Charleston-area churches already have a working AI assistant preview, built from their own website and sermons and ready to claim. Plans $99–$499/month. Preview coverage as of August 2026; check askmy.church/find for your church.
If you lead a church in the Charleston area and you're looking into an AI assistant, there's a real chance one already exists for your church. AskChurch has working previews already built for Charleston-area churches — each one a live assistant trained on that church's own website and sermons, waiting for the church to claim it.
A preview is not a mockup. It answers real questions — service times, kids check-in, how to join a group, what the pastor taught on a topic — using only what your church has already published. If your church is one of them, most of the setup work is done. You claim it, review the answers yourself, and put it on your site.
It answers from your church's own website and sermon library, and nothing else. If the answer isn't in your content, it says so and hands the conversation to a real person. It is designed not to invent answers. The plain description: the front door of your church, always open. Someone knocks at 11pm on a Tuesday and still gets a straight answer or a human to talk to.
The sermon side is the part most church leaders haven't seen before. Ask what your pastor taught on forgiveness, and the assistant cites the specific sermon and links to the exact minute in the recording. We call this the Canon layer. It works because the assistant indexes your actual sermon archive, not a generic Bible database.
It also runs in English and Spanish. A visitor writes in Spanish, it answers in Spanish — same content, same sourcing.
Every incoming message passes a hard-coded crisis check before any AI responds. Someone showing signs of acute distress is routed to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the Crisis Text Line — in English and in Spanish — and the AI does not attempt a pastoral response. This isn't a setting a church can turn off by accident. It runs first, every time.
For a church, this is the difference between an AI tool you have to supervise and one you can put in front of visitors. The riskiest conversations never reach the AI at all.
Pricing is by average weekly attendance, and every plan includes everything above.
Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, carries a money-back guarantee, and you can cancel anytime. There are no feature tiers. A 90-person congregation on James Island gets the same crisis routing, the same Canon layer, and the same bilingual support as a multi-campus church in Mount Pleasant.
For a fuller breakdown, see how much a church AI chatbot costs.
A church shouldn't have to imagine what an AI assistant would sound like on its own content. So for the Charleston area, the previews were built first. Each one was assembled from that church's public website and published sermons — the same sources the finished assistant uses. When a leader claims theirs, they're evaluating the real thing on their real content, not a demo built on someone else's.
Two things a preview is not. It is not a customer relationship — no church is billed, listed, or represented publicly until it claims its assistant and chooses a plan. And it is not public-facing under the church's name — unclaimed previews aren't published or promoted as if the church had endorsed them.
Unclaimed churches aren't named publicly, so there's no list to scan. The fastest route: go to askchurch.ai and look up your church. If a preview exists, you can see it answering questions from your own website and sermons before you decide anything. The 30-day free trial starts only if you choose to claim it.
If you want to understand the mechanics first — how sermon indexing works, how the crisis routing is wired, what claiming involves — the documentation at /docs covers it. Either way, the preview is already built and sitting there. Looking costs nothing.
There's a real chance it does — Charleston-area churches already have working AI assistant previews, each built from that church's own website and sermons. Unclaimed churches aren't named publicly, so the fastest way to find out is to look up your church at askchurch.ai, where you can see the preview answering questions from your own content before you decide anything.
The Staff Desk is free for your church's own staff: Find answers in your church’s sermons and resources. 400 answers a month, no card. The Front Door puts that same assistant on your own website for your congregation. Pricing is by average weekly attendance: the Front Door is $99/month for under 500, it is $249/month for 500 to 2,000, and it is $499/month for over 2,000 or multi-campus. There are no feature tiers — every plan includes the same crisis routing, Canon sermon layer, and bilingual support, and each starts with a 30-day free trial with a money-back guarantee and the option to cancel anytime.
It's designed not to — it answers only from your church's own website and sermon library, and nothing else. If the answer isn't in your published content, it says so and hands the conversation to a real person rather than inventing an answer.
Every incoming message passes a hard-coded crisis check before any AI responds. Someone showing signs of acute distress is routed to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the Crisis Text Line — in English and in Spanish — and the AI does not attempt a pastoral response. This check runs first every time and isn't a setting a church can turn off by accident.
Updated 2026-07-16 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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