MVP Core
14 of 14 liveEverything a church needs to get real, immediate value from Ekko as a standalone planning tool.
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Core Platform & Onboarding
The secure foundation every church builds on.
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Core Platform & Onboarding
The secure foundation every church builds on.
Ekko is a multi-church SaaS — every church's data is completely isolated. This phase established secure authentication, role-based access across the org hierarchy, and the onboarding flow that gets a church set up in minutes.
What's included
- ·Secure authentication via Supabase JWT
- ·Multi-tenant isolation — each church's data is completely separate
- ·Configurable Permission Groups — a church sets exactly what each tier of staff can see and edit, area by area, not a fixed one-size-fits-all role list
- ·Church onboarding flow — org name, ministry setup, first admin
- ·Collapsible navigation sidebar with role-aware visibility
- ·Platform admin impersonation — Ekko team can view any church as any user for support
Why this matters
Before a church can plan anything, they need a secure, organized home base where every person sees exactly what they should and nothing more.
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People, Org Chart & Culture
Know your team before you plan with them.
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People, Org Chart & Culture
Know your team before you plan with them.
Churches plan with people, not positions. This phase built a complete picture of who's on your team, how they're wired, what they're carrying, and how they connect to each other.
What's included
- ·Staff profiles with Working Genius, DiSC, Enneagram, and Spiritual Gifts assessments
- ·Interactive org chart with drag-and-drop reorganization and Working Genius team-coverage signal
- ·Capacity and load scoring — who is overextended, who has capacity
- ·Ecosystem visualization: coverage, capacity, and collaboration tabs
- ·Personnel budget module with role-based salary bands
Why this matters
Most churches don't have a clear picture of their team's actual capacity before they plan. Ekko makes the invisible visible — before you commit to anything, you know if you have the people to do it.
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Vision Foundation
Where planning starts — mission, vision, and the cascade of goals that serve them.
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Vision Foundation
Where planning starts — mission, vision, and the cascade of goals that serve them.
Vision Foundation is the top of the planning hierarchy. Every initiative, event, and commitment in Ekko traces back here. It captures the church's mission and vision (org-wide), North Star long-range goals, and the 3-year → 1-year → quarterly cascade that turns vision into actionable timeframes.
What's included
- ·Mission statement and Vision statement (org-wide, singular)
- ·North Star Goals (the church's long-range aspiration)
- ·3-year → 1-year → quarterly goal cascade
- ·Ministry-specific goals at each level alongside org goals
- ·AI-powered vision gap analysis
Why this matters
Most church planning starts with a calendar or a budget. Ekko starts with vision — because everything else in the plan should be in service of what the church is trying to become.
Where we're going
Coming next: a values and strategy layer to complete the vision framework, plus an AI assistant that helps each ministry connect its own vision to the church's.
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Vision Canvas & Alignment
Every ministry connects its own vision to the church's — one deliberate link at a time.
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Vision Canvas & Alignment
Every ministry connects its own vision to the church's — one deliberate link at a time.
Each ministry builds its own vision — and connects it to the church's at a single, deliberate point: its highest goal links to the one church goal it advances. Ministries connect to the church's operational goals (3-year and annual); the North Star is reached through the cascade, not linked to directly. The result is one clean line of sight from a quarterly priority all the way up to the church's North Star — no tangle of cross-links.
What's included
- ·One connection per top-tier goal — alignment that's deliberate, never a tangle of cross-links
- ·Ministries connect to the church's 3-year and annual goals; the North Star is reached through the cascade
- ·Canvas-shape profiler — a few questions tailor each ministry's planning depth and rhythm to how it actually works
- ·Connection strength (strong / moderate / weak) makes alignment measurable, not just present
- ·Leadership coverage view — see which church goals a ministry is carrying, and which still need an owner
- ·Quarterly priority planning and "Plan next year" mode
Why this matters
A ministry isn't a branch of head office — it has its own real vision. Ekko honors that, then connects it to the church's at exactly one point, so alignment is genuine rather than forced. Every quarterly priority traces, cleanly, all the way up to the church's North Star.
Where we're going
Coming next: an AI Alignment Assistant that surfaces the cross-ministry connections leaders miss, and annual versioning that closes each planning year, locks its outcomes, and carries the right goals forward.
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Teaching Arc
Plan your preaching calendar the same way you plan everything else — with vision and intentionality.
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Teaching Arc
Plan your preaching calendar the same way you plan everything else — with vision and intentionality.
