Worship team management software for churches
InPraise is an online platform (SaaS) that runs the weekly routine of a church worship team: it builds the monthly schedule automatically, keeps the song library with a direction map for each song, splits the MP3 into instrument tracks so the team can practice, and puts everything on stage on Sunday. It runs in the browser, on desktop and mobile.
- What it is
- A web-based SaaS for managing church worship teams.
- Who it is for
- Churches in Brazil: worship leaders, music directors, musicians and singers.
- Stage
- Live in production, in use by an active worship team. New churches join by invitation.
- Company
- Founded in 2026 by Bruno Mera da Costa, in Cacoal, Rondônia, Brazil.
The problem
Volunteer teams, organized with spreadsheets and group chats
A worship team is a group of volunteer musicians and singers who take turns serving at church services. Every week someone has to decide who plays, notify the team, pick the songs, hand out chord charts in the right key and make sure everyone practices. Most churches do this with a spreadsheet, a messaging group and loose files. InPraise replaces that with one system built for this routine.
Features
What the product does today
Everything below is live in production.
Automatic scheduling
The leader enters the services and the band lineup. InPraise assigns people for the whole month, respecting blocked dates, rotating fairly and rearranging the team so no slot is left empty when a solution exists.
Attendance and swaps
Each member has their own login, sees their own dates, confirms attendance with one tap and requests a swap in the app. The request goes to people who play the same instrument and are free.
Song library and direction maps
Each song stores key, tempo, time signature and a "direction map": a short summary of structure, chords and dynamics that the band follows live. Chord charts in Brazilian notation are recognized and transposed to any key.
Practice studio
The leader uploads an MP3 and audio AI models split it into six tracks (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, other) and detect tempo, beats and song sections. Members practice with per-track volume, mute and solo, a beat-synced metronome and pitch shifting.
Setlists and stage mode
The setlist defines the song order for a service. On stage, the map is shown on a dark screen with large type, with chords, sections and dynamics highlighted by color.
Roles, permissions and multi-tenant
Leaders define roles and switch each permission on or off; every rule is enforced on the server. The platform hosts multiple churches, each with its own address, branding and fully isolated data.
Technology
How it is built, and where AI fits in
InPraise is a web application: a React front end, a Node.js API and a PostgreSQL database, hosted in the cloud. AI is part of the product in two places:
- Language models (Anthropic's Claude, through the Claude API) condense a song's full chord chart into a short direction map, in the fixed line format the band reads live.
- Audio models separate the MP3 into instrument stems and detect tempo, beats and song sections, which drive the practice studio and the metronome.
The platform itself is developed with the help of Claude Code.
Company
About InPraise
Bruno Mera da Costa
Founder & CEO · Cacoal, Rondônia, Brazil
InPraise is a Brazilian software startup founded in 2026 by Bruno Mera da Costa, who leads product and engineering. The company builds and operates the InPraise platform.
The product is live in production and in use by an active worship team. New churches currently join by invitation while the product is validated with its first teams.
| Company | InPraise |
|---|---|
| Business | Software (SaaS) for church worship teams |
| Founded | 2026 |
| Founder & CEO | Bruno Mera da Costa (LinkedIn) |
| Location | Cacoal, Rondônia, Brazil |
| Website | www.inpraise.com.br |
| contato@inpraise.com.br |
Contact
Questions about the product or the company? Write to the founder.