As a father of three young children, my biggest struggle at the end of the day wasn't a lack of desire to pray — it was managing to practice my Lectio Divina (Prayerful Reading) with focus and quality even when exhausted.
When you are tired, looking up references and historical context becomes a barrier. pwE (Pray With Me) was born to optimize focus and restore quality to daily prayer through four quiet, immersive steps:
Study "footnotes" with the flow of a social feed
The best insights in a study Bible are usually hidden in tiny print inside footnotes. The core idea behind pwE was leveraging knowledge cataloged by AI models to make those "footnotes" as effortless to consume as scrolling through a modern social media feed:
Drops of Wisdom
Historical, patristic, and Magisterium context delivered in bite-sized cards right alongside your reading.
The Daily Icon
Full-screen contemplative sacred art automatically aligned with the daily liturgy.
"The goal isn't for AI to pray for you, but to use data to illuminate the mind and help you be the true protagonist of your own prayer."
How we built it (Engineering & AI)
To maintain a cross-platform application (Android, iOS, and Web) across 116+ releases, we established four engineering pillars from day one:
Human Curation + Zero-Knowledge
Shared content goes through human curation; private model interactions are exhaustively tested, and your Spiritual Journal is encrypted on-device (AES-256-GCM).
Resilience in Sacred Moments
AI engineering focused on accuracy and high availability (Gemma 4 On-Device + Cloud + Static CDN), ensuring zero interruptions during prayer.
Clean Code, DDD & 51 ADRs
Modular Flutter/BLoC ecosystem validated by 931+ automated tests and documented step by step across 51 Architecture Decision Records.
17 Specialist AI Agents
Raw coding time dropped sharply, shifting my focus toward critical reading, architectural management, and rigorous code review.
On November 2, 2026, pwE officially launched in global production on the Google Play Store (now backed by 69 ADRs and 20 Clean Code Slices open on GitHub). Choose where to continue: