Ancient Design
Ancient Design

Software for the
Orthodox Church.

Registries, bulletins, donations, calendars — the scaffolding of parish life, built so the work of the Church can be done with care and inherited well.

What we make

Three products. One purpose.

S
Live

Symphonia

Parish administration that respects the work.

Sacramental registry, stewardship, bulletins, communications, and a parish website — under one roof. Built for Orthodox parishes.

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S
Alpha

Synodos

Tools for the diocesan office.

Multi-parish reporting, sacramental returns roll-up, clergy records, archive management, and the chancery operations a bishop's office actually runs on.

Early-access waitlist — request access →
T
Concept

Trapeza

A liturgical kitchen for monastic communities.

Daily meal planning around the fasting calendar, brotherhood/sisterhood roster, guest housing, festival logistics, and inventory keyed to the typikon.

In development — talk to us →
How we build

Four principles. Behind every decision.

01

Built for the Church

Every product begins from how the work is actually done in a parish, diocese, or monastery — not how someone wished it were done by software vendors who never sang Matins.

02

The pace of trust

We ship at the rate of meaningful improvement. Real parishes use early builds and tell us what is wrong before broader release. No feature exists to fill a roadmap.

03

No extraction

We charge for the software. We do not charge a percentage of donations, sell parish data, train AI on registries, or push features that lock you in.

04

Designed to last

A sacramental record needs to outlast the priest who wrote it and the software the parish used that decade. Our data formats are open, exports are easy, and the product is built to be inherited.

Who we are

An Orthodox engineering studio.

A small team of Orthodox Christians who have served on parish councils, kept sacramental registers, and watched too many fellow parishes wrestle with spreadsheet sprawl and software built for a different church. We move slowly on purpose — what we ship goes into daily parish life.

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The work continues.

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