The Teaching Arc is a rolling multi-year sermon planning timeline. It treats the preaching calendar as one of the most strategic decisions a church makes — connecting series development to scripture coverage, seasonal rhythms, and the church's vision.
What's included
- ·Rolling timeline — drag to create, move, and resize series (week-snapping)
- ·Timeline views: 3 months through 3 years
- ·Draft and Published status with bulk publish tools
- ·Parking lot — a development queue for series ideas not yet scheduled
- ·AI series brainstorm — generates contextual ideas, saves to idea library
- ·Week-by-week message planning with speaker assignment
- ·Scripture lookup (NIV, MSG, NASB) — platform-cached for speed
- ·AI passage study — Claude-generated study notes per message, persisted
- ·Bible coverage map — see which of the 66 books have been taught recently
Why this matters
Most churches plan their teaching calendar in a spreadsheet a few months at a time. Ekko gives a 3-year runway with tools to develop ideas, avoid scripture gaps, and make intentional decisions about what the church will teach — and when.
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Whiteboard & Ideation
Where new ideas are born and given a home in your plan.
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Whiteboard & Ideation
Where new ideas are born and given a home in your plan.
The Whiteboard is a real-time collaborative ideation space where ministry teams brainstorm together. When a session closes, Claude synthesizes the ideas into clusters, evaluates their alignment with the church's vision, and offers to route them directly into the planning system.
What's included
- ·Real-time collaboration — multiple participants, live idea cards
- ·Participant presence with color coding
- ·AI synthesis — clusters ideas, scores goal alignment, suggests artifact type
- ·Review & routing — accept, edit, or reject clusters and route to planning
- ·Cross-ministry intelligence — sandbox seed tray with shared and exclusive idea pickup
- ·Auto-contributor invites — co-planters are invited as initiative contributors
- ·Session insights — attribution, participation analysis, outcomes summary
Why this matters
Most church planning happens in top-down meetings. The best ideas often come from the middle — from ministry leaders and staff who are closest to the work. The Whiteboard gives those ideas a structured path into the planning system.
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Planning Hub
The operational center where vision becomes work, period by period.
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Planning Hub
The operational center where vision becomes work, period by period.
The Planning Hub is where a ministry leader turns vision into work. It opens on the ministry's vision goals and organizes every initiative directly under the goal it serves — across the full year, zoomable down to any single quarter.
What's included
- ·Vision-first annual view — every initiative grouped under the vision goal it serves
- ·Quarterly zoom — focus the year down to a single quarter and its priorities
- ·Initiative slideout — status, lead, timeline, success criteria, budget, and vision thread in one place
- ·AI collaboration discovery surfaced right where you plan
- ·Ongoing and dated initiatives on a live timeline of the year
Why this matters
Vision without a rhythm of execution stays on the wall. The Planning Hub keeps the goals in view while the work gets done — so every initiative has a reason, and that reason is always visible.
Where we're going
Coming next: planning each year against the last one's actual outcomes — re-commit, revise, or drop every goal with its result in view, as annual versioning lands.
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Initiatives & Milestones
The work artifacts that actually move your church forward.
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Initiatives & Milestones
The work artifacts that actually move your church forward.
An initiative is a meaningful piece of work with a beginning, middle, and end. It has milestones, a budget, success criteria, and can involve multiple ministries. Initiatives are the bridge between vision goals and calendar events.
What's included
- ·Initiative types: Event-Driven or Project, with status lifecycle and outcome tracking
- ·Success criteria — what does done actually look like?
- ·Vision linkage — every initiative traced back to the goal it serves
- ·AI-powered collaboration discovery — surfaces complementary initiatives, overlaps, and suggested ministry partners across your entire church
- ·Cross-ministry invites with in-app notifications and email — accept or decline directly from your Planning Hub
- ·Overlap alerts — when two ministries are planning the same thing, both leads are notified automatically
- ·"Collaborating On" section in Planning Hub — accepted collaborations appear in both ministries' views
Why this matters
Commitments without action plans are just good intentions. Initiatives give the commitment teeth — a specific, trackable piece of work with clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
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Ekko Score
A real-time health grade for your church's entire planning system.
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Ekko Score
A real-time health grade for your church's entire planning system.
The Ekko Score is a weighted health grade that evaluates eight dimensions of organizational health — not just whether things are getting done, but whether the right things are getting done, the right people are being developed, the church is collaborating well, and lessons are actually being carried forward.
