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Answer the diary, not the pastoral question
Service and prayer times, what runs midweek, which rooms you hire and what the published rate includes — from your own pages, at whatever hour somebody looks.
AI chatbot for religious and community centres that answers hall hire, never pastoral
Service and prayer times as the year moves them, which rooms you hire and what the rate includes, what runs midweek, how a newcomer joins, and what you publish about weddings, namings and funerals. Your own pages answer all of those, round the clock, in whichever language they are asked. Adoomi attempts no pastoral conversation, confirms no date, and gives no reply at all to somebody in difficulty — they see the support wording you publish, and the person you named gets the message.
Only what your pages publishWeddings and funerals to your officiantDistress goes to your safeguarding lead
Fig. 01.A · Religious / community centres24/7
Times, groups and hire questions
Never
A hire date called free
~10 min
Connect, name the people, publish
Fig. 02.A · pain quotesThe everyday problem
The office is one part-time administrator and a phone that does not stop
Enquiries arrive in every register at once: a caretaker's question about Saturday's setting-up, a family asking whether you take funerals for people who are not members, a company after the large hall for a training day, a parent checking whether the toddler group runs in the school holidays. And then, without warning, a message written in the middle of the night by somebody who had nowhere else to send it. A part-time administrator cannot sort those by urgency in real time.
Web07:42
“'What time is it on this week?' — the times moved with the season again.”
WhatsApp21:15
“'Is the big hall free on the 14th?' — nobody with the diary is awake.”
EmailSun
“A message written in the middle of the night, in among the hire forms.”
What you get
The diary answered; the pastoral, the rites and the money handed on
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Take the hire enquiry without touching the diary
Room, date, event type, numbers, the kitchen and the setting-up time captured for your bookings administrator — with no date ever described as free.
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The message that gets no reply at all
Somebody in difficulty is not answered or assessed. They are shown the support wording you publish, and your safeguarding lead gets the conversation at once.
Question coverage
The questions that reach the office every week
When services and prayers are, which rooms you hire and what the published rate covers, what runs midweek for children and older people, whether the building is step-free, how a newcomer joins in, and what your pages say about weddings, namings and funerals — all answered from your own pages, with pastoral and rites-of-passage enquiries going to the person you name, and giving to your giving page.
Service and prayer timesHall hire and ratesWeddings and funeralsMidweek groupsGetting involvedAccessibilityGiving
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Adoomi
ChatVoice
This isn't about the hall. I've nowhere else to ask and things have got very bad.
I'm not going to try to answer that, and I would rather say so plainly — you need a person, not a chat window. Our support page carries the wording we publish for anyone in this position, and I'll show you that rather than pick something myself.
Will anyone actually see this?
Your message has gone to the person we name for exactly this, in your own words, rather than into the enquiries inbox with the hall bookings. I haven't assessed it, replied to it or filed it as routine, and I won't take it any further myself.
SupportWeddings and funeralsGetting involved
Type a question…● Voice
Buyer intent
A hire enquiry that reaches your bookings administrator with the room and the date in it
A hire enquiry is unanswerable without the room, the date, the kind of event and rough numbers — plus the kitchen, the alcohol question, and how long they need for setting up and clearing away. Adoomi asks for the fields your administrator sets and explains what your hire page publishes about rooms and rates, then stops: it cannot see the diary, so it never calls a date free. The enquiry reaches your bookings administrator by email alert, or on WhatsApp carrying the enquirer's own words.
Vague enquiries, no context.
Your team chases the basics before they can reply.
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Adoomi
EnquiryHall hire — a wake
Room and dateAs the enquirer gave them
NumbersIn their own words
Contactcaptured@…
3 of 4 captured · 1 in progress
With AdoomiNew enquiry · readyEnq · small hall
EnquiryHall hire — a wake
Room and dateAs the enquirer gave them
NumbersIn their own words
Contactcaptured@…
One clean handoff.
Your team opens the enquiry and replies — no chasing.
STEP · 01
Work out what it is
Hire, a wedding or funeral, giving, or somebody who needs help
STEP · 02
Collect the hire details
Room, date, event type, numbers, kitchen, setting-up time
STEP · 03
Be clear about the limit
No date called free, no pastoral conversation
STEP · 04
Send it to the named person
Bookings administrator, officiant — or your safeguarding lead, at once
Fig. 06.A · after-hoursOut-of-hours
The building is locked long before the questions stop
Enquiries arrive when the centre is empty: a family looking up the funeral page the night somebody dies, a hirer checking the music policy before they commit, a newcomer wondering whether to just turn up. Adoomi answers what your pages publish 24/7 and captures the rest for the morning. The message that arrives in the small hours is the one it treats differently — no reply is attempted, the support wording you publish is shown, and your safeguarding lead has it before the office opens.
20:40
“'What time is the Friday gathering?'”
Answered from your times page
21:15
“'Can we hire the hall for a christening party?'”
Captured — no date confirmed
22:30
“A message from somebody who cannot cope”
No reply — your support wording, then your lead
08:00
“The administrator's morning list”
Hire enquiries, with rooms, dates and numbers
Time back
The administrator's morning goes on the diary, not on answers the website already gives
Which rooms are hireable and what the published rate includes, whether the kitchen comes with it, what your policy says about music and alcohol, when the toddler group and the luncheon club run, whether the building is step-free, how a newcomer joins, and what your pages say about weddings, namings and funerals. None of it is new — it has sat on your website since somebody last updated it. Adoomi reads it there, leaving the office free for the diary, the rota and the person at the desk.
