Aligned Leader
Everything you can do with Aligned Leader, one real screen at a time — from your first sermon draft to getting Aligned to sound like you.
Getting started
Your first ten minutes, and finding your way around.
- Find your way around AlignedWhere chat, Brain, Media, Assistant, Saved and Settings live on a computer, and what the top bar tells you.
- Set up Aligned for your churchAnswer the first-time setup questions so every answer fits your tradition, your church and the way you preach.
- Add a file, link or voice note to a messageAttach a PDF, Word file or photo, paste a web link, or talk instead of typing — then ask Aligned about it.
- Create your free Aligned accountSign up with your email, land in Aligned Leader, and keep the chat you started as a guest.
- Get a better answer from AlignedTell Aligned what missed and ask again, go deeper on a sermon, or turn on Pro Thinking for a harder question.
- Get an answer that stopped or failedWhat to do when a reply cuts off, errors or stalls — and how to stop one that's going the wrong way.
- Get help from a real personMessage the Aligned team, send a feature idea or bug report, and know what happens after you send.
- Get walked through a task, step by stepStart a ShowMe walkthrough, follow it in the real app, and see which ones you've finished.
Sermons & preaching
From a passage on Tuesday to a manuscript you trust on Sunday.
- Write this Sunday's sermonGo from a passage or topic to a full sermon draft in your tradition, ready to shape.
- Answer or skip the questions before a draftHandle the quick setup card Aligned shows before writing, or tell it to stop asking.
- Ask Aligned to improve your draftAsk for a stronger application, more Scripture or an illustration, and watch the draft change in place.
- Does Aligned write my sermon for me?What Aligned does in sermon prep, what stays yours, and how to use it without losing your voice.
- Edit your sermon draft yourselfType straight into the draft, make the text bigger, and get back to the chat when you're done.
- Pick what kind of thing Aligned writesChoose Sermon AI, Bible study, devotional and more — and ask for the kinds of writing that aren't in the menu.
- Rewrite, expand or shorten one paragraphHighlight a passage to rephrase, shorten, expand or add Scripture — or research it without touching your draft.
- Turn your sermon into a devotional or studyUse Turn into to make a devotional, small-group study, kids lesson or social posts from a finished draft.
- Undo a change or get an earlier draft backStep back one change, restore an earlier version, or clear the canvas and start over.
- Write a book one chapter at a timeStart a book, write its chapters with Aligned, and keep them together in one place.
- Write a devotionalGet a one-day devotional or a five-day reading plan for your people, ready to edit and send.
- Write a small-group Bible studyGet a discussion guide with questions for your group from a passage or last Sunday's sermon.
Bible study & research
Word studies, cross-references, commentary and small-group guides.
- Study a Bible passage in depthAsk about a passage, open the verses, and dig into context, cross-references and original words.
- Keep a private journalWrite, dictate or photograph your notes into a journal only you can see.
- Look up the Greek or Hebrew behind a wordOpen a verse Aligned quotes, tap a word, and read the Greek or Hebrew behind it in Strong's.
- Open and read the verses Aligned quotesTap any Scripture reference to read the passage in your translation beside the chat.
- Turn journal reflections into a sermonStudy the Scripture behind an entry, then turn one or more entries into a sermon, study or book chapter.
- Turn your study into a sermonTake the research you just did in the chat and turn it into a full sermon draft — or a study, devotional, lesson or lecture.
Making it sound like you
Teach Aligned your voice, your church and your convictions.
- Bring in your sermons from YouTubeConnect your channel or playlist so Aligned learns how you preach, and star the sermons that sound most like you.
- Make Aligned sound like youGive Aligned your website and your sermons so every draft sounds like you and believes what your church believes.
- Bring in sermons from your podcastConnect your sermon podcast's feed so its episodes teach Aligned how you preach.
- Choose which Bible translation Aligned quotesPick the translation Aligned quotes from, and the ones it shows beside it for comparing.
- Get missing or skipped sermons to syncWhat “Sermon sync stopped”, “Skipped” and the 10-sermon limit mean, and how to get the rest of your sermons in.
