Pricing
The framework is free. The platform is what is paid. Every document and gift profile is free to read on-site, and all five volume PDFs are free to download with a free account — what a subscription buys is the tools: the shared views, the records, the surveys and the planning engine. Families pay only to share with each other. Elders subscribe personally — there is no central church account and no central admin, by design. Flat governance, priced the way it is practised.
One pattern, four steps
The same pattern, maturing through four steps. This isn’t a menu of features — it follows the order of the early church. A saint discerns the gifts the Spirit has given (free, always). A household learns to disciple one another. An eldership shepherds, plans, and decides together — no central account, no single administrator. And a church makes its leadership and its finances open for all to see. Each step carries more responsibility, and each is designed to keep the one before it accountable.
Individual
- ✓One free account per person
- ✓The full five-movement journey — assessment to commissioning
- ✓Results, reflections, community confirmation & your calling
- ✓Season History — snapshot your gifts and capacity, and watch them grow over the years
- ✓Explore where your gifts lead — with your community's demographics pulled in for you
- ✓The Church Governance Benchmark survey — take it any time to learn the framework
- ✓A step-by-step guide for working through a disagreement with someone — free to fill in and print
- ✓Proxy Support — so you're never left out: if a computer is hard, a trusted helper takes part for you (or you help another), free and elder-witnessed
- ✓All the reading, free on-site — plus all five print-ready volume PDFs to download
Family
- ✓Shared household view of each member’s gifts & calling
- ✓The couple compare view, for spouses
- ✓The couple compare view, for courting couples
- ✓Parents & guardians open a child’s full journey — read-only
- ✓Appoint a second parent as guardian; release a child once grown
- ✓Supportive Family Tools — guided templates & record-keeping to disciple at home
- ✓The Restoration Conversation, guided online — walk a disagreement through together, privately
- ✓Join by invitation & consent — revocable any time
- ✓Age-appropriate access for children, with parental oversight
- ✓Proxy Support — bring an older relative who can't use a computer fully into the church's life (or nominate a helper for yourself), free and elder-witnessed
Elder
- ✓Your own Elder workspace on your own login
- ✓Name your church; invite up to 30 individuals or families
- ✓The church-wide gifts picture for annual planning (pooled across elders)
- ✓Consent-based, read-only member view — nothing personal exported
- ✓Nominate a deacon to share the admin load — full view, no billing
- ✓Group email, SMS & meeting invites to consented saints (opt-in)
- ✓The ten-week Discovery Course — run it yourself, with the facilitator guide
- ✓The Restoration Conversation, guided online — for restoring a brother, privately
- ✓Proxy Support — a fuller, 360° picture of your flock, with no saint left behind: witness & oversee a trusted helper for those who can't use a computer (free for the saint)
- ✓All downloads: field guide, workbook, survey packs & the full templates library
Engaged Church
- ✓Three church-wide benchmark surveys — governance, married couples & courting couples, distributed by each elder to their group
- ✓Ministry Planning Portal — match saints to ministries and plan the year
- ✓Evaluation guidance & plan — meaningful KPIs, quarterly reviews, feeding the annual Impact Report
- ✓Deacon access for every elder — share the admin load across the eldership
- ✓Communications to your elders — group email, SMS & meeting invites
- ✓“Before the Fire” — the same ten weeks as a Sunday preaching series, with decks
- ✓Eldership templates for your whole eldership
- ✓Every downloadable resource included
- ✓The Restoration Conversation, guided online — for every elder of the church
- ✓Guidance & support by phone or email at any stage
- ✓Proxy Support — a full 360° view of the church, no one left behind: a trusted, elder-witnessed helper brings in saints who can't use a computer
- ✓Church Sponsorship — cover Family & Elder for your saints so cost is never a barrier (the church gives; the member keeps full control)
- ✓Detailed desktop governance review against the biblical pattern (optional)
- ✓The Engaged Church mark & public listing, after a 3-month transparency qualification
Why no church account? Because the framework teaches flat governance: a team of elders, personal accountability, and no central administrator. The subscription model practises what the Series preaches — each elder accountable for their own subscription, every member in control of their own consent. Children under 18 take part only within a Family account, with a parent or guardian’s consent.
Priced to maintain a safeguard.
The point of the platform design is protection. Because leadership and finances are held to account by publishing for all to see, there is no shadow for the one-man show, hidden money, or quiet drift to grow in — the transparency and independent verification itself is the safeguard. And it is made to be within reach: free to begin, simple to follow, and the same whether your church is five or five hundred. What you pay only keeps each level standing honestly on its own.
14-day money-back guarantee. Every paid plan — Family, Elder, and Engaged Church — comes with a full refund of your first payment if you cancel within 14 days, no questions asked. The framework itself is always free; the guarantee simply means there is no risk in trying the platform.
The Before the Fire Discovery Course
A standing ten-week course that takes believers from faith to their place in the body — the course for after Alpha.