// case study · non-profit · product development, software engineering

Technology in Service of
Something That Actually Matters.

We built the Apostoli Viae mobile app - a native mobile app for a Catholic spiritual-formation community forming its members in prayer and union with God.

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// the challenge

Putting formation and community into members' hands.

Apostoli Viae - the Apostles of the Way - is a thoroughly Catholic community devoted to deep spiritual formation in the Carmelite tradition: forming its members in prayer and union with God, then equipping them to lead others along the same path. Its life happens through bi-weekly cenacle gatherings, online and in person, along with formation paths and resources, across a membership that spans several countries.

Supporting that mission digitally meant building a mobile app that could carry formation and community into members' daily lives - gathering the prayer, the formation materials, and the sense of belonging to something larger in one place. The technical challenges were real. The mission behind them made getting it right matter more.

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// the approach

Native quality, in service of formation.

A Native Mobile App

Members reach for their phones every day, so the app needed to feel right and native in their hands - a proper, native-feeling experience that made prayer and formation something they could return to easily.

Formation Resources

The community forms its members in the Carmelite tradition through formation paths and materials. The app needed to carry that content - putting the resources members rely on within reach whenever they turned to it.

Community and Content Features

Beyond the formation materials, the app needed to serve the community dimension of the mission - connection with other members, spiritual content, and the sense of belonging to something larger than an individual's own journey.

A Stewardable Backend

Reliable, maintainable, and appropriate for a non-profit team that needed a codebase they could steward long-term - without constant vendor support.

From vision to
daily habit.

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// the outcome

Native app

a production app serving the Apostoli Viae community

A production mobile app serving the Apostoli Viae spiritual-formation community.

A native mobile app and a maintainable backend the non-profit team can steward - built to carry prayer, formation, and community into members' daily lives.

NativeMobile app
StewardableBackend the team can maintain
FormationCommunity served
A native app, a stewardable backend, and a community that can keep showing up for one another - wherever they are.

Apostoli Viae · spiritual-formation community

// what we built

Built on a stack the team can steward.

Native Appmobile
Formationcontent and resources
Communityconnection features
Stewardablemaintainable backend

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