See the whole field. Including the part you already own.
Compass is a standing intelligence platform over your own knowledge base and the public record. It maintains a continuously updated picture of what is emerging, where you stand against the field, and what your portfolio actually contains, rather than producing a report that is out of date the week it lands.
What Compass is.
Most organisations hold far more knowledge than they can see the shape of, and sit in a field that moves faster than any team can track. Compass addresses both at once. It builds and maintains a connected picture across an organisation’s own material and the public record: research output, patent activity, funding movement, regulatory change and competitive position. It keeps that current. The picture is not a dashboard of data points. It is a standing answer to three questions a leadership team asks continuously: what is emerging, where do we stand, and what do we already have that we are not using.
The knowledge exists. Nobody can see its shape.
An institution’s own portfolio is spread across departments, formats, decades and people who have moved on. The field around it is spread across publications, filings, funding records and regulatory instruments that no team reads exhaustively. Both problems have the same consequence: decisions get made on the fragment of the picture that happened to be visible to whoever was in the room.
The usual response is a commissioned report. It answers the question that was asked, at the moment it was asked, and then begins ageing immediately.
Four capabilities. One picture.
Discovery
What is emerging in our domain before it is obvious?
Early signals drawn from research output, patent activity, funding movement and regulatory shifts, surfaced with the evidence behind them rather than as a trend list.
Strategy, R&D leadership, investors scanning for sectors forming.
Landscape and benchmarking
Where do we actually stand?
Contextualisation of any development against the full field: sector momentum, pipeline density, geographic concentration, competitive position. That is how you tell a genuine shift from noise, and your position from your self-image.
Leadership, corporate strategy, funders assessing a programme.
Solution pathways
What do we do about it?
Routes from a stated matter to evidence-backed approaches drawn from what has been discovered, tested and proven, including commercial applications for assets already in the portfolio that nobody has connected to a need.
R&D, technology transfer, corporate development.
Stress-testing
Does our conclusion survive challenge?
Structured challenge to a position before capital is committed: claims validated against evidence, blind spots exposed, the strongest counter-argument stated rather than avoided.
Investment committees, strategy teams, anyone about to commit.
These are capabilities within one platform, not modules to be purchased separately. The picture is common to all four.
A picture that stays current.
A maintained landscape view of your field and your position in it. A connected view of your own portfolio, including the parts of it that no current owner is tracking. Findings linked to the evidence underneath them rather than asserted. Briefings that reflect what changed, rather than restating what did not.
Because the picture is standing rather than commissioned, the useful question shifts from “what did the report say” to “what changed, and does it matter to us”.
Your portfolio informs your picture. Nobody else’s.
Compass is multi-tenant, with strict isolation per organisation. Connections are drawn within an organisation’s own portfolio and the public record, never across the private material of different organisations. This is a deliberate design decision, not a configuration setting, and it is not optional for any tenant.
For a research institution, a technology transfer office or a corporate R&D function, this is usually the first question and it deserves a plain answer: work done for one organisation does not inform another’s picture, in either direction.
Data residency options are available and are agreed as part of the licence.
Who Compass is for.
Research and innovation institutions
Research centres, universities, technology transfer offices, funders and excellence clusters. See the whole portfolio, benchmark it against the global field, and find the commercial pathways that were always there.
Corporate R&D and strategy
Track the frontier of a domain continuously rather than in commissioned bursts, and connect internal capability to external movement.
Investors
Watch sectors form rather than reacting to them, with the evidence behind each signal available rather than asserted.
Government and policy
Map regional and national capability, and assess where a sector bet is structurally supported by evidence.
What Compass does not do.
It does not replace domain expertise. It gives domain experts a field of view no individual can hold.
It does not tell you what to do. It shows you what is there, and what is not.
It is not a forecasting system. It establishes what is currently supportable, with the evidence attached.
It does not settle a single high-stakes matter to a standard you can defend. That is what Quorum is for.
Two platforms, licensed separately.
Compass maintains the standing picture and tells you which matters are worth examining. Quorum takes one of them and answers it to a standard your board and your regulator can see the full basis for.
Neither is a prerequisite for the other. They share an evidence layer, so a decision simulation can draw on what Compass has already established for you and its verified findings flow back into the picture, but Compass is a complete product for an organisation that never runs a decision simulation.
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