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What it is:
Church software. Three products, one account. Communications is available now as Promo Engine; People and Operations are in development.
The assistant answers from what this site says and nothing else.
Anything it cannot answer: contact@engine.church
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Ask what it costs, what it connects to, or what the assistant does.
Coming soon
Engine is church software in three products that share one record of the church: People for guests and care, Operations for forms, meetings and finance, and Communications for promotion and sermons, with the assistant inside each. Communications is available now, as Promo Engine. People and Operations are in development.
Built by a church communications director, in a working church. Promo Engine is free for 15 days, with no card.
Works with
Engine posts into Slack, Google Chat or Microsoft Teams, reads a calendar published from Planning Center, Google, Apple or Outlook, and reads the giving export a church already produces. Nothing is moved out of the tools a church already runs.
One account
Each product holds the parts that belong to it. People, roles and billing are shared by all three. One is open; two are in development.
One record for every person, with follow-up that is scheduled rather than remembered.
Church administration: forms, meetings and finance.
Promotion schedules and sermons, produced on time.
Start with Promo Engine. When the other two open, the account is the same account, with the church and everyone in it already on it.
How it runs
Every product answers the same three questions: what starts a piece of work, what the church decides once, and what lands on a person's list. The church supplies the answers; Engine does the counting.
01People
02Operations
03Communications
The assistant
Staff currently export a list, paste it into a chatbot, get a draft and type the result back in. Engine runs the same step inside the record the work is already in.
A chatbot has to be told about the event first. Engine already holds the event, the brief and the church's own terminology, and the draft is written from all three.
Engine reports what is late, what is unassigned and what was missed. The definition of late is a number the church sets in its framework. Engine applies it and does not change it.
No email is sent, no post is published and no money moves on the software's decision. Each of those is a button, labeled with its consequence, pressed by a person.
Given a direction, it writes up to five drafts in a minute. It does not choose the message, the voice or the creative direction.
Before anything is sent
She receives what it is, what it is for, and when it is due.
Every step that could run on its own is a confirmation like this one. A person presses the button.
One church
Most church software is several products sold to one building, each holding its own copy of the same volunteer. Engine's three products read one record of the church.
A person is invited to the church, not to a product. Opening a second product adds nothing: the same login, the same role, the same record.
A newsletter to write, a guest to call and a budget to approve arrive on one list. The list does not say which product produced each item, because the volunteer does not need to know.
One subscription per church, with no per-seat charge and no working out which product a volunteer counts against. Promo Engine's subscription is the one on sale today, and it becomes the church's Engine subscription when the other products open.
Reads a calendar published from Planning Center, Google, Apple or Outlook. Posts to Slack. Adds a guest to the church's existing list only when a staff member ticks that step.
Questions
Anything not covered here: the assistant on the plain version of this page answers from this site's text, and contact@engine.church answers the rest.
Church software in three products that share one record of the church: People, Operations and Communications, with the assistant inside each product. One record per person, one list per volunteer, one subscription per church.
Communications, sold on its own as Promo Engine at promoengine.church: the promotion schedule for an event is generated from its size, with a name and a deadline on every piece, and there is a writing space for sermons. It is the first of the three products and the only way to start an account today.
They are in development, in a working church, and no date is set. When they open, a Promo Engine account becomes an Engine account with the framework, the campaigns and the team carried over. Nothing is set up twice.
A church's staff and the volunteers who do follow-up. Members do not need an account. They are reached through the tools the church already uses, and Engine does not contact them.
It drafts, reads and counts against rules the church sets: which guest has not been called, which piece is late, who agreed to what in a meeting. It does not set a threshold, send a message, publish anything or move money. A person presses every button.
No. Engine runs beside Planning Center, Breeze, ChurchSuite and the rest. It reads a calendar the church already publishes and posts to the chat tool the team already uses. Recording what the church runs stops setup asking about it twice.
Communications is available now. People and Operations open on the same account, with the church's setup carried over.
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