GROUNDWORKGroundwork Platform, Inc.

One plan per company. Per seat. Monthly or yearly.

A seat is a person in your company. Add seats as your team grows, take them away when it does not. The year is 15% off.

Groundwork Pro

The whole program, for any builder.
$399 per seat per month
$4,080 a year per seat
  • The drawing set, every discipline
  • The estimate, the bid, the spec book
  • The Drafter and the checking bots
  • The cloud and your company's shared work
  • Every update, as it ships
  • The help desk, from the program
Start with Pro

MBCEA Member

For members of the Metal Building Contractors & Erectors Association.
$349 per seat per month
$3,590 a year per seat
  • Everything in Pro
  • $50 a month under the Pro rate
  • Your membership number on the account
Start as a member
The beta is free. Create an account, keep one project, use the whole program. Subscribe when you want more projects or your team in it. No card to start.

Taxes by Stripe at checkout. Subscriptions renew until canceled; cancel any time from the billing page and the plan runs to the end of the paid period. AI features use prepaid credits bought inside the program, separate from the subscription. Professional review and sealing is contracted with the licensed professional, not included.

What it replaces

A drafting program, a takeoff program and a specification writer, and the drafter's hours between them.

The drawing set

A full-time drafter draws a commercial set in weeks. Groundwork draws it the afternoon the building is defined and keeps every sheet in step when the plan changes.

The takeoff and estimate

Takeoff software starts from a PDF someone else drew. Groundwork's estimate starts from its own model; nothing is counted twice and nothing is missed because it was not on the drawing.

The spec book

The Project Manual that usually arrives last, if at all, is written with the set, from the same model.

Questions people ask

Is the set a permit set?

No. Groundwork produces a preliminary working set. Your licensed architect or engineer reviews it, revises what their judgment and the law require, and seals it. Every sheet says so until they do.

Who is a seat?

A person in your company with a sign-in, or an open invitation waiting for one. The company's owner buys seats and invites people. Nobody shares a sign-in.

What does the AI cost?

The Drafter and the checking bots run on an AI provider. Use your own provider key, or buy prepaid credits inside the program in $10 to $100 packs. Each call comes off the balance at the provider's price plus a markup. There is a monthly cap per person so nobody runs away with it. The subscription never carries an AI bill.

Can I cancel?

Any time, from Manage billing in the program. The plan runs to the end of the period you paid for.

Do I keep my drawings if I leave?

Yes. Your project files and the drawings produced from them are yours. Export the set as PDF and the projects as files before the plan ends.

Which jurisdictions does it know?

It starts with Virginia and the counties around Richmond, with the code editions, design criteria and permit procedures as profiles. The lookup bots read any jurisdiction's published sources and add it to the library, checked by the member who ran the lookup. The permit office has the final word, always.

Is my project data shared?

No. Your projects, drawings, clients, prices and files are never shared. What is pooled, with your name on it, is the public code and permit facts the AI looks up for a location, so every member benefits.

What about the free beta?

One project, the whole program, until the beta ends. You read and sign the Beta Agreement when the program first opens. Subscribe whenever you want more.

Not sure which?

Ask for a walkthrough on one of your real jobs. Twenty minutes, your building, your questions.