Shouldered AI / For churches and church offices
A church HQ, given by a business in your community.
Churches get free Hero seats. When a member's business joins, its church gets an HQ, free. Your church can apply through a church lead, and HQ takes on the church admin so your pastor and staff can stay with your congregation.
"Our pastor spends more time on email than with people."
HQ handles the scheduling, reminders and follow ups, so your pastor gets hours back for the congregation.
"Visitors come once and we never follow up."
Every visitor gets a warm note and a next step the same week, and your team sees who to call.
"We never have enough volunteers in the right place."
Volunteer schedules, sign ups and reminders are handled, so Sunday is covered before Saturday night.
"Giving records take forever at year end."
Giving receipts and thank you notes go out on time, and the records are ready for your treasurer.
Simon and seven desks of Heroes, working for churches.
Gives the pastor a short weekly view of what is done, what is coming and who needs a call.
Keeps the church calendar, room bookings and event reminders on track.
Schedules volunteers, sends reminders and keeps background check paperwork tracked.
Answers questions from members and visitors about service times, events and groups.
Sends giving receipts and thank you notes, and keeps year end statements ready.
Drafts the weekly email, event invitations and visitor follow ups for your review.
Simon runs HQ: all the tech and all the brain power, and the one you talk to. Each of the seven desks is run by a Hero, and Simon directs all seven and answers for them. A person approves what matters, and legal, tax, medical and financial decisions stay with you and your licensed advisers.
Monday morning, last Sunday's visitors already have a warm welcome note and an invitation to a newcomers' lunch. The volunteer schedule for next Sunday is full, and reminders went out. Giving receipts from the weekend are sent. Your pastor opens one short summary from Simon, then spends the day visiting families.
An illustration, not a promised result.
Start
Your staff start with free Hero seats. When a member's business buys HQ, your church gets a free HQ Small with 20 hours a month. Churches that want more now pay half of list, with no onboarding fee.
Grow
As businesses in your community join Shouldered, more churches are served and equipped. Need more hours? Pay as you go. Large and multi church deals get a custom quote.
Your Hero is here to improve the human. Your HQ, led by Simon, is here to improve your business.
Two prices, and 50 Founding places.
First, what the work costs you today. A full-time office manager runs most small businesses about $4,000 to $5,000 a month with taxes and benefits, and goes home at five. Every call nobody answers is a job that goes to someone else.
Business coaching often costs $5,000 to $7,500 for one session day. HQ does the work every month, with a coach running the Shouldered Way and workshops included. Already have a coach? HQ works alongside them.
Founding 50: of 50 places left. When they are gone, this price closes.
For you
An assistant for one person: mail, chat, calendar, to-dos and contacts. It learns how you work.
- A seat a month
- $25
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $20
- A seat a month. Cancel any time
- No onboarding fee
- It stops where you stop. It does not run a business
Up to five people
5 seats and 80 hours a month. Onboarding $1,000, paid once.
- Paid for the year
- $750
- Month to month
- $1,100
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $500
- Simon and all seven desks
- Starts the work itself
- About $25 a day, paid for the year
- The six-month guarantee
- Arrives in December. Join the founding list now
Six to twenty people
20 seats and 200 hours a month. Onboarding $2,000, paid once.
- Paid for the year
- $1,875
- Month to month
- $2,750
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $1,250
- Everything in Small
- Room to grow without changing plan
- The six-month guarantee
Prices are per month. Only the first 50 companies (the Founding 50) get the Founding price with a two-year commitment, paid yearly by bank transfer, and keep it for as long as they renew. Pay yearly by bank transfer and take 3% off. Onboarding is $1,000 for Small and $2,000 for Medium, paid once, and free at Shouldered events. It is one 1-hour call: technical setup with our technical team first, then your business with our team. The person who sold you HQ joins your onboarding call. Paid for the year, you get a named person who checks in every month. Month to month gets standard support. Twenty-one people and up is built around you. More seats are $25 each (Founding price $20), and more hours $12.50 each; hours count only while HQ is working, like minutes on a phone plan.
Enterprise and government. For large companies and public agencies. Custom plans start at $5,000 a month. Pilots are paid. We start SOC 2 Type 1 work in 2027. Texas agencies: we are working toward TX-RAMP.
If HQ does not complete at least 40 hours of real admin work a month for you in your first six months (100 hours on Medium), tell us by the end of month five and we refund every dollar you paid for the plan.
The onboarding fee is not refunded. The guarantee asks one thing of you: let HQ do its work. Give it the access it needs and review its work in good faith. If our records show you kept declining or blocking the work HQ set out to do, the guarantee does not apply. If we see that happening, we tell you in writing so you can fix it.
The six months start the day HQ goes live for you. The Founding 50 are included. The guarantee covers HQ only, never coach fees.
How does my church get Shouldered?
Churches get free Hero seats. When a member's business joins, its church gets an HQ, free. Churches can apply through a church lead, so talk to us.
What does it cost our church?
Your staff get free Hero seats. When a business owned by one of your members buys HQ, your church gets a free HQ Small: up to 5 people and 20 hours a month. Need more hours? Pay as you go. Want more now? Churches pay half of list, with no onboarding fee. Churches pay half the standard price: Small is $375 a month paid for the year. Large and multi church deals get a custom quote.
Do we need a tech person?
No. If your church secretary can read an email, they can use it. HQ starts the work itself.
Is our congregation's information private?
Yes. Every church signs a data agreement with us. We never sell your data, share it, or train AI on it.
Whose theology does it follow?
Yours. Your church sets its own statement of faith. When a question goes deeper, Simon points the person to a pastor.
How will we know it helps?
We track three numbers with you: staff hours saved, first time guests followed up within 24 hours, and guests connected to a group or a service.
Why do you do this?
We are a Christian run company. Our verse is Galatians 6:2 (ESV): "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."
A Christian-run company, and proud of it.
Churches get free Hero seats. When a member's business joins, its church gets an HQ, free.
Simon is named for Simon of Cyrene, who stepped in and shouldered the cross for another. Shouldered takes no outside funding and is open to everyone. The technology comes from the OurWorld group: ten years of work, 60+ engineers, running in 20+ countries.
Pull up a chair.
Start with your Hero today, take a Founding 50 place for HQ, or just come and ask questions in the community.
Founding list
One of the first 50 places. Keep the Founding price as long as you renew.
Hold my place →Your Hero
$25 a seat (Founding price $20). Available now.
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The front door. Talk with us and with owners like you.
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