What's included
- ·8-dimension weighted score: Planning Completeness, Activation Rate, Capacity Health, Idea Vitality, Collaboration, Assessment Participation, Vision Alignment, Retrospective Completion
- ·Letter grade A+ through F with configurable visibility threshold
- ·Ministry-level breakdown — see which ministries are thriving and which need support
- ·Personality & Deployment section — Working Genius, DiSC, Enneagram, and Spiritual Gifts distribution
- ·Dimensions with no data are excluded — no penalty for features not yet in use
Why this matters
Most churches have no quantitative sense of organizational health. The Ekko Score surfaces patterns that are otherwise invisible — an overloaded ministry, an idea pipeline that's dried up, a collaboration gap — so leadership can act before problems become crises.
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Calendar & Events
Planned events as outputs of your vision, not just items on a schedule.
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Calendar & Events
Planned events as outputs of your vision, not just items on a schedule.
In Ekko, events don't start on a calendar — they start in a planning session. An initiative produces events. Events flow downward from vision through initiatives and land on the calendar with full scheduling control, including recurring series.
What's included
- ·Event lifecycle: dream → proposed → approved → confirmed
- ·Event details: location, attendance, volunteer count, budget, planning notes
- ·Initiative linking — every event connected to the initiative it serves
- ·Recurring events — weekly, monthly, or specific date sets with exception handling
- ·Skip individual occurrences without touching the rest of the series
- ·Edit series — change the parent event and all future instances update automatically
Still to come
- ·Facility and resource conflict detection across ministries
- ·Two-way sync with Planning Center once events are matched automatically
Why this matters
A church calendar disconnected from the planning system is just a scheduling tool. Ekko's calendar shows the execution layer of the plan — every event has a reason, and that reason traces back to a vision goal.
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Retrospective System
Turning period data into institutional learning — not another SWOT in a drawer.
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Retrospective System
Turning period data into institutional learning — not another SWOT in a drawer.
A retrospective is a different kind of planning session. It looks backward with honesty — what did we commit to, what did we deliver, what did we learn, and what do we carry forward? Ekko makes this a structured, real process, not an optional end-of-quarter conversation.
What's built
- ✓A real facilitated session — solo, in person, or live online with your team, not a form to fill in alone
- ✓Structured reflection across four sections — what worked, what didn't, what surprised us, what we'd change — with multiple attributed entries per section
- ✓Live online collaboration — a shared, real-time session feed as a team reflects together
- ✓Locked once complete, with one deliberate exception — a facilitator can reopen a locked session for 48 hours if something was forgotten, then it locks itself back up automatically
- ✓Field Notes — a lightweight reflection captured right after an individual event, while it's still fresh, from everyone who was there; a facilitator reviews these when the real retrospective opens and either pushes them in as-is or runs them through Claude to synthesize a clean summary
- ✓AI synthesis actively looks for the same theme showing up across more than one event and surfaces it as its own labeled pattern — a recurrence isn't just one bad day, it's flagged as a blind spot worth real attention
- ✓Learnings feed forward automatically — past retrospective content surfaces on similar future initiatives
- ✓Retrospective completion counts toward the Ekko Score — reflection is a tracked discipline, not an afterthought, scored against recent activity rather than a permanent record
What's next
- ·AI pattern recognition across multiple retrospectives over time — not just within one session, but across a ministry's whole history
Why this matters
The reason most SWOTs go in a drawer is that the learnings have nowhere to go. Ekko connects retrospective learnings directly to the next planning session — so the church gets smarter every period, not just busier.
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Guided Tour & Planning 101
A walkthrough that teaches the thinking behind Ekko, not just where the buttons are.
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Guided Tour & Planning 101
A walkthrough that teaches the thinking behind Ekko, not just where the buttons are.
A sixteen-step tour that starts on first login and can be replayed any time. It walks the whole arc — mission and vision, the goal cascade, how a ministry grafts onto the church's vision, teaching arc, whiteboard, planning, review, collaboration, and the dashboard.
Why this matters
Ekko asks churches to think differently about planning, and a tooltip can't carry that. The tour explains why a vision statement isn't a tagline and why commitments belong to a ministry rather than a person — because a tool nobody understands is a tool nobody renews.
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Help Center & Ask Ekko
An article library plus an AI planning advisor that knows church strategy, not just the software.
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Help Center & Ask Ekko
An article library plus an AI planning advisor that knows church strategy, not just the software.
