Choose the right lane.
A cleaner offer feels more trustworthy. Access, credits, and donations are deliberately separated here so visitors understand what they are receiving, what they are funding, and why the ministry keeps the categories distinct instead of blending everything into one vague promise.
Use the paid lanes when you want steadier continuity for passage comparison, doctrine questions, chronology work, or prayer-centered study across multiple sessions.
They exist for short seasons of heavier use so a few intense research days do not force the whole public offer to become expensive or confusing.
Donations help fund hosting, model upkeep, monitoring, and ongoing biblical research without muddying the product story or implying that pastoral care is for sale.
Explore first
Best for casual visitors and first-time users.
- 12 messages per day
- Good for one passage, one doctrine question, or a first look at the voice and boundaries
- No account required until you want supporter continuity
Get access
Suggested gift: $10. Unlocks 30-day supporter access for the signed-in account after verified payment confirmation.
- 120 messages per day target allowance
- Best for regular readers, sermon prep, repeated passage comparison, and deeper Ask Dave continuity
- Verified checkout upgrades the signed-in account for 30 days
- Kept separate from donations so the offer stays honest
For churches and teams
Suggested support: $35-$50. Best for churches, ministries, and trusted teams that need a higher-usage lane with manual onboarding.
- 500 messages per day target allowance
- Good fit for churches, ministries, research teams, or trusted collaborators using the tool in a coordinated way
- Manual intake keeps abuse low and lets the ministry set expectations carefully before wider rollout
Buy extra capacity
Credit packs. For bursty heavier usage when someone needs more than the normal daily lane.
- For short bursts above the normal daily lane
- Useful for special research sessions, teaching prep, or a heavier week of chronology and theme work
- Can coexist with regular access instead of replacing it
Support the mission
Donate. Supports the mission and hosting costs without changing access limits by itself.
- For people who want to strengthen the ministry without changing product access
- Supports hosting, development, biblical research, and the operational cost of keeping Ask Dave live
- Kept separate from access so the language stays honest
This is not a shallow wrapper around a generic model.
The system is designed to work across the whole canon rather than only on a short devotional slice.
Large parts of the corpus are already grouped by theme so the bot can move between related passages more intelligently.
Named people, places, groups, and related co-occurrence patterns help Ask Dave follow biblical relationships and repeated settings.
The broader repo already contains a deep translation lane alongside cross references, commentaries, dictionaries, and interlinear resources.
When paying for access makes the most sense.
- Tracing a theme like kingdom, covenant, exile, resurrection, justice, or temple across multiple books.
- Comparing a hard passage with related witnesses before writing a study note, class outline, or sermon sketch.
- Exploring chronology claims and asking which evidence is strongest, which is weaker, and what remains debated.
- Keeping a longer-running prayer, reading, or discipleship conversation in one account instead of starting fresh each day.
The public site can now say more clearly what depth exists underneath.
That does not mean every answer is final. It means the system has a richer evidence base, and the public pages should invite thoughtful use instead of underselling what has already been built.
RuachDavid is an AI assistant for Scripture-shaped guidance, not crisis care or licensed counseling. Read the terms.