Founder, FlockConnect LLC
Michael Tribett
I build software for the church. I am the founder of FlockConnect, where a pastor and their care team keep up with care for each person in their church, and I am building Ozzie, a Mac app that keeps watch over Sunday in Planning Center.
I came to faith in 2016 on a mission trip to Thailand, earned a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and live in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area. I taught myself to code with AI.
What am I building?
I am building tools that give church staff more of their hours back for people. FlockConnect is a Church Relationship Manager for pastoral care. Ozzie is an open-source Mac app for church admin work in Planning Center. Household Theology Press is a free library for families. FlockConnect LLC is the company behind the first two.
- FlockConnect
One place for a church’s whole team to keep up with care for each person, alongside the church management system it already runs.
- Ozzie
A Mac app that reads Planning Center, keeps watch over Sunday, and drafts the notes a person then sends.
- Household Theology Press
Free Reformed homeschool and family-discipleship resources, starting with the Westminster Shorter Catechism.
Why do I build for churches?
I build for churches because isolation is what God saved me from, and I have watched it happen to people who look fine on paper. During COVID a close friend at my church told me he felt completely isolated and had decided to leave. Our pastors had no idea.
Church software records who showed up and who gave. It has no idea who actually knows whom. FlockConnect gives a church’s whole team one place to keep up with each person, so fewer people slip away unnoticed. The visit, the phone call and the introduction stay with a person. Read the whole story.
Where should you start reading?
Start with these four essays, all in my own words and published on the FlockConnect blog. They cover the friend who was leaving, the AI feature I refused to build, what talking to AI all day has never given me, and my pledge that FlockConnect is not for sale.
What do I write and speak about?
I write and speak about pastoral care, discipleship and Christian ministry; about church software, church relationship management and Planning Center; and about artificial intelligence in the church, including what it is like to build software with AI agents. Press and speaking has bios and past talks.