Groundwork · by Rarefied Earth
Files. State. Skills. Rules.
The files your agents stand on.
Groundwork gives Claude or Cursor a tenant-scoped, read-only company-state feed: your module catalog, dashboard, brand settings, entitlement, and curated skill how-tos. Local workflow installation remains the operator-led path until the signed-package installer ships.
Your files remain the source of truth. The dashboard is a control plane, not a second workspace. 27 modules · 6 bundles · run daily on the company that built it.
├─ tenant.json your account + entitlement ├─ catalog.json 27 modules · 6 bundles ├─ dashboard/ │ └─ brand-settings.json ├─ state/ │ └─ company-feed.json read-only operating picture └─ docs/ └─ skill-how-tos/ curated operator guidance
Why this exists
Most AI tools start from zero.
Out of the box, they do not know:
- who your company is
- how you write
- which clients are active
- which workflows are approved
- which facts are current
- which actions need a human
Groundwork adds a tenant-scoped, read-only company-state feed, the module catalog, the connector surface, and curated skill how-tos, so Claude, Cursor, and your agents can read your current operating picture. Local workflow installation remains operator-led until the signed-package installer ships.
How it connects
One company-state feed, three surfaces your team already uses.
Your credentials, your workspace, your data. Rarefied Earth holds no copy and no production secret.
Command line
The CLI
A zero-dependency client. Store your token in the Keychain, see your operating picture, pull what you are entitled to.
Discoverable
Skill how-tos
Each module includes curated skill how-tos and named references for the workflows you are entitled to. Local skill installation remains operator-led today.
Model context
The MCP
Add the connector by URL in Claude or Cursor. One call returns your read-only company state, brand settings, entitlement, and module inventory.
Live capability catalog
What Groundwork delivers, in production.
Every card is a capability Rarefied Earth runs on itself before it ships. The tag shows the surface your team uses to call it.
01
Cross-Agent Context
Every AI session loads who you are and what the company does in the first few KB of context.
02
Folder Taxonomy
A numbered folder structure so every artifact has an obvious home from day one.
03
Voice Guide
Drafts pass a voice check before they ship, so outbound writing stays on-brand.
04
Mail Capture
Every inbound email becomes a routed, relationship-tagged, AI-readable record.
05
Cursor Session Attribution
Cursor work is attributed to the right client by workspace, without manual timers.
06
Time + Billing Pipeline
Time entries flow to invoices and Stripe through one weekly close command.
07
Agent Skills Layer
A user-level agent-skills layer that makes every workspace more productive.
08
Client Onboarding Runbook + Script
One command provisions a new client workspace, routing, billing, and hooks.
09
Data Management Policy
A seven-tier data policy that bounds the blast radius of any single failure.
10
MCP State Server
An MCP server that serves canonical brand, voice, and freshness facts to agents.
11
Cursor Session-Start Hooks
Session-start hooks that open every workspace with a current briefing.
12
Brand Starter Kit
A brand starter (palette, type, founder profile) that locks visual and verbal identity.
13
Operator Protocol
Operator directives that turn the substrate into a running operating protocol.
14
Agent Charter
An agent charter so the deployed AI behaves like a member of the company.
15
Freshness Layer
A bounded freshness layer that tells any session what is true right now.
16
Pattern Log
A pattern log that prevents both re-solving problems and premature abstraction.
17
PDF Pipeline
A pipeline that renders brand-coherent PDFs for invoices, timesheets, and proposals.
18
Cursor Cloud Agents
Forward-looking cloud-agent wiring, shipped default-off until a deployment needs it.
19
Shell Conventions
Slug-prefixed shell conventions for the daily-ops command surface.
29
Thinking Substrate
A private thinking vault beside the operating workspace: capture half-formed ideas anywhere, promote the keepers into canonical state on a weekly ritual.
30
Reflection Loop
The scheduled self-awareness layer: a weekly organizational reflection that reads a fresh self-model snapshot (what the company runs, what changed, what drifted) and emits proposed adaptations as a dated digest plus review tickets.
31
Voice Capture
Call transcripts land beside captured mail in the engagement record, so agents know what was said, not just what was typed.
32
Product flywheel
A weekly loop that turns real work into articles, tools, and sellable modules.
33
Reasoning Discipline Pack
An invocable pack of reasoning and decision-discipline modes, each a named methodology with a procedure and an output shape.
