Ozzie

Ozzie is a Mac app for church staff and ministry leaders that reads a church’s Planning Center, keeps watch in the background, and comes to them when something needs a decision. It lays out the facts, drafts a note if one would help, and leaves the decision and the sending to a person. Its public name is Ozzie by FlockConnect.

It checks the questions behind “Is Sunday covered?”: serving roles that still need someone, requests waiting on an answer, rooms booked twice, follow-ups with no owner, and group nights that clash with serving. Each church sets its own rules for what counts.

I am building Ozzie so the hours church staff spend checking Planning Center can go to people instead. The idea comes from Acts 6, where practical table work was handed to trustworthy people so that prayer and the Word stayed first. Ozzie takes on a church’s computer table work in that spirit.

Ozzie works under a published never-list that no user, church or plan can switch off, because it lives in the open-source code. It never sends a message to anyone in your church, never changes anything in Planning Center, never writes a sermon, and never scores, ranks or labels a person.

AI is optional in Ozzie. When it is used, the model sees placeholders in place of the names Ozzie read from Planning Center, and the names are put back on the Mac. I wrote about why the list comes first in The never-list comes before the feature.

Ozzie is a working Mac app in the AI for Church Hackathon 2026, whose build window closes on November 27, 2026. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs. The app is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license, and the hosted Ozzie managed service is invite-only for now.

See it at ozzie.church, or read the source code on GitHub.