For Immediate Release

Elentren Opens Public Alpha for AI-Powered Network Built to Connect the Christian Economy

New platform brings Christian businesses, churches, professionals, job seekers, services, and economic opportunities into one connected network — and invites early users to help shape what comes next.

Rocky Mount, N.C. — August 11, 2026 — Elentren today announced the opening of its public alpha, inviting Christian business owners, church leaders, professionals, freelancers, job seekers, and community members to test a new digital platform designed to make the Christian economy easier to discover, navigate, and participate in.

Millions of Christians intentionally support faith-aligned businesses, ministries, organizations, and professionals, yet finding them often means searching across fragmented directories, social networks, job boards, marketplaces, and local communities. Elentren is being built to bring those connections into one economic network — where discovery can lead to commerce, employment, partnerships, services, and community growth.

The idea behind Elentren is straightforward: when Christians can more easily find one another, they can more easily support one another.

“Christian businesses, professionals, churches, ministries, and talented individuals already exist in communities across the country. The problem is that they're often disconnected from one another,” said Starkey Roberson, founder of Elentren. “Elentren is being built to make those connections visible and actionable — not simply to create another directory, but to help strengthen an economy through relationships, opportunity, and trust.”

More Than a Business Directory

Elentren combines several types of economic discovery that traditionally exist on separate platforms.

During the alpha, members can discover and create listings for businesses, churches, ministries, products, services, jobs, events, business opportunities, classifieds, and requests within the same ecosystem.

Members can also communicate directly with one another, build personal and organizational profiles, establish trust through available verification signals, and discover opportunities throughout the network.

At the center of the experience is Elex, Elentren's AI ambassador, designed to help users navigate the network and make better use of it. Elex can assist members with strengthening profiles and listings, discovering relevant opportunities, understanding the platform, and identifying useful next steps based on their goals and activity.

As Elentren develops, its broader objective is to make the network increasingly intelligent about the relationships between people, organizations, needs, capabilities, and opportunities across the Christian economy.

Built Around Economic Connection

Elentren's alpha currently brings several core capabilities together:

• Business and church discovery — Organizations can establish a presence and become discoverable by people looking for Christian businesses, churches, ministries, and services.
• Jobs and professional opportunities — Employers can publish opportunities while professionals and job seekers can discover organizations looking for talent.
• Products, services and classifieds — Members can promote what they sell or offer, including services provided by individuals who may not operate a traditional business.
• Events, opportunities and requests — Members can publish needs and opportunities that create connections beyond conventional buying and selling.
• Direct messaging — Users can communicate with the people and organizations behind profiles and listings.
• Trust signals — Available verification and profile information can provide additional context as members decide whom they want to engage.
• AI-powered assistance — Elex helps members improve their presence, navigate Elentren, and discover relevant opportunities.
• Sponsored discovery — Businesses, churches, employers, and other eligible members can purchase advertising placements to increase visibility across the network.

Alpha Testers Can Earn Their First Sponsored Placement Free

Elentren is also giving early participants an opportunity to experience the platform from both sides of its discovery model.

Alpha testers who complete the designated testing process and provide the requested feedback will receive a one-time 100%-off coupon for an eligible sponsored advertising placement on Elentren.

The incentive allows participating businesses, churches, professionals, employers, and other eligible members to promote an offering on the platform while simultaneously helping Elentren test its advertising and discovery experience.

“We don't want alpha participants to simply click around and look for bugs,” Roberson said. “We want them to actually use Elentren — create a presence, discover people and opportunities, tell us what works, tell us what doesn't, and help us build something the Christian community will genuinely find useful.”

An Invitation to Help Build the Network

The public alpha represents an early stage in Elentren's development, and participant feedback will directly inform future improvements.

Elentren is particularly seeking participation from Christian business owners, entrepreneurs, church and ministry leaders, professionals, freelancers, employers, job seekers, and community builders who can test the platform through real-world use.

Participation will be intentionally managed during the alpha period so the Elentren team can maintain a useful feedback loop while evaluating usability, discovery, trust, AI assistance, listings, advertising, and other core platform experiences.

To participate in the Elentren public alpha, visit https://elentren.com/alpha.

Approved participants will receive instructions for completing the alpha testing process and claiming their sponsored-placement reward.

About Elentren

Elentren is an AI-powered economic network built to connect the Christian economy. The platform brings individuals, businesses, churches, ministries, professionals, jobs, services, products, events, and opportunities into a connected digital ecosystem designed around discovery, relationships, trust, and shared economic growth.

Rather than functioning solely as a directory, marketplace, job board, or social network, Elentren is being developed as infrastructure through which Christians can find one another, support one another, hire one another, work with one another, and create new opportunities together.