ParishBrain
the platform — what we actually deliver
A managed service, the servers, and the software — in one.

ParishBrain is not an app you install. It is the whole stack — managed, on–premises, and run for you.

The product

Three things in one, so you can run none of them.

ParishBrain is AI–native and turnkey. We bring the servers, run the service, and maintain the software — no programming, no app development, no setup on your end.

i

A managed service

We provision it, run it, update it, and keep it healthy — remotely and on a schedule you control. You do not hire an IT department to use ParishBrain; that is our job.

ii

The servers

On–premises boxes we bring to your campus and hook up. Your data and your AI live here, inside the building — never rented from someone else’s cloud.

iii

The software

One connected suite of apps for church and school, each replacing a subscription you already pay for, all reading from a single encrypted identity layer.

Which means an institution can cancel the subscriptions it stitches together today.

The architecture

How it fits together.

Church and school apps sit above shared operations. Everything reads from and writes to FamilyGraph — which clarifies who a family is inside the building and anonymizes them everywhere else. The flagship pieces are marked in gold.

CHURCH SacramentalRecords MinistryFair WorshipAid MinistryScheduler SCHOOL TeacherAIde Beacon LessonAlign Sensible Debate SHARED OPERATIONS ParentPoint MissionIQ GrantFinder FacilitiesManager PII BOUNDARY · REAL IDENTITY MAY NOT CROSS FamilyGraph Encrypted identity foundation · open-sourced via CDCF Every app reads from and writes to this single layer. Gold = flagship apps & open-source infrastructure
The software

One connected suite. marks the flagships.

Church
SacramentalRecordsDigital parish register
MinistryFairMinistry signup
WorshipAidMass booklet from USCCB readings
MinistrySchedulerLiturgical minister scheduling
School
TeacherAIdeAI–enhanced classroom & engagement
BeaconSafe AI access for staff & students
LessonAlignLesson plans against standards
Sensible DebateCivic education, grades 6–12
Shared operations
ParentPointRosters, contacts & parent comms
MissionIQDonor & giving intelligence
GrantFinderAI grant matching
FacilitiesManagerCampus space scheduling
FamilyGraph
Encrypted family identity — the foundation every app shares
The identity infrastructure is being open–sourced through CDCF, so the foundation a parish depends on is one it can inspect and never be locked out of.
How it works

How ParishBrain works, in five steps.

01

Data flows in from every source. Giving, enrollment, communications, transcripts, sacramental records, volunteer hours. Every system that touches a family contributes.

02

FamilyGraph resolves identity — and anonymizes it. The encrypted core deduplicates across systems into one coherent profile per family, then issues the pseudonyms that let cloud–facing apps work without ever seeing who that family is.

03

Context accumulates over time. A giving pattern across five years, an engagement trajectory across three grades. The graph grows richer with every record.

04

A local model activates it. An on–premises model reads the accumulated context to surface what no administrator could see by hand — nothing sent to a frontier provider.

05

Decisions improve at every level. The pastor knows which families to call; the principal, which teachers need support; the development director, which alumni to steward.

Safe to say yes

Productive AI, without the three risks that stop it.

No data leaks. All PII and model inference run on–premises. Pseudonyms serve the cloud apps; real identities never leave the building.

No frontier dependence. A capable model runs on your own server — nothing sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google. You own the weights, and it keeps working with the internet down.

No misuse, by anyone. Role–based guardrails for every stakeholder: a Socratic mode and no–write guard for students, sensitive–content alerts, and an immutable audit log.

The reason a bishop or principal can say yes.
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