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Michael Tribett is the founder of FlockConnect LLC, the company behind FlockConnect, a Church Relationship Manager for pastoral care, and Ozzie, an open-source Mac app for church admin work. He holds a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, lives in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area, and builds his software with AI agents.

FlockConnect is a Church Relationship Manager: software that gives a church’s pastors and care team one place to keep up with care for each person, notice who the church has not seen lately, and follow through on what was promised. It works alongside the church management system a church already runs. Church members never log in.

A Church Relationship Manager, or ChRM, is software for the relational side of church life: keeping up with care for each person, noticing who has drifted out of sight, and sharing that care across a team. A church management system runs operations such as attendance and giving. A ChRM sits alongside it and does not replace it.

Collie is the sheepdog assistant inside FlockConnect, on its Collie plans. It can show a pastor how a person they are looking at is doing and draft a note or a next step. Nothing Collie drafts reaches a member or a connected system, and no care record is created, until a person approves it.

Ozzie is a Mac app for church staff and ministry leaders that keeps watch over Sunday in Planning Center and comes to them when something needs a decision. It only reads Planning Center, drafts notes that a person sends, and works under a published list of things it will never do. Its code is open source.

Michael Tribett built both FlockConnect and Ozzie. He founded FlockConnect LLC in July 2025 and builds the software himself, working with AI agents from specifications he writes. Ozzie was built during the AI for Church Hackathon 2026. The company is self-funded and has no outside investors.

FlockConnect is not for sale. Michael Tribett published a pledge in July 2026 saying so and promised to restate it every year. The company is self-funded, takes no outside investors and is not seeking any, and account owners can export their church’s data so their records are never tied to FlockConnect’s future.

Michael Tribett holds a Master of Divinity in Christian Ministry from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, which he completed in 2022 with a focus on missions, global studies and discipleship. He went to seminary to learn to disciple others well, without planning to become a pastor, and now builds software for churches.

Michael Tribett was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. He became a Christian in 2016 on a mission trip to Thailand, moved to the Raleigh, North Carolina, area in 2018 to attend seminary, and has lived there since. He is a member of Exchange Church in Rolesville, where he serves with his wife.

Michael Tribett taught himself to code with AI and builds FlockConnect and Ozzie with AI agents, while keeping the direction of each product with himself. Before he builds any AI feature into those products, he writes down what the AI must never do there, such as message a church member on its own or make a pastoral decision.

The best way to contact Michael Tribett is by email at michael@flockconnect.com. Pastors, church staff, journalists, podcast hosts and event organizers can all write there, as can anyone with a question about FlockConnect or Ozzie. For help with a FlockConnect account, write to support@flockconnect.com instead.