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What we're building for church content teams.

VelaClip helps churches turn Sunday sermons into trustworthy clips and weekly content — with sermon-aware intelligence, reviewable AI edits, and workflows built for ministry, not generic social video. Right now we're focused on Foundations.

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Why VelaClip

Church content deserves its own editor.

Generic video tools treat sermons like any other content. VelaClip is built for churches — local-first editing, sermon-aware intelligence, and workflows that protect message integrity before anything goes public.

Who it's for

  • Communications teams

    Turn one Sunday sermon into a coordinated week of clips, captions, and posts — without juggling five different apps.

  • Pastors & ministry staff

    Share moments that still make sense outside the full message, with guardrails against misleading cuts.

  • Volunteers & small churches

    Ship professional-looking social content without a full-time editor or a steep learning curve.

How we see it used

  1. Import your sermon

    Drop in Sunday's recording. VelaClip transcribes and works with it locally on your Mac.

  2. Find moments worth sharing

    Clip candidates ranked by narrative and meaning — not just loud moments or keyword density.

  3. Review, refine, and publish

    Inspect every edit, approve what ships, and plan a full content week from one message.

What we're building

Five phases, one direction.

We ship in order — Foundations is active today. Each phase unlocks the next.

Building nowWeeks 1–2

Foundations

Target under review · Jul 19, 2026

Stabilize the architecture and core editing primitives that unlock the intelligence and automation layers.

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  • Safer AI editing foundations

    A typed internal tool layer and structured Edit Plans so every AI action can be inspected, previewed, and reversed.

  • Stronger editor primitives

    Cleaner ways to work with transcripts, tracks, and scene boundaries.

  • Faster local transcription on Mac

    Benchmarking transcription backends for speed and accuracy on Apple Silicon.

  • Better Mac experience

    Granular progress, a redesigned home workspace, consolidated navigation, VideoToolbox acceleration, and multi-service queues.

PlannedWeeks 3–6

Core Intelligence

Target under review · Aug 16, 2026

Build differentiated intelligence on top of the stabilized primitives — sermon understanding, scripture, reversible agent edits, and better audio.

  • Sermon Intelligence

    VelaClip builds a local understanding of each sermon — structure, key moments, scripture, and the message being taught — so clip decisions follow meaning, not just volume or keywords.

  • Message Integrity

    Before recommending a clip, VelaClip checks whether it still makes sense outside the full sermon — flagging cuts that strip context or create misleading standalone moments.

  • Narrative-Aware Clip Selection

    Rank candidates by how completely they tell a story — setup, development, and payoff — not just by viral keyword density or isolated high-energy moments.

  • Scripture-Aware Captions

    Detect scripture references in sermons, verify them against supported translations, and generate accurate, editable scripture overlays for clips.

PlannedWeeks 7–10

Differentiated Workflows

Target · Sep 13, 2026

Ship end-to-end workflows that only make sense once the primitives and church intelligence are in place.

  • Vela Edit — Reviewable AI Editing

    AI proposes edits as a structured plan you can inspect, preview, approve, or reject — never silent mutations to your sermon project.

  • Sermon-to-Content Week

    Turn one Sunday sermon into a coordinated week of publish-ready assets — shorts, captions, carousels, and posts — planned as a set, not one-off clips.

  • Church Media Memory

    Your sermon archive becomes searchable and reusable — find past moments by topic, scripture, or theme without re-watching hours of footage.

  • Smart B-Roll Director

    Contextual B-roll suggestions drawn from your own church media library — matched to what is being said, not generic stock footage.

  • Hook & Variation Studio

    Generate and compare hook openings, duration variants, and packaging options for the same sermon moment — test what lands on each platform.

Planned

Scale & Automation

Target · Nov 15, 2026

Once single-project editing is trustworthy, extend into automation, multi-clip assembly, multilingual reach, and channel autopilot.

  • Publish & Schedule

    Connect your channels, schedule approved clips, and see your publishing week in one calendar — without manually re-uploading to each platform.

Later

Platform Expansion

Directions worth pursuing once the automation layer is proven — deep archive agents, learned church style, and broader interoperability.

  • Deep archive intelligence

    Cross-sermon agents that reason across a full teaching archive.

  • Church-learned style

    Editing and packaging tuned to your own history of shipped content.

  • Interop and remixing

    Broader MCP exposure and advanced church-safe remixing.

  • Optional generated media

    Opt-in AI-generated visuals or motion, offered as an add-on.

Dates are targets, not guarantees. Shipped work lives in What's New.

Your input

Missing a workflow your church needs?

Tell us what you're trying to do — real ministry workflows shape what we build next. Priorities can shift as we learn from churches using the product today.

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