# Longbeard > Longbeard is a technology and design agency building AI products in service of the Catholic Church. Founded in 2015, we design, build, and operate AI tools that share Catholic insight to anyone in the world, on any device, in their native language. Our mission: to build AI and accelerate adoption in service of the Catholic Church. Headquartered with team members in North America and Rome. Longbeard has served clients across the Catholic Church — including the Holy See — and has since pivoted to building its own portfolio of AI products and a digitization hub for historic libraries. - General inquiries: info@longbeard.com · 1.512.815.3373 - Press inquiries: ben@longbeard.com (Benjamin Crockett) - CEO: Matthew Harvey Sanders - Full-text source: https://www.longbeard.com/llms-full.txt ## Products - [Magisterium AI](https://www.magisterium.com): The world's #1 answer engine for the Catholic Church. RAG-based, hallucination-mitigated, citation-transparent. 500,000+ unique users across 190+ countries and 75+ languages, grounded in 31,000+ documents. - [Vulgate AI](https://www.vulgate.ai): Advanced AI tools for library digitization and discovery — neural and keyword search, multilingual machine translation, summarization, and personal-library features. Currently powering a historic library digitization project with Pontifical universities in Rome. - [Ephrem](https://www.ephrem.ai): AI product from Longbeard's portfolio. - [Christendom](https://www.christendom.app): A "big tent" content discovery platform amplifying Catholic content creators on faith, politics, and culture. 143+ creator channels, used in 70+ countries. ## Services - [Services overview](https://www.longbeard.com/about/services): Strategy, technology, and design services for organizations serving humanity. - **Tech:** Web product development, website development, cloud and applications infrastructure consulting. - **Design:** UI/UX, web design, app design, logo and branding, social media creative, books and magazines, posters and banners. - **Digital Marketing:** Email list building, petition sign-ups, donations, subscribers, product sales, app downloads, inquiry conversion, meaningful web traffic. ## Alexandria Digitization Hub - [Alexandria Hub overview](https://www.longbeard.com/alexandria-hub): Preserving and universalizing knowledge through state-of-the-art robotic scanning and AI-driven extraction and vectorization, making historic collections fully searchable. - [Alexandria Digitization Hub details](https://www.longbeard.com/alexandria-digitization-hub): Full-service digitization workflow from evaluation to TEI-XML delivery — ultra-conservation scanning, AI-driven OCR and layout analysis, metadata encoding and QA, and secure redundant storage. ## Company - [About Us](https://www.longbeard.com/media-press#about-us): Founded in 2015. Mission, history, and team. - [Product Overviews](https://www.longbeard.com/media-press#product-overviews): Press-ready summaries, key facts, logos, and screenshots for each Longbeard product. - [Our CEO](https://www.longbeard.com/media-press#our-ceo): Matthew Harvey Sanders — bio and headshots. - [Book Matthew to Speak](https://www.longbeard.com/book-to-speak): Booking form for keynotes on Catholic AI, faithful AI development, hallucination mitigation, ethics of AI, and the Church's mission in an AI age. - [Media / Press](https://www.longbeard.com/media-press#media-hits): Press coverage and media hits featuring Longbeard and its products. - [Catholic Futurist Podcast](https://www.catholicfuturist.com/): Matthew Sanders' podcast exploring AI through a Catholic lens. ## Events - [Builders AI Forum](https://www.baif.ai/): Hosted by the Pontifical Gregorian University at Casina Pio IV, Vatican City. Brings together Catholic AI companies, investors, researchers, and thought leaders. - [Builders AI Forum 2025](https://www.baif.ai/2025): The 2025 edition of the Forum. - [Magisterium AI at the Gregorian (May 5, 2025)](https://www.longbeard.com/events/gregorian-rome-magisterium-ai-may-5-2025): Event at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. ## Case studies and work - [Case Studies](https://www.longbeard.com/case-studies): Selected client work across digital marketing, design, websites, branding, print, and social media. ## Blog - [Blog index](https://www.longbeard.com/blog): Articles on Catholic AI, product updates, and industry perspectives. ## Recent writing - [Staying Human: AI, the Future of Work and Christian Discernment](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/staying-human-ai-the-future-of-work-and-christian-discernment) — 2026-05-29 - [Bringing Forth Treasures New and Old: The Church’s Mission in the Age of AI](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/bringing-forth-treasures-new-and-old-the-churchs-mission-in-the-age-of-ai) — 2026-05-18 - [The Reality of AI and the Crisis of Meaning](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/the-reality-of-ai-and-the-crisis-of-meaning) — 2026-05-14 - [Spiritual Statistics Now Available for Dioceses and Countries Worldwide](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/spiritual-statistics-now-available-for-dioceses-and-countries-worldwide) — 2026-05-13 - [Introducing the Saints Database](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/introducing-the-saints-database) — 2026-05-12 - [From Principle to Practice: Building the Catholic AI Infrastructure](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/from-principle-to-practice-building-the-catholic-ai-infrastructure) — 2026-05-06 - [AI as Mentor: How Intelligent Tools are Accelerating Tech Talent Development for Evangelization](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/ai-as-mentor-how-intelligent-tools-are-accelerating-tech-talent-development-for-evangelization) — 2026-03-10 - [The Semantic Drift: Demystifying the Language of AI Builders](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/the-semantic-drift-demystifying-the-language-of-ai-builders) — 2026-03-06 - [The Church as the Ark for a Post-Work World](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/the-church-as-the-ark-for-a-post-work-world) — 2026-02-19 - [Builders of the City of God](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/builders-of-the-city-of-god) — 2026-02-18 - [The Scribe of the New Age: Bringing Forth Treasures New and Old](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/catholic-writers-guild-speech-2026) — 2026-02-02 - [“Delete Magisterium AI”](https://www.longbeard.com/blog/delete-magisterium-ai) — 2026-01-30 ## Optional - [Privacy Policy](https://www.longbeard.com/privacy-policy) - [Cookie Policy](https://www.longbeard.com/cookie-policy) - [Sitemap](https://www.longbeard.com/sitemap.xml) - [Full-text content for LLMs](https://www.longbeard.com/llms-full.txt)