Frequently Asked Questions

Gritworks Collective is a structured, action-oriented resilience advising program. Instead of just talking about problems, we use real-world "missions" to train you to handle pressure, stay composed, and follow through. It is designed for capable people caught in repeating patterns who want a clear, verified pathway to close the gap.

• Therapy heals the past — processing history and working through deep-seated patterns. Gritworks builds the future. We assess where you are today, give you specific tools to handle what's in front of you, and give you a disciplined structure to actually follow through on your goals. Gritworks is not a substitute for therapy. If you are in crisis, please call or text 988 or visit our crisis resources page.

The Performance track is built for professionals, leaders, and individuals who are functional but stalled — burnt out, or locked in repeating friction patterns. If you want a disciplined structure to identify and fix the pattern, this is for you.

The Pause is our free 10-mission intro: Mission Zero teaches the pause itself, then nine missions — one for each core pattern — put it to work where your friction lives. Performance, Purpose, and Partnering are each divided into five levels (Basecamp through Mastery), 11 missions per level (55 total). Parenting runs longer at 66 missions, and our specialized Co-Parenting track is an expanded 111-mission curriculum. Every mission presents a real-world scenario, a core psychological principle, and a specific "micro-action" that you must execute before you can advance.

No. General AI gives you general advice. gritBOT runs on the Gritworks framework — nine patterns drawn from twenty years of clinical practice and the research behind it, plus a library of interventions written for this platform. It reads your pattern scores and the stakes of the situation you are actually in, and gives you a specific move instead of a philosophy. Free tiers include 5 gritBOT conversations so you can feel the difference; the Catalyst raises that to 100 conversations a day.

Our programs use restricted timelines to force momentum. The Catalyst gives you a 50-day window to complete your missions. This forces you to take action rather than passively consume content.

Real change requires time for integration. To prevent clients from simply binge-reading the material without doing the work, the system locks the next mission for 18 hours after you complete your current one. This forces patience and deliberate action.

For our relational tracks (Parenting, Partnering, Co-Parenting), you can add a Partner/Co-Parent login for free. They will complete the same onboarding questionnaire, and the system will compare and analyze your results. For our individual tracks (Performance, Purpose), we include a free Accountability Partner feature where you can invite someone via text to receive milestone updates and check in on you.

You will take a multiple-choice questionnaire 6 times throughout the program: at the very beginning (Self Check-In), and at the end of every level. These measure your progress in areas like staying composed under pressure, adapting your thinking, and following through.

The Pause is our primary free offer, giving you 10 missions (including Mission Zero) completely free so you can test the methodology. You do not need to enter a credit card. If you find the tools useful, you can upgrade to the Catalyst to unlock the remaining missions. We also offer Foundation (5 missions) as a fallback option.

The Catalyst is $300 for every track. It includes self-paced access within a 50-day window, all missions, and 100 gritBOT AI conversations a day. On the relational tracks (Parenting, Partnering, Co-Parenting) the Partner/Co-Parent login is a free add-on — it never costs extra.

You can tap into our Advisor Marketplace using the Key Economy. Keys unlock recorded workshops and video sessions from licensed advisors. One Key is $10; a 5-pack is $30 and a 10-pack is $50. For deeper work, the Catalyst + Founder Bundle ($800) adds 1 hour of 1:1 time with the Founder to build your execution plan, or you can book standalone Founder sessions at $800/hr as you need them.

Licensed clinicians can apply to advise on the platform. There is no monthly fee — you keep 91% of what you collect, and a flat 9% covers payment processing and the platform. No clients, no cost.

No. The Catalyst is a single payment granting you 50 days of access. At the end of your window, you can renew for $50 to get another 50 days — your progress and badges carry straight over. There are no recurring auto-charges.

If you don't love it in 14 days, get your money back. Email support@gritworkscollective.com — we respond within 24 hours. No forms. No proof of work. No questions asked. Keys never expire, but unused Keys are also fully refundable within that 14-day window. Unused live advising session credits follow the same 14-day window. If an advisor cancels a session, your session credit is instantly restored to your account. Once a live session has taken place, that session is non-refundable since the advisor's time was spent. If the session did not meet expectations, contact us within 7 days — we will extend your access window by 14 days and give you a 25% discount to book with a different advisor.

Yes. If life gets in the way, you can pause your program from the HUB at any time. Your progress is saved and your access window picks up where you left off when you return. You will never lose completed missions.

You do not need a wallet to do the work. You can log in with a standard email and password. However, if you want to claim your verifiable digital badges as you complete missions, you will need to link a Solana wallet (like Phantom). Badges you earn before linking a wallet are held for you and delivered the moment you connect one.

Each mission you complete earns a badge, issued as a Compressed NFT (cNFT) directly to your linked wallet. These badges serve as immutable, public proof of your resilience training. They cannot be faked or altered, proving to yourself (and employers) that you do hard things.

Absolutely not. All of your journal entries, questionnaire scores, and personal reflections stay in our private database — encrypted in transit and at rest, with coaching-session transcripts additionally protected by field-level encryption. Only the fact that you completed the mission is publicly minted as a badge.

Gritworks is an advising platform, not a healthcare provider — but we treat your privacy with clinical-grade seriousness anyway. Concretely: gritBOT scrubs personal identifiers like phone numbers, emails, and SSNs from your check-ins before they reach the AI; our server logs automatically redact personal data; we run no advertising trackers, and the single third-party diagnostic tool we use only loads with your explicit consent; and coaching-session transcripts are field-encrypted in our database. Your gritBOT conversations are retained privately so your progress history stays intact — they are never used to train AI models and never sold.