The teams that do the work finally get their own diagnostic
A research-backed performance assessment built for working teams. Project teams, delivery squads, product teams — the people with clear deliverables and no time to waste. Free for your own team, permanently.
Good morning
Sarah Mitchell
Survey live: Q3 Product Team
28 responses · Closing Friday
My Teams
Q3 Product Team
Tech · Hybrid · 34 members
Round 2 live+0.6 vs baseline
Platform Squad
Engineering · Remote · 12 members
Round 1 complete
Teams drive the output. Development still targets the individual.
Most team diagnostics were built for leadership teams: high stakes, high budget, time to spare. Working teams don’t have that luxury. And traditional team coaching doesn’t help much either — it’s complex to run, expensive to sustain, and slow to land, addressing a problem that has already changed shape by the time the report arrives.
Groundworks asks the right questions, lets AI do the analysis, and puts the team leader in the driver’s seat. Development built into the work your team is already doing, not bolted on beside it.
75%
of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional
Harvard Business Review research on performance across industry sectors.
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research-backed foundations
Grounded in research from leading thinkers on teams, translated into practical measurement.
10 min
to complete the survey
The whole team is heard in under ten minutes, without the bottleneck of a consultant.
How it works
From survey to action in four steps
Groundworks is self-administered. Set it up, share the link, and the AI does the heavy analytical work.
Set up your team
Name the team, add context about your industry and challenge. This shapes the AI report.
Share the survey
24 questions, 8 to 10 minutes. Anonymous, mobile friendly. Share a link — no accounts needed.
Read the AI report
The AI reads your data holistically, not just the lowest scores. It identifies patterns a fixed algorithm would miss.
Run the Drills
Short, structured team exercises tied directly to your results, run inside meetings you are already having.
The team rates each Drill as it runs, and that feedback flows back into the next round. The picture updates as the team changes, instead of sitting still until the next big diagnostic.
The framework
Eight foundations. Three layers. Every one matters.
High performance is not built on one thing. The best teams are consistently solid across all eight foundations, not exceptional at two or three.
Impact
Understanding stakeholders, communicating direction, and adapting your approach to the wider organisation.
3 questions
Connection
Cross-team dependencies, external relationships, and resolving tensions before they become blockers.
3 questions
Delivery
Decisions, information flow, and escalating blockers early.
3 questions
Mindset
Learning honestly, spotting change early, and anticipating rather than reacting.
3 questions
Edge
Realistic planning, consistent progress review, and quality decisions under pressure.
3 questions
Trust
Psychological safety. Speaking up and disagreeing constructively without it becoming personal.
3 questions
Sustainability
Individual wellbeing and workload. The foundation that makes everything else possible.
3 questions
Purpose
Shared expectations, understanding each other’s roles, and real accountability.
3 questions
Each layer rests on the one below it. A team with weak Trust cannot reliably improve Mindset — which is why the report sequences priorities rather than just ranking scores.
The full framework, and the research behind each foundation →
The AI report
Individual, actionable insights
Two teams with identical average scores can tell completely different stories. The Groundworks AI reads your full dataset the way a skilled OD practitioner would: holistically, not mechanically. This is what comes back.
Sample report
Q3 Product Team
Baseline · 28 responses · May 2026
“The Connection score is the priority, but it is not isolated. Low Trust and low Mindset scores suggest the team is not yet creating the conditions for those external relationships to improve. Address Trust first.”
3 priorities identified1 role-split gapPDF ready
Pattern recognition
Low Trust and low Sustainability often signal the same underlying problem. The AI surfaces those connections instead of listing scores independently.
Context-shaped insight
Industry, team challenge and your framing prompt go to the AI. A scaling tech team gets different insight than a mature professional services team at the same score.
Priority sequencing
Not just what to work on, but what to fix first — because some foundations create the conditions for others to improve.
Three standalone reports
A Team report to share, a Team Leader’s Insights report, and a Coach Insights report for the practitioner in the room.
Drills
The team builds its own strengths
Drills are short, structured exercises that teams run for themselves, inside meetings they are already having. No facilitator. No separate sessions. They create lightbulb moments, drive lasting behaviour change, and build the cohesion and engagement that show up in the next round of results.
Spark
Quick calibration. A shared view in a few minutes — a meeting opener or closer to surface how the team is experiencing something right now.
Build
Deeper commitment. A real situation, a shared exploration, and one named commitment. Enough to go deeper without derailing the agenda.
Deep
Developmental shift. Mixed pairs, structured reflection, and a personal takeaway that changes how team members show up.
Tied directly to your results. Every Drill is generated from your team’s actual scores and context, not generic prompts.
Built on leading research
Grounded in research from leading thinkers on teams
Edmondson on psychological safety. Hackman on enabling conditions. Google’s Project Aristotle. Lencioni on dysfunction. Argyris on learning. All translated into 24 actionable questions your team can answer in ten minutes.
EdmondsonHackmanLencioniProject AristotleArgyrisDruskat & WolffCannon-BowersAncona & Caldwell
For coaches & OD consultants
Give every team client a rigorous baseline from day one
Groundworks gives coaches and OD practitioners a research-backed diagnostic they can deploy immediately, without building their own measurement infrastructure.
Self-administered by the team
You don’t need to be in the room for data collection. The AI handles the analysis; you focus on the conversation.
Built for working teams, not boardrooms
Designed for project teams, delivery squads and product teams — real outputs, real time pressure, the clients who need it most.
A credible evidential base
Grounded in research from leading thinkers on teams — something to stand behind in client conversations and proposals.
Debrief support built in
Three standalone reports generated automatically, including a Coach Insights report for your coaching conversation.
What it costs
For your own team
The full report, every drill matched to your results, and a reading list for your weakest foundations. No time limit, no card required.
For coaches and organisations
Running it across client teams or your own organisation adds multiple teams, comparison across them, benchmarking, and change over time.
