Founded in the Midwest. Built for businesses that build things.

Too many mid-market companies are stuck choosing between off-the-shelf tools that don't fit and enterprise consultants who don't stay. Grounds believes growth-minded businesses deserve the same analytical depth as the Fortune 500 — built at a scale and price that actually fits how they operate.

We sit down with your team, learn your data, and build capabilities you'll own long after we're gone. And when the build is done, we stay on as the intelligence behind the operation.

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Our Principles

Build to Transfer, Then Partner

Every engagement is designed with a clear handoff. We build the operational layer, transfer it to your team, and stay on as the strategic advisor behind the work. You own the systems. We help you keep using them well.

Reliability Before Recommendations

Every engagement begins by establishing what your numbers can and cannot tell you. We won't advise on data we haven't audited, because the value of any recommendation depends on what sits underneath it.

Priced as a Partnership, Staffed as a Team

Our pricing flexes with your business through growth and tighter quarters, because the work should scale with the value it delivers. When an engagement calls for more capacity, we bring in the right specialists — so the team matches what your business actually needs.

Human in the Loop

Even our most automated solutions include human review checkpoints. Trust, but verify.

Our Operating Model

How Grounds Operates

Every engagement is led at the leadership level, supported by a curated bench of analysts, researchers, and engineers brought in to match the scope of the work. We're sized to stay close, and structured to scale with what your business actually needs.

Led by Leadership

Every engagement is led personally by Grounds leadership. You're not handed off to junior consultants. The person who scopes the work is the person who runs it, start to finish.

A Curated Bench, Not a Fixed Team

We assemble each engagement from a vetted network of analysts, data engineers, and market researchers, selected for fit with the work in front of us. You pay for the capability the engagement requires, not a fixed roster.

We Help Fill Your Talent Gaps

Many of our builds include helping you find, train, and retain the right people to operate what we've built. When the role belongs inside your company, we help you hire it. When it belongs with us, we keep it.

Grounds Leadership

Nick Eovaldi

Founder

CPA · MBA, Washington University in St. Louis

Professional Summary

Nick has spent his career across complex transactions, data and analytics, and emerging-technology work, in banking, advanced manufacturing, energy, and companies of all kinds working to grow. He founded Grounds to bring that breadth to the businesses he believes in, as a partner who sits alongside their teams: pairing deep experience with a creative, practical approach, and helping each company get to where it wants to go.

Education & Credentials

CPA MBA, Washington University in St. Louis MAcc, University of Missouri

Experience

Manager, Deloitte · 6 years

Beyond the Office

A St. Louis native, Nick spends his time outside of work traveling with his wife, Jill, and getting outdoors to golf, hike, camp, and ski. He does his best work alongside thinkers, tinkerers, and doers who share a drive to build something that lasts.

What Nick Brings

Leading complex, high-stakes transactions.

Lead senior on Charles Schwab's $26B acquisition of TD Ameritrade, where he coordinated a 120-person team across the U.S. and India through one of the largest deals in his practice, leading annual 10-K/10-Q filings for $7T in combined client assets. Across his career he held senior and leadership roles on acquisitions, transaction closes, and purchase price accounting spanning banking, energy, and companies at the technological forefront of their industries.

Replacing intuition with data-driven methods.

Built regression-based loan portfolio testing tied to Federal Reserve data, predictive reserves testing using commodity strip pricing and historical datasets, and SKU cohort inventory testing for a Fortune 500 manufacturer. Each of these replaced outdated methodology with a targeted, hands-on, analytical one.

Pioneering emerging-technology practices.

Repeatedly chosen for first-of-their-kind work: 1 of 10 managers firm-wide selected to lead Deloitte's inaugural Blockchain & Digital Assets Deep Dive, and lead manager on the first audit of an AI-powered fintech platform backed by Franklin Templeton, JP Morgan, and RBC. In both, he built methodology ahead of SEC and FASB guidance, where no clear path yet existed.

Building the reporting infrastructure growth companies run on.

Designed monthly reporting and KPI processes that a pre-IPO urban air mobility company carried into public reporting, and architected an ASC 606 revenue model surfacing the unit economics behind a PE-backed fleet company. In each case, the work was built to serve the decisions leadership actually had to make.

Developing teams and individuals.

Facilitated seven national learning programs for groups of 10–60 professionals, and presented at Deloitte's National Banking Conference (150+ attendees).

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