No, by design. SleekAI is configured to recognise theology, sacramental, and pastoral questions, and to redirect them to clergy. The bot will say something like "this is a great question for Fr. Andrew, the parish office is open Tuesday to Friday 9am to 3pm at (612) 555-0144" and offer the contact form. Communion practice, confession, fasting rules, and questions about converting to Orthodoxy all fall in this category. The boundary is held in the system prompt and reinforced by the guideline filter.

Yes, when the parish jurisdiction is stored as a field. A Greek Orthodox parish under the Ecumenical Patriarchate, an OCA parish, an Antiochian parish, and a ROCOR parish all have slightly different liturgical practices and calendar specifics. The bot reads the jurisdiction field and frames answers accordingly, and it stays away from the Old Calendar vs New Calendar discussion entirely by quoting the schedule the parish actually publishes.

Yes, if feast services are published on the site. A feast_day custom post type or even regular events with a feast taxonomy works. Pascha, Theophany, Annunciation, the Dormition, and the parish patronal feast all get accurate service times. Holy Week is usually a separate sub-schedule, and the bot can quote the full week when the schedule is in place on the site.

Yes. The bot is configured to explain that visitors are welcome to attend, that they are not expected to come forward for Holy Communion, and that antidoron is offered to everyone at the end of liturgy. Dress code guidance is matter-of-fact (modest, comfortable, nothing specific is required), and the bot offers to introduce the visitor to a greeter on Sunday. This is one of the most common visitor questions and the bot handles it well.

Yes. A small mission with one Divine Liturgy a week and a part-time priest does not need a complex bot. SleekAI runs fine on a single Divine Liturgy schedule, points sacrament conversations to the priest's published phone number, and notes that the parish is small and led by Fr. Whomever. The cost is whatever your model usage is, typically a few dollars a month at small-parish traffic with GPT-4o-mini.

Yes. SleekAI uses the LLM's multilingual capabilities, so a visitor asking in Greek, Russian, Arabic, Romanian, or Serbian gets answered in that language. The pulled data (service times, addresses, names) stays the same, only the response language changes. This is useful for ethnic parishes whose visiting families do not always have an English-speaker on hand.

Yours. SleekAI is BYO API key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter, and the model bills you directly. There is no per-message markup from Sleek. For a single-parish chatbot on GPT-4o-mini, the typical monthly usage is in the range of a few dollars even with steady visitor traffic. Switch to GPT-4o or Claude Sonnet if you want better handling of nuanced visitor questions.

Yes. SleekAI stores every conversation in WordPress with the model name, token usage, and the page URL the conversation happened on. The parish office can review what visitors are actually asking, which tends to surface gaps in the website ("a lot of people are asking if there's a Saturday Vespers and the page does not say"). The log is private to the WordPress admin, not shared with anyone outside the parish.