About Us

Founded in 2015 as a technology and design agency and having served a global client base in the Catholic Church, including the Holy See, Longbeard has pivoted to building its own products.

Our Mission

To build AI and accelerate adoption in service of the Catholic Church.

Contact Our Press Team

lara@longbeard.com

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Our Products

World’s #1 answer engine for the Catholic Church.

Optimized to mitigate hallucinations and provide transparency in answer generation.

A faithful alternative to frontier LLM apps.

Key Facts:

  • 360,000+ Unique Users (organic)
  • 165+ Countries
  • 50+ Languages
  • 20,000+ Documents

Library Platform Powered by AI.

Vulgate utilizes several AI technologies to make library contents more accessible. Vulgate is currently powering a historic library digitization project with Pontifical universities in Rome.

Key Features:

  • Neural and keyword search powered by AI.
  • Digitize text, images, audio, and video at scale.
  • Summarize key passages, chapters, and entire books.
  • Access content in any language with machine translation.
  • Create personal libraries, save, comment, highlight, and share texts.

Amplifying Catholic Content Creators.

Jokingly referred to as the Catholic “Daily Wire”, Christendom is a ‘big tent’ platform for users looking to discover Catholic content on faith, politics, and culture.

Key Facts:

  • Over 82 content creator channels
  • Used in over 70+ countries

Our CEO

Our CEO

Matthew Harvey Sanders

CEO, Longbeard

Matthew started his career as an Infantry Officer in the Canadian Forces until retiring to enter the Catholic seminary studying at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC ...

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