Tech-Enabled Journal Platform · 2026

A journal platform
built for
any brand.

New Every Morning is a tech-enabled devotional journal — readers tap the cover with their phone, like using Apple Pay, and a fresh daily devotional opens. It can be licensed as a finished, ready-to-shelve product, or the framework can power a publisher’s own variation. Either way: they design and sell the journal, we bring the tech and run the entire digital backend.

Physical mockup shown · +$0.15 unit cost to add the tech · Platform run by our team
See It Live Two Paths →
New Every Morning journal — tap-enabled cover
$0.15
Added Unit Cost
Drops into the journals you already manufacture
$1.8B
Christian Gift Market
Annual US retail — journals, gifts, devotionals
365
Daily Touchpoints
Fresh content every morning — builds a lasting habit
∞
Applications
Any topic · Any audience · Any brand

From the Founder

Fifty-two seconds,
in person.

Before the framework and the numbers — the product and the thinking behind it, straight from the person building it. Captioned, so it works with the sound off.

The Experience

Phone to cover.
Devotional opens.
That simple.

No app to download. No QR code to scan. No URL to type. The reader taps the journal cover with their phone — the same motion as using Apple Pay — and today's devotional opens instantly. Every morning, something new.

I
Hold phone to journal cover
Same motion as tapping to pay — one second, zero friction, no app required
II
Four content pillars open on screen
A word of encouragement, a daily scripture, a devotional reading, and a journal prompt — each one fresh, each one intentional
III
She puts the phone down
Opens the journal. Writes. The digital moment hands her back to something quiet and physical
IV
Refreshes at 6am EST daily
Automated — zero manual work for the reader or the publisher
Phone held to journal cover — devotional opens instantly

Two Ways In

License it finished.
Or build your own.

Journal and book publishers already have design teams and know exactly what sells to their readers. We don’t replace any of that. We bring the tap technology and operate everything behind it — which leaves two clean paths to a deal.

Path One — Ready to Go
New Every Morning,
as it stands
A finished product: the brand, the live platform, the four-pillar daily content system, and a journal designed and ready for production. License it, route it through existing channels, and ship. Unit economics from our secured manufacturer available on request.
Path Two — Their Variation
Their journal.
Our tech.
The publisher’s design team creates the journal they already know how to sell — any topic, any audience. We embed the tap technology at roughly $0.15 per unit, and our full-stack team builds, customizes, and operates the entire digital experience to their designs.

What could this look like for your brand?

Psalms
Daily Journal
Proverbs
Daily Journal
Advent
Seasonal Journal
Marriage
Couples Journal
Grief
Comfort Journal
Youth
Teen Devotional
Romans
Study Journal
Your Brand
Any Direction
Expandable to any topic, any audience — without limits

The Numbers

Your journals. Your margins.
Plus fifteen cents.

This is not a new manufacturing program. The touch technology drops into the journals you already make — and the entire digital platform is built, hosted, and operated by our team for the life of the line.

The tap chip embedded beneath the journal cover

The tap chip, embedded beneath the cover — invisible in the finished journal. Shown here on a Matthew edition.

Added Unit Cost — Touch Tech ~$0.15
Your Existing Journal Cost Unchanged
Change to Your Production Line One added cover step
Retail Uplift Potential Per Unit +$10–15
A $24.99 journal with nothing behind the cover becomes a $34.99–$39.99 daily experience. The uplift is yours — our fee is a fraction of it.
Structure · Per-Unit Platform License
Touch technology plus the daily content platform on your existing SKUs, priced per tech-enabled unit with ongoing content & hosting per line. Scales with volume — your margins stay intact at any size.
Structure · Full-Stack Build & Run
Our engineering team builds the entire digital experience to your designs — content system, daily automation, hosting — and operates it for the life of the program. Structured as a build engagement plus ongoing platform terms.
Optional · Turnkey Manufacturing
Prefer not to touch your production line? Our secured manufacturing partner can deliver finished, tech-enabled journals at retail volume. Pricing on request.
Deliberately Open
Royalty, per-unit license, service fees, or a hybrid — we are intentionally unattached to a structure. Rates, territory, exclusivity, and term are open, and we would rather shape them with people who know this market than arrive with terms that miss it.

Let's talk.

We're looking for the right partner to take this platform to scale. The framework is built. The proof of concept is live. Manufacturing is secured. We're ready.

iamlouisdunham@gmail.com Experience It Live →

"His mercies are new every morning." — Lamentations 3:22–23