AI for churches, ministries, and the agencies that serve them

More Ministry.
Less Admin.

We build AI-powered websites, assistants, voice agents, and automations for churches, so a small staff can welcome more people, answer every question, and spend their week on ministry instead of the inbox.

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Grounded in your own content. Pastoral care always stays with people.

Most churches run a big mission on a small staff.

The same few people answer the phones, update the website, post the sermon, send the weekly email, follow up with guests, and keep the church management system current. Every new family adds to that load. The work that should get the most time, caring for people, gets whatever is left.

Much of that weekly admin is exactly the kind of work software is good at. We build the software, carefully, so your people can get back to ministry.

Not a replacement for your pastorsNot another platform to learnNot AI speaking for your church uncheckedMore time for ministry

Who we serve

Two ways to work with us

We work directly with churches and ministries, and behind the scenes with the agencies that already serve them.

Churches & ministries

Done-for-you AI for your church

We map where your staff's week goes, then build the website, assistant, or automation that gives the most time back. You get one builder who understands both the technology and the church.

  • AI-ready church websites
  • Website chat assistants and phone receptionists
  • Sermon-to-content and guest follow-up automation
  • Ongoing care so it keeps working
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Agencies serving churches

An AI build partner for your team

Your clients are asking about AI. We help you deliver it, under your brand or alongside your team, so you can say yes without hiring an AI engineer first.

  • White-label builds for your church clients
  • Take a specific project off your plate
  • Ongoing contract or embedded support
  • Chatbots, voice agents, and integrations
How agency work runs

The bottleneck

Where your staff’s week goes

None of this is hard work. It just never stops, and it lands on the people you’d most like to free up for ministry.

The same questions, every week

Service times, parking, kids check-in, how to join a group. Answered by phone and email, one person at a time.

Guests who never hear back

A first-time family fills out a card, and the follow-up depends on someone remembering to send it that week.

Sermons that end on Sunday

A message that took all week to prepare gets one airing. Turning it into posts, emails, and group guides takes time nobody has.

A website that's out of date

Old events, a buried giving link, no clear plan-a-visit page. The first impression for most new visitors, and nobody has time to fix it.

Data typed in twice

Connection cards, sign-ups, and attendance retyped from forms and spreadsheets into the church management system.

Weekly communications by hand

The bulletin, the email, the announcements, the social posts. Rebuilt from scratch every single week.

Rough math

How many hours a year is that?

Put in your own numbers. This measures the size of the problem, not what we claim to solve.

Your numbers

Rough inputs are fine. The point is the order of magnitude, not the decimal.

People handling office and communications work
5
Per person: answering the same questions, retyping, posting, chasing
10 hrs
Staff pay plus benefits, or a fair value for volunteer time
$30

Where that lands

Repetitive admin hours per year
2,300
50 hours a week across the team, over 46 working weeks.
Equivalent to
1.3 FTE
of capacity, at 1,840 hrs/yr
Cost of that time
$69,000
per year, at your loaded rate
This is not a savings estimate

It is your own arithmetic on where the hours go. How much of that work can actually be automated — and how much shouldn’t be — is what the discovery call and ministry audit determine.

What we build

AI that serves the church

These are the builds we do most. What makes sense for you depends on where your team’s hours actually go, which we look at before we propose anything.

AI-Ready Websites

Fast, mobile-first church websites on WordPress or your current platform, built so visitors can plan a visit, watch, and give in a few taps.

Site health check Mobile first
Plan a Visit page
Service times, parking, kids check-in, and what to expect
Built
Sermon library
Every message searchable by series, speaker, and scripture
Built
Online giving
Your existing giving platform, one tap from every page
Connected
Events calendar
Pulled from your church management system, not retyped
In review
Built so your staff can update it themselves, without calling a developer for every change.
WordPress and custom church websites
Chat assistants trained on your sermons and pages
AI phone receptionists for the church office
Sermon transcription and content pipelines
Planning Center, Rock RMS, and ChMS integrations
Reporting and staff-meeting dashboards

Not everything in a church should be automated. Part of our job is telling you what shouldn’t be, and keeping the human parts of ministry human.

How it works

Listen, build, care for it

Three steps, in order. We don’t propose a build until we understand how your church actually runs.

01

Listen and map

We talk with your pastor, office staff, and communications lead about how the week really runs, and find the places where software can give the most time back.

02

Design and build

We build around the tools you already use, with a person approving anything that speaks for your church, and clear handling for anything sensitive.

03

Launch and care

We train your team, watch how it performs, and keep improving it. The next build only happens when the first one has proven itself.

Under the hood

What a trustworthy church automation looks like

AI is one part of a system with checks, review, and clear limits around it. That structure is the difference between something your church can trust and a demo.

