Platform — ShulWorks

The pattern

2026 communities running on 1996 workflows.

We called twenty-plus coordinators across North America — Reform, Conservative, Modern Orthodox. Different prayer books. The same operations story, every time.

“

We keep the schedule in three places. None of them agree.

Coordinator · Toronto

“

I send the same five emails for every single event. By hand.

Office Manager · New York

“

Half the volunteers don't know what they signed up for until the morning of.

Executive Director · Chicago

01 — Manual

Every event is rebuilt from scratch.

Spreadsheets. Sticky notes. Forwarded emails. Nothing carries forward from one simcha to the next.

02 — Understaffed

One coordinator. A hundred moving pieces.

Most shuls run on two part-time staff and a board of volunteers. The work expands faster than the headcount ever will.

03 — Fragmented

Six tools. Zero conversations between them.

A CRM. WhatsApp. A calendar. A printer. A donation page. None of them talk to each other.

What synagogues get back

The value isn't software. It's the Monday morning that follows.

ShulWorks doesn't sell features. It returns the four things every synagogue office is quietly running out of — time, money, peace of mind, and members.

— 01

12hrs/wk

Hours back to your coordinator.

Stop rebuilding every event from scratch. Stop sending the same five emails by hand. The 12-step lifecycle does it once and remembers forever.

Per event, per coordinator — across registration, flyers, comms, follow-up.

— 02

6 → 1

One platform instead of six.

The CRM, the email tool, the spreadsheets, the WhatsApp groups, the donation page, the check-in app — collapsed into one source of truth.

Cancel the subscriptions you're paying for piecemeal. The math usually pays for ShulWorks on its own.

— 03

0missed

No more “nobody told the rabbi.”

Conflicts caught before they happen. Clergy auto-notified for lifecycle events. The Shabbat morning surprises that should never have been surprises — prevented at the source.

Built around the lifecycle events that matter most: bar/bat mitzvah, aufruf, baby naming, bris, memorial.

— 04

+members

The members you were about to lose.

Retention isn't a marketing problem. It's an operations problem. ShulWorks flags the families drifting away — while there's still time to bring them back.

Last-contact dates. Attendance trends. At-risk alerts. The rabbi notified in one click.

Three steps · one platform

From a sentence to a Sunday morning — without a spreadsheet.

01

Describe.

Press the mic or type a sentence. ShulWorks reads it, fills the form, and asks only what's missing.

"Bar mitzvah for the Levin family, third Saturday in June, kiddush after."

02

Orchestrate.

A 12-step lifecycle drives calendar, room, clergy, comms, registration, signage and check-in — and keeps everything in sync as plans change.

Calendar → Promotion → Registration → Volunteers → Budget → Catering → A/V → Reminders → Day-of → Follow-up → Debrief.

03

Analyze.

Thank-yous, post-event surveys and Strategic IQ close the loop — so the next event is sharper than the last.

Attendance · revenue · retention · at-risk families flagged before they drift.

The platform · 8 modules

Everything a synagogue office does, in one place.

Built around the way shuls actually work — Shabbat-aware, kosher-aware, lifecycle-aware. One source of truth for every event, every member, every dollar.

/ 01

Dashboard

Registrations, revenue, staff hours saved and live red-flag alerts — all in one view.

/ 02

Event Engine

The 12-step lifecycle, from the first description to the post-event debrief — every step pre-filled.

/ 03

Intelligent Calendar

Gregorian + Hebrew dates, candle lighting, clergy availability, facility blocks. Conflicts caught before they happen.

/ 04

Engagement Hub

Email, social, lobby signage, flyers and app push — drafted automatically for every event, scheduled in one place.

/ 05

Check-In

QR or tap-in at the door. Attendance flows into the member record and the next year's planning automatically.

/ 06

Strategic IQ

Attendance, revenue, retention. Spot drift early — the families who showed up for two years and went quiet this one.

/ 07

Community Board

Clone proven programs from synagogues across North America. Real attendance, real ratings, one-click clone.

/ 08

ShulWorks Talk

AI concierge. Ask anything in plain English — registrations, conflicts, draft a reminder — it does the work.

Dashboard

The whole shul in one glance.

Every registration, every dollar, every conflict — the moment it happens. Walk into the office Monday morning and see what needs you before you've finished your coffee.

