Leave the meeting. Keep what you promised.
Talk through each meeting in the two minutes after it, or record the room once everyone agrees. Compass writes it up, lists what you took on and by when, remembers the people you lead, and reads the week back to you on Sunday.
Compass Pro starts with a 14-day free trial. For iPhone, iOS 17 or later.
Sound familiar?
The meetings end. What you said in them does not.
Said "I will come back to you on that" in four meetings today, and cannot list them by six?
Say it in the two minutes before the next meeting starts. The Enhanced tab pulls out what you took on, tagged today, this week or later.
Preparing a one-on-one from a calendar entry and a vague memory?
Open the person in Memory: their role, what they raised, the topics that keep coming up with them and the notes each came from.
The board pre-read is due, and the quarter is spread across a hundred meetings?
Search the quarter by meaning and read back the weekly reviews for what moved and what stalled. The raw material is there; the pre-read is still yours to write.
No hour left in the week to think about the decision itself?
Use the walk between buildings. Talk the decision through out loud, and the note keeps the options, the risks and the questions you have not answered yet.
In Porter and Nohria's study of 27 chief executives of large companies, whose time was tracked around the clock for 13 weeks, the CEOs averaged 37 meetings a week, and meetings took up 72% of their working time.
How it fits your week
A leadership week, in the gaps between meetings
Monday, 9:55
Five minutes after the staff meeting
Before the next meeting starts, say what was decided and what you took on. The note comes back with the forecast to chase today and the budget answer owed by Thursday.
Voice notesMonday, 14:00
The operating review, on record
Once everyone in the room agrees, Conversation Mode records it. Speakers come back separated, you confirm the names, and each action item carries who said it and when.
Conversation ModeTuesday, 16:30
Walking out of a one-on-one
Two sentences on the way back to your desk: what Omar asked for, and what you told him. It sits in Memory beside what he raised the week before.
MemoryWednesday, 18:10
The walk after a hard conversation
Say what you think happened while it is fresh, before you decide anything. The Enhanced tab sorts it into what you know, the risks and the questions to take back tomorrow.
Voice notesFriday, 7:30
The morning of the board meeting
You search "why we held the Denver hire" and find the staff meeting note where you said to wait for the forecast.
Organize and searchSunday, 17:00
Planning the week before it starts
The weekly review asks how your three commitments went, shows what moved and what stalled across every note of the week, and ends with one question to sit with before Monday.
Weekly review
What you would use
What carries a leader from one meeting to the next
The two minutes after a meeting
Tap record and talk. A note of 100 words or more gets a TL;DR, takeaways, risks and action items tagged today, this week or later, with no typing.
Voice notesMeetings on record, with consent
Speakers separated, names suggested from what was said and confirmed by you, and action items that carry who said them and when. Up to two hours per recording.
Conversation ModeThe people you lead
Direct reports, peers and board members, each with a role, a relation to you, what they said and when they last came up. Built from your own words only.
MemorySunday planning, with your week in hand
What moved, what stalled, the thread worth pulling, and up to three commitments that the next review asks about. It reads every note you made that week.
Weekly review
Is Compass a fit?
Built for founders. Most of it fits a leader.
Compass was built for people building companies. Its AI reads every note as a founder's note, some of its topics are startup ones like PMF Signals and Runway, and sign-up asks for your project or startup and its stage. Inside a larger company, that framing shows at the edges.
Where it fits
- Notes spoken between meetings, with what you took on pulled out and dated.
- Meetings recorded in the room, by speaker, once everyone agrees.
- The people you lead, remembered from what you say about them.
- Topics that carry over: Team, Culture (with Decision-Making and Rituals & Meetings), Operations, Metrics and Finances.
Where it does not
- Startup topics that may never come up, like PMF Signals and Runway.
- Delegate access: your chief of staff or assistant cannot see or add to your notes.
- Calendar, email, Slack or video-call connections.
- Company-managed accounts, admin controls or an enterprise agreement.
Company information deserves care. Notes are encrypted at rest and processed by the AI providers the Privacy Policy names. Check your company's policy on confidential information in personal apps before you record or note anything sensitive. Read the Privacy Policy.
Good to know
Where Compass stops for an executive
- One account per person, with no team plan, shared workspace or delegate access. Share or export a note when your chief of staff needs it.
- Conversation Mode records what your iPhone hears in the room, and everyone in it should agree first. It does not join Zoom, Teams or Google Meet calls.
- No calendar, email or Slack connection. Compass does not know who you are meeting next; you open the person yourself.
- Board pre-reads and updates stay yours to write. Compass gives you the notes, the reviews and the search to write them from.
- iPhone only, iOS 17 or later. Voice notes are built for English.
- Compass Pro starts with a 14-day free trial. Without a subscription the app is read-only, and export keeps working.
FAQ
Questions executives ask
Can my chief of staff or assistant see my notes?
No. Compass is one account per person, with no shared workspace or delegate access. Share a single note, or export notes as Markdown, JSON or PDF, when someone else needs them.
Can Compass record my staff meetings and one-on-ones?
In person, yes, with Conversation Mode, once everyone in the room has agreed. Speakers are separated, names are suggestions you confirm, and action items carry who said them. Each recording can run two hours, up to 180 minutes a day. It does not join video calls.
Is it safe for confidential company information?
Notes are encrypted at rest with a key for your account, Private notes are never drafted into posts, and Lock Note puts a note behind Face ID. It is not end-to-end encrypted: notes are decrypted in memory to run AI features, by the providers the Privacy Policy names. Your company's policy on confidential information decides what belongs in a personal app.
Does it connect to my calendar or email?
No. Compass has no calendar, email or Slack integration; its only connections are X and LinkedIn, for posting. Before a meeting you open the note or the person yourself.
Can it prepare me for a board meeting?
It gives you the material, not the deck. Search by meaning finds what you said about a topic across the quarter, and each weekly review shows what moved and what stalled that week. Compass does not write the pre-read.
I am not a founder. Will Compass still make sense of my notes?
Mostly. Its AI is built around founders and reads your notes that way, so a note about a reorg lands under Team or Culture, and topics like PMF Signals may never come up. Voice notes, action items, people, search and the weekly review work the same for any leader.
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