Compass quickstart

You'll go from raw material — a transcript, an SOP, a notes dump — to a mapped workflow with the people, systems, and pain points around it, and a concrete opportunity — where an AI build, or a simpler change, could improve the work. You don't have to build the map by hand; Compass can draft it from what you already have.

1. 1
   Open Compass

   Go to compass.zerowidth.ai, sign in, and pick your workspace.

2. 2
   Draft the map from source material

   The fastest way in is to let Compass read your material. From the pages list, start a page extraction, paste in a transcript / SOP / notes dump, and Compass proposes a set of pages — the workflows, people, systems, and pain points it found — along with how they connect. You review each one, edit in place, drop the noise, and create the rest in a batch.

   This is the difference between mapping the work and staring at a blank canvas: you start from what's already written down and shape it, instead of inventing structure from scratch.

3. 3
   Fill the gaps by hand

   The draft won't be complete — it never is. Add anything the source didn't mention: a page is one subject (a workflow, a person, a system, a pain point), and you connect them with typed links so the map carries meaning:

   • a Person owns a workflow
   • a workflow uses a System
   • a Pain point affects a workflow

   Follow the edges and the shape of the work appears.

4. 4
   Capture the tacit knowledge

   The judgment that makes a workflow work usually lives in someone's head. Start a stakeholder interview and send the link to that person; no account needed. They talk through how they actually do it, and the conversation becomes a Document page wired into the workflow — which you can extract into pages too, the same way as step 2.

5. 5
   Surface an opportunity

   Attach an opportunity to a workflow — the specific change worth trying, anchored to the real work (and, if you like, a particular step within it). Because it comes out of the map you just built, it's concrete: "auto-classify tickets by queue and urgency, using the rules the interview surfaced."

That's one corner of the business mapped. Do a few more and the map becomes something you can search, share, and reason over — a living picture of where the work could improve.

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