GroundWorks is the foundation for building a cohesive source-to-pay platform for each client: one map of five stages, nine domain Workblocks, 45 business modules, 191 execution flows and 686 tasks; one shared vocabulary; one governed way to tailor and run.
GroundWorks composes five stages, nine domain Workblocks and 45 business modules into one governed source-to-pay map for partners to adapt and run.
Workblocks are integrated with client systems in days, not weeks, and working Workblocks are built in the same timeframe.
Category Management: A live category agenda where every opportunity has an owner and a source.
Intake Management: Every request arrives complete, routed and owned, without manual triage. Sourcing & Negotiation: Sourcing decisions you can defend line by line: every score opens the response behind it.
Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM): Every clause, control and obligation stays attached to its contract, with a named owner for each one. Supplier & Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): Every risk decision has an owner, a case file and a proportionate response.
Purchasing & Ordering: The compliant route is the easiest one, and every exception reaches a named owner. Invoicing & Payment (AP): A payment queue where every exception carries its records and its owner.
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Reviews end in commitments someone accepted, and the next review starts from what happened to them. Savings & Value Realisation: A savings number finance can trace to the records that produced it.
A live category agenda where every opportunity has an owner and a source.
Open the WorkblockEvery request arrives complete, routed and owned, without manual triage.
Open the WorkblockSourcing decisions you can defend line by line: every score opens the response behind it.
Open the WorkblockEvery clause, control and obligation stays attached to its contract, with a named owner for each one.
Open the WorkblockEvery risk decision has an owner, a case file and a proportionate response.
Open the WorkblockThe compliant route is the easiest one, and every exception reaches a named owner.
Open the WorkblockA payment queue where every exception carries its records and its owner.
Open the WorkblockReviews end in commitments someone accepted, and the next review starts from what happened to them.
Open the WorkblockA savings number finance can trace to the records that produced it.
Open the WorkblockWorkblocks can be versioned and changed independently, enabling continuous client tailoring.
When a match result shows a quantity difference, the AP processor needs to know whether the delivery, the receipt or the invoice is wrong, so that the case reaches the person who can correct the source record instead of bouncing between teams.
A failed check lands in a worklist as a code that names the symptom. The processor works out the cause and the owner by hand, one system at a time.
An exception signal records what failed, not why. The case keeps the two apart: the source failure is never overwritten, and competing causes stay visible until the evidence distinguishes them.
The failed check arrives as one case: the competing causes, the evidence that separates them, the accountable owner and the next valid action. The case closes only when the source system accepts the change and reruns the check.
Every satisfied condition names its source and observation time. A changed invoice, payee, hold or screening result expires the decision and reopens only the dependent checks. Readiness is never payment: instruction, release and settlement stay with the system that owns them.
A sent message or a completed task is not resolution. A case closes when the authoritative system accepts the change and the controlling check reruns clean, or it stays truthfully blocked with a named owner and a reopening condition.
The source record is corrected or the invoice validly corrected, the match reruns clean, and the case closes with the receipt attached.
Material or novel commitments still escalate. Proposal is not commitment. Authority is a contract, not a score.
Every AI action has a named human owner, human evaluation drives learning and review is automatically reinstated when quality falls.
Beyond Work execution rails are a European, AI-first, enterprise-native foundation, SOC 2 Type II audited and ISO 27001 certified.
One permissioned data plane carries records, documents, analytics and run history with one audit trail, and can connect to the client's existing warehouse.
One record model, 87 canonical entities in nine kinds of record.
8 reference modules, 9 defined modules and 28 roadmap modules.
Keep the systems that earn their place. Suites change on their release cycle. Workblocks change on yours. A client can begin with one bounded Workblock and expand through independently versioned Workblocks and narrow adapters.