Custom, white-label AI chatbots for Christian ministries — built on a curated apologetics corpus to answer spiritual questions with biblically grounded, source-cited responses in hundreds of languages.^1
Gospel Bots gives ministries a embeddable AI chatbot that draws from the Bible, the Church Fathers, and works by both classic and contemporary Christian apologists to provide biblically grounded answers.^1 Whether someone is quietly wrestling with doubt or a missions team needs real-time translation, the platform meets seekers where they are with theologically sound responses backed by cited sources.^2
Built by The Apologist Project, a nonprofit founded by Jake Carlson, Gospel Bots was born when the AI agents Jake created for apologetics started drawing more attention than anything else.^3 Now led by a six-person volunteer leadership team — including Troy Michels (Head of Solutions), Derek Rine (Head of Strategy), Steve Verleye (Head of Business Development), Hernando Betita III (Head of Marketing), and Geryl Winterowd (Head of Advancement) — the platform has answered over 80,000 spiritual questions across 100+ countries, facilitating more than 30,000 conversations pointing people to Christ.^1
Ministries can customize everything — their own content corpus aligned with doctrinal preferences, starter questions, branding, and a call to action connecting users to real people for deeper discipleship.^2 The platform offers a chat completion API (Fusion API) for custom integrations, automatic content ingestion from RSS feeds and podcasts, Bible translation switching, social and messaging integrations (WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, and more), and a choice of dozens of AI models at various price points.^2 The Nicene Creed serves as the doctrinal baseline, celebrating orthodox Christian unity while respecting denominational diversity on secondary issues.^5
Why Christians Love It"Hello. I'm from Kazakhstan. I need your help. I study world religions. Some people from my country ask me questions. I can't answer them. I need your help."
— Yerken, international user^1
Notable- Content partners include Bible Project, Ligonier Ministries, Stand to Reason, Got Questions, Reasons to Believe, Discovery Institute, Apologetics Canada, Norm Geisler International Ministries, Ken Boa Reflections, and Zwemer Center^4
- Won 1st place overall at Indigitous #HACK 2024 and 2nd place at the Gloo AI & the Church Hackathon^6
- Published a white paper on "Generative AI in Christian Evangelism" and featured in Missio Nexus webinars^7
- Featured on Becoming Our Age, theChurch.digital, PEP Talk, AI for Churches, and UNREACHED podcasts^7
- Published a 12-point Statement of Faith affirming orthodox Christian doctrine^3
- Run by a dedicated volunteer team under The Apologist Project nonprofit^3
