Groundwork reads the invoices and statements you forward, reconciles them against your bank activity, and emails you what’s wrong every week — duplicate payments, unpaid customers, and costs nobody’s watching.
The product is this email. No dashboard to check, no software to learn — here’s how it gets made.
of small businesses are currently owed money. The average unpaid balance: $17,500.
of small businesses still enter invoice data by hand — which is where errors hide.
invoices gets paid twice. Most duplicates are never noticed, let alone recovered.
Every document you forward is reconciled against your actual bank activity. Anything that doesn’t line up gets flagged — with the vendor, the amount, and what to do about it.
Same vendor, same amount, days apart. One in a hundred invoices gets paid twice — we flag it before the second payment goes out.
Invoices you sent that are 30+ days overdue with no payment on your statement. Most businesses are owed money they aren’t chasing.
Bills past their due date that never hit the bank — before they turn into late fees, service cutoffs, or strained vendor relationships.
Bank transactions with no documentation — forgotten subscriptions, ghost vendors, and supplier costs nobody’s watching.
No software to install, no accounts to connect, no dashboard to learn. If you can forward an email, you’re set up.
Send invoices, receipts, and bank statements to your private Groundwork address. PDFs, photos of paper — whatever you have.
Every document is structured and matched against your actual bank activity. Anything uncertain is reviewed by a human before it reaches you.
What’s flagged, how much is at risk, and exactly what to do about each item. A plain email — two minutes, no login.
No OAuth grants, no bank logins, no accounting-system access. Forwarding an email is the entire setup — deliberately.
Every finding names the vendor, the amount, and the action. “Confirm with Acme before paying again” — not “you may want to review this.”
A wrong amount destroys trust, so uncertain extractions are flagged and reviewed instead of guessed. If we’re not sure, we say so.
Forward one month of documents. Your first digest will tell you exactly what it found — and what it’s worth.