The community platform your organization owns. Groups, giving, events and your own app, with an AI assistant built in.

Socio Connect builds custom community platforms for web and native mobile. One platform replaces the separate tools an organization runs its community on (groups, check-in, giving, events, volunteering, messages and its app), so everything someone does lands on one member record. Leaders can see where each person is and act on who needs them. We build for organizations with 1,000+ members, and our builds scale to 100,000+ members. Unlike SaaS tools such as Hivebrite, Mighty Networks, or Circle.so, a Socio Connect platform is owned outright by the organization once the build is complete, with no platform fees, no vendor lock-in and no forced migrations.

Hivebrite, Mighty Networks, and Circle.so are subscription SaaS platforms, you rent access and your data lives on their servers. Socio Connect builds a custom platform you own permanently. Key differences: (1) One platform replaces the separate tools you run today, on one member record. (2) Full data ownership, your data on your infrastructure. (3) No platform fees: one investment, then hosting paid to your own cloud provider. (4) Built to your exact specifications, roles, permissions, multi-hub architecture, and native iOS and Android apps on code you own. To put the tools you pay for today side by side with a build, use the SaaS vs Custom calculator at /Resources/SaaS-vs-Custom-Calculator.

It depends on what the platform replaces. A Foundation build (member records, groups, discussion, events and messaging on the web) is $28,000–$38,000. Giving, check-in and volunteering, along with paid memberships and courses, are in our Community build ($45,000–$65,000). Your own native iOS and Android app is Full Platform, from $75,000. Enterprise builds start from $125,000. Every build is a one-time investment, plus hosting of $200–$800/month paid to your own cloud provider. You get a range on the strategy call, a scoped estimate after discovery, and the price fixed before the build starts. Our Pricing page has the full package breakdowns.

Socio Connect works with organizations with 1,000+ members that have outgrown generic SaaS tools and are ready to own their community platform. We build for: churches and ministries, universities and alumni networks managing multi-chapter engagement, nonprofits and mission-driven movements, professional associations, and creators and coaches. Our builds scale to 100,000+ members. Under 1,000 members, a SaaS platform is usually the right choice.

Socio Connect builds one platform on one member record, in five interconnected layers: (1) Custom web platform: groups, discussion, messaging, events and RSVP, custom roles and permissions; with our Community build, also giving, check-in and attendance, volunteer scheduling, the member directory, courses, paid memberships and event ticketing. (2) Native iOS and Android apps in your name, submitted to the App Store and Google Play under your own developer accounts (Full Platform). (3) Engagement engine: automated onboarding flows, push notifications, behavioral nudges, re-engagement triggers. (4) A built-in assistant: a Monday briefing of who needs you and why, drafted messages your team approves, and plain-English questions about your community. (5) Admin and analytics layer: leadership dashboards, a weekly view of who needs you, at-risk alerts, data exports.

A build takes 10–36 weeks, depending on scope: 10–16 weeks for a Foundation web platform, 16–24 weeks for a Community build with giving, check-in and volunteering, and 24–36 weeks for a Full Platform with native iOS and Android apps. The work runs in four phases: Discover, Design, Build, and Launch and grow. Timeline varies based on feature complexity, mobile app inclusion, and integration requirements. The timeline comes with your scoped estimate after discovery and is fixed before the build starts.

No platform fees. Socio Connect charges a one-time project investment, and you pay hosting (typically $200–$800/month) directly to your own cloud provider. You own the platform permanently. Optional stewardship plans are available but not required: Steward ($4,800/year) covers security updates, monitoring and a few hours of small changes a month; Guardian ($9,600/year) adds more hours, reporting and integration monitoring; Partner ($18,000/year) adds ongoing development each month. This is fundamentally different from renting a separate tool for each job, where every subscription keeps charging for as long as you use it.

Yes. A built-in AI assistant tells your team who needs them this week, and why, and drafts the next step. Your team decides. The core assistant is part of our Community build. How it handles your data: Runs in your cloud. On your member record, under your own AI provider account. We set it up; you own the account. Never trains on your members. Your provider account runs under business terms that exclude training on your data. Sees only what you may see. It follows your roles and permissions. Care notes stay with the people allowed to read them. Drafts, and your team sends. Every message to a member waits for a person to approve it. You can switch on automatic sending for low-risk jobs you choose, like event reminders. Anything pastoral is never automatic. Shows its reasons. Every flag says why, and links to the records behind it. No unexplained scores. Logged and switchable. Every suggestion and every send is logged. Any feature can be turned off, and usage cost is visible every month. AI usage is paid to your own provider at cost, like hosting, with no markup and no platform fee. We estimate it in your scope.

Not unless your team says so. The assistant drafts; it does not decide. Every message to a member waits for a person to approve it. You can switch on automatic sending for low-risk jobs you choose, like event reminders. Anything pastoral is never automatic. Every suggestion and every send is logged. Any feature can be turned off, and usage cost is visible every month.