- Import files from Drive, OneDrive or ChatGPTBring sermon files and church documents from Google Drive or OneDrive — or your ChatGPT history — into your Church Brain.
- Make every sermon come out your waySet your preaching approach, structure, length and tone once, so every sermon draft follows it.
- Remove something Aligned learned fromTake a document or a synced sermon out of your Church Brain, or disconnect your channel — and know what each one removes.
- Upload your statement of faith and documentsAdd your beliefs, policies and manuscripts so Aligned draws on them, and choose which ones your website may quote.
Meetings & notes
Record, summarize and follow up without taking notes by hand.
- Fix a meeting that failed or is stuckWhat to do when a meeting sits on Summarizing… or says Failed — and how to make sure the next one comes through.
- Let Aligned take notes in your next meetingRecord a staff or elder meeting on your phone or computer and get a summary, action items and decisions back.
Graphics, video & social
Turn Sunday into a week of posts, clips and slides.
- Ask the chat for a pictureDescribe a picture in plain words, try it in another style, ask for changes, and download it.
- Make a sermon graphicGet four finished options for a sermon slide, social post, giving slide or event graphic — in your church's style.
- Make graphics look like your churchSave a look and your colors for main, youth, kids and social graphics, and let Aligned build graphics around your own photos.
- Turn Sunday's sermon into a week of contentPick a sermon you've already preached and turn it into a devotional, a Bible study, a kids lesson, social posts or an email.
Your assistant
Email, calendar, the daily brief and follow-ups.
- Ask about your giving and attendance numbersAsk your assistant how giving is trending, who hasn't confirmed to serve on Sunday, or how the church is doing — answered from your own church software.
- Change when your daily brief arrivesMove your morning brief to another time, get today's brief right now, or pause it — each one a sentence to your assistant.
- Change, test or pause an automationChange an automation's steps, test a step on yourself first, then republish it, pause it or delete it.
- Check or fix an automation that didn't runFind out why an automation didn't send, reconnect the app it relies on, and approve runs that are waiting on you.
- Check your calendar or schedule a meetingAsk your assistant what's on today or this week, and add or move a meeting in plain words — nothing changes until you tap to confirm.
- Connect Planning Center or your church softwareLink Planning Center, Breeze, Givebutter or Donorbox so your assistant can answer from your church's real giving, people and serving data.
- Connect your email and calendarLink Gmail or Outlook so your assistant can read your calendar, draft email from your own mailbox and find your files — or share only your calendar.
- Connect Zapier, Make or n8nLet Zapier, Make or n8n start one of your automations — your website form, a sign-up sheet, any app they reach.
- Find out what's urgent in your inboxGet a short summary of your recent email with the urgent things first, or find a file in your Google Drive or OneDrive.
- Get a daily brief every morningTurn on a short morning summary of your calendar, to-dos and church numbers, and choose what goes in it.
- Get alerts about gifts and prayer requestsBe told when someone gives for the first time, when a week's giving drops, or when a prayer request comes in.
- Have your assistant write and send an emailTell your assistant who it's for and what to say, check the draft it writes in your voice, and send it from your own mailbox.
- Meet your personal assistantOpen your assistant, see what it can take off your plate, and clear its history when you want a fresh start.
- Put a weekly report or task on autopilotBuild your first automation — a Monday giving report, a heads-up when someone gives for the first time, or a task for a teammate.
- Set reminders and to-dos with your assistantGet reminded to call, pray or follow up — once or on repeat — and keep a to-do list in Saved Work.
- Text your assistant from your phonePair your mobile number, then text your assistant anytime — for reminders, your brief, or a quick question between visits.
Saving, sharing & exporting
Keep your work, organize it, and get it out of Aligned.
- Find a past chat or sermonGet back to a conversation from yesterday or last month, even if you only remember a phrase.
- Print your sermon or save it as a PDFPrint your manuscript or save a PDF on a computer or phone, and know where the file ends up.
- Save your sermon so you can find it laterSave a draft or an answer to Saved Work, and know for sure that it saved.
- Copy your sermon into Word or an emailCopy a whole draft, one answer, or last week's sermon straight from your chat list — formatting and all.
