01~5 MINS
Invite your team.
Paste their emails. Compass sends each person a private link with a short, clear explanation of what they're being asked.
BUILD+SHIP COMPASS / 01
— a user manual for your teamKnow where
your team stands.
Compass maps how your team actually works. Each person's working style. The team's strengths and gaps. AI to help you navigate the friction. Built for engineering teams of 5–50.
compass.buildandship.com / acme-engineering / report
SECTION 03
Likely friction zones
Sarah closes loops tightly while Tom keeps generating new options. Expect tension when scoping anything new — useful, but worth acknowledging.
PAIRING TO WATCH
SKSarah Khan×TRTom Reeves
TEAM COMPOSITION MAP
HIRING GAP
Team leans hard on exploration and async work. Your next hire should bring structured execution and sync collaboration.
02 / HOW IT WORKS
A working diagnostic, end to end.
02~25 MINS / PERSON
They take two short assessments.
A validated Big Five and a working-style instrument covering communication, feedback, conflict, focus and decision-making.
03INSTANT
You get individual reports, a team Compass, and an AI advisor.
Read the team report. Open the chat. Ask anything — feedback delivery, hiring gaps, conflict patterns. It knows your team.
03 / WHAT YOU GET
Three artefacts.
One source of truth.
Designed to be read like documents, not dashboards. Print them, share them, refer back to them.
PER TEAM
THE CENTREPIECEThe Team Compass
A long-form report mapping team composition, strengths, gaps, friction zones to watch, decision-making style, and what to look for in your next hire.
INSIDE THE REPORT
- 01Executive summary
- 02Composition map
- 03Strengths and decision style
- 04Friction zones
- 05Hiring brief
PER PERSON
Personal user manual
A one-page operating guide for each person. Strengths, stress patterns, how to give them feedback, what they need to do their best work.
ONGOING
AI advisor
A chat that knows your team. Ask it how to deliver hard feedback to Tom, why Sarah and James clash, or what shape your next hire should take.
04 / BUILT FOR ENGINEERING
Why does standup feel pointless to half the team?
Compass was built by engineering leaders who've run 100+ person orgs. The questions the AI is good at are the ones we used to ask in 1:1s.
FEEDBACK DELIVERY
“How do I tell Tom his last code review was harsh without him going on the defensive?”
CONFLICT
“Sarah and James keep clashing on architecture decisions. Why?”
HIRING
“What shape is my team missing for the next role I post?”
ONBOARDING
“Anya joins on Monday. What does her first 30 days need to look like?”
05 / WHAT COMPASS ISN'T
Three things Compass deliberately won't be.
— NOT THERAPY
Compass is an insight tool, not a clinical product.
It will not diagnose, treat, or replace mental health support. If a team member needs real help, the AI will point them at it.
— NOT SURVEILLANCE
Members own their data. Their raw answers stay private — including from you.
Each person sees their own report and chooses what to share with the team. Profiles are portable; they can take them to their next employer. Delete anytime.
— NOT ANOTHER HR TOOL
No performance reviews, no engagement scores, no benchmarks against your competitors.
Just a working diagnostic for the team you have today. Run it once, refer back to it forever, re-run when the team changes.
06 / PRICING
Simple. One-shot. Buy once.
No annual contracts, no per-seat creep. Re-run when the team changes for £99.
SOLO
For founders working solo
£99one-shot
- Up to 3 seats
- Individual reports
- Team Compass report
- No AI advisor
TEAM
For startup engineering teams
£299one-shot
- Up to 15 seats
- Individual reports
- Team Compass report
- 30 days AI advisor
PRO TEAM
For larger or more deliberate teams
£599one-shot
- Up to 30 seats
- Everything in Team
- 90 days AI advisor
- Team Compass PDF export
ADD-ON · BUILD+SHIP DEBRIEF
Have an experienced engineering leader walk you through your team's report.
A 1-hour video call plus a written executive summary. Useful when you'd rather absorb the report through a conversation than a read.
+£450Add to checkout
07 / FAQ
Things engineering leaders ask first.
Compass tells you when fewer than 70% have completed and lets you re-run for free once everyone's in. The member experience is built to feel respectful, not coerced — most teams hit 90%+.
Both are excellent enterprise tools with annual contracts and facilitator workshops. Compass is one-shot, self-serve, built for teams of 5–50 who want a working diagnostic, not a programme.
No. We use frontier models with no-training agreements. Your team's data is used to answer your questions, never to train shared models. Encrypted at rest, GDPR-compliant, hosted in the EU.
A 120-item IPIP-NEO Big Five (open-source, peer-reviewed, validated on 620,000+ respondents) plus a 36-item working-style instrument and a 12-item conflict-mode mini, both written for tech teams. ~35 minutes per person.
No. If you're under your seat limit (15 on Team, 30 on Pro Team), adding them is free — the team Compass updates automatically once they finish. Beyond your seat limit, it's £40 per extra seat. Useful for an onboarding cheat sheet on day one.
Run Compass for your team this week.
A working diagnostic for the team you have today. £299 for up to 15 seats. No subscription, no calls required.