Kaleo AI

What Kaleo AI does

Kaleo AI is a real-time AI translation and captioning service purpose-built for live church services. The product captures live sermon audio streamed from a church's sound system through a Chrome browser, transcribes it, and outputs captions and translations in 150+ languages that attendees can read on any device via a QR code or listen to through paired headphones via native iOS and Android apps. The underlying technology stack consists of custom-trained neural machine translation and speech models fine-tuned for theological terminology and Bible names — words like Deuteronomy, Doxology, Pentecost, and Epistle that generic translation tools mishandle. The company explicitly positions itself against Google Translate on domain accuracy in the church context.

The business model is a self-serve, product-led SaaS subscription with three tiers: Starter at $24/month (5 streaming hours, 2 languages), Pro at $49/month (10 hours, 4 languages), and Unlimited at $149/month (unlimited hours, 150+ languages). All plans include unlimited users per church, are month-to-month with no annual commitment, and are gated by a 4-hour free trial that requires no credit card. There is no sales team, no enterprise motion, and no disclosed channel partnerships — customer acquisition flows through the website (withkaleo.com) and the app stores. Kaleo AI operates as a brand under EID Systems Inc., a US-incorporated corporation; no founding date, no funding history, no management team, and no named customers are disclosed in the available data.

Name

Kaleo AI

Legal name

EID Systems Inc.

Website

https://getkaleo.ai

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Kaleo AI provides real-time AI-powered translation and captioning of live church sermons into 150+ languages, using custom-trained models optimized for theological terminology. It serves churches of all sizes via a self-serve SaaS subscription priced from $24 to $149 per month.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Technology / Church Translation Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Speech Translation & Multilingual Speech Tech (HDAAAFAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Multilingual/Translation Communication Apps (BPAMACAJ)

Keywords

• Church translation software
• Live sermon translation
• Theological AI translation
• Religious accessibility technology
• Multilingual captioning service

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription Plans (Starter, Pro, Unlimited): Monthly subscription tiers providing streaming hours, language translation slots, and unlimited user access. Additional hours available as add-ons at per-hour pricing. All plans are month-to-month with no annual commitment required.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Kaleo AI provides a real-time AI-powered translation and captioning service for live church services, converting sermon audio into captions and translating it into 150+ languages and dialects using custom-trained neural machine translation models optimized for theological terminology and Bible names. The service is delivered through a web browser-based platform where churches stream audio from their sound system via Chrome, and attendees access captions/translations via QR code on any device, with iOS and Android mobile apps available for headphone listening.

Product overview

Kaleo AI is a unified real-time translation and captioning platform designed specifically for church environments. The core service translates live sermon audio into 150+ languages using custom-trained AI models that recognize theological terminology and Bible names. Users access translations via QR code on any device through a web interface or dedicated mobile apps (iOS/Android). The service is offered through three subscription tiers (Starter at $24/mo for 2 languages, Pro at $49/mo for 4 languages, and Unlimited at $149/mo for 150+ languages), with a free trial providing 4 hours of captions and translations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kaleo AI Real-time AI-powered translation and captioning service for live church services, translating sermons into 150+ languages using custom-trained neural machine translation models optimized for theological terminology and Bible names. Delivered via web browser with QR code attendee access and native iOS/Android apps for headphone listening. Offered to churches of all sizes through month-to-month subscription plans.

Quantifiable outcome

• Translates church services into 150+ languages in real-time

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Kudo: Multilingual interpretation platform supporting live events, webinars, and meetings with both human and AI interpretation. Comparable to Kaleo in delivering real-time multilingual access to audiences, though Kudo is more enterprise/event-oriented versus Kaleo's church vertical.
• Wordly: AI-powered real-time interpretation and translation platform for meetings, conferences, and live events. Closest direct competitor to Kaleo AI in the live, AI-translated, multilingual event space, with overlapping use cases in conferences versus Kaleo's churches.
• Interprefy: Cloud-based remote interpretation platform for conferences and meetings with real-time multilingual support. Comparable live-event translation and captioning delivery model, with similar product overlap in real-time interpretation/captioning UX.

Regional players

• Subsplash: Church engagement platform for mobile apps, giving, media, and communication. Adjacent peer in the church-technology stack where Kaleo's translation/captioning could be bundled or compete for the same church-tech wallet.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Translator: Major general-purpose multilingual translation API and live feature platform used across enterprise and live events. The primary baseline against which Kaleo's domain-specialization thesis is positioned.
• Verbit: AI-driven transcription and captioning (and translation services) for enterprise, education, and legal. Comparable live captioning and translation infrastructure, though Verbit is much broader and serves larger enterprise buyers.
• DeepL: Leading neural translation provider widely regarded as higher-quality than Google Translate. A potential substitute for Kaleo if its domain-tuned advantage narrows, given DeepL's brand reputation for translation accuracy.
• Otter.ai: AI meeting transcription, captions, and summarization across meetings and live events. Overlaps Kaleo on real-time speech-to-text and caption generation but serves general business meetings rather than church services.

Emerging players

• Faithlife: Church software platform (Bible, sermon notes, church management) used by thousands of churches. Adjacent in the church vertical and a potential channel partner or competitor for translation-enabled church engagement.
• Captions (by Krisp): AI live captioning and translation app for live streams and video calls. Shares Kaleo's real-time, AI-driven captioning and translation delivery model in a different vertical (creators, professionals vs. churches).

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/getkaleo
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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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