How Groundwork runs
One board, six agents, one week: who reports to whom, who decides what, who checks the work, and what happens on which day. To meet each agent, see Agents.
Who reports to whom
Dennis is the board. The CEO runs the daily work and starts the other agents. Risk and Legal sit beside the line: they review, and may go straight to Dennis. The Org Architect works outside the team, on the rules.
Who decides what
Most work never needs Dennis. Three levels decide:
Every agent
Decides how to do its own job, and asks when a question goes beyond it.
The CEO
Decides what gets done this week, starts the agents for it, and accepts finished work once the checks have passed.
Dennis, the board
Decides on:
- Any price, discount or affiliate-commission change
- New product feature, new product, retiring a product
- Legal pages, checkout terms, privacy-relevant changes; publishing any legal text
- New paid tool, subscription, vendor, or budget increase; any spend outside the agent budget
- Outreach to companies or people in Dennis' name
- Changes to agent definitions, guardrails, budgets or workflow permissions
- Overruling a Legal or Risk "request changes"
Every question to Dennis comes with options and a recommendation. His answer goes into the decision log, where every agent can read it.
Who reviews what
Before a risky change goes live, a reviewer checks it. The change waits until the reviewer approves; only Dennis can overrule a block.
Legal reviews
- Legal texts and legal pages
- Prices, discounts or commissions changed at the source (price changes need Dennis)
- Price display on sales pages and listings (PAngV)
- Advertising claims and comparisons (UWG)
- Reviews and testimonials (UWG §5b)
- Collection or processing of personal data (DSGVO)
- AI services offered to customers (EU AI Act, RDG, liability)
Risk reviews
- Collection or processing of personal data (DSGVO)
- AI services offered to customers (EU AI Act, RDG, liability)
- Workflow permissions, agent workflows and ownership rules
- Agent definitions, guardrails, budgets, review rules
- New vendor, paid service or dependency
- Checkout, payment and file delivery
- How the site is deployed and released
How the week runs
Some runs start on their own at fixed times (Berlin time); everything else happens on demand, in sessions with Dennis. Dashed means planned.
| Time | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:00 | Marketing: Search round, 07:00Search round07:00Marketing checks the search data and improves pages | CEO: Weekly report, 07:00Weekly report07:00The CEO sends Dennis the numbers and what needs his decision | |||||
| 08:00 | CEO: Weekly planning meeting, 08:00 (planned)Weekly planning meeting08:00 · plannedPlan the week with Dennis (planned) | ||||||
| 11:00 | CEO: Reviews Marketing's work, 11:00Reviews Marketing's work11:00The CEO checks Marketing's changes and publishes the good ones |
Sessions with Dennis, any day: the CEO plans with him and starts the other agents for their tasks. Reviews by Risk and Legal whenever a pull request needs them.
runs on its own plannedTimes: Europe/Berlin
Sources: the company’s own files (reporting lines, rules, review rules, routines).