Gloo is a broad faith platform with a free assistant. AskMyChurch is the focused alternative: your own branded AI, your sources cited, crisis safety standard.
Gloo Faith Assistant is a product from a large, publicly traded faith technology company. It is free, it is established, and it sits inside a broader platform built to serve the wider Christian ecosystem — data partnerships, ministry networks, demographic tools. For some churches, that breadth is exactly what they want.
For others, it is exactly what gives them pause.
If you want an assistant that represents *your* church — trained on your sermons, your website, your pastor's actual words, and nothing else — you are looking for something different. That is where the alternatives below fit.
AskMyChurch is a focused, single-purpose AI assistant a church embeds on its own website. It is trained only on that church's published content: the website, sermons, podcasts, and PDFs. It does not draw from the open internet. It does not know what other churches believe. It knows what your church has said, in public, and it cites the source — including the timestamp in a sermon — on every answer.
Before the assistant processes any message, a hard-coded crisis check runs. If someone signals acute distress — in English or Spanish — they are routed immediately to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and the church's own care team. The AI does not attempt a pastoral or clinical response in a crisis situation. This runs before any AI, on every plan.
The assistant reads the language the person is writing in and responds in kind — English and Spanish, no configuration required. Every answer is verified against the church's own content before it is sent. If it cannot find a grounded answer, it says so and offers to connect the person to a real staff member. Answers pull from indexed sermons and link to the exact moment in the message, so the pastor's words are properly attributed.
Everyday questions are anonymous — no names, no accounts. A person is identified only when they choose to share information for prayer, serving, or a visit, and that goes to the church's team. Vision Genesis does not train models on a church's member conversations.
Setup takes about 30 minutes. Point it at the sermon library, drop a link or QR code on your site, and it is live. No IT project, no integration work. It works with WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify, Framer, and Google Tag Manager.
Pricing: $99/month under 500 weekend attendance. $249/month for 500 to 2,000. $500/month for 2,000 and above or multi-campus. Every plan is the full assistant. Founding churches get free setup and a 12-month price lock.
Doctrinally.AI is a small lab that also trains on sermons and provides cited answers, in a roughly similar price range. The meaningful differences: AskMyChurch includes the crisis gate, automatic bilingual support, and the re-check verification pass as standard — these are not advertised the same way by Doctrinally.
Wesley AI is a church-website chatbot. If you are evaluating it, the questions to ask are the same: Does it cite sources from your content specifically? Does it have a crisis routing layer? Does it answer in Spanish automatically?
Pastors.ai is another AI tool in the church space. Apply the same grounding, citation, crisis safety, and bilingual criteria when you compare.
OnlineGiving is primarily a giving platform that bundles a basic website chat. It is not really the same category. If you use OnlineGiving for donations, that is a separate decision — AskMyChurch sits on top of your existing site without replacing your giving setup.
Gloo is not a bad product. If you want a free assistant and are already engaged with Gloo's broader platform, that may be the right call. The difference is in the default: Gloo's assistant is one feature inside a larger faith data ecosystem. AskMyChurch is a single product built to represent one church, in that church's own words, with crisis safety and bilingual support wired in before you ever configure anything.
The demo takes about ten minutes. You can see how it answers on a real church site at askmy.church.
AskMyChurch is built by Vision Genesis in Knoxville, Tennessee. See a live demo at askmy.church.
AskMyChurch starts at $99 per month for churches under 500 in weekend attendance. Gloo offers a free tier inside its broader platform. AskMyChurch is a paid, standalone product — the trade-off is a fully branded assistant trained only on your content, with crisis routing, bilingual support, and source citations included on every plan.
No. The assistant is trained only on your church's own published content — your website, sermons, podcasts, and PDFs. If an answer is not in your content, it says so rather than drawing from outside sources or inventing a response.
Updated 2026-06-26 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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