TPL Notebook
What's changing in the world, what it might mean for the Gospel, and one idea worth stewarding.
I'm building toward a for profit AI venture that funds Gospel work. Each Friday I share the news, tools, and patterns I'm watching, with builders in mind. Join me as we figure out what kind of company God might use to change how Gospel initiatives are funded.
For ten years, Resource Global has run on donor generosity. That works, but it is not sustainable as we move toward our goal of 25 cohorts in global cities around the world by 2030. My dream has been to build a for profit company that funds Gospel work, and AI is the moment where this becomes possible for a small team with the right idea.
This past month has been one of the most consequential in AI history. Anthropic announced a security model so powerful they refused to release it publicly. Google made professional video creation free. Q1 venture funding hit $297B with 81% going to AI. The platforms are getting cheaper, the tools are getting more accessible, and the business models are getting clearer.
Three stories below, then one product idea worth wrestling with.
What's Launching
Building blocks. New platforms, models, and capabilities that could become the foundation for products.
Gemini Omni: professional video creation just dropped to zero cost
Gemini Omni Flash, announced Tuesday and called "Nano Banana for video" by Google itself, lets anyone turn text, image, audio, or video inputs into a polished video. Includes a personal Avatar feature: a digital version of yourself that looks and sounds like you, so you can generate videos starring you without ever filming.
Rolling out now to Google AI subscribers. Critically, also rolling out free on YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create app this week.
Video creation just became a commodity. The product opportunity is not "AI video generator" (commoditized). It is in the layer above: who packages this for a specific audience, in a specific language, with a specific workflow? Think: AI sermon prep for under resourced pastors. AI explainers for cohort members in Bahasa or Mandarin. Localized content engines for ministries that cannot afford production teams. The infrastructure is now free.
Frontier coding at 1/10th the cost. The economics just changed.
Cursor's Composer 2.5, released this week, matches Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks at less than $1 per task vs $11 for the frontier models. This continues a pattern: capability is no longer scarce, but cost efficient capability is the new edge.
Margin math just shifted. A product built on frontier models last year would have been unprofitable serving a mission market (low cost developing world). The same product on Composer 2.5 economics is viable. This opens up a category of "frontier quality, mission affordable" AI products that could serve markets in Africa, SE Asia, and Latin America at scale. Worth a conversation with the Jakarta team about which workflows we could build on this stack.
Claude Mythos: too dangerous to release. The cybersecurity floor just shifted.
This is the biggest story of the last month, and most people outside tech missed it. Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview in early April: a frontier model so capable at finding software vulnerabilities that the company decided not to release it. Mythos autonomously discovered thousands of zero day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser, including a 27 year old bug in OpenBSD and a 17 year old bug in FreeBSD. Engineers with no security training were able to use it to generate complete, working exploits.
Instead of public release, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a consortium with Microsoft, Google, Apple, AWS, Cisco, JPMorgan Chase, the Linux Foundation, and others, using Mythos to find and patch vulnerabilities before bad actors get similar models. Anthropic estimates that comparable capabilities will emerge from other labs within 12 to 18 months.
Two implications. First, any AI product we build needs serious security review from day one. The window between a vulnerability being found and weaponized is collapsing from weeks to hours. Second, this is a watershed moment for what AI is capable of. Anthropic chose restraint when they could have monetized. That posture of "we have power but we are choosing to steward it carefully" is exactly the kind of company a faith driven venture should partner with. Project Glasswing also shows what AI for the common good can look like when frontier labs cooperate instead of compete.
Where the Money is Moving
Funding signals. What investors are paying for tells you what real customers will pay for, eventually.
Vertical AI is beating horizontal AI. Niche workflows are the winners.
$18.8 billion has gone into AI startups founded since early 2025, but the pattern of winners is clear: vertical, workflow specific tools that own one job in one industry. Rebar (HVAC quote generation) raised $14M Series A and doubled ARR in six weeks. Fazeshift (AI for accounts receivable) raised $22M in May. Performativ ($5.5M for wealth management) and Marloo ($10M for advisor workflows) are smaller but instructive.
The "AI for everything" generic products are losing. The "AI for this one painful workflow" products are getting funded and finding revenue fast.
The lesson for a Gospel funding venture: do not build "AI for ministries." Pick one workflow. AI for small church accounting. AI for missionary support letter drafting. AI for translating sermons into 50 dialects. AI for grant writing. Each of these is small enough to dominate, big enough to fund. The vertical strategy is also more defensible against the giants.
Anthropic just won the audit firm market. 800,000+ professionals now use Claude.
In three weeks Anthropic has landed KPMG (276,000+ employees), PwC (hundreds of thousands), and SAP integration. This tells you where the real enterprise budget is moving: professional services, finance, and ops are buying Claude as the default reasoning layer.
Claude Code alone hit $2.5B in annualized revenue by February 2026. Anthropic is at ~$30-40B annualized revenue. OpenAI at ~$25B. The market is real and bigger than most people think.
Two relevant signals. First, building on Claude as infrastructure is now safer than ever because it has enterprise lock in. Second, the consulting world (PwC, KPMG, Deloitte) is about to deploy AI tools to every client they serve. That means the SMB and mid market space they neglect, especially in developing countries, is wide open for purpose built tools that fit local context. That is our cohort members' actual market.
AI tools for cohort members to fund their own Gospel Action Plans
Every cohort member completes a Gospel Action Plan. Many of them in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore use for profit startups to fund Gospel work. What if Resource Global built a small suite of AI tools that helped cohort members run their businesses better, with a portion of revenue flowing back to RG?
Examples: an AI document and proposal tool for cohort members raising funds. An AI translation service for cross cultural ministry content. An AI sermon and Bible study assistant in local languages. Each one solves a real pain in our network. Each one could become a small business with revenue share back to RG.
Business Models Working
Revenue patterns. What people are actually paying for, with real numbers behind it.
What I'm Reading
Sources I rely on, with a builder lens.