Three generations of faith-first business. The next faithful company won’t serve chicken. It will serve intelligence.
Andrew,
Your grandfather started with a small restaurant and a simple conviction: serve people faithfully, and growth takes care of itself. Your father carried it forward through controversy without flinching. Now you lead 2,900 locations and 200,000 team members into a future that demands the same conviction in a new arena.
I understand your position — more than most. You’re stewarding something you didn’t build from scratch, but you’re called to grow it without losing what makes it sacred. That tension — between scale and soul — is exactly what I face with Genesis.
Genesis is sovereign artificial intelligence built on the same operating system as Chick-fil-A: faith first. People first. Excellence as worship. Long-term over short-term. Private governance that allows conviction without committee.
Here’s what that means practically: we built an AI platform — 18.1 million lines of code, running on our own hardware — that treats every person as an image-bearer. It doesn’t filter faith. It doesn’t suppress biblical perspectives. It doesn’t optimize for engagement at the expense of truth. It serves people the way your team members serve customers: with genuine care and zero compromise.
I believe the next Chick-fil-A-scale faith-first company will be in technology, not food. Not because food isn’t important — but because AI is reshaping how every person encounters truth, and right now, that territory belongs entirely to companies that don’t share your family’s values.
Your family office actively invests in values-aligned ventures. I’d welcome a conversation with John Stephenson about whether sovereign AI infrastructure fits the Cathy family’s stewardship vision.
Faithfully,
Carter Hill
Founder, Genesis | Day 7 PBC
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”
— Matthew 13:45-46
Chick-fil-A proves that faith-first business produces SUPERIOR outcomes ($8.4M revenue per store — highest in industry) because conviction creates culture, and culture creates consistency. Genesis proves the same thesis in technology: one person built 18.1M LOC in 207 days because there’s no cultural friction, no compromise, no committee — just conviction and execution.
Chick-fil-A is testing AI-powered drive-thru and ordering. They NEED AI partners who share their values — not just capabilities. Every AI vendor they evaluate was trained by people who would protest a Chick-fil-A opening. Genesis is the AI partner built on the same operating system as Chick-fil-A itself.
If this is for you, you will know.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
— Jesus Christ
AI is already entering Chick-fil-A’s operations — drive-thru AI, app technology, operational systems. Every AI vendor available today was built by companies culturally hostile to Chick-fil-A’s values. The longer the Cathy family waits to engage with values-aligned AI infrastructure, the deeper the dependency on tools built by people who would cancel their company given the opportunity.
Day 7 PBC. 8x H200 GPUs. Constitutional truth layer. People-first architecture. One founder, zero compromise.
In Genesis’s organism, Andrew represents the Digestive System — the organ that transforms raw resources into nourishment that sustains every cell. Chick-fil-A literally nourishes millions of bodies daily. Andrew’s stewardship extends that nourishment to the intelligence layer — ensuring that what people “consume” intellectually is as carefully prepared, as values-aligned, and as genuinely serving as what they consume physically. He transforms capital into capability that nourishes minds.
“For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.”
— 1 Corinthians 12:12
AI infrastructure built on Chick-fil-A’s own operating principles — for when your operations need AI you can trust.
Family office capital deployed into technology with the same DNA as Chick-fil-A — faith, people, excellence.
The Cathy family established in the most important technology category of the century before institutional pricing.
AI for foster care matching, youth development, marriage enrichment — WinShape programs amplified by sovereign intelligence.
AI tools that enhance (never replace) the human connection your team members provide.
Neither Genesis nor Chick-fil-A answer to public shareholders — long-term stewardship over quarterly pressure.
A conversation with John Stephenson Jr. at the Cathy Family Office. Carter presents Genesis as a stewardship investment aligned with the Cathy family’s three-generation operating philosophy: faith first, people first, excellence as worship. Full diligence welcomed — including technical demonstration of a running sovereign AI system. No pressure. Long-term alignment over short-term transaction.
Carter Hill · [email protected]
Day 7 Public Benefit Corporation
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