Kairos brings free and low-cost AI literacy retreats directly to churches, communities, startups, legacy businesses, and colleges — meeting people where they already gather, and equipping them for the work ahead.
We started Kairos because the people who could most benefit from AI — small congregations, neighborhood non-profits, family-owned businesses, under-resourced colleges — are the ones being passed over by every workshop, every consulting firm, every newsletter. Our work is to bring this knowledge home, into the rooms where trust already lives.
Hands-on with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Drafting sermons and bulletins, summarizing meetings, planning events, writing grant applications, translating across languages — the tools your team will actually open on Monday.
Vibe-coding with modern AI builders. Walk out with a working giving portal, member directory, or business landing page that you actually own and can update yourself.
Build a 24/7 voice agent that handles prayer line calls, schedules visits, or fields customer questions in your founder's tone of voice.
A chatbot that answers questions about service times, church history, ministry programs, business hours, or your product — drawing only from documents you trust.
Career pathways, AI ethics, when to use AI and when not to, protecting privacy in your congregation or customer base, and how to keep learning after we leave.
For our church partners: how to think about AI as a tool of stewardship and service, not a replacement for human presence. Built with pastors and lay leaders in mind.
A 3–4 hour primer for boards, staff, or small groups. Hands-on with two or three core tools and a take-home playbook.
Friday evening through Sunday morning. Each attendee leaves with a working app, voice agent, or chatbot they built themselves.
A residential or commuter retreat covering all six tracks. We train internal "champions" who can keep teaching after we leave.
We lead with churches because that's where this work began — and because pastors carry both the trust and the gathering space that make real learning possible. But every community on this list is welcome, and our retreat content adapts to the room.
If you're not sure whether your group fits, ask anyway. We've yet to turn down a community that wanted to learn.
Tell us about your community →Our admin staff used to spend Mondays catching up on bulletins and emails. After the Kairos weekend, they get it done before lunch — and our youth pastor built a chatbot that handles event sign-ups overnight. This wasn't a workshop. This was a transformation.
I came in skeptical. I left having built a working voice agent that answers our customers when we close at 6pm. For a third-generation family business, this was the most useful weekend we've spent on technology in twenty years.
"I grew up in a church that was the most important institution in our neighborhood. When AI started reshaping the workplace, I realized those same churches — and the families they hold up — were nowhere near the conversation."
I'm Billy Stevenson III. I've spent my career building software at the intersection of design, AI, and business — and I've watched, year after year, as the most transformative technologies skipped over the rooms that taught me everything I know.
Kairos is my answer. We bring the retreat to your sanctuary, your fellowship hall, your community center, your shop floor. We train the people you already trust to keep teaching after we leave. And we keep it free or low-cost, on purpose, forever.
Most retreats are fully donor-funded and free for the host community. Some larger or longer-format retreats include a sliding-scale partnership fee — but cost is never the reason we say no. If your community can't pay, that's exactly who we built this for.
A space that fits your group, reliable Wi-Fi, and the willingness for attendees to bring a laptop or tablet (we have loaners for those who don't). We bring the curriculum, the instructors, and the energy.
None. We design for the person who has never opened ChatGPT and the person who uses it daily — in the same room. Our facilitators are practiced at meeting everyone where they are.
We teach privacy-first practices and never ask attendees to upload sensitive congregation, customer, or community data into public AI tools. Every build we do during the retreat uses sample or self-provided data, and we leave you with clear guardrails.
4–8 weeks is ideal for a half-day or weekend. Multi-day retreats benefit from 8–12 weeks of lead time so we can plan logistics, scholarships, and any travel grants. We do squeeze in last-minute requests when our calendar allows.
Absolutely. We work with denominations, foundations, employers, and individuals who want to underwrite retreats for communities they care about. Reach out via the request form or the support section below.
Tell us a little about your group. We respond to every request within five business days — usually faster.
We read every request personally. Expect a response within five business days.
Kairos runs on the generosity of people who believe AI literacy is a public good. A $50 gift covers materials for one attendee. $1,500 underwrites an entire half-day at a small church. $10,000 sponsors a multi-day retreat for a community that couldn't otherwise afford one.
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