Before Adoomi
- Service and prayer times get retyped every time the season moves them.
- Hire enquiries arrive with no room, no date and no idea of numbers.
- A funeral enquiry sits unanswered overnight because nobody wants to get it wrong.
- A message from somebody in trouble waits in the same inbox as the hire forms.
With Adoomi
- Times, midweek groups, rates and access answered from your own pages at any hour.
- Hire enquiries arrive with the room, the date, the numbers and the setting-up time.
- Wedding and funeral enquiries reach your officiant without a date being promised.
- A message suggesting somebody needs help is shown your support wording and sent on, unanswered.
Fig. 08.A · controlsTrust & safety
Nobody in difficulty gets an answer here — they get your wording and your named person
The assistant answers your published pages: service and prayer times, hire rooms and the rates you list. Beyond that it hands on — pastoral questions to your minister, imam or rabbi; weddings, namings and funerals to your officiant, no date confirmed; giving to your giving page. A message suggesting somebody needs help gets no reply and no assessment: the support wording you publish is shown, and your safeguarding lead gets it with their own words. It is a routing rule, not safeguarding.
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Your own pages, and no further
Times, hire rates, midweek groups and access come from what you publish. If your page has not said it, the assistant will not either.
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Nothing pastoral is attempted
Spiritual, pastoral and counselling questions go to your minister, imam, rabbi or whoever you name. A wedding or funeral date is never confirmed, and eligibility is never ruled on.
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Distress gets your words, not the bot's
A message suggesting somebody needs help is not answered or assessed. The support wording you publish is shown, and your safeguarding lead has the conversation at once.
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Approved first, held in the EU
You read and approve every answer before the chat window is switched on, and can block any of them. Conversations sit in the EU with GDPR export and deletion, and no content goes into logs.
How it works
How an AI chatbot for religious and community centres works.
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Connect content
Connect the pages people read: service and prayer times, hire information and published rates, midweek groups, access, giving, and what you say about weddings, namings and funerals.
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Add the snippet
Name the people: bookings administrator for hire, officiant for weddings and funerals, treasurer for giving, safeguarding lead for anything that suggests somebody needs help. Then add one line.
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Test & go live
Look at the morning's enquiries, adjust anything that no longer matches the timetable once the season moves it, and take out any answer you dislike. The whole thing takes ~10 min to set up.
FAQ
FAQs about AI chatbots for religious and community centres.
Messages suggesting somebody needs help get no reply — no assessment, no advice, no helpline the assistant chose itself. The support wording your own pages publish is shown, and the conversation goes to the safeguarding lead you named with what they wrote attached. Your duties are unchanged.
Hire dates are never confirmed in the chat window. The assistant cannot see your diary, so it explains what your hire page publishes about rooms, rates, the kitchen and setting-up time, then takes the date, event type and numbers for your bookings administrator. No deposit is handled.
Rites-of-passage enquiries are passed on, never settled. The assistant repeats what your pages publish about who may marry or be buried here and the fees you list, then routes the enquiry to your officiant. It confirms no date, rules on nobody's eligibility and attempts no pastoral conversation.
Giving stays off the chat window entirely — no card number, no amount, no pledge is handled there. Somebody wanting to set up a standing order is taken to your own giving page, and a Gift Aid or regular-giving question is written down for your treasurer rather than answered.
The Free plan carries 50 message credits at £0 a month, and the paid tiers run 200 credits for £8, 500 for £20 and 4,000 for £75. A credit goes when the assistant answers; when your administrator writes the reply, none does. Connecting, reading the answers and publishing runs to ~10 min.
Conversations are hosted in the EU, with export and deletion on request under GDPR, and no conversation content is written to logs. The chat window sets no tracking cookies. Anyone can type anything into it, so what protects a difficult message is where it is sent, not what it is scanned for.
Why this matters
What a chatbot can honestly promise a place of worship
The list is short, and it does not include more people through the door or faster replies from volunteers who are already stretched. What it can promise is a boundary that does not move with anybody's mood or workload: a pastoral conversation is declined every time rather than usually, a hire date is never called free, and a message from somebody in difficulty leaves for your safeguarding lead as quickly on a Sunday night as on a Monday morning. Design, not diligence.
Answered from your own pages
Service and prayer times, midweek groups, hire rooms and published rates, answered while the building is locked and the office is empty.
A pastoral conversation attempted
Pastoral and spiritual questions go to the person you name, and a hire, wedding or funeral date is never described as available.
From website to live chat window
The whole setup is pointing it at your pages, saying who each kind of enquiry goes to, and adding one line to your website. The Free plan is £0.
Start free
Give it your times, hire and getting-involved pages
Point Adoomi at the pages people actually read — when things are on, which rooms you hire and at what published rate, what runs midweek, how to get involved, and what you say about weddings, namings and funerals. Then name the people: bookings administrator, officiant, treasurer, safeguarding lead. Nothing it says goes live until you have looked at it. The Free plan is £0 with 50 message credits and no card, which is enough to put your hardest message to it.
No giving in the chat windowYou read every answer firstStart on the Free plan, £0
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