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A tradesman sitting at his kitchen table early in the morning with a laptop, a mug of tea and a folder of paperwork, thinking.
For tradesmen and small builders

Before you buy the app, find out what the admin is costing you.

Whether an app is even the answer. What still has not been invoiced. Which jobs actually made money. What the evenings are costing you. Answer plain questions about your own business — an hour or two, in your own words — and get it in writing.

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Stage one costs nothing and you keep the project brief, whatever you decide next.

It is invite-only while we are in beta — if you do not have a code yet, apply for a place. It takes a minute.

The bit everybody skips

Most of the money is lost before anyone opens a laptop.

Not in the build. In the decision: the wrong tool bought for the wrong reason, a process nobody mapped, a rollout that stopped the job for a fortnight. The work that prevents it is unglamorous and it is the work nobody sells you, because there is no commission in telling someone to change one process and carry on.

Groundwork does that thinking with you, writes it down properly, and hands it over in a form your bank, your accountant and your team can all read.

A thick printed document pack held with a bulldog clip on a workbench, beside an enamel mug, a carpenter's pencil and a folding rule.
13 documents. Yours to keep, edit and act on.
What you walk away with

The pack, in full

01Project brief
02How your business works today
03Who matters, and how to handle them
04Your needs list, prioritised
05Options compared fairly — including doing nothing
06Questions to send vendors
07The business case for your bank or accountant
08A rollout plan that won't break the business
09Go-live checklist
10Setting it up
11Bringing your team along
12Did it actually work
13Your risk and assumptions log
Two tradespeople unloading tools from a van onto a dust-sheeted path outside a British red-brick terraced house.

Written for the firm you actually run, not the one in the brochure.

Where we stand

Built to be on your side

We take nothing from the software

No commission, no referral fee, no kickback from any tool we recommend. The only money Groundwork receives is the £299 you pay for it. That is the whole business model, and it is the reason the advice can be blunt.

Doing nothing is costed like a real option

Because it often is one. If the honest answer is don't buy anything, fix one process and carry on, the pack says so — before you spend, not after.

Every assumption is labelled as an assumption

Nothing is smuggled into a confident-sounding paragraph. Where a figure or a fact has been assumed rather than known, it is marked on the page it appears.

It is analysis, not regulated advice

An AI does the work. Read the documents before you act on them, and put anything large past your own accountant. We would rather say that here than in a footnote.

£299once, per project — not a subscription

Stage one is free and you keep the project brief. The rest of the pack unlocks when you decide it is worth it, and it is one payment for that project — no seats, no monthly fee, nothing that renews while you are not looking.

Start free →See a real brief, in full

It is invite-only while we are in beta — if you do not have a code yet, apply for a place. It takes a minute.

Find out what this problem is actually costing you.

No card for stage one. About a dozen plain questions, and a written answer you can hold up in front of anyone.

Start free →

It is invite-only while we are in beta — if you do not have a code yet, apply for a place. It takes a minute.