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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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Ancient Design
Software for the
Orthodox Church.
We build the unseen scaffolding of parish life — the registries, the bulletins, the donations, the calendars — so the work of the Church can be done with care, kept honestly, and inherited well.
What we make
Three products. One purpose.
Each Ancient Design product serves a distinct part of Church life — and is built on a shared foundation of careful data, durable design, and zero-extraction economics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Ancient Design is a small team of Orthodox Christians who have served on parish councils, kept sacramental registers, helped catechumens through the cycle, and watched too many of our fellow parishes wrestle with spreadsheet sprawl and software built for a different church.
We started Ancient Design because we wanted to build the tools we wished our parishes had. We move slowly on purpose — what we ship goes into the daily life of a parish, and that responsibility shapes how we work.
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The work continues.
If you're a rector, a parish admin, a deacon, a council member, a bishop, an abbess, a chancellor — we'd like to hear from you.
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