Marco looks like a contact in WhatsApp. Behind that contact sits calendar sync, structured memory, routine scheduling, and training analytics. Here's exactly what happens when you message him.
Groundwork runs on the WhatsApp Business platform. Sign up with an invite, verify your email, and send the supplied link message to Marco · Groundwork. Then talk naturally: send text, voice notes, photos, or your location. Marco can check your schedule, save notes, and log training; he asks for confirmation before calendar changes.
Your number is verified once. Marco never messages anyone but you, and never reads any other chat. WhatsApp only delivers him the messages you send to his contact.
Connect Google Calendar via OAuth or Apple Calendar via an app-specific password in Profile → Integrations. Marco reads your connected calendars when checking your schedule and tells you when a provider cannot be checked. You can disconnect a provider from the dashboard.
Describe what needs changing. Marco shows the proposed date, time, and calendar in an event card, then waits for your confirmation before writing. His reply reports the outcome, so you can check what actually changed.
Marco stores conversation history alongside saved facts and notes. Accepted memory helps him use relevant details such as your preferences or training goals; notes are searched when you ask. Proposed facts waiting for review are separate from active memory.
Open Notes & memory to search notes, review accepted facts, and keep or dismiss proposed memory. You can remove information from active memory and edit your profile. For account-wide data requests, use the contact form.
Say “note this” and include the text you want to keep. Saved notes have their content and a timestamp. Ask “what was that pasta place Rita recommended?” and Marco can search your saved notes for it.
Your notes also live in the dashboard: search them, mark them complete, or delete them. Completed notes leave Marco’s active note recall; removing a note does not erase the original conversation.
Marco may send a short preparation nudge when an upcoming event or saved context gives him something useful to say. For example: “BJJ at 19:00. Got your gi and mouthguard ready?” Morning briefs and routine check-ins help you keep track of the day.
Set your quiet hours in Profile. Proactive messages also depend on WhatsApp’s messaging window: after 24 hours without a message from you, send Marco a new message to reopen the conversation.
Send a voice note like you would to a friend. Marco transcribes it and processes the request, whether that’s a note, a training log, or a schedule question. Calendar changes still need your explicit confirmation.
Marco replies in text so you can check the result. Saved notes, sessions, and calendar changes appear in their respective dashboard views.
After training, text the details: “Today: bench, 5 sets of 5 at 82.5 kg” or “BJJ today: 5 rounds, drilled knee cuts and finished one armbar.” Marco records the details you provide and asks for missing quantities rather than filling them from your plan.
Your Gym and BJJ views bring together sessions, personal records, technique practice, landed moves, and submissions finished. You can edit saved logs and review training feedback in the dashboard.
See weekly lifted volume, gym and BJJ session counts, rounds, and changes in your heaviest logged weights. Repeated flat or declining weights can be flagged for review. Insights come from your recorded training, so consistent logging makes them more useful.
Insights live in the dashboard's Gym and BJJ views, and a weekly training review lands on Sunday, but only when your week actually shows a signal. A quiet week stays quiet.
Start with an invite, link your WhatsApp, and connect the calendars you want Marco to use.