A searchable article library covering vision, planning, collaboration, and the dashboard — alongside Ask Ekko, a conversational advisor available from any page. It answers "how do I do this?" and "why does Ekko work this way?" with equal fluency.
Why this matters
Ask Ekko is grounded in real planning methodology — Hoshin Kanri, Collins, EOS, OKRs, Lencioni, Mancini — not just product documentation. Ask it whether your goals are too ambitious for your staff size and you get a considered answer, because most churches don't need a help desk. They need a thinking partner.
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In-App Feedback
Tell us what's broken, what's missing, or what's confusing — from the page you're standing on.
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In-App Feedback
Tell us what's broken, what's missing, or what's confusing — from the page you're standing on.
A button on every page with three options — Bug, Idea, or Confusing. It captures the page you were on and the build you were running, so nobody has to reconstruct what happened.
Why this matters
"Confusing" is its own category on purpose. A feature that works exactly as designed but baffles the person using it is still broken — and that feedback almost never gets reported, because it doesn't feel like a bug worth mentioning.
Growth Phase 1
0 of 6 liveDeepening the planning experience — from activity tracking to outcome prediction.
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AI Alignment Assistant
A thinking partner that surfaces the cross-ministry connections leaders miss.
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AI Alignment Assistant
A thinking partner that surfaces the cross-ministry connections leaders miss.
No single leader holds the whole church's vision in their head. This assistant reviews it all and proposes connections — a ministry goal that should be carrying a church goal nobody is advancing yet, or an existing connection whose two ends don't quite line up. It only ever suggests; accepting a suggestion is what creates the connection, so alignment always stays a human decision.
Why this matters
Surfacing the cross-ministry perspective a single leader can't hold is a founding reason Ekko exists. The data foundation already shipped with the Vision Canvas — this is the assistant that reads it.
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Vision Versioning & Annual Rollover
Planning years that close, lock, and carry forward — so the plan never quietly dies.
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Vision Versioning & Annual Rollover
Planning years that close, lock, and carry forward — so the plan never quietly dies.
At year's end, a leader marks each goal achieved, partial, or missed, and the cycle locks. The next year isn't a blank page: long-horizon goals carry forward to be reviewed, annual and quarterly goals are re-set against the prior year's real outcomes, and every missed goal is surfaced for a deliberate decision — re-commit, revise, or drop. Nothing is auto-carried; nothing is silently dropped.
Why this matters
Plans die less from a weak framework than from a lack of accountability across years — last year's misses quietly disappear. Forcing a deliberate decision on every miss is what keeps the plan honest.
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Lead Measures & Weekly Pulse
Track what predicts success, not just what you're doing.
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Lead Measures & Weekly Pulse
Track what predicts success, not just what you're doing.
Most planning systems track lag measures — whether you achieved a goal. Lead measures track the behaviors that predict whether you will. This phase adds the ability to define leading indicators per initiative and check in weekly on whether the needle is moving.
Why this matters
The 4 Disciplines of Execution identifies this as the most common reason strategic plans fail: organizations track what they did, not the behaviors that determine whether they'll succeed.
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Budget-Planning Integration
Every goal has a cost — see it while you plan, not after.
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Budget-Planning Integration
Every goal has a cost — see it while you plan, not after.
Right now, Ekko's budget module and planning module are separate. This phase connects them so that initiative budget estimates roll up to ministry budgets, and creating an initiative shows its budget impact immediately.
Why this matters
A plan without a budget is a wish. Ekko should make the financial implications of planning decisions visible in real time — so a ministry leader knows whether the priorities they've set are funded before the period begins.
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Planning Hub Navigation
Calendar and Whiteboard where they belong — inside the planning flow.
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Planning Hub Navigation
Calendar and Whiteboard where they belong — inside the planning flow.
Currently the Calendar and Whiteboard are standalone top-level navigation items. This phase moves them under Planning Hub, reinforcing that they're outputs and inputs of planning, not independent tools.
Why this matters
Navigation communicates intent. A standalone Calendar implies you can "just schedule something." A Calendar inside Planning Hub communicates that every event on it exists because someone planned it.
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Initiative Whiteboard
Focused brainstorming inside an initiative — not a full session, a targeted sprint.
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Initiative Whiteboard
Focused brainstorming inside an initiative — not a full session, a targeted sprint.
The Whiteboard is designed for broad ministry brainstorming. The Initiative Whiteboard is something different — a quick, focused session launched directly from within an initiative when a team needs to think through a specific problem: how should we execute this event, what could this program look like, what are we missing? Tighter context, faster synthesis, directly routed back to the initiative.
