Thirty-nine role-based dashboards and 200+ metrics — for bishops, archdeacons, DSAs, DAC secretaries, treasurers and administrators — plus a self-service builder so the next report doesn’t need a developer.
Dashboards for the questions you ask every week, a builder for the ones you haven’t asked yet, and plain English for everything in between.
A bishop, an archdeacon, a DSA and a treasurer each land on a dashboard built for their questions — 34 of them, backed by 200+ metrics, permission-aware from the first login.
A custom dashboard builder and a report & visualisation builder with drill-down, scheduled email delivery, threshold alerts, sharing permissions and version history. The backlog of “small report requests” disappears.
Describe the report you want and the Data Explorer writes and validates the query — AI-assisted, permission-aware, and always showing its working. More on the AI assistant →
Everything exports — CSV, XLSX, PDF — and everything drills down to the record it came from, so a number is never the end of the conversation.
Attendance, finance, clergy history, deprivation, viability and schools impact from archdeaconry down to parish — benchmarked against national statistics.
Interactive pivot tables over returns and finance data, with saveable configurations your team can share.
GIS map views with comparison layers, on boundary data synced from the Church of England’s national ArcGIS layers.
Ten-year projections with scenario sliders, the clergy retirement-wave model and planning goals drawn against trend. Full forecasting deep-dive →
Reports that email themselves on schedule, and thresholds that raise a flag when a number crosses a line — instead of someone noticing in March.
Every dashboard reads the same live records the teams work in — when two numbers disagree, the drill-down shows you why.
Live screens from the platform — the same views a diocesan team sees.
Attendance, money, clergy, deprivation and schools — for the diocese, an archdeaconry, a deanery, a benefice or a single parish. Each tab answers a different question, and every table drills down to the level below.
Parishes on the boundary map, coloured by whatever the conversation is about — years to clergy retirement, share against ministry cost, attendance trend, attendance per stipendiary post. Click a parish for its churches, their listing status and their condition.
The ratios a deployment board argues over, computed per place rather than assembled by hand: attendance per full-time-equivalent post, share required against ministry cost, and ministry cover across the parishes in a group. Workforce planning →
Church schools with their governance category, capacity and roll — and what proportion of the local school population the diocese is actually in contact with, which is a more useful question than how many schools it has.
The Indices of Multiple Deprivation attached to every parish, with the direction of the scale stated on screen: a lower rank means more deprived. That catches people out, and it should not be left to.
Each figure carries where it ranks among its peers and what share of the diocese or parent area it represents — so a number is read against something, rather than in isolation.
Where a diocese total legitimately exceeds the sum of the rows above it — cathedral, diocesan and chaplaincy posts belong to no archdeaconry — the page says so. Better than leaving somebody to find the discrepancy and distrust the rest.
Diocese, archdeaconry, deanery, benefice and parish — always from the same underlying rows.
Statistics for Mission and finance series over a decade, so a hard year is distinguishable from a decline.
Comparison tables ranking places within their own level, with clergy and lay-ministry cover alongside, so cover and outcome are read together.
Your position against national figures — the question a bishop’s council asks first, and the one a local system usually cannot answer.
2020 and 2021 carry no usual-Sunday figure because the return did not ask. They plot as a gap, never as zero — the difference between a chart that informs and one that alarms.
A dashboard is only honest if you can click the number and see which records made it. Everything here drills down.— See also: Why dashboards lie · Three reports before Monday morning