- Download your work before you leaveTake your sermons and drafts with you as Word files, PDFs or Google Docs, one item at a time.
- Find everything you've savedOpen Saved Work, narrow it down by folder, and reopen a saved draft to keep working on it.
- Get your sermon into Word or Google DocsDownload your draft as a Word file, or send it straight into a new Google Doc to edit and share.
- Organize your drafts into foldersMake folders in Saved Work, move drafts into them, and rename or delete what you don't need.
- Pick up the draft you were working onReopen yesterday's draft in one tap, and set a “Finish tomorrow” reminder when today isn't the day.
- Reorder, move or delete book chaptersKeep your book tidy: put chapters in order, move one to another book, and clear out old drafts.
- Start, rename or delete a chatOpen a fresh conversation, give a chat a name you'll recognize, or remove one you don't need.
Account, Pro & billing
Sign-in, settings, your plan and your data.
- Cancel Pro (and what happens to your work)Cancel your subscription, what you keep, and when it takes effect.
- What's included in the free planWhat counts as a request, how many you get, when they reset, and where to see what's left.
- Change the card you pay withSwap the card Pro bills to without being charged or losing a day of Pro.
- Change the email you sign in withMove your account to a new email address in about a minute, without losing anything.
- Change your name or your church's nameUpdate the name Aligned calls you, your church's name and your ministry role.
- Choose what your staff can doSet each person's position, control Brain access, see how your team uses Aligned, or remove someone.
- Choose which notifications and emails you getMute a kind of notification, bring it back, stop the weekly sermon emails, and decide on anonymous usage trends.
- Come back to Pro with an offerTake the 30 free days offered right after cancelling, or the 20%-off offer we email later.
- Delete your accountWhat deleting removes, what to download first, and how to do it yourself in Settings.
- Earn extra requests by reviewing or sharingLeave an honest review, or give Aligned to a pastor friend, and get extra requests on the free plan.
- Find chats that went missingIf your chats and sermons seem gone, you may have two accounts — here's how to check and get it sorted.
- Get a receipt or ask for a refundWhere Pro receipts go, when your next charge is, and how to ask a person about a charge.
- Get back in when your access is pausedFor staff: what the paused screen means, and how to ask your pastor to turn your seat back on.
- Give your staff their own loginInvite an associate pastor, assistant or comms person, and resend or cancel an invitation.
- Have Aligned write in SpanishSwitch the language Aligned writes in to Español — and back to English — with one tap.
- Keep Pro when your card is declinedFix a failed payment in a minute, before Pro pauses for you and your staff.
- Keep your church's information privateWhat stays private to you, what your staff can see, and the privacy switches you control.
- Pause Pro instead of cancellingTake a break from Pro for 2 weeks to 3 months, keep everything, and let it pick back up on its own.
- Reset your passwordGet a reset link, choose a new password, or sign in with an email code instead.
- Sign in to AlignedSign in with your password or an email code, pick which app opens, and sign out when you're done.
- Switch between light and dark modePick the look that's easiest on your eyes, and have it follow you to every device.
- Switch Pro to yearly billingMove Pro from monthly to yearly and save 20% — without losing the month you've already paid for.
- Upgrade to ProWhat Pro adds, what it costs, and how to pay monthly or yearly — on the web or from the phone or Mac app.
- You hit today's limit — here's what to doWhy the chat stopped, when it comes back, and your options until then.
The phone app
Aligned on iPhone and Android.
- Find your way around on your phoneThe bar along the bottom, the More menu and its search — where everything in Aligned lives on a phone.
- Finish connecting Google in the phone appFix “I connected Google in the app but it still says not connected” — the one step nobody tells you.
- Get Aligned on your iPhone or AndroidDownload the app or add a home-screen shortcut, sign in with the same account, and keep it up to date.
- Install Aligned on your MacDownload the real Mac app — a full window you can resize — instead of the small iPhone version.
- Turn on notifications on your phoneGet your reminders, your morning brief and a nudge to finish a draft on your phone — and fix them when they don't arrive.