Why we built AlignedAI
AlignedAI was built by Jonathan Bodnar. After building and exiting a successful church management and giving platform, Jonathan spent years in the B2B private sector building multi-million-dollar SaaS products — and saw, up close, how far artificial intelligence had outrun what most ministries were using.
The spark was personal. His best friend, a pastor in McKinney, Texas, was amazed by AI at first — until he kept trying to get ChatGPT to write a doctrinally-aligned message that actually sounded like him. Without training on sound doctrine and a real corpus of church data and sermons, the output was shallow, off in tone, and unusable in a real church setting. That gap became AlignedAI.
The conviction behind it is simple: AI is far more powerful than most pastors realize, and the church deserves tools built at an enterprise level — quality, speed, and ease of use — that stay aligned with a church's doctrine and voice.
Not just sermon repurposing, but true AI tools, assistant features, integrations, and automations in service of the mission. And free wherever it can be, because a resource pastors need shouldn't be locked behind $20-a-sermon pricing.