A Catholic AI fellowship · New York
Learn how AI products really work by owning one part of a live app, end to end.
BuildSaints is an AI app for young Catholics in New York: AI that helps Catholics grow, in the Church’s teaching. You talk with a saint who walks with you through your real day, and the app does the work: it plans, reminds, finds the Mass that fits your schedule, makes a video.
A training program in practical AI application logic, on a live product. Using BuildSaints is part of the training: you use it on your own day, money and work (investing, budgeting, work events) to test and improve it in real time.
The spiritual habits of a Plan of Life (the morning offering, Mass, the examen, the Rosary, spiritual reading) and how to integrate them into a member’s daily activities.
System messages (the instructions a model reads every turn), agent loops (plan, call a tool, read the result), the harness around the model (tools, lanes, memory, the checks) and evaluations: test cases and graders, shipping on evidence.
The liturgical data and the day’s Scripture readings, the teachings of Magnifica Humanitas and the Church’s sources, put to work with AI, with every quotation exact.
Each fellow focuses primarily, though not exclusively, on one core goal and owns its full pipeline, from a member’s first tap to the result, built with BuildSaints’ own app builder and Claude Code, which writes the code. You market it too: videos made with Claude Code, and the user acquisition for your area. Not separate tracks: every fellow works across product and marketing.
When you apply, mark the areas you’re most interested in. You’ll work across several.
Students of any major who notice details, write clearly and love trying new AI tools. No programming needed.
About two minutes.