  1. 01
    Trigger
    A sermon is uploaded, a guest fills out a card, or a call comes in.
  2. 02
    Retrieve
    Your sermons, pages, calendar, and member records are pulled together.
  3. 03
    Draft
    AI drafts the answer, post, email, or record from your own content.
  4. 04
    Check
    Output is checked against your content, beliefs, and the rules you set.
  5. 05
    Human review
    A staff member approves, edits, or rejects before anything goes out.

When it isn’t clean

If it is pastoral or unclear

Sent to a person

Prayer requests, care needs, and anything the AI is unsure about go straight to the right staff member. AI never answers them on its own.

If someone needs a next step

Followed up and tracked

The guest, volunteer, or family is followed up with, and the next step is tracked until it happens, with a reminder to your team if it doesn't.

Either way

06
Publish and record
Approved work is published or saved to your systems, and every step is recorded (the source, the output, and who approved it) so nothing is a mystery later.

The same shape applies whether it is a sermon, a website question, a phone call, or a first-time guest.

For agencies

Say yes to AI without hiring for it

Church marketing and web agencies are being asked for AI faster than they can staff for it. We’re the engineering team you can call in.

A single project

Hand us one build, like a chatbot, voice agent, or integration, scoped and priced up front. A low-risk way to see the work first.

Ongoing contract

A steady block of AI and development capacity each month, for your pipeline of church and nonprofit clients.

Embedded with your team

Part-time or deeper, working in your tools and process as part of your team, under your brand.

Your client relationship stays yours

We can work white-label, behind your brand, with your account team leading the client. We don’t pitch your clients, and the work is documented so your team can support it.

  • WordPress, Rails, and custom builds
  • Chatbots and voice agents for church clients
  • API work with ChMS, CRM, and giving platforms
  • Clear handoff docs for your team

Why us

Builders, not just advisors

Most “AI for churches” help today is coaching and tool lists. We’re engineers who ship working software for the church world, and we take seriously that it carries your church’s name.

163
Catholic dioceses on a platform our lead engineer helps run
1.6M+
users served by that same church platform

Real church builds

From a diocesan platform to a parish website with an AI assistant and a sermon-to-post automation, we've built for this world, not just studied it.

People stay in ministry

Prayer requests, counseling, care needs, and doctrine questions are always routed to people. AI handles logistics, not shepherding.

Grounded in your content

Assistants answer only from what your church has published: your sermons, pages, and statement of faith. No made-up answers.

Built around your tools

Planning Center, Rock RMS, Breeze, your giving platform, WordPress. We fit what you already run instead of asking you to switch.

Careful with member data

Least-privilege access, member and giving data kept in your own systems where possible, and every automated step logged.

Direct access, by design

We're small on purpose. You work with the person building your system, with no account layer in between.

FAQ

The questions pastors and agencies ask first

What do you actually build?

Working software for churches: websites, chat assistants trained on your content, AI phone receptionists, sermon-to-content pipelines, and automations that connect the tools you already use. It's delivered as something your team uses every week, not a report or a list of tool recommendations.

Will an AI be answering spiritual questions for our church?

No. Assistants answer only from what your church has already published, like service times, ministries, events, and your statement of faith. Prayer requests, counseling, pastoral care, and theological questions are routed to people on your staff by design. You decide exactly where that line sits.

Do we have to change our church management system or website platform?

No. Whether you use Planning Center, Rock RMS, Breeze, or something else, we build around it. If a tool has no clean way to connect, we'll tell you up front and design around it rather than pretend otherwise.

We're a small church with a small budget. Is this for us?

Often, yes. Small staffs feel the admin load the most. We scope one focused build at a fixed price, starting with whatever gives your team the most time back, so you're never signing up for an open-ended project.

How do you handle member and giving data?

Carefully. Least-privilege access, data kept inside your existing systems wherever possible, and every automated action logged. We document how it works so your leadership knows exactly what the system can and can't touch.

We're an agency. Can you work under our brand?

Yes. We can work white-label behind your agency, with your team leading the client relationship. We'll take a single project, an ongoing block of work, or embed with your team part-time, whichever fits how you operate.

How long does a build take?

It depends on the build and how quickly we can get access to the systems involved. A focused assistant or automation is typically weeks, not months. We scope and price each piece of work before starting.

You're a small team. Why work with you?

Because you get the person actually building your system, not a support tier, and a builder who already works in the church world every day. We'd rather earn the second project than oversell the first.

Next step

Give your team
time back for ministry

A short discovery call: we learn how your church or agency runs today, point out where AI can realistically help, and tell you plainly where it can’t.

Book a Discovery CallEmail tony@uwova.com

30 minutes · no pressure · honest recommendations

  1. 1

    We listen

    A conversation with whoever carries the weekly load: the office, communications, or your agency's account team.

  2. 2

    We show you where the time goes

    You get a short written summary of what's realistic to build, what it would take, and what we'd leave alone.

  3. 3

    You decide what's worth building

    One project, scoped and priced, or nothing at all. The summary is yours to keep either way.