Trustworthy Christian AI for your whole institution.
Your staff and members are already using AI. We're building a Christian AI layer that churches, ministries, seminaries, and colleges can actually govern: real sources, honest citations, your own corpus, and answers that respect your tradition. Founding institutions help shape it from the start.
- You set the boundaries
- Every answer cited
- Your data stays yours
- Shaped with founding partners
The situation
AI is already inside your institution. The guardrails are not.
Pastors, professors, and staff are turning to general AI tools every week. Those tools can flatten traditions, drop citations, detach a claim from its source, and answer with confidence even when they are wrong. Most institutions have no governed way to carry their own trusted materials across the tools their people already use.
- 5%
- of churches have any written guidelines for how AI should be used. Pushpay & Barna, State of Church Technology (2026)
- 1 in 3
- U.S. adults find AI spiritual advice as trustworthy as a pastor. Barna & Gloo, State of the Church (2026)
Figures from Barna Group’s 2026 Faith & AI research with Gloo and Pushpay, part of the State of the Church initiative. Each statistic links to its source.
What we're building
A Christian AI layer you can hand to your whole team.
Here's what Textful for institutions is being built to do. Founding partners help us decide what comes first and how it should work.
Governance you control
Set the boundaries for your institution: which sources count, which traditions are represented, and how AI is allowed to be used by your people.
Your own corpus
Bring your library, your statement of faith, and your approved materials, so answers reflect your institution and not a generic average.
Cited, verifiable answers
Every claim links back to where it came from, so your staff and members can check the work instead of trusting a black box.
Access for your whole team
One trusted Christian AI layer across the tools your people already use, starting in ChatGPT and reaching outward from there.
Who it's for
Built for every institution where Christian work happens.
Churches
Sermon prep, teaching, and staff study that stays true to your tradition.
Ministries and parachurch
Equip teams and volunteers with trustworthy answers at scale.
Seminaries and Bible colleges
Research and teaching support that respects sources and citation.
Colleges and universities
A faithful AI layer for faculty, staff, and students across departments.
Christian nonprofits
Carry your mission and your materials into the tools your people use.
Denominations and networks
A shared, governed approach to AI across every church you serve.
Why we're building this
Built by Rizen Labs, for the church.
Textful is built by Rizen Labs. We think the church should not have to choose between using modern AI and protecting what it believes. So we are building a Christian AI layer that institutions can trust, govern, and shape, instead of leaving people to fend for themselves with general tools.
As the company grows, our intent is to tithe a portion of revenue to Bible translation, missionary support, seminary scholarships, and the underground church. We are not there yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. Partnering with us early is part of how that becomes real.
Bring Textful to your institution.
We're working with a small group of founding institutions to shape what trustworthy Christian AI looks like in practice. Tell us a little about your organization and we'll be in touch.