Why this matters
Ministry teams already huddle around specific initiatives. Giving that collaboration a structured home — one that produces ideas routed directly into the initiative — turns those hallway conversations into traceable decisions.
Growth Phase 2
1 of 6 liveConnecting Ekko to the rest of your church's ecosystem.
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Church Management Software Integration
Planning Center Online, Rock, and other prominent ChMS platforms — full church visibility during the planning process, and a clean, automated hand-off when it's time for calendaring and execution.
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Church Management Software Integration
Planning Center Online, Rock, and other prominent ChMS platforms — full church visibility during the planning process, and a clean, automated hand-off when it's time for calendaring and execution.
Ekko connects to the church management software (ChMS) your team already runs on — Planning Center Online, Rock RMS, and other prominent platforms — so leadership gets full visibility into the operational calendar during planning, and cleared plans hand off cleanly when it's time to schedule and execute. Ekko adds the planning layer on top without replacing anything.
What's built (Planning Center Online)
- ✓OAuth 2.0 connection with PKCE — secure, per-church authorization
- ✓Inbound sync — pull PCO calendar events into Ekko with full tag-based ministry mapping
- ✓Multi-campus support — map PCO calendars and tags to Ekko campuses and ministries
- ✓Setup wizard — discovers your PCO structure automatically, no manual configuration
- ✓Calendar feed — subscribe to your Ekko events from Google, Apple, or Outlook
- ✓Schedule Queue — cleared initiatives produce a copy-ready Event Brief for entry into PCO
What's next
- ·Auto-match — Ekko watches your PCO calendar and links events back to the initiative that planned them, with no copy-paste
- ·Orphan detection — PCO events with no plan behind them surface as unplanned activity for the retrospective
- ·Teaching Arc → PCO Services — sync sermon series directly to PCO service plans
- ·Actuals pull — attendance and check-in data back into Ekko for plan vs. actual reporting
- ·Rock RMS and other prominent ChMS platforms — same planning-layer connection for churches not running Planning Center
One honest limitation
Planning Center does not allow outside tools to create calendar events — that's a deliberate decision on their end, not a gap in our integration, and we've asked them to open it. So Ekko doesn't pretend otherwise. Cleared initiatives land in a Schedule Queue with an Event Brief your admin can enter in seconds, and auto-match will link the resulting PCO event back to the plan automatically. If PCO opens that door, Ekko will walk through it without you changing anything.
Why this matters
Bidirectional integration is the product moat. Ekko pushes plans out; operating tools push actuals back. Without actuals, retrospectives are feelings-based, not data-based.
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Initiative Integrations
Hand off plans to the tools your team uses to execute them.
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Initiative Integrations
Hand off plans to the tools your team uses to execute them.
Once a ministry plans an initiative in Ekko, the execution often happens in Asana, Basecamp, or similar tools. This phase builds the handoff — Ekko pushes initiative details to those platforms and pulls status back.
Why this matters
Ekko is a planning layer, not an operating system. Churches already have tools they use to get work done. Ekko hands off the plan and pulls back the results.
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Actuals & Analytics
Did you accomplish what you set out to? The data tells the truth.
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Actuals & Analytics
Did you accomplish what you set out to? The data tells the truth.
Connecting planned targets to actual outcomes closes the planning loop. This phase builds the plan vs. actual dashboard and trend analytics that show whether a church is getting better at what it's trying to do.
Why this matters
Planning without measurement is just intent. Actuals turn Ekko from a planning tool into a learning system.
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Initiative Review & Approvals
A strategic gate before anything hits the calendar — with a review culture that doesn't punish people for proposing.
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Initiative Review & Approvals
A strategic gate before anything hits the calendar — with a review culture that doesn't punish people for proposing.
Ministry leaders submit an initiative for review; leadership sees it with full context — the events it requires, the vision goals it serves, the calendar density around it, and exactly what changed since the last submission. Fields lock while a submission is under review, so what leadership approved is what gets executed.
