You shouldn't have to run
your business alone
Compass is a Chief of Staff who never sleeps, spotting risks before they hit, finding opportunities you'd miss, and keeping the whole picture in view while you focus on the bigger picture.
Sees what's coming
In your corner, not in your wayWatches while you sleepA Chief of Staff: $150k/year. Compass: $79/monthFeatures
What changes the day you sign up
Not a new tool to learn. A new way of running your business. With someone looking around corners for you, all the time.
See what's coming, not just what happened
Compass watches your numbers, your team, your market, and the wider economy then tells you what's likely six weeks out. Cash tightening before you'd notice. A customer about to churn. A channel quietly saturating. You get the heads-up while you still have options.
The math that finally works
A real Chief of Staff is $150k-$250k a year. A fractional one is $150 an hour. Compass starts at $79 a month and keeps the whole picture in view 24/7 without taking PTO, getting sick, or asking for a raise.
A partner, not a replacement
Compass doesn't run your business, it makes you sharper at running it. The watching, the cross-checking, the "did anyone notice..." gets handled. You stay focused on the calls only you can make. Your judgment, amplified.
Retiring Owners
Your life's work, handed over, not lost.
You've invested decades building something real: customers who trust you, a team that knows the rhythm, and margins that took years to earn. Handing it over shouldn't mean watching a new owner learn your lessons the hard way. Compass captures what you know, so the business you built keeps running the way you intended, long after you've stepped back.
Platform
How it works
The Command Center
Your Strategy is No Longer a PDF
It's a living board. Drag initiatives from "Backlog" to "Active." Tag them by function: Growth, Product, Operations, or Strategy. Connect every tactical task directly to your North Star goal. If it doesn't move the needle, it doesn't get on the board.
Networking Intelligence
Stop Guessing Your ROI
You spent $5,000 on conferences last month. Did it work? Venture Compass links your calendar events to the leads they generated. See exactly which handshakes turned into revenue. You spent $1,000 on LinkedIn ads. Did it work? Compass tracks the pipeline generated from each ad campaign.
Your Knowledge Base
Due Diligence, Done Daily
Don't scramble when an investor (or auditor) asks for documents. Store your contracts, cap table, and IP in a secure, permissioned knowledge base that links directly to your operational plan. Your "Venture Brain" can answer questions about your financials, team, and progress at any time.
Founders
The team of six you can't afford yet.
You're doing the work of six people, because right now, you are six people. Marketing, operations, finance, hiring... it all lands on you, and the cost of dropping any one of them is higher than you can afford. Compass acts as your Chief of Staff: prioritising what matters, filling the gaps you don't have time to fill, and ensuring nothing critical gets missed while you're heads-down building.
How it works
From scattered data to your next best move
Two things happen quietly in the background: Compass pulls your real numbers together from the tools you already use, then turns them into small, focused experiments, so you always know the one thing worth doing next.
Connect Pulse
Your whole business in one feed
Plug in the tools you already run on and Compass keeps a live read on the numbers that matter. Your revenue, cash, orders, pipeline, traffic, all without you exporting a single spreadsheet. It reconciles everything into your KPIs and surfaces the exceptions worth your attention, the moment they happen.
Google AnalyticsLinkedInStripeQuickBooksShopifyGoogle SheetsNew numbers land automatically. Compass flags what changed, what it's connected to, and why it matters so a small problem never grows into a big one.
The Experiment Stack
One focused bet at a time
Compass contrasts your North Star against your actual data, then breaks the big, vague goals into small, testable mini-experiments. Each of these has a clear hypothesis, a way to measure success, and a short window to validate it. No forty-item to-do list. Just the highest-leverage move, sized to fit a real week.
Finds the lever
It ranks what to work on from your live KPIs, so effort lands where it moves the needle.
Runs the test
It frames a small experiment you can actually finish this week, with success and failure spelled out up front.
Reads the result
It debriefs what you learned, folds it back into the plan, and tees up the next best bet.
Portfolio Company Managers
Know in week two what the quarterly tells you in week twelve.
By the time the quarterly report hits your desk, you're already months behind the problem. You don't need more data. You need earlier signals, surfaced before a small issue becomes a board conversation. Compass monitors your entire portfolio in real time, so you can step in while there's still room to course-correct, not just reflect on what went wrong.
Our mission
Why we built this
Small and mid-sized businesses are how most communities actually work. They employ the neighbors, sponsor the teams, fix what breaks, and keep the lights on.
The tools built for them have mostly been afterthoughts, scaled-down versions of what enterprises use. Compass is the opposite: built first for the owner running a real business in a real town, with the same caliber of thinking the Fortune 500 takes for granted.
If you're building something that matters where you live, we want to be in your corner.
