The Sunday Engine
One recording. One week of ministry.
Your sermon gets recorded, your manuscript gets dropped, and the rest of the week writes itself: a study guide, a YouTube kit, worship playlists, a devotional series, a Sunday-evening reels drop. On your site. In your voice. With no platform between you and your people.
- Thursday 5:00pm study guide PDF · published
- Thursday 5:01pm small-group notes · emailed
- Sunday 7:00am worship playlists · Spotify + Apple + IG
- Sunday 11:30am live stream · running, copyright-safe
- Sunday 3:00pm YouTube kit draft · pastor's inbox
- Monday 7:00am 5-day devotional · scheduled
- Monday 9:00am weekly newsletter · ready to send
$ last fired 2 hours ago · next: thursday 5:00pm
Built & running
Six engines, already on the dyno.
These aren't promises. They're the engines we ship on every studio build today — proven on cityline.church each week.
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Auto sermon-prep
Drop the manuscript in Dropbox. By Thursday afternoon, a branded study guide PDF and small-group questions are hosted on your site — with the tracking short link printed for you to paste into Planning Center. One drop. Zero copy-paste.
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AI sermon recommender
Visitors type what they're walking through. We surface the messages and Scripture that meet them there — held to a strict theological standard, never therapy talk, never prosperity gospel.
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Transcribed sermon search
Every sermon transcribed, topic-tagged, Scripture-tagged. A real archive — searchable by what was actually preached, not just by title.
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Auto worship playlists
Your PCO setlist becomes Spotify and Apple Music playlists for the week, plus a ready-to-post Instagram graphic. Your worship team's prep, automated.
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Own live stream + companion
Your own live stream — copyright-safe, owned by the church, never taken down by a takedown bot. A live-page companion shows songs, the message, notes, and giving in real time. The YouTube archive afterward is sermon-only, so worship music never gets flagged.
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AI/LLM discoverability
Structured data, llms.txt, and welcoming robots for ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. When someone asks an AI for a church in your city, you're the answer.
Coming next
And the rest of the family.
Built or resold, never half-baked.
We're honest about the line. Clips and captions are commoditized — we resell them at margin and don't pretend otherwise. The ownable wins are integration, on-brand voice, and that it all lives on your site.
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Post-service YouTube kit
Sunday afternoon, an email lands with the title, thumbnail, description, and chapter timestamps — pulled from the transcript. Approve it; it ships.
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Auto reels & clips
Resold at margin through Pulpit AI or Opus Clip. Captioned verticals for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok by Monday morning. We're honest: this part we resell.
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Auto quote graphics
One or two shareable, on-brand images per message — pulled from the sermon's clearest lines.
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Auto 5-day devotional
A five-part email from the Sunday text. Sent to your list Monday through Friday. Reverent, scriptural, not a self-help drip.
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Auto 'This Week' newsletter
Pulled from PCO Calendar plus the Sunday message. Your weekly digest, on rails.
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Auto Spanish
Notes, curriculum, and subtitles — bilingual by default for churches with a Spanish service.
vs. the bundle
Apples to apples.
Where they sell add-ons, we ship integration. Where they take a slice of giving, we don't. Where the work is commoditized, we say so.
| FEATURE | BUILT a studio of Toaster's Media | The Church Co | Subsplash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design | Bespoke per church, plus an on-site photo shoot | Template builder | Template builder |
| Giving fee | PCO Giving — 2.15% card · flat $0.30 ACH (church keeps the rest) | Their processor + platform fee | ~2.3% + $0.30, bundled |
| Who pays for the 'free' site | Nobody — you pay for design once | The congregation, via giving spread | The congregation, via giving spread |
| Sermon archive + search | ✓ + search by topic & Scripture (transcribed) | ✓ basic | ✓ |
| AI sermon recommender | ✓ talk → Scripture + messages | — | — |
| Auto study guide / curriculum from manuscript | ✓ one drop → branded PDF + small-group notes | — | — |
| Post-service YouTube kit (title/thumb/description) | ✓ from transcript | — | Partial — Pulpit AI add-on, paid |
| Auto clips / reels | ✓ resold at margin | — | ✓ Pulpit AI, paid add-on |
| Auto worship playlists + social | ✓ Spotify + Apple + Instagram | — | — |
| Live streaming | ✓ own + copyright-safe + live service companion | ✓ basic | ✓ |
| AI / LLM + SEO discoverability | ✓ structured data + llms.txt | Minimal | Minimal |
| Data ownership / lock-in | Low — content in your Sanity, money & PII on PCO | High — their ecosystem | High — their ecosystem |
| Pricing model | Setup + light retainer; no giving cut | Bundled (paid via giving) | Premium bundle (paid via giving) |
>_ "They give you a template and quietly take a slice of the offering. BUILT gives you a custom site and an AI ministry team that turns every Sunday into a week of content — and never touches your giving."