Your business still runs through you. Groundwork runs the back office instead, so you can run the business.
Groundwork is your company's own back-office platform, installed by M7 and run for you. It reads what is already happening and turns it into drafts, checklists, and a calendar you actually keep. It prepares the work. You approve it.
Tuesday, 6:30am
Everything still comes back to your desk
Every email, every follow-up, every "did we ever get back to that guy." The hiring paperwork, the proposal that needs to go out, the compliance date you only remember when it is almost late. You did not start the business to run its back office, but here you are running it anyway. Groundwork takes the routine part off your plate without taking you out of the decision.
The back office a bigger company would have, sized for yours
Groundwork runs the routine work across your whole operation and brings it into one place, skinned to look like your company, not ours.
Stay visible without the effort
- Your contacts and relationships kept current
- LinkedIn posts drafted and queued
- Blog and newsletter drafts, ready to approve
Keep every deal moving
- Every deal current, follow-ups surfaced
- Proposals drafted from your notes (on the roadmap)
- A legal checklist before you sign (on the roadmap)
Hiring and people, handled
- Onboarding and offboarding checklists
- Applicant tracking and job descriptions (on the roadmap)
- Time tracking with overtime flags (on the roadmap)
Stay ahead of every deadline
- State and federal deadlines surfaced early
- What changed, in plain language
- Owners assigned, status tracked
Get it out of your head
- An SOP library for how you do things
- The procedures still living in your memory, documented
- A master calendar across every department
A two minute morning brief
- What came in and what needs you
- An approvals queue for everything drafted
- A Friday scoreboard: done, stuck, aging
It prepares the work. You release it.
The whole model is simple on purpose. Groundwork does the drafting and the tracking. Every action that leaves your company waits for your one click.
One click to start
On a 15 minute call, your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace account asks to allow Groundwork to read your mail and calendar. You click yes. No migration, no new inbox, no software on your machines. That is the entire IT project.
M7 sets it up for you
We spend the first two weeks learning your business: your people, your customers, what urgent looks like for you, how you sound. The system runs quietly in the background and only we see it, until it is right.
You approve, a few taps a day
Read the two minute brief in the morning. Through the day, open Approvals when you have a minute, and approve, edit, or reject. Approved messages send from your own address. Nothing goes out on its own.
Built so you can trust it, and turn it off yourself
Start free. Simple published pricing.
The platform is $600 a month per pillar, or $1,000 for both. Start with the free survey and a live demo, and know within days which fit is right for your business.
Needs-analysis survey and live demo
Answer a short survey or hop on a 15 minute call. You will see a real morning brief and know within days which plan fits.
- Morning brief, calendar, approvals
- Onboarding and offboarding checklists
- Applicant tracking and job descriptions (on the roadmap)
- Time tracking (on the roadmap)
- HR compliance dates and SOPs
- Everything in HR and Ops
- One brief, one calendar, one approvals queue
- Saves $200 a month vs the two pillars separately
- Add a fractional HR or Ops lead any time
- Morning brief, calendar, approvals
- Contacts and pipeline kept current
- Follow-ups drafted; proposals on the roadmap
- LinkedIn, blog, and newsletter drafts
- Ops compliance dates and SOPs
Groundwork runs on its own, and it runs best alongside a person. Clients on an M7 advisory or fractional engagement get the platform at a preferred rate.
Buy the HR side, the Ops side, or both, plus a one-time setup scoped to your business on the call. Continued development is included and improvements roll out as they ship, no version fees ever. Add a fractional HR or Ops lead to any plan.
See it for yourself
The best way to understand Groundwork is to see it in action. Reach out and we will walk you through a guided demo, then talk about what yours would look like. This is JT's own system. He built it, he runs it, and he answers the phone.
Groundwork, by M7 Fractional
M7 Fractional runs on one belief: People, Elevated. Good businesses are built by people freed to do their best work, not buried in the routine. Groundwork is that belief turned into software, the back office that runs itself so owners and their teams can spend their hours where they matter most. It is one part of what M7 does. See the whole picture at m7fractional.com.