Why I Built Paraclete

In December 2024, I resigned from my last consultancy role with great excitement. I truly believed the Lord was pushing me out. The instruction felt unmistakable: “If you do not leave now to build, it will not work as a side hustle.”

So I left, full of faith, fire, and vision.

By December 2025, the results were contradictory: Four products built. Zero traction. Zero revenue. My runway was shrinking, and so was my confidence.

2025 took me through a cycle of emotions. Excitement turned into frustration, frustration turned into panic, and panic eventually settled into a quiet kind of shame. I kept asking myself hard questions: “Did I miss God? Did I mishear Him?” I was wrestling with my thoughts, wrestling with the market, wrestling with strategies, and honestly, wrestling with myself.

Then something shifted.

I attended my local church's annual retreat, themed around the providence of God. One message about Jacob wrestling with God and with man hit me like a punch to the chest. In that moment, I realized something that corrected me deeply: I had spent a full year wrestling with men alone. Investors, customers, ideas, positioning, strategies. But I had not genuinely wrestled with God, even though God was the One who told me to leave in the first place.

Right there, I made a decision: I would give God my full attention for the first three months of 2026, and I would wrestle with Him this time. Truly.

I began immediately, and as I started taking my walk with God seriously: long prayers, quiet time, studying Scripture, listening to messages, spending three focused hours a day with zero distractions. It became clear that trying to put God on my three-month timeline was nonsense; it was pride dressed up as faith.

So I began learning obedience, patience, and surrender.

I do not care how long this takes. I do not even care if God wants me to shut down this 5th product ready to GTM. I just want to hear Him clearly, and I will obey completely.

That hunger to hear God birthed something unexpected.

I became hypersensitive to God speaking. Impressions. A strong inner knowing. Dreams. Prophetic words. Scriptures that suddenly felt alive. But no matter how the message came, one truth became non-negotiable: Scripture is the final judge. Everything must align with the Word.

So whenever I prayed and felt an impression, I would open ChatGPT to quickly find relevant scriptures. Then I would search for commentaries, sermons, and teachings online to test the spirit behind the thought. This became my daily rhythm because I had decided to follow God one day at a time.

Then one evening, as I sat down again for my daily three hours standup with God, a thought dropped into my heart, clear and almost sharp: “Why not spin-up something that does all these for you? The scripture-checking, the commentaries, the teachings, all in one place?”

That was Paraclete.

Not a Bible app. Not a meditation app. But a place for believers to test their thoughts, impressions, leadings, and prophecies against Scripture instantly. The way I had been doing manually for weeks. Paraclete is a place to discern, be corrected, and be guided by the Word.

The irony is that the company I founded after my resignation is called Clete Intelligence Inc, a name that came to me from the word Paraclete. I did not understand why it stayed with me, but later it became clear. God was not only calling me to build, but He had also already given the name for what I was meant to build in His will, for His purpose.

Today, the metric for success is no longer just traction or revenue. The metric is now: How many lives changed? How many steps were ordered? How many people learned to hear God clearly?

I am looking to carry the early costs myself so believers can access it freely, trusting that God will sustain it through the generosity of those He blesses.

Paraclete exists for believers who want to be sure their thoughts align with Scripture, who want to test every spirit, judge every prophecy, and walk daily in God's will.

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”Psalm 119:105