Synderesis AI
Synderesis provides an AI assistant trained on Catholic values and Church teaching, offering source-grounded responses for writing, research, and decision support. The platform includes privacy controls like ghost mode and local storage, plus organizational deployment options including managed, private-cloud, and on-premise configurations. Individual subscriptions cost €5/month after a free token allowance.
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Enterprise Software
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Catholic individuals and organizations increasingly use general-purpose AI tools that do not reflect their values or draw on Church teaching, leaving them without reliable assistance for faith-aligned writing, research, and decision-making. At the same time, AI systems can obscure whose values shape their outputs, making it difficult for users to trust the answers they receive.
Solution
Synderesis provides an AI assistant grounded in the Catholic faith, helping users with everyday questions, writing, and research while drawing on official Church teaching when the question calls for it. The tool is designed around the principle that AI assists but never replaces human judgment, with users retaining responsibility for their decisions. It offers source-grounded responses that cite official Catholic documents, alongside practical features like decision support, document context, and privacy controls. For organizations, Synderesis extends beyond the individual workspace to customer-facing agents, internal knowledge assistants, and a full platform with managed, private-cloud, or on-premise deployment options, ensuring institutions can align AI use with their duty of care.
Target Audience
Primary customers are Catholic individuals seeking values-aligned AI assistance, as well as Catholic businesses, universities, seminaries, and institutions that need private, governable AI deployment with human accountability.
Features
- Catholic-aligned model trained on thousands of teaching examples drawn from millions of words of Church teaching, with evaluation against Catholic benchmark questions and official-source retrieval
- Drawing on official Catholic sources (e.g., Vatican documents) with citations for user verification
- Ghost mode for private browsing with no saved chat history
- Browser-local storage of up to 20 completed conversations, with bounded context windows (12 messages, 12,000 characters) sent per request
- Individual memory (off by default) stored locally, and organizational memory with explicit server-side group assignment
- Desktop voice transcription via Google Cloud EU endpoint, with audio and notes saved locally on device
- Optional public web search (off by default) with explicit queries up to 2,000 characters, no private data augmentation
- MCP support with per-action approval for external tool connections and GitHub integration with encrypted OAuth token storage
- Customer Service Agent, Sales & Outreach Agent, Internal Assistant, HR & People Assistant, and Research Writer for organizations
- Platform offering with roles and permissions, SSO, audit trails, API integrations, and retrieval over approved documents
- Deployment options: managed service, private cloud, or on-premise