Groundwork

Compliance for startups and small teams

The AI agent for digital health compliance.

Use our AI agent to complete compliances in hours rather than weeks. Start with UK and EU GDPR. Add NHS DTAC, HIPAA, and medical device frameworks when you need them.

See how it works

Why existing compliance solutions fail small teams

Compliance involves creating documentation, implementing it, and maintaining it so you stay audit-ready. Existing solutions fail small teams at every step of the way.

  • It starts with a costly commitment.

    Consultants and compliance platforms charge £3,000 to £5,000 a year and a yearly commitment for the basics, or £12,000+ for NHS DTAC and medical devices.

  • Templates written for large organisations, handed to a small team.

    You're handed a folder of generic templates and left to adapt, approve, and follow them yourself. They don't fit how a small team works and commit you to processes only large companies need.

  • No guidance on what to actually do.

    Templates never explain what to put in a record of the personal data you collect, a list of your suppliers, a list of your risks, or a clinical safety log. They also never say what to do next. Small teams are left guessing what an auditor or customer expects to see.

  • Endless maintenance across 30+ documents.

    Small teams change quickly and do not have the time or staff to dedicate to compliance. Every change to your tools, suppliers, or service puts 30+ policies, lists, and logs out of date, leaving you with constant updates that are impossible to keep up with by hand.

How it works

A chat-based AI agent

Groundwork drafts your documents, updates them when something changes, and collects evidence from the tools you connect. You can edit any document yourself. Nothing is published until you approve it.

  • Self-serve by default

    Run it yourself in chat, with the checks built in.

  • Expert help when you need it

    Guided setup, document import, and a review with our team when you want someone alongside you.

  • Clinical safety officer

    A registered clinician to review and approve the clinical safety case NHS DTAC asks for, and the hazard log. You pay for that review, not a drafting project.

Connect your tools and assets

Connect the tools you already use. Groundwork keeps your list of tools and assets ready for you to review.

  • Evidence from the tools you already use

    Connect GitHub, Linear, Microsoft, and more. Groundwork collects evidence from them and checks that those tools and assets are set up the way your documents say they are.

Frameworks

A framework is a set of rules, such as UK GDPR or Cyber Essentials. Start with the one you want today, and add new ones at any time. Existing documents map to new frameworks and our AI agent makes the required changes for you.

  • UK GDPR & DPA 2018

    UK · Privacy

  • EU GDPR

    EU · Privacy

  • Cyber Essentials v3.3

    UK · Security

  • NHS DSPT

    NHS England · Security & privacy

  • NHS DTAC 2.0

    NHS England · Digital health

  • UK MDR Class I

    MHRA · Medical devices

  • EU MDR Class I

    EU · Medical devices

  • HIPAA

    US · Healthcare privacy

  • ISO 13485

    Standard · Quality management

  • ISO 14971

    Standard · Device risk management

  • PIPEDA

    Canada · Privacy

  • Ontario PHIPA

    Canada · Health privacy

  • Australian Privacy Act

    Australia · Privacy

How the options compare

Most compliance options charge thousands a year before you have documents you can send. Groundwork gives you the requirements, built-in checks, and an AI editor directly.

  1. Traditional consultancies

    £8,000 to £25,000+

    You + Consultants

    Pay thousands for meetings and generic templates, handed back weeks later as files that do not update themselves.

  2. AI-assisted consultancies

    £3,000 to £12,000+

    You + Consultants + A little AI

    Yearly subscriptions for interactive web based platforms with AI assistance.

  3. Groundwork

    Self-serve

    You + AI Agent + Consultants (optional)

    Use an AI agent to draft, understand, approve, and use your own compliance documents in hours, then keep them up to date effortlessly.

Questions

How Groundwork drafts, checks, and keeps your policies and records up to date.

Does the AI publish documents on its own?

No. It writes drafts. You save a record or a log, or send a policy for approval. Nothing goes live until you, or the right person on your team, approves it.

Do I need compliance experience to use Groundwork?

No. Groundwork is built for small teams with little or no compliance background. It drafts from your setup, explains what belongs in each list or log, and shows what needs doing and when.

What if I'm a 1 person business?

The documents match the size of your team and the rules you choose. If a role is you, it is named as you. Groundwork does not invent committees or extra documents.

Can I send a document to an auditor or a customer?

Yes. Any published version exports as a clean PDF, with its version number and a history of changes, ready to send to a customer, an NHS buyer, or an auditor.

Get your compliance documents ready to review.

Groundwork is the only AI agent platform for achieving and maintaining compliance