Building a more human future
Extraordinary machines.
Extraordinary human possibility.
FaithWise explores and builds for the human side of technological transformation. We are not here to cheer for AI or to fear it. We are here for the people living with it.
Our main work right now
Core Compass
Core Compass is a company that grew out of FaithWise. It helps students, faculty, and departments decide, in their own words, what AI should do in their learning and what stays theirs.
AI can do the assignment. Only you can do the learning.
Launching at the AAC&U Conference on AI and Higher Education, October 30, 2026
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For students
Core Compass for Students
An eight-module, 45-hour course that helps students understand how they learn and use AI without giving up the learning.
For faculty
Faculty Compass
A way to decide what makes sense for AI in your teaching and your courses, and why.
For departments
Compass to Alignment in an Hour
See where your department agrees, where it differs, and what actually needs a shared decision.
AI can give you answers.
What if it could make you a better thinker?
In about 10 minutes, discover something about how you think best, and teach your AI to help strengthen it. Nothing you type leaves your device.
The idea behind it
What we believe
Humans are particular.
People are not interchangeable units of human intelligence. Each person brings a particular history, perspective, judgment, relationships, commitments, ways of seeing, and possibilities for contribution.
Technology is formative.
The question isn’t only what AI can do for us. It is also what repeated interaction with increasingly capable technology is teaching us to notice, practice, delegate, and become.
Human and machine intelligence can be deliberately combined.
The opportunity isn’t simply to automate more human work. We are exploring how different forms of human and machine intelligence can complement one another while preserving human authorship, responsibility, judgment, and development.
Questions we keep asking
What should remain yours?
- What do you want AI to amplify?
- What judgment shouldn’t be delegated?
- Which capacities do you want to strengthen rather than outsource?
- Who are you becoming through the ways you use technology?
- How can AI support human self-understanding without becoming the authority on who a person is?
- How do we know whether human-AI collaboration is making the humans more capable, or merely more dependent?
The method
The Personal Moral Compass
The Personal Moral Compass (PMC) is FaithWise’s foundational methodology for agency, formation, and purposeful action. It helps people recognize what has formed them, say what they claim, and take part intentionally in who they are becoming.
AI can support reflection without becoming the authority on a person’s meaning, judgment, or identity. The result is not a fixed profile, but a living steering resource that can be tested, practiced, and revised through life. Core Compass grew from this work.
Also in development
At the frontier
Courageous Intelligence
A methodology for making the distinct intelligence in a team visible and usable: what particular people notice, know, question, and contribute because of who they are. For leaders, organizations, and elite sport.
Human Readiness R&D
What if preparing for AI means preparing the relationship, not just the humans or the machines? We’re exploring how machine intelligence can increase what’s possible without quietly diminishing human judgment, agency, or formation.
Workshops and tools
For workshop participants and authors
Each tool opens with the passcode from your workshop or invitation. Nothing to install and no AI account needed.
Personal Moral Compass
A guided reflection on what you hold, what must remain yours, and how you want to relate to AI. One question at a time. Best on a laptop, with time set aside.
Congregational Compass
A Church Constitution for AI: not a rulebook, but a short statement of who your congregation is and how it will live with AI, drafted in your own words.
Writing Companion
For nonfiction authors, in early testing. It asks you questions section by section and puts your answers into your manuscript exactly as you wrote them. It never writes the book for you.
Bring a workshop to your congregation, conference, seminary, or team: write to Marian. Want to test the Writing Companion? Let us know.