Play your Sunday service on the screens at every campus you have, and let somebody else look after the storage, keep an eye on each site, and handle the billing.
Underneath it is OBS Multisite — free software a church can run on its own. This is the same thing with the fiddly parts taken away.
Everything below is what we are building and what it will cost, including the parts still in progress.
Why this exists
Playing a service at another campus is a solved problem, and the software that does it is free. What nobody solves for you is everything around it. Somebody has to set it up, keep an eye on it, and answer the phone when the screen at the satellite goes black ten minutes before the service.
You are not buying storage. Storage is the cheap part, and you can have it this afternoon. What you are buying is a system somebody has already set up and tested at a church like yours — and a person who picks up the phone on a Sunday morning when something has gone wrong and you are not sure why.
Plans
You pay for how many campuses you have and how long you keep your services. Not for how much video you use — nobody can estimate that, and nobody should have to. The two things that set the price are two things you already know.
| Plan | Per month | Campuses | Keeps services | Help |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted | Free | As many as you like | Your own storage | Community |
| Essential | $39 | 2 | 30 days | Email, within two working days |
| Growth | $89 | 5 | 90 days | On call at the weekend |
| Multi | $189 | 12 | 365 days | On call, and a phone number |
| Extra campus | +$15 | — | — | — |
These are launch prices, in US dollars, and they may still move. You pay in your own currency, by whatever you already use to pay bills — a debit order, not just a card.
Your existing setup, with a proper dashboard and somebody to email. Good for a church that already has people who can look after it.
Adds our small box for each campus, keeps your services for a season, and means somebody is on call over the weekend — which is the part that matters.
The rack box for the main campus, a year of services kept, a phone number, and the extra apps a proper production team uses.
The free one is not a trial. Running OBS Multisite yourself is the same software, with no time limit and nothing held back. It is how you can tell we mean it when we say you can leave — you can prove it before you pay us anything.
The promise that matters
From Saturday evening to Sunday afternoon, there is a person whose job is your service. Not a ticket queue, not a form — somebody who can look at your campus on their screen while you are standing in front of it, and tell you what has gone wrong.
That is the only window we promise, because it is the only one that matters. A fault on a Tuesday can wait until Wednesday. A fault at ten to nine on a Sunday cannot, and it is not fair to promise a church round-the-clock cover if we cannot actually staff it.
And a card that fails never stops a service. If a payment does not go through, the worst that happens is you cannot upload anything new until it is sorted out during the week. It never cuts off a service that is already running, and it never deletes anything you have.
The boxes
A campus player is the fiddly part: a small computer, a screen, a drive that lasts, and something that comes back on by itself after a power cut. We make two, and each one is set up as either a recorder or a player depending on what you plug into it.
Sits behind the screen. Plug a screen in and it plays the service. Plug a camera or a switcher in and it records one instead.
A rack box for a church with a proper AV setup, and enough room to run the other jobs a production team needs.
A box can arrive already yours. We can pair it to your church before it ships, so the first time you switch it on there is nothing to set up — it is already working. A box bought second-hand shows a short code on the screen instead, and you pair it from your phone.
What you get
All of this is still being built, and it is listed so you can judge whether it sounds like what your church needs.
See which sites are on, whether the picture is running behind, and which one has stopped — before somebody at that campus has to phone and tell you.
Set it once and it comes on at the right time every week, with no one needing to press anything. If a particular week is different, you change just that week.
Whoever supports you can look at the box from the office rather than getting in a car. For one session, with your say-so, rather than permanent access to your network.
If you stream publicly as well, it can go out from the box — rather than from a laptop somebody left running in the control room.
A box arrives already paired to your church. Switch it on and it is working, which matters when it is being installed on a Saturday.
If an integrator looks after several churches, they can see all of them in one place — but only for the churches that have said yes, and each of those can say no again.
Other things you might want
| Price | What it is | |
|---|---|---|
| A campus box | about $320 | Arrives set up. You plug it in and it works. |
| Care plan | $12 a month | If one fails, a replacement is on its way before you send the broken one back. |
| Someone to look at your building | $350 | We visit and tell you honestly what will work in your venue and what will not. Often the first thing to buy. |
| Setting it all up for you | $600–1,500 | We come and install it, then run a rehearsal with your team before a real service. |
| For integrators | $9 per campus, a month | A single view across all the churches an organisation already looks after. Minimum ten churches. |
Launch prices. The visit is often the cheapest way to find out whether any of this suits your building before buying anything.
The extra apps · Pro
A church production team nearly always has three or four other things running somewhere — checking the projectors came on, a control panel for the cameras, somewhere the runbook lives, a shared list of passwords. The rack box can run those as well, set up from the dashboard rather than from a command line.
Uptime Kuma watches the things you would otherwise find out about by walking into the room — a projector, your website, the stream itself — and tells you before somebody else does.
Bitfocus Companion turns a Stream Deck or any button panel into controls for the switcher, the cameras and the stream. OpenAVC does the same job for the room itself — projectors, screens, lights.
BookStack keeps the runbook and the "how do we do this" notes. draw.io keeps the wiring and rack diagrams next to the system they describe, rather than on somebody's laptop.
Vaultwarden holds the streaming keys and logins your team shares, so they do not leave with the volunteer who set them up.
OPNsense keeps production traffic away from guest wi-fi. AdGuard Home filters what the church network can reach.
Tailscale gives your own team, and anyone supporting you, a way in that does not involve opening ports on the church router.
Two kinds of app, and we are careful which is which. Some we look after: we test them every time we update the box, and they are covered by the weekend promise. Others come from their own communities — they work, and they are kept up to date, but they are not ours to fix. We would rather say that plainly than let you find out on a Sunday.
Where things are
We are not open yet. There is nothing to sign up for and no box to order. Here is the honest picture of each part.
The free software. It has already run real church services, and you can use it this week on your own storage for nothing. If you only ever use that, it still does everything described above.
The boxes and the software that runs on them. We are trying them on real hardware before selling any, because two things that decide what a box can do cannot be worked out from a specification sheet — they have to be tried.
The service itself: signing up, paying, and the dashboard. The prices above are our working plan rather than a promise, and we will test them with real churches before settling on them.
Tell us you are interested and we will let you know when the hosted version is ready. We will not add you to anything else in the meantime.
The free one needs nothing from us: OBS Studio, some storage space you control, and a token that can read and write it. It works whether or not we ever open anything.