Compass by Art & Soul — The 2-Minute Creative Team Check-In

For cast, crew, staff, educators, and students

Your team is carrying more than you know.
Now there's a tool for that.

A 2-minute check-in that gives creative people a script, a boundary, and a next step — so you catch the real thing early instead of inheriting the explosion at strike.

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No stored answers No stored Compass Cards De-identified leadership snapshot included

"I LOVE that it gives me a script and a way to manage challenging moments. It really helps me see a clearer path and feel not alone."

Leigh Barrett — Director / Actor · Piloted with Stratford Festival

Watch it in action

See what a Compass check-in actually looks like

What your people get

A Compass Card in 2 minutes.
Not another survey.

Compass generates something your team can actually use — a script for a real conversation, a clear decision rule, and a concrete next step.

The Compass Card

A copy-paste script they can actually say — peer and leader versions
A boundary / decision rule: one clear line
A next step for the next 24 hours
Tailored to their specific situation, pressure, and role
Role-agnostic: works for performers, crew, staff, students, and faculty

Designed for 3 key moments

Kickoff

Start the process with people who know what they're carrying in — and have language for it

Mid-process

Catch the slow accumulation before it becomes a blowup at tech or dress

Strike

Close out clean. Name what happened. Set up the next thing better

For artistic directors & executive directors

Know what's true about your team — without asking them to tell you directly.

Compass gives leaders a de-identified window into team state, so small adjustments can happen before they become big fires.

Monthly Snapshot

De-identified trends across your org — top supports needed, capacity patterns, early red flags — delivered monthly

Privacy built in

Small-group suppression is automatic. No individual can be identified from aggregate data. Your team can be honest

No added load

Compass runs in the background. You get insight without adding any meetings, check-ins, or stress to yourself or your team

Piloted with Stratford Festival Pilot underway: The Umbrella Arts Center Built on STAGES™ methodology

Getting started

You'll be live before your next production meeting.

Your rollout kit is ready the moment you sign up. No setup calls required.

Get your rollout kit instantly

Copy/paste kickoff email for cast and crew, one-page "what this is / isn't" explainer, QR poster for backstage or green room, and a 30-second intro clip your team can watch in the lobby

Share the link with your people

Your team uses Compass at kickoff, mid-process, and strike — no accounts, no logins, no friction. It takes 2 minutes. They get something useful immediately

Review your monthly snapshot and adjust

Small shifts — one different conversation, one support adjustment, one earlier intervention — can prevent the thing that costs you the whole production. Compass makes those moments visible

What people say

From people doing the actual work.

"I LOVE that it gives me a script and a way to manage challenging moments. It really helps me see a clearer path and feel not alone."

Leigh Barrett Director / Actor

Stratford Festival pilot

"Compass forces you to look into yourself for the truth, and afterwards, you instantly feel lighter. Having language for what to say next is such a relief."

Paola Cacciatori Co-founder & COO, Artelize

Pricing

One tool. Unlimited people. Support at scale.

Both plans include unlimited access for your entire cast, crew, staff, and students — plus all future upgrades at your locked rate.

Monthly — designed for pilots

$799

per month · cancel anytime

Start monthly access

Perfect for one production or semester

Includes

Unlimited cast / crew / staff / student access
Monthly Leadership Snapshot (de-identified)
Full rollout kit + templates
Light tech support
All upgrades at your rate

Best value

Annual — for committed organizations

$7,999

per year · 2 months free

Save $1,589 vs. monthly billing

Get annual access

Rate locked for the life of your subscription

Everything in monthly, plus

Rate locked forever while active
Priority support response
Grandfathered on all future features
Early access to new Compass updates

Founding Organizations cohort. A small number of early organizations are joining at current rates before pricing increases. If you've been thinking about Compass, this is the moment to lock in — and to be part of shaping how the tool grows.

Privacy

Your team's answers are theirs. Full stop.

Compass was designed from the beginning so that people can be honest — because honesty is the whole point.

No stored answers

Individual check-in answers and Compass Cards are never stored by the system. They disappear when the session ends

Email send-only

If someone emails their Card to themselves, that email is used only to send it — nothing else, ever

Aggregated & suppressed

The Leadership Snapshot is de-identified and aggregated. Small-group suppression is automatic — no individual can be identified

Questions

What people ask before they say yes.

Neither. Compass is a collaboration support tool. It gives people language, scripts, and a clear next step — not diagnosis, not monitoring. Leaders see only de-identified aggregate data. Your team's individual answers are never stored or visible to anyone.

Compass takes 2 minutes and gives people something immediately useful — a script they can use that same day. Uptake is consistently high when leaders frame it as support, not compliance. The rollout kit helps you do exactly that.

Yes. Monthly is designed for exactly that. Cancel anytime, no penalty. A lot of organizations start with one production, see the results, and convert to annual.

Compass costs less than one additional rehearsal hour. It costs less than one preventable conflict that derails a production week. For most organizations, one avoided crisis more than pays for a full year — and your team gets something useful in the meantime.

No. The Leadership Snapshot is de-identified and aggregated. Small-group suppression is built in, so even in small teams, no individual response can be traced back to a specific person. Individual answers are never stored or accessible to anyone.

Compass was built by Kira Troilo, founder of Art & Soul Consulting. Kira has worked with organizations including the Stratford Festival and built Compass on the STAGES™ Framework — Art & Soul's proprietary methodology for creative team health and collaboration. This isn't a generic wellness app. It's rooted in the specific realities of creative work under pressure.

Compass works for organizations of any size. For very small teams (under 5 people), the Leadership Snapshot will be suppressed to protect individual privacy — but your team still gets full access to the Compass Card check-in. Reach out if you'd like to talk through what makes sense for your context.

Ready when you are

Support more people.
Prevent the preventable.

Your people are doing the work. Give them the language to do it without burning out — and give yourself a way to see what's true before it becomes a crisis.

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No stored answers Cancel monthly anytime Built on STAGES™ methodology Piloted with Stratford Festival

Your team is carrying more than you know.Now there's a tool for that.

A Compass Card in 2 minutes.Not another survey.