Nine free tools, organized by the problem you have
Every tool here is free, built for churches, and returns something genuinely useful — no sales call required. Pick the question that sounds like yours.
Built by Ryan Coggins from real church operations work. Prefer one page with the quick assessments? See the assessments hub. Want the bigger picture first? Read the church operations guide.
“Are we overspending?”
Start here if budget season hurts, subscriptions have multiplied, or nobody can say what the church actually pays for software.
Church Savings Report
Upload a year of transactions; get a personally reviewed savings report within 24 hours. The deepest tool here — and the best first step if you only pick one.
10 min to submit · report in 24 hours
Start →Budget Stress Test
Eight budget numbers, an instant health scorecard, and an honest estimate of what a line-by-line review would likely find.
2 minutes · instant
Start →CFO Tech Stack Assessment
Twelve questions across bill pay, cards, accounting, payroll, reporting, and controls — where you're modern versus manual.
3 minutes · instant
Start →Related reading: I audited my own church's spending · 10 things churches overpay for
“Can people actually find us?”
Start here if new families aren't showing up from search, or you've never checked what ChatGPT says about your church.
Related reading: Why most church sites are invisible to AI
“How should our team use AI?”
Start here if staff are already experimenting quietly, or leadership wants guardrails before anything goes wrong.
AI Readiness Assessment
Fourteen questions across strategy, usage, data, tools, team, and governance — your maturity level and the next moves that fit.
3 minutes · instant
Start →AI Policy Generator
Fifteen questions; a board-ready church AI policy assembled from clauses written by a pastor, plus the adoption kit.
3 minutes · instant
Start →Where to Start with AI (guide)
The easiest, safest first step into AI for a church — with a straight answer on privacy and two workflows to try today.
10-minute read
Start →Related reading: Is your church ready for AI? · What good AI policies get right
“How healthy are we, really?”
Start here if the annual report keeps surprising you, or a hire is coming and the job description is a blank page.
Church Health Check
About a dozen numbers you already know — your church's vitals benchmarked against national survey data for churches your size.
3 minutes · instant
Start →Job Description Generator
Ten questions; a warm, ready-to-post church job description written from real executive-pastor hiring experience.
3 minutes · instant
Start →Related reading: The numbers to watch weekly
Rather just talk it through?
The free 15-minute checkup covers all of it: one call, an honest snapshot of your systems, and 2–3 practical fixes within 24 hours. No prep, no pitch.