tech Executive, Stealth

  • Mark Sears

    Sprout AI Studio

  • Grant Demeter

    VC Investor and Operator, Primary Ventures

  • Adora Lovestrand

    VC, Sovereigns Capital

  • Rob Hoskins

    President and CEO, OneHope

  • Ted Esler

    President and CEO, Missio Nexus

  • Heather Grizzle

    Managing Partner, Causeway Strategies

  • Luke Tubergen

    Managing Partner, Ember Fund

  • Mark Reynolds

    Senior Strategic Advisor, Redeemer City to City

  • Jon Tyson

    Lead Pastor, Church of the City NYC

  • Nina Schmidgall

    Pastor of Ministries and Discipleship, National Community Church

  • Bryce Butler

    Managing Director, Access Ventures

  • Alicia Hosking

    Global Head of PR, Global Citizen

  • Mark Matlock

    Executive Director, Urbana

  • Jason Richardson

    Founder and CEO, Bad Birdie

  • Andy Muhich

    Partner, Muhich Family Businesses

  • Leighton Cusack

    CEO, Pool Together

  • Dr. Chad Causey

    Chief Strategy Officer, OneHope

  • Michael Guaglione

    Founder, Social Science

  • Raphael Anzenberger

    Founder, Station M

  • Matt Koskela

    Tech Founder, Investor

  • Logan Gentry

    Generous Life NY & Generous Cities Director, Generous Life

  • Cason Kynes

    Vice President, Ajax

  • Alex Lloyd-Davies

    Managing Partner, Openwell

  • Ben Pilgreen

    Lead Pastor, Epic Church SF

  • Peter Court

    Co-Founder and CEO, Tether

  • Alicia Lee

    CEO, Faith.ly

  • Toby Kurth

    Christ Church SF, Transforming the Bay with Christ

  • Ricardo Pellafone

    Writer / Advisor, Self

FAQS

  • This is the only accelerator for early-stage founders focused on faith and technology. If you’re exploring a new idea or building a first prototype, you’ll find clarity, sharpen your concept, connect with strong mentors, and share your work with funders and partners at Demo Day.

  • Christian technologists, i.e. developers, designers, engineers, product managers, with Kingdom vision, project conviction, and early prototypes or emerging products..

  • We’re looking for early-stage projects at the intersection of emerging AI, discipleship, spiritual formation, the local church, and mission. You don’t need a finished product, just a clear problem, a working concept, and a willingness to build.

    Here are the main categories we’re inviting into the cohort:

    1. Tools that strengthen discipleship and formation

    Projects that explore how AI can help people grow in faith, Scripture engagement, prayer, and spiritual practices.

    2. Tools that support churches and ministry leaders

    AI solutions that reduce friction, increase pastoral capacity, or help churches engage their communities more meaningfully.

    3. Tools that help people explore Christianity

    AI-enabled experiences or pathways for seekers, skeptics, and the spiritually curious.

    4. Tools that help ministries scale impact

    AI applications that help ministries operate with greater efficiency, personalization, or reach.

    5. Experiments in new models of community, presence, or engagement

    Creative projects pushing the edges of what faithful presence and mission can look like in an AI-shaped world.

    • Apps Open: Sept 30, 2025

    • App Deadline: Nov 22, 2025

    • Decisions: Dec 5, 2025

    • Cohort Runs: Jan–Apr 2026

    • Demo Day: April 7-9, 2026 @ Missional AI Summit

  • Both. We support redemptive tech regardless of structure.

  • No. You need a clear idea, conviction, and readiness to build.

  • You’ll join an intensive with a cohort of 12 ventures, with weekly calls hosted by the program team.

    Calls will bring in leading mentors and faculty, focus on key elements of venture design, and give you peer feedback on your work.

    You’ll have opt-in coaching opportunities with select mentors, and focus your work on a 4 minute pitch presentation.

    You’ll give your 4 minute pitch on stage at the Missional AI summit in a room of industry leaders, investors, friends, ministries, and more.

  • Expect ~6 hours per week for weekly cohort sessions, mentor calls, and venture work, plus the Missional AI Summit at the end.

  • Yes. Founders retain 100% ownership of their ventures, there is no equity exchange in the program.

  • We don’t invest directly, but we create visibility and pathways to funders, partners, and faith-driven capital networks.

  • If accepted, there is no fee for participating in the program, thanks to our sponsors.

    You are responsible for covering your travel and lodging to the Missional AI summit, but you will automatically be registered.

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