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GRIND Operating System

The one stop ERP for growing businesses

GRIND brings clients, tasks, projects, finance, procurement, HR, suppliers, assets, support and reports into one system — so management sees one truth instead of four tools and a spreadsheet holding them together.

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17Modules
12Procurement stages
102Permissions
1Database per client

Why it wins

What GRIND does that the alternatives don’t

Most businesses at this size aren’t choosing between GRIND and one competitor. They’re choosing between GRIND and four separate tools plus a spreadsheet. That’s the comparison that matters.

01

One record, followed end to end

A need is raised, approved, quoted, awarded, ordered, delivered, invoiced and paid — and every one of those is the same record in one database. Nothing is exported, re-keyed or reconciled between systems.

Integrated suite, not integrated tools. Two products joined by a nightly sync disagree the moment the sync fails. In GRIND the procurement, the supplier invoice and the ledger entry are the same fact viewed from three screens.
GRIND client management with pipeline stage, manager and value per client

02

Procurement that is governed, not merely recorded

Twelve stages, each naming who answers for it. The rules for which move is legal from which stage live in the database, so an illegal move is refused by the system rather than by convention.

Append-only history. A stage entry cannot be edited or deleted. Before a supplier invoice can be paid it faces a three-way match against the order and the delivery note; paying past a failed match needs a separate permission and a written reason, both recorded.
GRIND finance overview with revenue, ledger expenses, net income and receivables

03

Real double-entry underneath

Invoices and payments post to an actual ledger. A journal that does not balance does not post. The trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet come from the same entries the invoices created, so reports and records cannot drift apart.

Permissions fine enough to be useful. 102 separate keys, not a handful of roles. They resolve live — withdrawing one takes effect on the very next action. Each role carries a data scope: everything, their department, or only their own records.
GRIND reports: accounting and receivables bar chart with CSV and PDF export

Modules

Switch on what you need. Add the rest later.

Your free fortnight runs on Starter with three modules switched on. The rest stay off until you want them, and switching one on later loses nothing.

DashboardClients & pipelineTasksProjectsFinance & ledgerProcurementHuman ResourcesMy HR (self-service)DepartmentsSuppliersAssetsSupport help deskKnowledge baseScheduleReportsNotifications & alertsAccounts, roles & activity log

Plans

Five ways to buy the same system

Subscription is the default. GRIND can also be bought outright for organisations whose data may not leave the building, or module by module. Current pricing is published on cinatgrind.online.

Starter

Up to 10 people

Core modules for a small team that wants one place for clients, tasks and money. Includes the free fortnight.

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Team

11 – 50 people

The full suite for a growing company: finance, procurement, people and support alongside the core.

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Business

51 – 200 people

Department-scoped permissions, richer reporting and priority support for multi-department organisations.

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Enterprise

200+ or your own server

Perpetual licence with annual maintenance, on-premise or private cloud, and a scoped implementation.

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Annual prepayment is ten months’ money for twelve months’ service. Implementation, data migration and training are scoped and charged once, separately — software that is installed but not moved into is software that gets cancelled.

Implementation

Software is the easy half

Successful transformation needs more than new software: understanding existing workflows, identifying operational gaps, preparing employees and aligning technology with business objectives.

Every GRIND rollout comes with organisational readiness, user training, data migration and a help desk — because the value of the system lies in how well your team moves into it.

Read the launch story →
GRIND launch press release, 1 October 2026

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