Agape Labs is a Christian tech startup committed to stewarding the latest technologies in such a way that the hearts of God's people would be stirred to love Him and His people more.
In Jesus' own words, we are to be ‘light of the world’ and ‘salt of the earth’. But do the latest technologies lead us in that direction? Sadly, this is often not the case. While God is sovereign and can still bring about His good plans through secular platforms, many of these at their core are designed to stir us up to consume more, yearn for that which we don't have, and resent those who do.
That is why Agape Labs wants to pursue a more excellent path. Instead of ...Agape has at its core aim the love of God and neighbour. Agape's own name comes from Jesus' words in in John 13:34...
We treat every screen, every word, every animation as something a believer might encounter on their knees. Our craft is liturgical — slowed down on purpose, ordered toward worship rather than attention.
The Word is the lens, never the accent. Every product we ship begins with the question: does this help a believer love God with their mind, soul, and strength — and their neighbour as themselves?
From a upper room prayer meeting in Lagos to a university chaplaincy in Seoul — our tools are for the whole body of Christ. We design for the smallest screen, the slowest connection, and the most beloved saint.
Nothing here is ours. The ideas, the time, the gifts — all entrusted. We try to ship with that lightness: ready to give freely, ready to lay things down, ready to be wrong and corrected by the people we serve.
Each product begins as a small, slow question and ends as a shipped tool. We don't chase categories — we chase faithfulness, screen by screen, sprint by sprint.
Scripture memory, the way Duolingo would do it.
Short, adaptive sessions that turn the daily practice of memorising Scripture into something joyful and lasting. Streaks, spaced repetition, voice recall — all working quietly in the background so the verse stays in your bones.
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Agape Labs represents a pivotal transition in my journey through life so far. A convergence between two streams of life, that I once treated as separate, becoming one. On one hand, growing up, I had a passion for technology and building things. During my time in university, this passion matured into a desire to build technology to more meaningfully connect people. On the other hand, there was my growing relationship with Christ. Read more
Initially, my being so new in the faith meant that I wasn't brave enough to allow these two streams to merge naturally — I carried the inherent belief from having followed the journeys of popular startups like Facebook or Instagram that to have true impact in people's lives, I had to build in the secular space. A couple startups and many lessons learned later, I realised the folly of such thinking. Sure, impact could be achieved in the secular space; there's millions of potential users, dozens of investors on the hunt for the next big thing, and there's that coveted unicorn status startup founders dream of reaching. But yet, one key question remains? What is the nature of that impact?
I do not mean then to imply that all secular technology is bad, in fact many of the technologies Agape Labs is built upon are secular in nature, I just saw how more often than not, this secular focus was a veiled pursuit of the vanities of selfish ambition, above whatever supposed impact one desired to have.
After having experienced some of this vanity for myself I came to the realisation that the kind of impact I was looking to have, the kind I used to shroud in terms like “meaningful connection”, was impossible apart from the love of Christ.
I was busy trying to encourage secular people to love one another, without pointing them to He who loved us first. I was trying to connect people to another, without connecting them to He who is love Himself. It was in realising this, that these two streams that were once held apart collided together, and everything changed. It wasn't some eureka moment or sudden epiphany, but rather a journeying with Christ and learning from Him that He truly is the best thing I could ever share with anyone.
So now, I see not my gifts and talents as means to make much of myself, but as much as I can, make much of Him and advance His Kingdom. I recognise the weight of these my words and desires, especially given that I still have so much to learn. My prayer is that as I continue on this journey, God would indeed grant these desires of my heart to the fullest as I delight in Him more and more, and that as a result, many would also come to know the unspeakable love and joy that Christ Jesus has shown me in Him.
We hold the historic Christian faith as confessed across centuries and continents. The following is not exhaustive — it is the soil our work grows in.
We worship one eternal God, existing in three Persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — perfect in love, sovereign in power, and gracious in dealings with His creation.
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”Deuteronomy 6:4We hold the Bible — Old and New Testaments — as the inspired, inerrant, and sufficient Word of God, the supreme authority for faith, life, and the design of our work.
“All Scripture is breathed out by God.”2 Timothy 3:16Fully God and fully man, He lived a sinless life, died a sacrificial death, and rose bodily on the third day. By His grace alone, through faith alone, sinners are made new and reconciled to the Father.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life.”John 14:6The Holy Spirit regenerates, sanctifies, comforts, and empowers — leading the Church into all truth and producing the fruit of Christ-likeness in those who follow Him.
“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.”Acts 1:8We are one family of believers — visible and invisible, gathered and scattered — called to love one another, make disciples of all nations, and serve a watching world with grace and truth.
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples.”John 13:35We live in the in-between — between resurrection and renewal — building today as those who expect the King tomorrow. Our work is not the kingdom, but it can carry its scent.
“Behold, I am making all things new.”Revelation 21:5Powerful tools call for an even more careful posture. These are the commitments we hold ourselves to in everything we ship — particularly where machine learning, recommendation, or generative AI is involved.
No model, no summariser, no chatbot may stand in the place of the Word. Where AI appears in our products, it serves the reader's encounter with Scripture — it never paraphrases it as a substitute or claims authority it does not have.
Software is a thin good. Embodied church, faithful pastors, and one-another love are the thick goods. Our tools point toward those — never away from them. We will not build features that quietly substitute the local church.
Anything generated by a model is labelled as such, clearly and visibly. Users deserve to know when a response is a probability distribution and when it is a person — or the Person — speaking.
We don't optimise for time-in-app, streak guilt, or notification anxiety. Where a feature would maximise engagement at the cost of formation, we cut it. The right session length is the one that ends in prayer.
Annotations, prayers, journal entries — what you write inside our apps is yours. We collect the minimum needed to make the product work, never sell it, and treat every record as if a brother or sister wrote it. Because they did.
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Whether you're a pastor, a developer, a designer, a curious sceptic, or a saint with a whisper of an idea — we'd love to hear from you. Leave your email and we'll be in touch.
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