A siddur,
handmade,
in family.
We're a Moroccan Sephardic family from Montreal. Our father was looking for his Friday-night Kiddush one winter evening — there was no app that spoke our tradition. So we built one.
Kehila A.I was born in our parents' kitchen, on a Friday night in November 2024. Our mother was finishing the Moroccan salad; our father was searching, in a worn-out siddur, for the exact Friday Kiddush in our Sephardic pronunciation.
We looked at the existing apps. Ashkenazi, Hebrew only, English, many with ads. None of them said "Barouch Atah" the way we say it.
We started with the Friday-night Kiddush, in our Moroccan variant. Then Pessach, because Pessach was coming. Then Shabbat, then the Calendar. Our brother, a developer, coded it. Our father, a former hazzan, reviewed every transliteration. Our mother reread every word in French.
Today, four recognized Sephardic rabbis review our texts. Sephardic synagogues from Montreal, Laval, and the South Shore are starting to list their schedules here. And every Friday night, thousands of families find their Kiddush without searching.
Kehila A.I will stay free, ad-free, and exclusively Sephardic. That's our promise.