An assistant that has read your records — and nothing else.
Most AI features bolted onto church software are a chat window with a general-purpose model behind it. This one is wired to your own data: it answers from the record, respects the permissions of whoever is asking, and tells you when it doesn't know.
The report nobody had time to build.
Every church has questions that are technically answerable and practically ignored, because getting to the answer meant an evening of cross-referencing. Asked in a sentence, those become routine.
Asked
Which branches haven't submitted last month's report?
Answered from your records
Three branches are outstanding: Harbour Assembly, Westgate and Lakeview. Harbour Assembly has missed two consecutive months.
Scoped to the asker's permissions — never beyond them
Answers arrive with the action you were probably about to take next — send the reminder, open the records, export the list — rather than as a paragraph you then have to act on by hand.
Hand it the file you were about to read yourself.
The previous treasurer's spreadsheet, a scanned attendance sheet, a denominational return in PDF, an export from whatever system you're leaving. Upload it and ask what's in it, what's missing, or what it means for a decision.
- Summarise a long report into the three things a board meeting needs.
- Pull the figures out of a spreadsheet you didn't design and didn't label.
- Cross-check an external export against what your own record already holds.
- Get told plainly when a file is a format it can't read, so you can re-export it.
Documents
PDF · DOCX · TXT · Markdown
Spreadsheets & data
XLS · XLSX · CSV · JSON · XML · YAML
Images
Photographs and scans of printed records
Technical
Log files and common code files
Formats it cannot read are named explicitly rather than failing quietly, so you know exactly what to re-upload.
The message you were going to write anyway — already carrying the right names and the right figures.
Drafting is where an assistant with access to the record differs from one without it. A thank-you note that knows what was given, a reminder that knows who is outstanding, an announcement that knows which branch it is going to.
Announcements
Acknowledgements
Summaries
Drafts are drafts. Nothing is sent until a person reads it and presses send, and the send itself lands on the record like any other communication.
The questions the church office answers forty times a week.
Service times, the address, whether midweek is on this week, how to join the choir, what time children's church starts. A member-facing assistant on your church's WhatsApp number answers these without waking anyone up.
- Answers common questions from what your church has actually published.
- Hands over to a person when the question needs one — it doesn't guess at pastoral matters.
- Sends event reminders and devotionals to members who opted in.
- Every exchange is logged against the member's record.
What time is the youth meeting on Saturday?
Youth Fellowship is 4–6pm on Saturday at the Northside Campus hall. Would you like a reminder an hour before?
Yes please. Also I'd like to speak to a pastor.
Reminder set. I've passed your request to the pastoral team — someone will reach out to you directly.
Pastoral requests escalate to a person, always
Where the assistant stops.
An assistant with access to a church's records needs limits stated as clearly as its abilities. These are ours.
Bounded by permissions
Answers from your data
Drafts, not sends
Not a pastor
Ask the questions you gave up asking.
The ones that were technically answerable but took an afternoon of spreadsheet work — so nobody ever asked them twice.