Accountability Software for Churches

What a church actually needs

Many of the men sitting in your pews this Sunday are struggling with pornography, and a meaningful number of them are sliding toward — or already inside — an affair. Your counseling office knows it. The wives know it. Most of those men will never raise a hand during a sermon series.

The men's breakfast is not enough. The annual purity sermon is not enough. What those men need is a green zone — a small, named, recurring group with a code of silence and a curriculum that does not flinch. Software does not create that. Software can do four things a volunteer leader cannot do by hand:

1. Keep a daily signal. Each man checks in with one tap, clear or setback, and his pack sees it right away.
2. Tell somebody the same minute something slips. Not in a weekly report emailed to one person.
3. Hold the structure. Packs, leaders, rosters, prayer requests, chat, and a meeting calendar, in one place.
4. Protect the man's dignity while doing it. No browsing history leaves his phone. Ever.

"Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed." — James 5:16

The structure: packs under a church

B.O.L.D. does not run one large room. A pack is 4 to 6 men with a leader, and several packs sit under one church. That is the shape the software enforces.

For a 40-man ministry that is seven or eight packs, each with its own leader, under your church. A man who has signed up but is not yet placed is not left floating: he sits in the New Members group with a direct chat to an intake leader until a leader picks him up.

Inside a pack each man gets a daily one-tap check-in shared with his brothers, prayer requests and encouragement in the pack, daily scripture and written devotionals, the free 52-week workbook and daily journal, and a meeting calendar for in-person and virtual groups.

The leader is the load-bearing wall. B.O.L.D.'s ask of a partner church is a point person committed for at least one year — if you do not have someone for that role, the ministry would rather tell you now than watch the group fold in month four. The Bold Leader Handbook, at /books, is written for that man: eight parts covering setbacks, crises, marriages in trouble, the line where a situation stops being his to carry, child safety, incident reporting, confidentiality, and a field kit of twenty-one forms and scripts.

What the church does not see

Every pastor asks this second. The flat answer:

The church sees no browsing details. Neither does the leader, and neither does the pack. All content filtering and screenshot classification run on the device. Browsing history, URLs, and screenshots are never uploaded. When something is blocked, the accountability pack sees only a category and a timestamp — never the content, never the address, never a screenshot.

There is no keystroke logging. There is no stealth mode; the man always knows Watchman is running. No user data is sold, rented, or traded. Location sharing, when a man turns it on, goes to his linked spouse only — never to his leader, his team, or B.O.L.D. staff.

That restraint is not a limitation to work around. It is why men in your congregation will actually install it. A tool a man does not trust with his worst night is a tool he uninstalls in week three.

Seat-block licensing and the exact tiers

A church buys a block of seats. Each man then redeems a shared code and gets Watchman+ free.

• Small Group — up to 10 men: $75/month or $750/year
• Small Church — up to 25 men: $150/month or $1,500/year
• Church — up to 100 men: $450/month or $4,500/year
• Network — up to 500 men: $1,500/month or $15,000/year
• Larger than 1,000 men — enterprise; contact the ministry

Annual billing is ten months for the year. A man buying Watchman+ himself pays $14.99/month or $99/year on the web, or $17.99/month or $114.99/year in the app stores. If the budget is not there, raise it on the discovery call — seats can also be comped by the ministry rather than bought self-serve.

The core Watchman app is free and always will be, so a church that sponsors nothing still gets packs, check-ins, chat, prayer, scripture, the workbook, and meetings for its men. A sponsored seat buys the protection layer: on-device blocking across every browser and app, same-minute alerts to the pack, and spouse location sharing. One seat covers every device a man signs in on — iPhone and iPad, Android, Mac, and Windows.

Men redeem at /redeem, on the web. Codes are not redeemed inside the iPhone app — send your men the web link, not a screenshot of the app.

How to launch it in a congregation

B.O.L.D. will help you stand up a group on your own campus at no cost to the church. What that includes:

1. A 60-minute discovery call with Bryan, who will tell you straight whether B.O.L.D. fits what your church needs.
2. The full curriculum framework — the "what to expect" essay, the daily check-in flow, the code of silence, the leader rotation pattern. All transferable.
3. Leader training for your point person, usually 4 to 6 hours over Zoom or one Saturday in Rockwall, walking through the first 90 days.
4. A B.O.L.D. team member at your first meeting — in the room if you are within driving distance of Rockwall or Hockley, on Zoom if you are not.
5. Six months of follow-up — monthly check-ins, and a phone call away if the group hits a wall.

What the ministry asks in return: a senior leader in the building knows the group exists; a point person committed for at least a year; confidentiality, because the code of silence is not optional; and no financial or doctrinal entanglement — your church stays in charge of its own ministry.

A workable first 90 days looks like this. Name your point person and get him trained. Sponsor the tier that covers the men you expect, not the men you hope for — you can move up. Launch one pack of 4 to 6, not a room of thirty; the first four weeks decide whether a group survives, and they go better small. Send the redeem link to those men individually. Meet weekly. When the pack hits six, split it and hand the second one to a man you trained out of the first.

Start the conversation

Everything the ministry offers a church, and how to reach Bryan, is on /for-pastors. The app itself is at /watchman, the common questions at /faq, the ministry's convictions at /mission, and men in their own words at /testimonies. B.O.L.D. is a 501(c)(3), not a software company, which is why the core app is free.

"Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations…" — Matthew 28:19

How can a man go and make disciples if he is chained up to sexual immorality? Get him free.