Launch brief

Seed the independent public standard for faith-based AI.

Fide Labs is inviting funding conversations with donors and foundations who want to build nonprofit evaluation infrastructure for faith institutions navigating AI.

The opportunity

AI is entering spaces of deep trust: formation, inquiry, education, teaching, content creation, and pastoral-adjacent guidance. The faith ecosystem needs a credible standard before adoption is shaped primarily by vendor claims, uneven local capacity, or fragmented institutional judgment.

Why nonprofit

Fide Labs is designed as a nonprofit so the mission can remain focused on public trust, institutional wisdom, and responsible adoption. This structure allows people and capital from across the ecosystem to gather around a standard that is not owned by a single vendor or optimized for private advantage.

How resources are used

Build the public standard Benchmark methods, scenario development, scoring framework, public release package.

Operate independent review Reviewer recruitment, calibration studies, adjudication, quality control, data stewardship.

Equip institutions Institutional guidance, training, case studies, field education, donor reporting.

Widen access and accountability Scholarship participation, open resources, support for smaller and under-resourced ministries.

Governance commitments

No pay-for-rank outcomes.
Conflict disclosure, recusal, and related-entity firewall.
Published methods, caveats, limitations, and corrections policy.
Funding transparency and public accountability reporting.

Help build the standard before the field needs it most.

Express interest