One Program Assessment Build Lab | Climbing the Assimilayas
Four-Week Pilot Cohort

One Program Assessment Build Lab

Build and launch a custom digital assessment that helps people discover one clear next step—and gives your church a simple way to understand, respond, and follow through.

The assessment is not trying to describe the person. It is trying to remove enough uncertainty for the person to move.
Why this works

Your One Program should create movement—not just deliver information.

Instead of handing people a menu and asking them to sort themselves, your church can listen first, offer something genuinely useful, and recommend one clear place to begin.

1

Personalized clarity

Recommend a group, serving team, ministry area, or another church-specific next step based on what the person actually tells you.

2

Connection-first care

Surface care needs, low-capacity seasons, or leadership potential so the right human conversation can happen next.

3

A useful result

Deliver more than a destination: encouragement, a posture to practice, something to watch for, Scripture, and relevant resources.

What you will build

A complete church-owned assessment system.

Not a rented CTA platform. Not a generic quiz wearing your logo. Your church will leave with a live tool built around your One Program, your next steps, your language, and your actual follow-up process.

Custom participant assessmentYour questions, scoring rules, recommendations, overrides, and result language.
Branded mobile experienceDesigned for people to complete easily in the room on their phones.
Downloadable result PNGA polished, phone-sized guide participants can save directly to their device.
Real next-step integrationConnect to existing forms, pages, registrations, ministry reps, or an in-room response process.
Optional in-tool responseLet someone say yes directly on the result page when that is the cleanest pathway.
Care + leadership indicatorsOptional church-defined signals that tell staff where a thoughtful personal response may be needed.
Secure admin dashboardReview submissions, recommendations, indicators, dates, notes, and contact information.
Light follow-up trackingTrack simple movement from new response to contact, placement, follow-up, or not ready.
Basic percentages + filtersSee what people are being recommended, choosing, and actually moving toward.
Church-controlled deploymentYour own subdomain, database, hosting accounts, and private source-code repository.
More than a result

Make the page itself worth saving.

The recommendation is only part of the value. We will help you create a result that feels like a brief, personalized pastoral conversation—not a cold test score.

Your next stepA clear recommendation and why it may fit this season.
What we noticedA short, encouraging reflection in your church’s voice.
Something to practiceA simple posture or action to carry into Sunday and the week ahead.
Something to watch forA wise caution that helps the person move without falling into an old pattern.
A resource for this seasonScripture, a devotional thought, a quote, a book, sermon, or church resource that genuinely fits.
The four-week lab

From ministry idea to working software—together.

WEEK 01

Design the decision

Clarify the audience, recommendation pathways, questions, scoring logic, care signals, result content, and exact movement you want.

WEEK 02

Build the experience

Create the branded assessment, logic, personalized guide, downloadable PNG, and next-step response pathway.

WEEK 03

Build the admin side

Add secure storage, dashboard access, filters, percentages, notes, and lightweight follow-up tracking.

WEEK 04

Deploy and launch

Connect the subdomain, test every pathway, train the owner, and prepare the tool for actual One Program participants.

If the agreed-upon build is not fully finished in four weeks, individual completion help is included for the original cohort scope.

Details, without the wall of text

Open what matters to you.

What kinds of assessments can we build?

Your church may build a Group-or-Team recommendation, a serving-area assessment, a shortened gifts-and-contribution tool, or another tightly scoped assessment designed around your One Program. We will come prepared with sample language and material for multiple directions.

How can someone actually take the recommended next step?

We will design the cleanest ending for your current system. That may mean:

  • Saying yes directly inside the new tool
  • Linking to an existing Planning Center form, webpage, registration, or ministry form
  • Meeting a ministry representative or taking a tour in the room
  • Completing your existing paper or facilitated response process

The technology serves your process—not the other way around.

What do the care and leadership indicators do?

Optional indicators can help staff notice someone who may need personal care before another commitment, someone whose capacity calls for a lower-pressure option, or someone worth watching for future influence. These are not diagnoses or leadership decisions. They are signals that help the right person begin a thoughtful conversation.

What technology and ongoing costs should we expect?

The planned stack is GitHub for code ownership, Vercel for hosting and the church subdomain, and Supabase for secure response storage and admin access. Most churches should be able to begin on free hosting and database plans. Claude Pro will likely be useful during the build month at approximately $20.

Expected starting ownership cost: approximately $20 beyond tuition. Depending on future usage, support needs, or platform terms, paid hosting and database plans could eventually total roughly $45 per month.

What is intentionally outside the pilot scope?
  • Official Planning Center, TouchPoint, Rock, or other ChMS integration
  • SMS delivery or a complete email nurture system
  • A full church management, volunteer scheduling, or group matching platform
  • Native mobile apps or multi-church SaaS infrastructure

The application can be expanded later, and the church will own the code required to do that.

What would this cost to have custom built?

A custom front end, scoring engine, database, secure admin dashboard, follow-up tracker, deployment, and source-code transfer would reasonably cost approximately $5,000–$15,000 from a freelancer or small development shop. The pilot price is possible because churches will build alongside one another using a shared foundation, guided AI development, and a deliberately limited scope.

Full ownership

This is fully yours.

Your church is not subscribing to CTA software. CTA is helping you build software your church controls—and can continue adapting long after the lab ends.

Source code
Questions
Scoring logic
Written content
Branding and design
Participant data
Database and accounts
Domain and deployment
Admin dashboard
Every future version
Pilot Cohort

Build the next-step experience your church actually needs.

The first cohort is limited, highly hands-on, and priced as a pilot for current Tribe members.

$500 per participating church

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