For the first episode of Season Four of The Sowers Podcast, Matt sat down with Aidan Britnell — a 24-year-old Canadian technologist who walked away from a full-time cybersecurity career to build tools for the local church.
Aidan is the founder of Kaleo AI, a live translation app that takes a church service and delivers it in nearly 200 languages, in real time, straight to a phone. No booth in the back, no headset lines — just a QR code and a custom AI model trained on theological and biblical vocabulary. His own church, Hope Bible Church in Oakville, has over 70 languages represented in its congregation, and that need is what got this whole thing started.
Matt and Aidan covered a lot of ground in this conversation:
What AI actually is, explained simply enough that you could repeat it to your grandmother — and why a "generic" AI model isn't good enough for church use without theological fine-tuning.
The upside of AI for ministry — from freeing up church staff to spend more time in relationship and less time in admin software, to accelerating Bible translation into unreached languages.
The caution every believer needs to hear — the research on young people turning to AI for their deepest, most personal questions instead of a pastor or parent, and why biblical literacy matters more than ever as a filter.
Stewarding time as an asset from the Lord, not just money or talents, in a digital world literally engineered by teams of psychologists to keep you scrolling.
Two more tools worth knowing about: Within, an app for scripture memory that pairs one verse a week with daily devotionals and memory games, and Clearway Core, an operating system for running church staff meetings and projects — built by a non-technical church leader using AI.
Aidan's heart for the local church comes through in every answer. If you're a pastor, church staffer, or just someone trying to think Christianly about AI, this episode is worth your drive time.
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Aidan Britnell is a Canadian technologist and entrepreneur who is passionate about accelerating the mission of the Church through technology. He is the founder of Kaleo AI, a translation platform helping hundreds of churches around the world reach people with the message of Jesus. He also writes Church Tech Insider, serving church staff with practical strategies to leverage tech and AI in their ministry. Aidan and his wife Rachel are members of Hope Bible Church in Oakville, Ontario.
To learn more about Aidan Britnell and the projects he is involved in, please visit:
Kaleo AI: https://withkaleo.com/
Within App: https://withinapp.io/
Clearway Core: https://core.clearway.co/
Hope Bible Church: https://hopeoakville.ca/
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