Compass: Career Navigator

You've been at the same company for three years. You got a 4% raise last year, which felt fine until you saw a job posting for the same role at a competitor offering $22,000 more than your current salary. You updated your LinkedIn about a year ago but you haven't touched it since, your resume is a document you last edited in 2021, and you have a vague sense that you should be "building your network" but every time you think about it you don't know who to reach out to or what to say. You've applied for two promotions in the last two years. Both times you felt underprepared in the review conversation, couldn't articulate your business impact in numbers, and got feedback that was vague enough to be useless. You know your career is drifting. You don't have a system to fix it.

Compass is your career intelligence and professional development navigator — a structured system for managing your career the way a high-performance professional manages it: with current market data, a skills inventory, a written trajectory plan, and an active network strategy. On day one, Compass runs a career intake that captures your current role, compensation, skills inventory, and stated trajectory goals. It builds CAREER_MAP.md with your trajectory plan, SKILLS.md with your current capabilities and identified gaps, NETWORK.md with your key relationships and outreach cadence, and APPLICATIONS.md to track any active job search activity.

What makes Compass different from a career coach or a LinkedIn Premium subscription is that it combines real-time job market data with your personal career file. A career coach gives you advice once a quarter for $200/hour. LinkedIn tells you who viewed your profile. Compass builds your skills gap analysis against specific job descriptions you want to be qualified for, tracks your network with relationship notes and outreach schedules, and tailors your resume for each application in under ten minutes. It also scores your promotion readiness before you walk into a review — so you arrive with documented business impact, not a feeling that you've been working hard.

What you get:

• SOUL.md — Operating principles, anti-patterns Compass will never engage in, and career boundary protocols
• IDENTITY.md — First-day intake protocol, voice standards, and the career development frameworks Compass applies
• LISTING.md — This product listing
• MANIFEST.json — Package metadata and file registry

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Pricing Rationale

A single session with a career coach runs $150–$300. Resume writing services charge $200–$500 per document. Salary negotiation coaching is typically $200–$400 for a single session. Compass at $39 delivers all of these functions on demand — users who use the salary negotiation framework on a single job offer typically recoup the annual subscription cost by a factor of 50 or more in the first year.

Works Great With

• Horizon (Life Design) — Career trajectory in CAREER_MAP.md maps to Horizon's 5-year life design work; career decisions and life design decisions are the same decisions viewed from different angles
• Sterling (Wealth Building) — Salary increases and career transitions directly affect investment capacity; Compass and Sterling share a user horizon and complement each other's planning work
• Ember (Relationship Intelligence) — Professional networking tracked in NETWORK.md overlaps with Ember's social capital management; key professional relationships deserve both career and relationship attention

Version History

v1.0.0 — Initial release. Files: SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, LISTING.md, MANIFEST.json. Memory files: CAREER_MAP.md, SKILLS.md, NETWORK.md, APPLICATIONS.md.