It started with a build for our own church.

My pastor said he wanted a better website — something that looked better and worked better. I knew how to do that, so I dove in.

I started where anyone would: the templates. The ones in our church software, the ones on every platform I could find. Some had modern design, but none had the functionality or flexibility I wanted for our church. So I built the site from scratch.

Since I wasn’t using a template anymore, I had to build a new CMS to power the site. The old one was bloated, confusing, and hard for staff to maintain — so I built them a clean, custom one. Exactly what they needed, nothing they didn’t.

Then I realized the church already kept everything — members, groups, events, registrations — in their church management software, Church Community Builder. Staff entered it all there, then typed it again into the website. So I built a custom integration: their backend became the single source of truth, and the website stayed in sync automatically.

The last realization was the biggest. I could give members a login that surfaced everything the church already knew about their journey — their group, their classes, their next step. A personalized discipleship engine every member could use.

Then I took it one step further and built a native mobile app — an even more personalized experience that reached people right where they were, at just the right moment. It connected even more of them to the life of the church.

Before launching, I realized I could also build segmented targeting into the CMS. I already had the data! Now the chruch could send personalized messages to any segment of their church, pushed right to their phone! And a dashboard to view where every member is at, and where they need to go.

That’s when Arjun approached me and said we need to bring this to other churches. And here we are today!