Press
Press and speaking
Everything you need to introduce me or write about my work: how to reach me, what I speak on, where I have spoken, bios, and a headshot.
How do you reach me for an interview or event?
Email me at michael@flockconnect.com about interviews, podcasts, panels and talks. It helps to include the audience, the date and the format. The topics below are where I have the most to say, and the bios further down are approved for programs and show notes as written.
What do I speak about?
I speak about pastoral care and why connection comes before discipleship, about where AI belongs in a church and where it never should, and about building church software with AI agents as a self-funded founder. Each topic below comes from my own story and from what I have built.
- Why connection comes before discipleship
The friend my church lost, what the church-growth research does and does not say, and why the word church means a gathered people.
- AI as the sheepdog, never the shepherd
Where AI belongs in pastoral care, and why I write down what it must never do before I build anything.
- Building church software with AI agents
How a former seminary student taught himself to code with AI, outgrew his first prototype, and started over from scratch.
- Discipleship and discernment in an age of AI
Why churches should disciple people to use AI wisely, and what a pastor should ask before handing work to a machine.
- Independent church software
Why FlockConnect is self-funded and not for sale, and what ownership changes do to the tools churches depend on.
Where have I spoken?
I have presented FlockConnect at the Missional AI Global Summit in Silicon Valley and talked about my work on podcasts, including the Lead & Deliver Podcast and a conversation with Corey Alderin about AI in church community. They are listed here, newest first, with links where a recording or transcript is public.
- Lead & Deliver Podcast
Interview with Joshua Updegraff of Kingdom Planning
- The Role of AI in Church Community
A conversation hosted by Corey Alderin
- FlockConnect: the missing relationship layer for your church
Talk at the Missional AI Global Summit in Silicon Valley, published by Missional AI
Which bios can you use?
Use any of these three bios as written. They are in the third person and sized for a program listing, a podcast description and a longer introduction, and every fact in them matches this site. Please keep the facts as they are, and trim from the end if you need fewer words.
Michael Tribett is the founder of FlockConnect, a Church Relationship Manager for pastors and care teams, and the builder of Ozzie, an open-source Mac app for church admin work. He holds a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and lives in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area.
Michael Tribett is the founder of FlockConnect, a Church Relationship Manager that gives pastors and care teams one place to keep up with care for each person, alongside the church management system they already run. He also builds Ozzie, an open-source Mac app that keeps watch over Sunday in Planning Center. Michael came to faith in 2016 on a mission trip to Thailand, earned a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2022, and spent three years inside a church software company. He lives in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area, where he and his wife lead a small group.
Michael Tribett is the founder of FlockConnect LLC, a self-funded company in the Raleigh, North Carolina, area that he started in July 2025. Its main product, 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, alongside the church management system the church already runs. FlockConnect is an Official and Authorized Planning Center Integration, built with pastors in the US and México, in English and Spanish. Michael also builds Ozzie, an open-source Mac app that keeps watch over Sunday in Planning Center under a published list of things it will never do. He built it during the AI for Church Hackathon 2026.
Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Michael became a Christian in 2016 on a mission trip to Thailand. He moved to North Carolina in 2018 for seminary and earned a Master of Divinity in Christian Ministry from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2022. He spent three years inside a church software company before building his own, and he taught himself to code with AI. He and his wife serve in youth ministry and lead a small group at Exchange Church in Rolesville, North Carolina.
Where are the headshot and logos?
You can download my headshot and monogram here, free to use with any coverage of me or my work. For FlockConnect’s logos and product screenshots, use the FlockConnect press kit, which keeps them current. Please do not stretch or recolor the monogram.
