We're building an open-source agentic workflow platform for faith-based ministry — and nothing is built yet

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Churches and benevolence ministries have a quiet crisis.

Someone walks through the door in crisis — rent, food, grief, addiction. The org delivers a one-time assist. Then that person turns to vapor. No follow-up. No root cause detection. The pastor is overwhelmed. The staff is thin. The volunteers are dwindling.

We call it band-aid churn. And it's quietly breaking the organizations designed to catch people when everything else fails.

What we're building

Springwell-Keel is an open-source agentic workflow orchestration framework for churches and faith-based benevolence ministries.

Three coordinated lanes powered by a single Keel Engine:

Lane A — Individual Journey Orchestration: intake, sensing, sequenced follow-up
Lane B — Organizational Service Catalog: matching people to the right care module
Lane C — Capability Sequencing & Readiness Handoff: routing across care domains without gaps

Think sales drip campaign — but for human restoration.

Stack direction

Postgres as system of record
Docker-sandboxed agents
Modular workflow orchestration
Designed for volunteer accessibility from day one

The honest part

Nothing is built yet. Phase 0. True greenfield.

That's not a weakness — that's the invitation. The decisions made now shape everything that follows. No legacy code to fight. No architecture already baked in.

If you've been waiting for a project where your thinking shapes the bones before they calcify — the window is now.