01Live KPI cards — registrations, staff hours saved, revenue MTD, growth target. Click any tile for the drill-down.
02Active workflows — every event in flight with step completion. One click drops you straight into the lifecycle.
03Red flags surfaced — clergy conflicts, facility double-bookings, lifecycle clashes. Resolution one tap away.

shulworks.app / dashboard

Community Board

Every shul learning from every shul.

A shared library of proven event programs, contributed by synagogues across North America. Real attendance numbers. Real ratings. One-click clone into your own Event Engine — every step pre-filled.

01Browse what's working — filter by season, size, denomination. Sort by most cloned or highest rated.
02Clone any program — ShulWorks pre-fills all 12 lifecycle steps, the flyer, and the full email sequence.
03Contribute your own — attributed or anonymous. Become the shul others learn from.

shulworks.app / community

ShulWorks Talk · AI Concierge

Just say it. Or type it.

No forms. No fields. Talk knows every event, every registrant, every conflict and every number — and acts on what you ask.

› "How many people registered for the Seder?"

› "Draft a reminder email for this weekend."

› "Move the Levin bar mitzvah from June 14 to June 21."

› "Which events still need volunteers?"

✦ ShulWorks Talk

Listening

"Add a coffee setup for Tuesday's board meeting and notify the office admin."

Action · ready to confirmBoard Meeting · Tue

SetupCoffee service for 14

Add toTuesday 7:00 PM board meeting

NotifySarah · office admin

Cost$42 — Hospitality budget

Confirm Edit Keep talking

Engagement Hub

Every channel. One click.

Email, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, lobby screens, member-app push, and a print-ready flyer — all drafted automatically the moment an event is created. Review, edit and schedule in one place.

01Automated email engine — sequences, reminders, thank-yous and post-event surveys, drafted and scheduled.
02Branded social posts — adapted per platform, with Jewish-event copy (Shabbat Shalom, L'Shana Tovah, Mazal Tov).
0312 Jewish flyer templates — Passover, High Holiday, Shabbat, Gala, Chanukah, Purim, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Memorial and more.
04Lobby signage + app push — events flow to your screens and to members' phones, always current.

shulworks.app / engagement

Intelligent Calendar

Hebrew dates. Clergy. Rooms. Conflicts caught early.

A full twelve-month calendar that knows the Jewish year. Hebrew months in the header. Candle lighting and Havdallah on every Friday and Saturday. Clergy vacations, facility blocks and lifecycle events flagged before they collide.

01Hebrew calendar native — Hebrew dates on every cell, holidays auto-marked, fast days noted.
02Candle lighting times — geo-aware for your city, on every Friday and Erev Yom Tov.
03Conflict detection — clergy away vs. lifecycle event? Facility blocked vs. board meeting? Flagged the moment a date is picked.
04Filter view — services, community events, holidays, clergy away, facility, school — toggle on or off.

shulworks.app / calendar

Strategic IQ

Stop guessing. Start measuring.

After every event, ShulWorks closes the loop. Attendance, retention, revenue, NPS — and the families who used to come but didn't this year, surfaced while there's still time to reach out.

01Annual planning report — Adult Ed attendance, family retention, average event NPS, holiday fill rate.
02Retention alerts — at-risk families flagged with last-contact date. Notify the rabbi in one click.
03Revenue intelligence — top events, year-over-year growth, average revenue per event — updated live as registrations come in.

shulworks.app / strategic-iq

Member retention

The members aren't gone. They're drifting.

Pew puts the number at 8% — only eight percent of US Jews attend synagogue monthly. Fifty-six percent seldom or never go. Chicago lost ten percent of its synagogue membership in a decade. The shuls that thrive in the next ten years will be the ones that notice the drift early enough to act.

What “drifting” looks like in your data.

A family came to four events two years ago. Two events last year. Nothing this year. Nobody noticed — because nobody was looking at it that way. ShulWorks is.

Quietly absent

Two-year attendees who haven't opened this year's invitations. The rabbi notified in one click.
Lifecycle proximity

Families with a bar/bat mitzvah child in three years. The relationship begins now, not in 8th grade.
Engagement signal

Members who clicked four pre-event emails attended 94% of the time. Members who opened one attended 71%. The journey predicts the seat.
Cohort retention

Family retention 88%. Holiday fill rate 94%. Adult Ed +14% year over year. Decisions stop being guesses.

