Treuo
Worship with purpose.
Leading worship is shepherding
Leading worship is not a matter of singing your church’s favorite songs. It is an act of shepherding God’s people in heart, mind, and body, as they are taught who God is and respond in spiritual service.
“Therefore I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship [λογικὴν λατρείαν].”
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with gratefulness in your hearts to God.”
The need
Tools exist to handle the logistics of service planning or to refine musical craft, and resources exist to teach the responsibility of leading worship. But have you ever thought to yourself:
- “How do I confirm my congregation is receiving a healthy diet of songs faithful to Scripture and our stated beliefs and mission?”
- “How do I sift through the endless sea of new songs to find ones that will strengthen our song library?”
- “How do I ensure our weekly service plans adhere to the standards of our ministry?”
- “How do I arrange and prepare spoken and sung elements so our services are intelligible and edifying?”
This is the reason we built Treuo.
A more purposeful way to shepherd your church through song
Treuo gives you:
- An automatic, in-depth organization of your worship library across biblical, theological, devotional, and liturgical categories.
- Consistent and measurable signals to inform library curation, identify trends in your song usage, and surface doctrinal and practical concerns.
- A formalized service planning process, built upon your church’s own order of service, that cultivates best practices in you and everyone involved.
We are committed to equipping worship leaders, not doing their job for them. Treuo’s core features use AI for analysis and recommendation in ways that we believe promote healthy worship leading practices. Read more about our commitment and uses on our forthcoming Responsible AI page.
What we’re building
A hymnalized library
Import your song library from Planning Center, and Treuo thoroughly organizes each song by its theology, themes, Scripture references, and liturgical use.
Treuo infers each song’s categories; you can always update the results.
Every song evaluated
Treuo evaluates and scores songs along two dimensions:
Fidelity: how a song measures against Treuo’s declared standard, including Nicene orthodoxy and our Protestant convictions.
Fit: how it matches your church’s own beliefs and practices.
Treuo shows scores side by side; a gap is the signal you examine.
Your worship profile
A report on what your library covers, what it neglects, and how it compares with your church’s formal statement of faith and mission statement.
The report reveals your worship philosophy and practice; you decide what actions to take.
The Study Companion
Before planning a service, Treuo provides a study space for you to spend time praying for your church and getting to know the sermon text.
Treuo does not replace your preparation; you get equipped for it.
Fitting songs for each service
Describe the sermon, its key points and themes, and the service structure, and Treuo surfaces songs from your own library for consideration.
Treuo never prescribes or generates a setlist on your behalf; careful study is rewarded, and your judgment, and your pastors’, stays decisive.
Structured song vetting
Before you add a song to your library, evaluate its merits and what it contributes to your church’s song diet together with trusted vetters.
Treuo shares its own evaluation only after you’ve recorded yours; your discernment comes first.
More features are planned.
Serving the wider church
As more churches use Treuo, it can show what no one sees today: how churches decide which songs to adopt or reject, how they use them in their services, and the theological trends reflected by our choices.
Treuo plans to share what it learns, in aggregate, with:
- Denominations and ministry networks
- to help them care for worship across member churches and groups
- Artists and music publishers
- to help them understand how their songs are serving the church and what categories are still underserved
- Research institutions
- to help them track and analyze worship trends
- You, when opted in to data sharing*
- to help you learn from how other worship leaders use the songs you sing
* On the free plan, data sharing will be on; it is what makes a free plan possible. On paid plans, sharing is your choice, off by default, with separate options for your denomination and for publishers, artists and researchers.
- Complete anonymization
- Only anonymous, aggregate totals across many churches are shared, never anything that can re-identify your church.
- Paid insights
- Insights are a paid data product, which keeps Treuo affordable for you.
Where Treuo is today
Treuo is in active development and not yet available. A small alpha opens first, by invitation, to churches who want to help shape it: import your library from Planning Center, see it organized, and get song recommendations for a service. Alpha invitations go to churches on the early-access list. A public beta follows, with all of the core features.
Join the early-access list
The Treuo team will reply to you personally. The alpha is small, so we may invite you to a short conversational call to get to know your church, how you plan worship, and what you’d want from Treuo.
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