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Cohort begins August 2026 · Limited seats

Scaling pastoral vision with strategic AI enhancement.

Doubling leadership capacity through visionary AI and custom ministry systems.

Stop being the "bottleneck" of your church's vision. Join Will Mancini and Jay Kranda for 180 days — 90 days to build a custom AI Operating System with your senior leadership, then 90 days to embed it across your staff — so your strategy executes while you sleep, freeing you to shepherd your people.

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Will Mancini
Will Mancini
Jay Kranda
Jay Kranda

The honest diagnosis

You're the bottleneck.

Vision lives in your head. Execution stalls without you in the room.

Your staff isn't AI-fluent yet.

Tools are everywhere. Coherent workflows for ministry are rare.

Strategy dies in implementation.

Plans get made, but capacity leaks across every team.

What if AI could double your leadership capacity — and free you to actually shepherd your people?

The 180-day journey

Build the system. Then deploy it across your staff.

Days 1 – 90

Phase One

Build

Distilling vision into systems. Will guides your senior pastor and XP through clarifying their God-sized vision and building the AI scaffolding that makes it executable.

  • M1 The Vision-to-System Bridge
  • M2 Custom Ministry Tool Build
  • M3 Strategic AI Operations
Days 91 – 180

Phase Two

Deploy

Moving from "the XP uses Claude" to "the whole staff uses Claude well." Jay leads team training, workflow rollout, and sustainability across every department.

  • M4 Staff Onboarding & Tool Deployment
  • M5 Workflow Integration Across Teams
  • M6 Sustainability & Future-Proofing

Curriculum

Six months. Every session designed to ship work.

  • Week 1: Kickoff — What's Changed in AI Over the Last 12 Months
  • Week 2: The Four Quadrants Framework
  • Week 3: The XP's "Second Brain" — Strategic Thinking in an AI World
  • Week 4: Multiplying Your Team's Productivity with Claude
  • Week 5: Advanced Claude Workflows

The rhythm

Friday mornings. Real work. 1:1 coaching when you need it.

01

Teaching + Tool Sharing

Each session opens with a frame: what's changed, what's working, and a live show-and-tell of tools other churches are using.

02

Project Work / Build Sprint

Live build time on your church's actual data. You leave every session with something working, not just notes.

03

Staff Training Track

Direct access for the senior pastor's team to attend live, plus dedicated train-the-trainer sessions throughout Phase Two.

Meet your guides

Two practitioners. Decades of building inside the church.

Will Mancini

Will Mancini

Phase One Lead · Vision & Systems

Church consultant and ministry entrepreneur for 22+ years. Author of seven books, founder of Auxano (sold to LifeWay in 2012), and now leading Run Free. Will helps pastors clarify their God-sized vision and build the systems to actually execute it.

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Jay Kranda

Jay Kranda

Phase Two Lead · Staff Deployment

Innovative Tech Pastor at Saddleback Church. Pioneered online church ministry since 2010, building one of the world's largest online communities. Author of Online Church Is Not The Answer. Talbot School of Theology grad. Jay specializes in deploying digital tools across church staff so technology serves the mission — not the other way around.

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Pricing

Two ways in. One August 2026 start date.

Cohort Track

Learn alongside peers in a shared cohort.

$6,500per church

90-day program (Phase One)

  • Up to 3 senior leaders attend (Senior Pastor, XP, and one designate)
  • One custom Claude Project built during the 90-day sprint
  • Shared recordings, templates, and AI policy starter kit
  • WhatsApp community channel for peer-to-peer learning
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Concierge Track

A private experience for your church.

$14,500per church

Full 180-day program (Phase One & Two)

  • Everything in the Cohort Track
  • Unlimited custom Claude Projects built during the 180-day sprint
  • 90 days of 1:1 coaching with your staff to unlock next-level AI usage across teams
  • Priority access to Will and Jay between sessions
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FAQ

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Cohort begins August 2026

Stop being the bottleneck.
Start shepherding again.

Limited seats. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis until the cohort fills.

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