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Put AI to work.
Keep the know-how.

Bring something you’re working on. Find a useful next step in our talks, tools, and lessons from local projects.

No fee to explore. Make your time useful to you.

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Find a useful starting point.

Tools, talks & things to try

Recording · 2025

AI & Ministry

Faith, judgment, and practical use. Watch KC Streich’s 2025 presentation, a separate session from the interactive slides above.

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See the work behind the ideas

Real organizations. Practical work.

The lessons start here: websites, workflows, and communication built with local organizations.

All case studies
Wisconsin Chamber of Faith website from the original case studyWisconsin Chamber of Faith Membership & website operationsBeacon of Hope's 2025 impact reporting infographicBeacon of Hope Making the 2025 impact visible

A few fair questions

How Five Letter works.

What we make, why we’re changing our approach, and where you fit.

How can Five Letter Agency help my business?

We build websites, practical software, and AI workflows around the work Milwaukee businesses and community organizations actually need to do: communicate with customers, manage information, and get recurring tasks done.

Want to see what that looks like? Our case studies include membership and website operations for the Wisconsin Chamber of Faith and impact reporting for Beacon of Hope. Here in the Learning Hub, we share tools and lessons you can put to work yourself.

How does Five Letter Agency make money? What do you produce?

We make software, websites, creative work, and practical learning material. We’re developing a model in which community sponsorship and the audience for that work help fund services without charging the participating business a service fee.

You may have seen a version of this already. SB Mowing restores overgrown yards without charging the homeowner, and Aurikatariina cleans homes for people who need help. Their work also becomes videos people choose to watch. Spencer describes the role of advertising and sponsorship; Auri explains how filming and sponsor-provided supplies support her work.

We’re exploring that principle with local businesses and AI: make something useful, share the work and what we learn, and give an audience a reason to support more of it. Your participation should advance your own goals while helping this work grow. We’re still testing the model and developing the sponsorship offer.

Why are you taking this approach instead of operating like a conventional agency?

A small business shouldn’t need another consulting bill every time AI takes a step forward. As these tools take on more of the work of making software and content, we expect fewer routine tasks to justify a separate consulting fee. Selling a costly implementation that may soon be overtaken by a widely available tool is a proposition we think deserves scrutiny.

The challenge is bigger than learning a few prompts. Local organizations need the ability to judge new capabilities, put them to use, and adapt as their work changes. In a church pilot, we produced real outputs but didn’t achieve the independent use we were aiming for. That experience changed what we consider a successful handoff.

Expert judgment, integration, and accountability still matter. Our approach is to build that capability through real projects and open learning, with audience support and sponsorship intended to sustain the work. The question we want to answer is: what can your team do for itself afterward—and does that help your business?

Can my Milwaukee business participate now?

Start with any of the resources above—there’s no fee to explore them. We’re developing the hands-on side with a small number of existing relationships, including Beacon of Hope in Milwaukee.

We’re always open to a conversation. Have a question, a business problem, or an idea for supporting this work? Tell us about it through our contact form. Direct projects are limited while we test the approach; we’ll be clear about what we can offer and what participation involves.

What are you working on?

A real problem is a good place to start. We’re always happy to hear from our Milwaukee neighbors.

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