34
Content Publish Pipeline
A one-click publish pipeline that runs an article draft through voice and confidentiality gates, refuses on any unverified claim, and ships it only after a human approves.
35
Build Verification
A build-verification layer that proves a freshly built artifact actually works before the system trusts it as live, catching what a structural check cannot.
36
Context Efficiency Layer
Per-session token instrumentation, workspace-aware context routing, and file-watcher-triggered context distillation.
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Ever-evolving
New capabilities land here as the flywheel proves them in production and they clear the human gate. The catalog is generated from the module inventory, not hand-written.
The catalog is generated from the module inventory, so it stays current as the substrate evolves. Every module is run on Rarefied Earth itself before it is advertised; a capability that has not survived daily production use does not appear here.
Shipped this week
The flywheel proves it on us first.
It detects reusable work, builds it, audits it, and rates it on Rarefied Earth before a proven module graduates into the catalog above.
2026-07-08 · AUDITED
Product flywheel
A weekly loop that turns real work into articles, tools, and sellable modules.
2026-07-05 · RATED
Product-flywheel ledger
The sync record and command that link each research effort's three harvests so they never drift apart.
2026-07-02 · RATED
Self-healing ops observability loop
Scheduled automation that fails silently now raises a chat alert within minutes, and a reply from chat can start a fresh agent run.
2026-07-01 · AUDITED
Content Publish Pipeline
A one-click publish pipeline that runs an article draft through voice and confidentiality gates, refuses on any unverified claim, and ships it only after a human approves.
2026-06-30 · AUDITED
Context Efficiency Layer
Per-session token instrumentation, workspace-aware context routing, and file-watcher-triggered context distillation.
2026-06-22 · RATED
Groundwork as its own subject
The operating substrate runs through the flywheel on itself, producing a north-star intent doc and a pitfalls register, now in usefulness review.
Connect at the depth you need
What self-serve delivers today.
Connect Cursor or Claude to a tenant-scoped company-state feed: your module catalog, dashboard, brand settings, entitlement, and curated skill how-tos. The connector is read-only. Local workflow installation is the operator-led path until the signed-package installer ships.
Free
- Public scaffolds
- A first read of how it runs
$49/mo $199
- Tenant-scoped company state
- Dashboard and brand settings
- Entitlement and connector token
- Curated skill how-tos for 9 modules
$149/mo $499
- Everything in Pro
- Catalog and how-tos across 19 modules
- Entitlement for the operating layer
$299/mo $999
- Everything in Operating
- Catalog and how-tos across 27 modules
- Full bundle entitlement surface
Founding rates, while they last. Every paid tier is month to month with a 14-day free trial and no setup fee; your founding rate stays locked for as long as you stay subscribed, and usage pools at your organization with no per-seat fee. Rates rise as external proof lands. Checkout provisions your account, your dashboard, and your connector token automatically; the welcome email carries everything you need to connect. Prefer local workflow installation instead? The operator-led path below is that lane.
The first 14 days
What the first 14 days cover, day by day.
Minute one
Provisioned automatically
Checkout creates your account, dashboard, and connector token with no human in the loop. The welcome email carries the exact Cursor and Claude setup blocks; connecting is a paste and a restart.
Day one
Your agents stop being company-blind
Ask "what is Groundwork and how do I use it" and your agent walks you through the read-only company-state feed. Set your brand in the dashboard once; the connector reflects it from that point forward.
Week one
State starts compounding
Your operators now have the catalog, entitlement, and curated skill how-tos in one place. Local files, mail, billing, and workflow installation stay in the operator-led lane until the signed-package installer ships.
Day 14
Keep it or walk, cleanly
The trial converts month to month at your founding rate. If you cancel, your account access ends cleanly with no migration step inside the connector.
Operator-led onboarding
Request a deployment.
The white-glove path for companies that want local files, mail capture, billing, and workflow installation handled with them, not by themselves. This is the current lane for installing Groundwork into a workspace until the signed-package installer ships. Tell us about your company and what you want it to run on. The engineer who built Groundwork reads every request and replies directly.
- The engineer replies, not a sequence
- A live demo before any commitment
- Nothing installs without your confirmation
Prefer to talk first? Book a fifteen-minute look.
Your request is ready to send.
Your mail app should have opened with the request filled in. Send it and the engineer replies directly. If nothing opened, email joseph.scott@rarefied.earth.