Six questions to ask any church AI vendor: where answers come from, crisis handling, contract terms, staff cost, measurable results, and accountability.
An executive pastor evaluating church AI should get straight answers to six questions before signing anything: where the answers come from, what happens when someone is in crisis, what the contract locks the church into, what the tool costs your staff in time, how you will measure results, and who is accountable when it gets something wrong. Any vendor that can't answer all six in plain language hasn't earned a spot in front of your congregation.
This is the question that separates church AI from a generic chatbot wearing your logo. A general-purpose model will answer questions about your church whether or not it knows anything about your church, and a confident wrong answer about service times or baptism is worse than no answer at all. AskMyChurch answers only from your church's own website and sermons. When someone asks about a sermon, it cites the exact minute in the recording so they can hear your pastor say it themselves. And when it doesn't know, it says so and hands the conversation to a real person. It never invents an answer.
People type things into a church chat window at 2 a.m. that they would never say in the lobby. Ask every vendor the same question: is your crisis handling written in code, or written in a prompt? Prompts can be talked around; code can't. In AskMyChurch, routing to 988 and the Crisis Text Line is hard-coded in both English and Spanish, and it fires before any AI response is generated. No model gets a vote.
Read the terms for auto-renewing annual commitments, per-message fees, and cancellation friction. AskMyChurch is priced by weekend attendance: $99 a month for churches under 500, $249 a month from 500 to 2,000, and $500 a month for churches over 2,000 or multi-campus. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, carries a money-back guarantee, and cancels anytime. If a vendor needs a twelve-month commitment to keep you, ask why.
The hidden price of most church software is the staff hours it quietly consumes. Ask who writes the knowledge base, who keeps it current, and what happens when the content drifts out of date. AskMyChurch builds from the website and sermons your church already publishes, so there is nothing new to write and no separate system to maintain. When a conversation needs a human, it goes to a person you designate. Your staff's job becomes answering real handoffs from real people, not feeding a machine.
Decide this before the trial starts, not after it ends. Useful measures for a church: questions answered outside office hours, conversations handed to staff that would otherwise have gone nowhere, and Spanish-language questions served, since AskMyChurch works in both English and Spanish. The 30-day free trial covers four full weekends. Write down the numbers you want to see on day one, then check them on day thirty.
Every vendor will say their AI is accurate. The better question is: how would you know? Because AskMyChurch cites its sources, down to the minute of the sermon, you can audit any answer against what your church actually published or preached. That is the standard we build to: the front door of your church, always open, and it always hands off to a human when a human is needed. The money-back guarantee exists so the risk of testing that claim sits with us, not with your board.
There may already be a working preview of AskMyChurch built for your church and waiting to be claimed: 84 in Atlanta, 79 in Nashville, 63 in Charlotte, 60 in Columbia (SC), 53 in Charleston (SC), and 38 in Knoxville. These are previews awaiting each church's claim, not customers. Claiming yours at askmy.church is the fastest way to run the six questions above against a live example instead of a sales deck.
Six things: where the answers come from, how crisis messages are handled, what the contract locks the church into, what the tool costs staff in time, how results will be measured, and who is accountable when it gets something wrong.
Only from the church's own website and sermons, with sermon citations linked to the exact minute in the recording. When it doesn't know, it says so and hands the conversation to a real person instead of inventing an answer.
Routing to 988 and the Crisis Text Line is hard-coded in both English and Spanish, and it fires before any AI response is generated.
$99 a month for churches under 500 in weekend attendance, $249 a month for 500 to 2,000, and $500 a month for churches over 2,000 or multi-campus. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, carries a money-back guarantee, and cancels anytime.
Updated 2026-06-26 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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