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LDW.BUILD presents · an A.I. back office · for churches under 400

A staff for the church that can't hire.

You talk to one assistant. It learns your church from your church (your sermons, your site, your bulletins) and brings the work back finished every Monday. Nothing sends without you.

Fourteen questions, about four minutes, no card. It tells you which of the two problems you actually have.

Your queue fills at 3am Monday. You approve it over coffee.

Two tools, two different problems

One does the work. One watches the operation.

Most churches under 400 have both problems, but not equally. Start with whichever one is keeping you up.

Product one

Second Chair

The work isn't getting done, because nobody was hired to do it.

An assistant you name, plus the roles you need, working every week. Finished drafts every Monday (announcements, guest follow-up, volunteer asks), each showing the source it came from. You approve; it never sends.

Walk the demo →

Product two

The Watchman

You can't see what's happening until it's already a problem.

A small always-on device with one round screen, wired to the systems you already use. Giving, attendance, streams, volunteers, and alerts live on one wall, with a morning brief only when something needs a decision. Hands-on install, a handful of churches a year.

See the Wall live →

We run your church office. We never touch the pulpit or pastoral care.

Never the pulpit. No sermon writing. Your sermons are used only so the voice sounds like you.
Never pastoral care. Counseling and care are human work. A crisis routes to a person, never a draft.
Minors refused at the door. Children's data is rejected at ingestion, not redacted and kept.
Individual giving never shown. Only totals. Ever.

These are enforced in code with a blocking test suite, not written on a policy page.

What it costs

The hire you can't afford is $45,000 a year.
This starts at $4,800.

Priced against the position you can't fill, not against software. Onboarding included; additional roles are $99/mo each: seats at the table, not feature unlocks.

Starterunder 100 on a Sunday$400/mo
Core100–399 on a Sunday$899/mo
Full Officeevery role, all thirteen seats$1,499/mo
Founding churcheslocked for 36 months · cohort opens January 2027$699/mo
The Watchmanhands-on install + ongoing care · limited installsPer install
The whole table, priced as hires
$563,000/yr
Thirteen real hires at conservative church salaries, before taxes and benefits push it past $700K
$1,499/mo
Full Office: every role, all thirteen seats, onboarding included

The entire staff costs less than one part-time admin.

What each seat costs as a real hire
Chief of Staff$50,000
Communications Director$42,000
Follow-up & Connections$36,000
Front Door / Reception$34,000
Volunteer Coordinator$36,000
Ops / HR Admin$40,000
Project Manager$48,000
Finance / Reporting$44,000
Youth Curriculum$40,000
Translation ES/EN$40,000
Creative$45,000
Strategy$60,000
Development / Generosity$48,000

Honest math: each role does the drafting and admin side of that job. Your people still lead. No church was ever going to hire thirteen people. That's the point.