Ground Control·How we work
Ground Control: taking your business to terminal velocity.
落地指挥
生意，冲向终端速度。
Ground Control is how we do real business work with Claude Code: marketing, quotes, tenders and invoices, run as written recipes on your own files. We work with domain experts. They bring the field, we bring the method, and together we bid for tenders and deliver them.
Three tracks
Get Seen. Get Sales. Get Paid.
Get Seen
Be found by customers, and by AI assistants as well as Google.
- Plan and draft a month of posts in your own voice
- Check how search engines and AI assistants describe you
Get Sales
Turn interest into signed work, including tenders.
- Turn call notes into a quote from your own price list
- Triage a tender and write the first draft of the proposal
Get Paid
Collect the money without losing your evenings to it.
- Invoice the moment the client says yes
- Chase overdue invoices on a fixed schedule
Each recipe does one real job the same way every time, and a person checks everything that leaves. It isn't software you buy: it's a way of working, written down.
What it has done
11 tenders
triaged and first-drafted in about half an hour, with this method.
23 PDFs
read in one go, where a chat app stops at a handful of attachments.
Our own business
runs on these recipes: our sales, our invoices and our content.
Bid with us
Bid for government and enterprise tenders together
Many tenders need a field expert and a strong bid team at the same time. You bring the field: the practice, the standards, the references. We bring Ground Control, which screens the tenders, writes the first draft quickly and builds any software, data or AI the bid needs. It works across the whole life of a bid, not just the writing.
- 01
Find
We sweep GeBIZ and other tender boards every few days and sort what fits by sector.
- 02
Brief
When a tender fits your field, you get one pack: the tender as issued, our first draft, and one page of questions.
- 03
Bid
Each side leads its own field, is named in the bid and prices its own share. Either side can be the lead.
- 04
Deliver
After an award, we can run the project management, milestone reports and invoicing on the same method.
How we keep it fair
- We only pass on tenders we intend to bid on together.
- No fee to join. Terms and price are agreed tender by tender, never at first contact.
- We never name a partner, a buyer or another partner's work without consent.
Want to bid with us?
Email haojun@ontheground.agency with your company profile and the fields you lead in. The partners we are looking for, and what we will ask you, are on one page.
Partners we are looking forThe guides behind each stage: triaging tenders, the partner's first-read pack, bidding with partners, GeBIZ registration and GSR grades and delivering after the award.
For your own business
Three ways to use the method today
Have it set up across your company
Team training plus a company AI setup, in one package.
The Company Brain packageCommon Questions
Questions we hear on the first call
What is Ground Control?
Ground Control is On The Ground's method for doing real business work with Claude Code in the terminal. It is a way of working, written up as recipes, in three tracks: Get Seen, Get Sales and Get Paid. It is not software you buy. We set it up for a business, or teach a team to run it.
Why is it called Ground Control?
Claude Code runs in the terminal, and terminal velocity is the top speed a falling object reaches. Work done in the terminal takes a business to its top speed. On The Ground is also where the name starts: in Mandarin it is 落地指挥, and 落地 means both "on the ground" and "actually implemented".
How does a joint tender bid with On The Ground work?
We screen GeBIZ and other tender boards every few days. When a tender fits a partner's field, we send one pack with the tender, our first draft and a page of questions. Each side leads its own field, is named in the bid and prices its own share, and either side can be the lead. After an award we can run project management, milestone reports and invoicing.
Who can partner with On The Ground on bids?
Domain experts: firms and experienced independent professionals who bring the field, the standards and a track record they can name. Examples are HR and organisation development, training providers, research and fieldwork, security and compliance, events, and video and social media. We bring the method, the screening, the bid writing and any software, data or AI work.
Do partners pay to join, or get sold tender leads?
No. There is no fee to join, and we only pass on tenders we intend to bid on together. Price and terms are agreed tender by tender.
How much does Ground Control cost for my own business?
It isn't sold off the shelf yet. Today it is the basis for joint ventures with domain experts. If you want AI set up across your company, the Company Brain package is how we do that now, and the Get Seen, Get Sales, Get Paid series explains the method for free.
Does AI write and submit the bid on its own?
No. AI does the reading, sorting and first drafts. People decide whether to bid, set the price, sign the declarations and submit. Every page that leaves is checked by a person.