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- ·Four reviewer actions — Clear, Provisional Clear, Return, and Defer — each with a different message and a different next step
- ·Provisional Clear flags individual events for clarification without blocking the whole initiative
- ·Batch review with checkboxes for the routine approvals
- ·Changes-since-last-submission shown inline, so nobody re-reads an entire proposal to find one edited date
- ·Calendar view of every ministry's events, colour-coded, for spotting collisions before they happen
- ·AI calendar analysis — a verdict on rhythm, overlap, and vision alignment rather than a wall of data
- ·Schedule Queue — cleared initiatives move to a handoff queue with a copy-ready Event Brief for your calendar system
Why this matters
Most approval systems are culture killers — a leader proposes something, hears nothing for three weeks, then gets a flat "no." Ekko separates the two questions a church actually asks: should we do this at all (strategic — Ekko's job) and can the building hold it (logistical — your calendar system's job). Returns require a written reason. Defer means "not now, here's when." Nobody gets silence.
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Mobile
Attendance tracking, approvals, and planning updates — from anywhere.
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Mobile
Attendance tracking, approvals, and planning updates — from anywhere.
A mobile experience purpose-built for the moments when church leaders are not at a desk — Sunday morning, mid-week events, staff meetings.
Why this matters
Church leadership happens everywhere. The most important data entry moments — actual attendance on Sunday morning — happen when nobody is at a computer.
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Volunteers
Volunteer culture, capacity, and coordination — PCO-aware, not a duplicate.
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Volunteers
Volunteer culture, capacity, and coordination — PCO-aware, not a duplicate.
Volunteers are the execution layer of most church ministry. This phase adds volunteer culture, capacity, and load tracking to Ekko — built with awareness of PCO's volunteer management so Ekko complements it rather than duplicates it.
Why this matters
A planning system that doesn't account for volunteer capacity is planning in a vacuum. Ekko should know whether the church has the volunteer depth to execute what it's planned.
Growth Phase 3
2 of 4 liveAdvanced capabilities that differentiate Ekko from every other tool in the market.
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Trial Experience
Invite-only sandboxes are live. Each evaluator gets their own pre-seeded church instance, fully isolated.
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Trial Experience
Invite-only sandboxes are live. Each evaluator gets their own pre-seeded church instance, fully isolated.
The best way to evaluate Ekko is to use it with realistic data. Invite-only sandboxes are active now — each evaluator gets their own fully isolated copy of a realistic church (Grace Community Church), pre-seeded with vision goals, initiatives, staff, series, and assessment data. Self-service trial sign-up comes next.
Why this matters
Churches are relational buyers. A generous, unrestricted trial communicates confidence in the product and respect for the evaluator. Gated demos create anxiety. A full trial creates trust.
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Culture Center
Anonymous staff culture signals that surface to the right people — not just leadership.
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Culture Center
Anonymous staff culture signals that surface to the right people — not just leadership.
Most church culture tools are sold to leaders, administered by leaders, and interpreted by leaders. That's the problem. Ekko's Culture Center is built staff-first — staff see their ministry's aggregate health, leadership sees patterns (not individuals), and systemic issues reach the board and eldership independently of pastoral leadership.
Why this matters
The senior pastor is often both the culture problem and the buyer of the assessment tool. Standard culture tools reinforce this dynamic. Ekko's Culture Center is designed to surface truth to the people who need it — including those who don't control the tool.
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Access Architecture
Configurable permission groups, per-ministry access policies, and org-wide access defaults are live and enforced on every request. Ekko's own platform team now holds a separate identity from any church's staff.
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Access Architecture
Configurable permission groups, per-ministry access policies, and org-wide access defaults are live and enforced on every request. Ekko's own platform team now holds a separate identity from any church's staff.
Every church controls its own permission matrix — what each staff position can see and edit, by area of the app and by ministry — with sensible defaults out of the box and full customization when you need it. Ekko team members hold a platform identity that spans every church we work with, separate from and never a member of any one church's staff.
Why this matters
Your compensation data, personnel records, and internal planning should be visible only to the people you choose — not a one-size-fits-all default. And Ekko support staff can help without ever being embedded in your church's roster.
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Values & Strategy Layer
The planning filter that makes sure you're pursuing the right goals, not just any goals.
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Values & Strategy Layer
The planning filter that makes sure you're pursuing the right goals, not just any goals.
Between mission and goals sits a layer most churches skip: values (what we believe shapes how we act) and strategy (how we uniquely will achieve our mission). Without these, planning is goal-setting with no filter. With them, every initiative can be evaluated against whether it fits who this church is.
Why this matters
Will Mancini (Church Unique) and Jim Collins (Built to Last) both identify this layer as the difference between generic goal-setting and genuine strategic identity. Ekko should help churches discover what makes them uniquely suited to their mission.