About True Light Digital
True Light Digital builds websites and runs search for churches. It's run by Sean Brannon, an American who lives in England, and it's the church studio of Proud Brands, the digital growth studio he founded in 2014.
Why a church studio
Churches get sold to badly. They're offered the same website packages as a dentist, the same monthly SEO retainer as a car dealer, and the same jargon as everyone else. Most of it is more than a church needs, and the people making the decisions are volunteers with a day job and a real budget to protect.
We wanted somewhere a church could go and be told the truth: fix these three things, leave those alone, here's what a new site would actually need to do, here's what it costs, and here's what you'd own at the end. True Light Digital is that. The methods are the ones we've used commercially for twelve years. The difference is that we know what a church is for.
How we work
Step one of four
We listen first, and not only to the pastor
The person who updates the site and the person who joined last year both know things about your church that the brief won't say.
Step two of four
We write plainly, with you
We build sites a volunteer can run. We don't hide the login, the domain or the content. The church owns all of it.
Step three of four
We tell you what things cost before we start
We say when the right answer is a small job and then nothing. We don't sell monthly work a church doesn't need.
Step four of four
We know church life well enough not to need it explained
Sunday and midweek, a plant and a parish, a campus and a network, the difference between a first-time visitor and a regular.
How we use AI
We use AI tools in our own work, carefully, and we've written down how and where. We think churches should do the same, which is why there's a free guide to parish AI policy in the library. How we use AI Parish AI policy guideWant to talk?
Thirty minutes, free, no slides. Sean takes the call. You get a one-page note afterwards whether or not we work together.