Frequently Asked Questions

Gritworks Collective is a structured, action-oriented resilience coaching 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.

• Every friction pattern in your life — at work, at home, in your relationships — maps to one of nine repeating patterns. We call them the Nine Core Patterns: Confidence & Self-Worth, Connection & Loneliness, Purpose & Direction, Getting Unstuck, Anger & Reactivity, People-Pleasing & Limits, Feeling Like a Fraud, Anxiety & Overwhelm, and Toxic Dynamics. Our missions don't address symptoms. They target the root pattern. The research behind the framework is on the methodology 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.

• Performance. 55 structured resilience missions built on established behavioral science. Each mission pushes you to practice a real skill — composure, discipline, recovery, focus — with actionable daily drills. Saying no without guilt is the People-Pleasing & Limits pattern, one of the Nine Core Patterns, and the missions target that root pattern rather than the symptom.

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 is divided into five levels (Basecamp through Mastery), 11 missions per level (55 total). 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 Jon's clinical practice, licensed since 2010, 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 messages so you can feel the difference. 100 gritBOT messages a day with The Performance Group; unused ones carry over, up to 300. After the group, the optional $9 a month plan keeps 50 messages a day, up to 150.

Paid members can go as fast as they want. On the free missions there is a wait before the next one opens. We still suggest leaving time between missions — reading a principle and actually using it are two different things, and the gap is where the second one happens. Completed missions stay open, and going back matters more than going forward. Return often to the ones that made you most uncomfortable; that discomfort is usually pointing at the thing you actually came here for.

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.

• Group refunds are pro-rated by the calls still to come. Email us at support@gritworkscollective.com to ask for one. The refund policy has the details.

Gritworks is a coaching 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.