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AI · August 24, 2023

Pastors.ai

I made a chatbot-based search engine that does agentic RAG using the Youtube channels, websites, and google reviews of all churches in Boulder, CO I tried a couple different approaches to this, but the one I'm currently liking is a MapReduce approach that takes a query, does some pre-filtering, and maps it to the individual vector databases of all the churches. Then the Reduce step synthesizes the individual church results to return the response to a user For example, if you ask it "LQBTQ-friendly church" it will loop through asking all the individual churches the question "Are you…

Pastors.ai launched on August 24, 2023 with 107 votes, #675 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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What it does

Custom chatbots based on church sermons. Just input a youtube video of a church service, and get a chatbot that generates sermon summaries, discussion guides, and quotes for social media.

AI for churches — just add a YouTube link. Get free sermon clips, plus devotionals, Bible studies, and a custom chatbot, emailed to you in 30 minutes.

Built for pastors without a media team. Paste your YouTube sermon link — get clips, devotionals, study guides, and a custom chatbot, emailed to you in 30 minutes. From a single YouTube link to a full week of ready-to-post content. No editing needed Just the URL of your church's most recent sermon. That's it. Clips, devotionals, study guides, chatbot — all generated in about 30 minutes. Review, post, share. No editing required. Ready to share with your church. AI picks the best quotes from your sermon, centers the speaker, and adds captions, music, and your church logo — automatically. Just review and post. A full kit of sermon resources with exact timestamp citations linking back to your…from pastors.ai

In the maker’s words, at launch

I made a chatbot-based search engine that does agentic RAG using the Youtube channels, websites, and google reviews of all churches in Boulder, CO I tried a couple different approaches to this, but the one I'm currently liking is a MapReduce approach that takes a query, does some pre-filtering, and maps it to the…

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