The mediatisation of religious practices currently often follows a technology-centric logic: new technologies emerge, and therefore they are used. The SoulMate project challenges this approach by shifting the research perspective from the technological ("What can AI do?") to the human ("What do people need?"). Such a perspective makes it possible to integrate questions of (in)equality from the outset, rather than reflecting on them only retrospectively. The project focuses on young adults (18-27 years) who are experiencing a variety of life transition phases. In the first phase of the project, "existential probes" were developed and applied to explore the deep-structural needs of young adults. These material artefacts, such as the "Seed of Meaning" or the "Packing List for the Journey of Life", act as gentle provocations. Their specific materiality deliberately slows down reflection, creating a necessary contrast to the transience of digital communication and thereby grounding fragmented reflections on identity, meaning, freedom, loneliness, and finitude. In SoulMate, the "social machine" is not conceived as a substitute for human or divine actors, but rather as a reflective space that supports religious positioning during periods of transition (e.g., the beginning of university studies). The project exemplifies how the design of technology can shape spiritual formation and engagement with transcendence. Technology thus becomes the outcome of a shared process of exploration, which sustainably promotes active reflection and participation in religious practices in the digital age.