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🗺️ How Compass Is Organized

Compass is built around people and the connections between them. Everything else is a way to organize people or to find the right ones faster. Once you see the shape, every tab makes sense.

The core idea

The unit that matters is the person: a founder, an operator, an allocator, the one you actually need to reach. Companies, funds, and sectors are how we group people, not the end goal. You move through Compass to arrive at a person and a warm way to reach them.

The building blocks

  • People. Founders, builders, and allocators across crypto. Each has a profile with their role, social handles, follower reach where known, a verified career timeline, and the contact channels you can unlock.
  • Companies. The teams and protocols people work on. A company page gathers the people behind it, its sector and stage, fundraising, and live attention signals.
  • Investors. The funds. Each has a portfolio of rounds, an all-time ROI view, and the people who work there.
  • Services. The firms you can hire rather than sell to: auditors, counsel, market makers, agencies, and the influencers who move narratives.

Three surfaces cut across those four rather than sitting beside them. Pulse and Catalysts tell you what moved and who to talk to about it. Events turns a conference programme into the people attending it.

How they connect

This is what makes Compass more than a list. The pieces are linked, and the links are the product:

  • Career timelines record where each person has worked over time, so shared history is visible.
  • Company pages carry the team, so one person leads to the rest of the people around them.
  • Fund pages carry the portfolio, so a backer you already know leads to the teams they have funded.

Put together, you can start from a company and reach a person, or start from a person and find the warm route in.

When you would rather not do it yourself

Everything above is you doing the work. The Concierge is the other half: name someone and Mesa sends the ask for you. It is included with every paid plan and it does not spend credits.

Browse free, unlock with credits

  • Browsing and filtering are always free, on every plan. You can see who exists, what they do, and how they connect.
  • Revealing a contact's channels uses credits. Each unlock is 10 credits. Once unlocked, the contact stays yours.

See How Credits Work for the mechanics.

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