Strategic IQ · Retention Alert Live

12 at-risk families flagged this week.

RC

The Rosenberg-Cohen family

Attended 6 events in 2024 · 2 in 2025 · 0 this year

53 days

FK

The Friedman-Klein family

Bat mitzvah daughter · last contact: bulletin Jan 12

47 days

LV

The Levin family

Major donor 2023 · no event response this year

39 days

Notify Rabbi Draft personal note Add to next Shabbat list

“A spreadsheet would tell you who paid. ShulWorks tells you who's slipping away — while you can still pick up the phone.”

Built for how shuls actually work

Not a generic CRM with a kosher sticker on it.

Every assumption inside ShulWorks comes from seven years inside a synagogue office. The product knows our calendar, our language, and our edge cases.

Shabbat & Yom Tov aware

Reminders won't fire on Shabbat. Wrap-up prompts before candle-lighting. Bereavement events flow in a quiet, dignified mode.

Hebrew calendar native

Hebrew dates on every event. Holidays, fast days and special Shabbatot auto-marked. Next year's Pesach already in the calendar.

Kosher & dietary aware

Menu styles, kashrut supervisor, certification. Dietary needs captured per person and rolled into the final caterer headcount.

Lifecycle-first

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Aufruf, Baby Naming, Bris, Memorial — every lifecycle event has its own notification rules and flyer template.

Member-aware pricing

Auto-applies member discounts, scholarship flow with dignity, clergy comp tickets, and member-priority waitlists.

High Holiday ready

Seat holds for major donors, member-priority registration windows, livestream pricing — built around how shuls already work in Tishrei.

Compassionate UX

Bereavement events drop the celebratory language. Memorial flyers go grayscale. Cancellation flows assume the worst day, not the best.

Keep ShulCloud, too

Most ShulWorks customers keep ShulCloud (or their current billing system) on day one. We're not the new accounting — we're the operations layer they never built.

Pricing

Priced at parity. Built for the next decade.

Three SaaS tiers, sized to your community. Same price point as the incumbent, with AI, voice, and the engagement layer built in.

Starter

For small shuls.

$299/ month

Under 250 families. Most US shuls.

Event Engine · 12-step lifecycle
Intelligent Calendar
Community Board · read & clone
Email & flyer generator
Check-in at the door

Apply to pilot

Most synagogues

Pro

For growing communities.

$499/ month

250–750 families. Our sweet spot.

Everything in Starter
ShulWorks Talk · AI concierge
Engagement Hub · all channels
Strategic IQ + Revenue Intel
Community Board · contribute
Lobby signage + member-app push

Apply to pilot

Enterprise

For multi-campus shuls.

$899/ month

750+ families · multi-campus.

Everything in Pro
White-glove onboarding
Custom integrations
Dedicated success manager
SLA & priority support

Apply to pilot

For context: ShulCloud Complete is $465/month with no AI, no voice, no engagement layer. We price at parity and win on the product.

Founding synagogues · Fall 2026

A small group of founding shuls. Built alongside us.

We're onboarding a small group of founding synagogues this fall. Founder-supported, white-glove, and shaped by your feedback as we build out v1. We're not raising money — we're choosing the first communities to grow with.

Bring ShulWorks to your shul →

4

Founding slots

14

In conversation

1:1

Founder access

v1

Shaped by you

Get involved

Two ways to join us.

Whether you're ready to run live events on ShulWorks or you'd like to follow along until we're ready for you — we'd love to hear from you.

🏛️ For synagogues

Be a pilot synagogue.

Be among the first synagogues to automate your event operations. Tell us about your community and we'll be in touch within 2 business days.

Founder-supported, white-glove onboarding
Direct line to Victoria as we build v1
Your feedback shapes the product

🤝 For everyone else

Stay in the loop.

Follow the journey and be the first to know when we launch — synagogue staff, Jewish organizations, partners, volunteers, or just curious. We'd love to stay connected.

Roughly one update a month
Behind-the-scenes from the build
Unsubscribe in one click

A note from the founder

Built by someone who's lived inside it.

I spent seven years as a Member Engagement Manager. I know what it feels like to send the same five emails by hand, to keep three calendars that never agree, and to discover on a Saturday morning that nobody told the rabbi.

ShulWorks is the operating system I wish I'd had — and the one I'm building so the next coordinator doesn't have to.

— Victoria Cohen, Founder