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Operate
We embed in real businesses and modernize them with AI — paid in ownership and upside, not billable hours.
Operator-investors · Atlanta
We back the solo economy.
An operator-led firm building and backing the companies powering the next generation of independent entrepreneurs.
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THE OPERATOR
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01 / The shift
One person can now do what used to take a team.
The tools got good, the overhead went away, and side businesses are turning into primary income. Work is going independent, and the next wave of value gets built by operators of one. It will look obvious in hindsight. We are early on purpose.
02 / What we do
We don't just fund it. We run it and prove it.
02
Buy
We acquire cash-flowing businesses where we see AI upside a seller can't, then grow them with our playbook.
03
Back
We write focused checks into early AI companies arming independent entrepreneurs. We are their customer too.
Versus VCs. They observe. We operate.
Versus private equity. They cut costs. We grow revenue.
Versus consultants. They bill hours. We take ownership.
03 / Who we are
Product, growth, and engineering under one roof.
Ryan
LINKEDIN ↗Builds machine-learning models from the ground up and scales businesses from zero to $100M ARR.
Damani
LINKEDIN ↗Runs enterprise software, go-to-market, and operations.
Oscar
LINKEDIN ↗ML engineer. Builds the models themselves.
04 / What we look for
The biggest levers in the solo economy — and our entry points into each.
We sit at the intersection of capital and operations. And what we back, we deploy: every company we invest in goes to work across the businesses we run and our growing network of solo operators — customers and distribution on day one. Select a lever to see what we look for and how we get in.
Field notes
We work in public.
A short note each week on what we changed inside the businesses we run — the playbook, as we write it.
Building something for the independents?
Send us one paragraph on what you are building or running. We read everything and we answer.
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hello@groundworkcapital.com