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🚀 Quickstart

This takes you from sign-up to your first conversation in a few minutes. Five steps.

1. Create your free account

  • Go to compass.mesa.so and sign up with your name, work email, and a password.
  • A free account is free forever. It lets you browse and filter the full database right away.
  • You only need credits when you want to reveal a contact's details. The free tier has no credits, so it is browse-only.

See Creating Your Account for the details.

2. Find the right people

  • Open the People tab to search across founders, builders, and allocators by name, handle, or role.
  • Or start from Projects, find a team you care about, and look at the people behind it.
  • Filter to narrow the list: by role, by contact channel, by sector, by stage like pre-token or token-live.

3. Open a profile and check the connection

  • Click anyone to open their full profile.
  • Read their career timeline: where they have worked and in what role.
  • Check the warm path card to see who in the network can introduce you.
  • Open them in the Network graph to see everyone they connect to.

This is the step most tools skip. You are not just grabbing a handle. You are finding a real reason to reach out.

4. Unlock the contact

  • On the profile, choose Unlock. Each unlock costs 10 credits.
  • Unlocking reveals the verified channels Compass holds for that person: telegram, email, X, and LinkedIn where available.
  • Once unlocked, a contact stays yours forever, including after your plan ends. You are never charged twice for the same person.

See Unlocking Contacts and How Credits Work.

5. Reach out or export

  • Message the person directly, leading with the connection you found.
  • Or export your unlocked contacts to CSV and work them from your own CRM or outreach tool. CSV export is on the Starter plan and up.

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