Who is working with us
What we're building
Longbeard builds all four layers of this stack as one system, from your archives at the bottom to the tools people use every day at the top. The program you have just seen runs on this stack. Each layer stands on its own, and a diocese can begin with one product or engage the whole stack. Here is each layer, starting at the top.
In research phase
World's #1 answer engine for the Catholic Church.
Magisterium AI is a compound AI system, built for faithful, deep, and verifiable answers about the Church's teaching.
“It has the technical ability to give you exactly what you're looking for in an instant, instead of wandering through a library and looking through thousands of pages, hoping that what you want is in a particular volume. It does it all for you, and that's something which is making learning accessible.”
Who is using Magisterium AI
Why it's reliable
Magisterium, Scripture, Church Doctors & Fathers.
Open internet.
Full, verifiable references on every answer.
Often absent or unreliable.
High fidelity to Catholic teaching.
Inconsistent.
Behind every answer is the largest vector database of Church teaching in the world, able to be queried in any language.
Years of purpose-built tools, some updated daily, assemble context from that library before a question is answered.
How it works
Your query searches a vetted library of Magisterial and Catholic theological and philosophical texts.
Magisterium finds the most relevant, authoritative passages and extracts them.
It reviews the extracted passages and uses them to ground the generation of its answer, cited back to each source.
“Why does God allow us to suffer?”
“What is the purpose of life?”
“Explain the significance of St. Thomas Aquinas’ ‘Summa Theologica’”
“Help me develop a teaching module on Church martyrs”
Your data. Structured. Searchable. Citable.
Vulgate turns static “dark data” from text, images, audio and video into structured, searchable, queryable data through one automated AI pipeline, preserving source fidelity.
Every answer is cited to its exact source, faithful to the original, and translatable into 29+ languages, while the archive stays entirely the diocese’s own.
Inside Vulgate: a digitized source document open beside the Assistant, which answers and summarizes grounded in the institution's own archive.
Established in partnership with the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Alexandria Digitization Hub exists to preserve and universalize the patrimony of the Church.
From Rome, we are digitizing the libraries of the Pontifical Universities, expanding the Catholic dataset at 2,500 pages per hour.
Everything the Hub digitizes becomes accessible to everyone through Magisterium AI and Vulgate, anywhere in the world.
The world's first Catholic Language Model.
Ephrem brings the Church's voice into the model itself, not only into the answers.
Ephrem is a Specialized Language Model built to offer deep insight into the teaching of the Catholic Church, with a theological accuracy and consistency that generic AI models cannot guarantee.
It offers a trusted, faith-aligned companion for Catholics seeking guidance, education, or dialogue in an increasingly secular world.
Ephrem is currently in the research phase, the next stage of Longbeard's work.
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