Cross is a small tag you place in your pews. A congregant holds their phone to it and within seconds gets a guided breathing exercise, a calming verse, and a gentle, faith-grounded conversation. There’s nothing to download and no password to remember: just a free sign-in with an email code.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”Matthew 11:28
Anxiety doesn’t announce itself at church. It sits quietly in row fourteen, waiting for the service to start.
U.S. adults lived with an anxiety disorder in the past year. They don't leave it in the parking lot — they bring it to your 10:30 service.
National Institute of Mental Health, Any Anxiety Disorderof slow, exhale-focused breathing a day improved mood and lowered breathing rate in a Stanford randomized trial. Cross starts that exercise the second someone taps.
Balban et al., Cell Reports Medicine, 2023apps to install and passwords to remember. A tap and a 6-digit email code, once, and support is there every Sunday after.
How Cross is builtEvery wellness app asks people to plan ahead for their worst moment. Cross is already waiting where that moment happens.
Stick Cross NFC tags in pew racks, the lobby, the nursing room, anywhere people wait. Setup takes a Saturday afternoon.
They hold their phone to the tag. Cross opens in the browser instantly, already set to your church and today’s service.
A guided breath, a verse, a short prayer, and if they need more, a gentle bridge to your care team.
Built for churches that are tired of tools nobody opens.
The moment someone taps, Cross opens a guided breathing exercise paced on screen. No menus, no choices to make while their heart is racing.
Outcome: congregants settle before the call to worship.
An AI companion grounded in Scripture and compassionate pastoral care. It listens, offers a verse, prays a short prayer if they want one, and never pretends to be a pastor.
Outcome: faith-aligned comfort at the exact moment of need.
It runs in the phone's browser. No download and no password: a free sign-in with a one-time email code, then it remembers them. Your 17-year-old usher and your 80-year-old greeter get the same one-tap experience.
Outcome: help reaches people who'd never download a wellness app.
When someone needs more than a breath and a verse, Cross points them to your prayer team or care pastor, and surfaces crisis lines like 988 when the words call for it.
Outcome: your care team hears from people who would never have raised a hand.
“Our ushers kept telling me how many people sit in their cars before they come in. We put Cross in the lobby and the back six rows. Within a month our care team was getting prayer requests from people we'd never heard from.”
“I was the skeptic on our staff. AI and Scripture in the same sentence made me nervous. What won me over is that it doesn't try to be a pastor. It breathes with people, prays briefly, and hands them back to us.”
“Our average member is 61. I assumed the tap would confuse people. Our greeters showed it once, the printed QR code caught everyone else, and it costs us less than Sunday's coffee.”
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Everything that doesn’t use AI is free for every church and every congregant. Pay only if you want the AI companion covered for your whole congregation.
Cover the AI companion for a small congregation.
For churches that want the AI companion always on.
Month-to-month, cancel anytime. If your church doesn’t cover it, congregants can get Cross Plus for themselves: 100 AI replies a month for $1. Cross works with standard NTAG NFC stickers, which typically cost well under a dollar each.
Because a prayer team only helps the people who ask. The congregant white-knuckling the pew through the opening song won't walk to the front, and Cross meets them where they already sit. Everything that doesn't use AI is free, every congregant gets 3 free AI conversations, and covering the AI companion for everyone starts at $1 a month per church, month-to-month. We priced it so the decision never has to go to a finance committee.
Cross is deliberately narrow. It draws on Scripture and practices Christians broadly share, like prayer, lament, rest, and breath, and it steers away from contested doctrine. It does not diagnose, give medical advice, or claim to be human or a pastor. Crisis language triggers 988 and emergency guidance immediately. Your leadership can review how Cross responds before a single tag goes in a pew.
No, and it's designed not to. Cross covers the first sixty seconds: a breath, a verse, a short prayer, and a gentle next step. That next step is always a person, whether your care pastor, your prayer team, or a crisis counselor.
Cross doesn't ask anyone to change how they worship. The tag sits quietly in the pew rack next to the hymnal, and nobody has to use it. Start with five tags in the back rows and the lobby, mention it once from the pulpit, and let greeters show it. Everything except the AI companion is free, so trying it costs nothing, and your dashboard shows how much the AI companion is used.
Every iPhone since the XS (2018) and most modern Android phones read NFC tags without any app, and the tag just says “Hold your phone here.” Every Cross tag also carries a printed QR code and a short web address, so any phone with a camera or a browser gets the same experience. No one is left out because of their device.
Put Cross in your pews before they arrive. Five tags, one dollar, zero downloads.