What if the Bible weren't just something you read alone on your phone, but something you could experience together — right inside the group chats and conversations where your community already lives?^1
That's the vision behind Seed Bible, built by AO Lab, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Craig Bradley in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Seed Bible is a web-based platform that turns Scripture into a shared, real-time experience. No app download required — just click a link and you're in, exploring the Word side by side with your small group, family, or church, even across languages and translations.^1
At its heart, Seed Bible is built on a conviction straight from Matthew 10:8: "Freely you have received; freely give." Everything AO Lab makes is 100% free — no paywalls, no ads, no data harvesting, no strings attached.^2 They also maintain the Free Use Bible API, a public, key-free JSON API that now serves 1,256 translations across 1,004 languages with zero usage limits, averaging over 7 million hits per month.^3
The platform is designed to live where people already gather — WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and beyond. One click opens a living space in the Word where groups can read, reflect, and respond together in real time.^1 Following a major 2026 refactor, shared sessions are now dramatically faster and smoother, with a polished mobile UI, full-text Bible search, immersive 3D reading with ambient sound, interactive games like Bible Streak, a Chiasm explorer that reveals the literary structures of Scripture, Bible geography experiences, and curated Scripture "playlists" you can share via a single link.^4
In June 2026, AO Lab crossed several milestones. The Discord bot is now live, letting communities look up any passage (with a default translation setting), with scheduled study sessions and personalized, localized launch links on the roadmap.^5 A live AI chat integration with the Apologist Project — the same conversational AI powering GotQuestions.org, Apologetics Canada, Discovery Institute, and Kenboa — lets AI agents navigate the Bible, hyperlink passages, suggest Scripture, and hand off to a human. A working example lives at bible.kenboa.org, where visitors chat with "Ask Ken" and can step directly into the Word together.^5 A "Today" screen, in-session group chat with AI agents, and a forthcoming MCP server round out the near-term roadmap.^5
Earlier in 2026, AO Lab introduced a Codex integration that lets users rapidly create and share Bible translations — a breakthrough for missionaries and translators working in underserved languages.^6 They launched a Twitch extension enabling churches to stream Seed Bible during services with up to 1,000 simultaneous participants sharing presence in the Word.^7 And because the platform is built on the open-source AO.bot engine (formerly CasualOS), the whole project is MIT-licensed and designed for ambient intelligence — context-aware, real-time interactive experiences that run entirely in the browser.^8
AO Lab partners with organizations like Ligonier Ministries, Every Tribe Every Nation (ETEN), the Apologist Project, Viz.Bible, Tapos, Shiloh, and Terumba to push the boundaries of what Scripture engagement can look like — including a growing ecosystem where AI chat conversations, missionary handoffs, and shared Bible sessions all flow together without losing context.^1 The team also tackles a real barrier in Bible translation: helping translators distribute their work freely using the Seed Bible framework, so a missionary with an Arabic translation in a Word document can share it as a fully navigable digital Bible.^4
"For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them." — Matthew 18:20
