What is Ozzie?

Ozzie reads a church's Planning Center, checks the coming Sunday against rules the church sets, and lays out what needs a decision: a serving role nobody has said yes to, a room booked twice, a follow-up with no one assigned. It drafts notes for a person to send and never sends anything itself.

Who is it for?

Pastors, church admins, small group leaders and other church staff whose church runs on Planning Center. Ozzie does the computer work of Sunday readiness, schedules, rooms and follow-ups, so the people doing that work can spend more of their hours with people. It runs on Macs with Apple Silicon.

What is its status?

Ozzie is an early build. Work on it started in the AI for Church Hackathon 2026, whose build window runs from October 30 to November 27, 2026. The app is free and open source to run yourself. Ozzie managed, a paid hosted option, is invite-only for now and has no published prices.

How does Ozzie keep names away from AI?

AI is optional in Ozzie. When it is used, the model sees placeholders such as [Volunteer A] instead of the names Ozzie read from Planning Center, and the real names are put back on the Mac. Background-check facts never go to any AI route, even as placeholders.

Ozzie's full never-list is on the commitments page and in the project's repository.

Ozzie in brief

Full name: Ozzie by FlockConnect
Made by: FlockConnect LLC
For: Church staff and ministry leaders whose church uses Planning Center
Runs on: Macs with Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later
Planning Center: Reads only. Ozzie never writes, edits or deletes anything there.
Status: Early build from the AI for Church Hackathon 2026
License: Open source under Apache-2.0. Code on GitHub
Hosted option: Ozzie managed, a paid service, invite-only for now
Website: ozzie.church

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