Most church software is a filing cabinet.
Scout is a colleague.
Scout reads serving, giving, groups, prayer requests, pastoral notes, and check-ins as one story for each person. When something changes, it tells the right person at the right moment. The pastoral call stays yours.
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Sarah Mitchell has gone quiet. Her Tuesday group hasn't seen her since Easter.
Marcus Reed is on his sixth week serving in a row. Worth a thank-you.
Watch Scout work.
Marcus Reed is the volunteer every church is grateful for and nobody worries about. This is how Scout notices the cost of that before he has to say it out loud.
The pattern. Marcus has served on production six of the last eight Sundays, and he's already on the schedule for this one.
The signal. After each serve, Scout asks every volunteer how it went. Ten seconds, four choices. This week, for the first time, Marcus taps Difficult.
The sentence. Scout doesn't file that away in a report. It speaks up on the schedule itself, at the moment someone is about to ask him again.
Marked a recent serve “difficult”, and they're scheduled again Sunday.
Every person.
One story.
Scout keeps one living profile for each person, with giving, serving, groups, and everything else in the same place, so the next conversation starts with the whole picture.
Still giving every month, but quiet in her group and on the team since Easter. Worth a personal check-in this week.
Scout notices what
you'd never have time to.
People leave signals all week across serving, giving, groups, forms, prayer requests, and pastoral notes. Scout reads them and hands you the three that matter on Monday morning.
Her recurring gift is active, but her group hasn't seen her since Easter and she stepped off the welcome team. Scout reads that combination as someone pulling back.
Text SarahThey've come to the same service and checked their kids into the same classes three weeks out of four, and nobody has invited them into a group yet.
See their patternHe's filled a slot on production every Sunday for six weeks. Scout mentions a serving streak like this so you can offer someone a break before they have to ask for one.
Give him a Sunday offScout hands you the context. The pastoral call is always yours.
How the intelligence worksWho hears what
It's the first question every pastor asks about a system that notices things, and it's the part we built most carefully. Everyone sees only what fits their role, and you decide how far anything travels.
Nothing travels without your yes.
No team lead hears anything until a named staff member says yes to that specific person. If they step down, it stops on its own.
The most sensitive things stay with the people you choose.
Giving and pastoral notes never go below staff, and a heads-up never shows anyone more than they could already see.
Leads hear observations, never the words.
A volunteer's written reflection stays with staff. Their lead only hears how the serve went.
One page answers the whole question.
A single settings page shows exactly who hears what, and why. Nothing routes anywhere you can't see.
Your church talks back.
After someone serves, Scout asks them how it went. After a group meets, the leader says how the night felt and can leave a note about anyone in the room. The church learns who's thriving, who's stretched thin, and who's ready for more.
Jess has marked two Sundays in a row "Difficult." Pause her rotation for a season, and maybe send a meal train.
Tyler raised his hand for kids ministry in his About Me. Dana's team has an opening Sunday. Introduce them.
The whole loop runs inside Scout: people serve and gather, they're heard, and the church knows how to come alongside them. Nobody has to figure out who they're supposed to tell. A group leader's note lands on the person's profile and reaches the staff who should see it, marked celebrate, care, or prayer.
James paused his gift the same week he asked for prayer about work. That reads as a life event instead of a billing problem. Worth a check-in this week.
Giving that belongs
with the story.
Scout keeps giving on the same profile as everything else you know about someone, so a change in their pattern starts a conversation.
The app your
members carry.
Members get churchHQ, a church-branded app to give, see their serving schedule, and find their group. Every tap feeds the picture your staff see on Sunday.
Everything else your church runs on.
These are built into the same platform, and every one of them feeds the same picture of your people.
Security codes, room caps, and family reunification that works at 9:28 with a line out the door.
Run of ShowOne shareable production doc that serves every service time, and it reads well on an iPad backstage.
Volunteer schedulingBuild teams, fill every slot, and see who's over-serving before they burn out.
EventsRegistrations, occurrences, and participation for anything you gather beyond Sunday.
GroupsRosters, participation, and the health of every group that meets between Sundays.
Forms & workflowsConnection cards route straight to a person's record, and onboarding pipelines keep moving because someone is told the moment one stalls.
ReportsParticipation, giving, and serving trends ready for the elder meeting.
Lists & searchAsk in plain English: "families who joined this year but aren't in a group yet." The answer is a list you can save, tag, and follow up on.
Switching is our job.
We handle the migration ourselves, from the first call through your first Sunday on Scout.
It takes about 45 minutes. We look at your current setup (Planning Center, Tithe.ly, Breeze, Realm) and map exactly what moves where.
We move people, households, groups, giving history, and check-in records. We've done this migration before, so your part is reviewing the result.
Check-in runs, giving flows, teams are scheduled. Volunteers pick it up without a training week.
Average hands-on time for your staff: about two hours, total.
"I'm a former church planter, pastor, and Director of Ministry Operations at a D1 Christian university. I've used countless tools during my nearly 20 years in ministry, each lacking what I needed as a pastor. Instead of waiting for the perfect tool, I opted to build it myself."
Nic Moore · Founder of Scout · Pastor in Riverside, CA
Flat pricing.
Everything included.
Every feature is on every plan, and the tiers are just church size. There are no per-module add-ons and no fees on giving.
The full platform: intelligence, giving, check-in, member app. Two months free if you pay annually.
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You can't be everywhere. Scout tells the right person at the right moment.
Bring your team and we'll bring your data over. By your first Sunday on Scout, your staff is working from one shared record of every person.