For pastors

Someone near you is looking for a church tonight.

They're asking ChatGPT, or Siri, or Gemini, and getting a short list of three or four churches back. Most churches never make that list, and the ones that do are often described wrong. We show you what the assistants are saying about yours, make sure that when they look for you they find you and what they find is true, and check again every month.

See what AI says about your church Free. Takes about five minutes.

Saturday, 9:40 PMAn AI assistant, four miles from your building

“What churches near me have a good program for kids?”

Here are a few in your area with well established children's ministries:

1Trinity Fellowshipabout 6 miles away
2Redeemer Community Churchabout 7 miles away
3Northside Bible Churchabout 9 miles away

Your church wasn't mentioned, and it's closer than all three.

There is no second page

Search gave you ten results. An assistant gives three names.

Nobody scrolls past a list that short, and nobody calls the church office to say an assistant left you out or sent them to the wrong building. It happens silently, which is why almost every pastor we talk to has never checked.

You can check in the next fifteen seconds. Open an AI assistant, or hold the button on your phone and ask:

“What churches near [your town] have a good kids program?”

Whatever comes back is what somebody in your area is being told tonight.

Run your free report That was one question. Your free report asks about twenty, as if from your town, and keeps every answer word for word.

One church, last month

This is a real first report, not a worst case.

An ordinary church, running this for the first time. One building, a website that looks fine, nothing obviously wrong with any of it. Here is what came back.

BuildingsOne
ReportTheir first

Asked about them by name, whether they stream and where to watch, an assistant answered with a different church's service times and a different church's website.

Same name, different church. Nothing in the answer was about them.
Asked what they run during the week, it gave two of their real ministries and two belonging to somebody else, including a Wednesday night youth gathering they have never held.

A parent reading that drives over on a Wednesday and finds a dark building.
Asked which churches nearby are non-denominational, it gave their address to another church, by name.

Their building, somebody else's sign on it.
Asked simply what churches are near me, from a phone in their own town, they came back eighth of thirteen, and eleventh of twelve the second time.

Named, and far enough down that nobody reaches them.

Not one of these would have reached the church office. Nobody calls to say an assistant sent them to the wrong building, and nobody calls to say they were never shown you at all. The church had no way of knowing any of it until somebody asked.

Findings like these arrive once a month, with every answer printed underneath in full and a plan for what to change. Your first one is free, and it is about your church rather than somebody else's.

The same question, with you in it.

We cannot make an assistant recommend your church, and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling something. What we can do is make sure that when it looks, it finds you, and that what it finds is true. For most churches that is the whole battle, because right now it cannot find them at all.

Once you're publishedThe same assistant, the same question

“What churches near me have a good program for kids?”

Here are a few in your area with well established children's ministries:

1Your churchabout 2 miles awayKids from birth through fifth grade at 9:00 and 11:00
2Trinity Fellowshipabout 6 miles away
3Redeemer Community Churchabout 7 miles away

In the answer, closest first, with ages and times that match what you actually run. Every word of it came from you.

We ask what your neighbors ask

We ask an AI assistant the questions your neighbors ask, as if from your town, and keep every answer exactly as it came back: the ones you're left out of, the ones that get you wrong, and where you placed in the rest.
We give you the plan

What to fix, in the order that matters most, each step tied to an answer that went wrong and saying who can do it and how long it takes. Most of it is small.
We publish you where they read

Your own page on ChurchSurface, with your times, location, ministries and kids and youth, written the way assistants read best and kept current from your record.

Why it's monthly

AI doesn't sit still, so neither do we.

The answers keep changing, and so does how assistants read.

Assistants change how they choose and describe churches every few months, often with no warning. A church that was named in March can drop out in June without anyone touching its website.

The way they find and read information keeps changing too, and it is changing fast. Following that is our whole job. As the assistants change, we change how we publish your church to match, so you never have to keep up with it yourself. And we ask your questions again every month, from your own town, so you find out when something shifts.

One family is enough.

If ChurchSurface helps one new family find your church this year, it has done its job.

What we promise.

One published price, the same for every church. We never sell placement, so no church can pay to rank above yours. No contract: cancel from your account in one click. And every email to [email protected] is answered by a person.

What it costs

Seventy-nine dollars a month, and the first report is free.

One price, published here, the same for everybody. We do not sell placement and no church can pay to rank above another, so there is nothing to negotiate and no call to sit through.

Everything, every month

$79per month

Plus $20 a month for each campus after the first. A church that meets in one building pays $79.

Or pay yearly: $790 a year, two months free, plus $200 a year for each campus after the first.

Run your free report

No card for the first one. If you never come back, you keep the report.

Free: your first report.
Every answer word for word, your score, and the plan: what to fix, in order, and who can do it.
Your playbook.
The step-by-step for every part of the plan, with the page text and code already written from your record.
Your own page on ChurchSurface.
Published the day you subscribe and kept accurate for as long as you do.
A new report every month.
So you see whether the plan worked, and hear about a wrong answer before a family does. Cancel from your own account, any time.

Start here

Find out where you actually stand.

Your first report asks the assistants around twenty ways somebody might look for a church like yours, asked as if from your own town, and saves every answer exactly as it came back. Then it shows you what to fix, in order.