GiftWell · Spiritual gifts, placed well

Every person gifted.
Every gift placed.

The gifts assessment any church can put on any website — WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, or a QR code in the bulletin. People finish on their phones and see honest bands, never a ranking. Your team opens a calm queue on Monday and places people where they’ll thrive.

Take it yourself — free  Start your church →

First 50 people free · No card · Live link in about 15 minutes

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The assessment

Honest enough to trust. Kind enough to finish.

Most gift tests rank you 1st to 9th on differences smaller than their own error. GiftWell names the gifts clearly at work — every gift within a few points of your strongest — draws the ±2 margin on the result, and says “too close to call” out loud. Questions ask what has actually happened in your life, not who you think you are, because fruit is the biblical test and the research agrees.

Why we ask what we ask → The Bible, the research, and exactly where answers go.

Experience it as a member

Maya’s bands

Mercy lead23 / 25
Hospitality lead22 / 25
Encouraging inside margin20 / 25
Serving 15 / 25
Teaching 11 / 25
±2 — the range this instrument can’t separate

Encouraging is not “third place.” It is inside the margin, so GiftWell says so. Combinations preach: Mercy + Hospitality hosts very differently from Mercy + Leading.

The queue, not a report

New12 people to meet
Followed up28 conversations held
Placed19 serving on a team
Growing9 retook after a year

Every count opens the people behind it. A person’s own words get the largest type on their page; any AI draft sits below it, dashed, labeled, staff-only — and only ever on your church’s own AI key.

For pastors

Follow-up that feels like shepherding.

Prepare in five minutes: bands, their Sweet Spot in their words, confirmations from two people who know them, and one suggested next step drawn only from teams that actually exist at your church. Planning Center? One OAuth click; band names sync to your fields, private notes never leave GiftWell.

See yourself in the demo queue →

Your free take is counted once inside example data, so you can judge the pastor view honestly.

Yours to shape

Bring your assessment. Watch people grow.

Import SHAPE, Lifeway, or your homegrown questions; set weights; trial new items unscored until they earn a place. Publish a new version without rewriting history. Then watch a person across years — retakes, serving steps, pathway milestones, and self-reported Enneagram or Myers-Briggs, always labeled self-reported. Formation as a timeline, never a maturity score.

Maya, over time

Sep 2025 · First assessment — Mercy + Hospitality lead

Oct 2025 · 90-day experiment: Sunday Host Team

Feb 2026 · Confirmed by two friends; started care visits

Sep 2026 · Retake — Encouraging joins the lead band

Growth you can celebrate in a conversation, not a leaderboard.

Live in 15 minutes

Setup that respects a pastor’s week.

1 · Register

Your link is live instantly. Nothing to install.

2 · Brand it

Name, color, welcome line. Two minutes.

3 · Connect

Planning Center OAuth, or skip entirely.

4 · Your AI key

OpenRouter recommended, or skip briefs.

5 · Share

Bulletin link, embed, QR. Watch Monday’s queue.

Pricing

Priced for the church you actually are.

By people assessed each year, never by seats — involve every leader without watching a meter. Annual only, because church budgets are annual.

Try

Free

One personal assessment with your result placed in demo church data.

Up to 1 people / year · Unlimited leaders

Start free

Seed

Free

Your first 50 assessments, free. For very small churches this may be all you ever need.

Up to 50 people / year · Unlimited leaders

Start free

Small Most churches

$100 /year

For churches up to about 150 people. Unlimited leaders, embeds, and Planning Center sync.

Up to 150 people / year · Unlimited leaders

Start free

Growing

$500 /year

For churches of 150–500. Everything in Small, plus assessment builder and imports.

Up to 500 people / year · Unlimited leaders

Start free

Large

Talk to us

500+ people, multiple campuses, or custom assessments. Talk to us for pricing.

Custom volume · Unlimited leaders

Contact us

Your subdomain and full branding unlock at Small; your own domain and no GiftWell badge at Growing. Every tier starts with 50 free assessments.

Questions pastors ask

Do people need an account?

No. They answer, optionally leave an email, and get a link they can share with a spouse, mentor, or leader by copy or email. Only your team logs in.

Whose AI writes the briefs?

Always your church’s. GiftWell never supplies a key: add your OpenRouter (recommended), OpenAI, or Anthropic key in onboarding. No key, no briefs — results stay complete, and the model never scores anyone.

We use Planning Center. What syncs?

People match by email; gift band names and Ephesians 4 leanings sync to fields you map. Scores stay in GiftWell, briefs and private notes never sync. Full detail: why we ask what we ask.

Is this a personality test with Bible verses?

No paper instrument can measure the Spirit — so this one asks about fruit, invites confirmation from people who know you, and ends in a 90-day serving experiment. The quiz starts the conversation; the church family finishes it.

Begin this week

Your next welcome class could place itself.

Create your church, copy one link, and watch first results arrive in a queue built for conversation. Fifteen minutes, fifty free assessments, no card.

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