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What does ChurchAI do?

ChurchAI is an AI-native church management platform. It predicts who's disengaging, identifies your next leaders and donors, and automates the work your staff doesn't have time for: follow-ups, engagement tracking, financial reporting, content, all of it. One platform instead of four.

What is the best AI church management software?

Most church management software is not AI software at all. It is a system of record with AI features bolted onto a product built ten or twenty years ago. ChurchAI was built around AI from day one: rather than storing your data and waiting for someone to read a report, it predicts which members are disengaging and runs the follow-up itself. If you are comparing options, the question worth asking is not which one has AI features, but which one acts on what it finds.

What does AI-native mean for church software?

AI-native means the prediction and the action are the product, not a feature added to it. An AI-embedded ChMS bolts a summary or a chatbot onto an existing database. An AI-native platform is built so the data continuously produces decisions and work: engagement scored for every member, risk flagged automatically, and agents that draft and run the follow-up rather than adding a task to somebody's list.

What do ChurchAI's AI agents actually do?

They do the follow-up your team would do if it had the time. When ChurchAI detects that someone is drifting, an agent drafts the right touch: a pastoral check-in, a volunteer invite, or a small group suggestion. It sends that through the right channel and checks nobody on staff has already reached out. Your church decides how much runs automatically and how much waits for human review.

What is church management software?

Church management software, often shortened to ChMS, is the system a church uses to track its people, attendance, giving, groups, and volunteers in one place. Traditional ChMS platforms record what already happened. ChurchAI adds prediction and action on top of that record, so the data produces work rather than reports.

How does ChurchAI know someone is about to leave?

ChurchAI compares each person's current pattern against their own history. A weekly attender of fourteen months who has come once in six weeks is a broken pattern, and a broken pattern is the earliest reliable signal that someone is drifting. It weighs attendance, giving, serving, and group participation together, because any one of them alone is noisy.

What is member churn in a church?

Member churn is the gradual loss of people who stop attending, giving, or serving without ever formally leaving. It is harder to see than it sounds, because churn in a church is quiet: nobody cancels a subscription, they simply stop coming and no one notices for a few months. ChurchAI measures churn risk per person rather than as a headline attendance number.

What actually predicts whether someone stays at a church?

Connection predicts retention better than attendance does. People who are in a small group, serving on a team, or have several real relationships in the congregation stay; people who only attend on Sunday are the ones who quietly drift. This is why ChurchAI weighs group participation and serving alongside attendance and giving, rather than tracking attendance alone.

How is this different from attendance tracking software?

Attendance tracking software tells you how many people came. ChurchAI tells you which specific people are about to stop coming, and drafts the message to reach them. The difference is direction: attendance tracking reports on what already happened, while churn prediction acts on what is about to.

Does ChurchAI replace our ChMS?

It can, but it doesn't have to. ChurchAI connects to the ChMS you already run and works alongside it. If you'd rather consolidate, ChurchAI can become your system of record instead. Churches usually start connected and decide later.

Which church management systems does ChurchAI integrate with?

ChurchAI integrates with Planning Center, Breeze, Church Community Builder, Pushpay, Subsplash, Tithe.ly, ChurchTrac, and Rock RMS. If your people, giving, and attendance data lives somewhere else, including a spreadsheet, it can be imported directly.

Can ChurchAI replace Planning Center?

ChurchAI can replace Planning Center as your system of record, or sit on top of it and leave it in place. The difference is what each is for: Planning Center is built to organize and record church operations, while ChurchAI is built to predict disengagement and act on it. Churches that are happy with their Planning Center setup usually connect the two rather than migrate.

What data does ChurchAI need?

ChurchAI needs your people records, attendance or check-in history, and giving history. Serving and group participation make the predictions better but are not required to start. The more history you can import, the sooner the patterns become reliable.

How long does setup take?

Two to four weeks from first connection to running predictions. Most of that time is data import and letting ChurchAI learn your church's normal patterns before it starts flagging exceptions.

What size church is ChurchAI for?

ChurchAI is built for churches large enough that no one person can keep track of everybody. In practice that starts somewhere around a few hundred people, which is the point at which a member can go quiet for six weeks without anyone noticing.

Does ChurchAI work with our denomination?

Yes. ChurchAI reads attendance, giving, serving, and group patterns, which every congregation has regardless of tradition, governance, or size. It makes no assumptions about theology or church structure.

What is church assimilation, and does ChurchAI help with it?

Assimilation is the process of moving a first-time guest into a committed, participating member. It is where most churches lose people, because the drop-off happens quietly between the connection card and the second visit. ChurchAI tracks that path and triggers follow-up when someone stalls on it.

Does ChurchAI send messages without a person approving them?

The follow-up is drafted, not sent blind. ChurchAI writes the message with the context of who the person is and why they surfaced, then a staff member edits and sends it. It also checks whether someone on your team has already reached out, so nobody gets two texts about the same thing.

How does ChurchAI help with giving?

ChurchAI watches giving as a pattern rather than a monthly total. It flags regular givers whose giving has slowed, which is often the first sign of disengagement, and surfaces people whose participation suggests they are ready to give or to give more.

Is our member data secure?

Your church's member data belongs to your church. ChurchAI does not sell member data and does not share it between churches. Your team controls who has access to what. We walk through our specific security controls and data handling with you during the demo.

What happens to our existing data?

It stays yours. ChurchAI imports a copy and leaves your current system intact, so nothing is deleted or moved on your behalf. If you decide ChurchAI isn't right, your original system is exactly where you left it.

What does ChurchAI cost?

ChurchAI is priced per church rather than as a public tier list, because what a church needs depends on its size and which tools it is replacing. Pricing is covered on the demo.

Who founded ChurchAI?

ChurchAI was founded by Iryll Roberto, Co-Founder and CEO, and Kyle Bounthong, Co-Founder and CTO. It was built by pastors who watched people leave churches they led without anyone catching it in time. That is why the product is organized around noticing early rather than reporting later, and why every church already runs software that records the loss without ever acting on it.

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