Most creative teams don't have a feedback problem. They have a timing problem.
The truth usually arrives late. A concern someone sat on. A boundary nobody named. A quiet over-functioner running on fumes until the week of strike, when it finally surfaces as conflict, burnout, or someone walking away.
By then it is expensive. The repair costs more than the early conversation ever would have. Your people knew something was off. They just didn't have the language, or the permission, to say it in time.
Compass gives them both: the language, and the permission, while it is still early enough to matter.
Surveys collect feelings. Compass hands back something you can use.
A team member checks in for two minutes. Compass reads where they are and generates a personalized Compass Card: not a score, not a dashboard for them to decode, but actual language calibrated to their moment.
- 1A mirror of what they're carrying, named plainly and without clinical jargon.
- 2A copy-paste script they can actually say, in both a peer version and a leader version.
- 3A boundary line for where their limit sits, framed as a skill rather than an attitude.
- 4A 24-hour next step small enough to actually do, plus a sensory reset to close.
For the over-functioner mid-process
Three moments where the truth tends to hide.
Compass is designed around how a show actually runs. Teams check in at the moments that matter most, and leaders see the pattern, not the people.
Kickoff
Set expectations and surface what people are carrying in before the work begins. The cheapest moment to prevent the expensive thing.
Mid-process
Catch the strain that builds in the middle: the creeping scope, the quiet over-functioning, the feedback that's arriving too late.
Strike
Close the run clean. What to carry forward, what to repair next time, and what to set down at the stage door instead of taking home.
See what your team needs, before it becomes a crisis.
While your team gets private, personal support, you get a calm, de-identified read on the room. The Leadership Snapshot is a one-page, sixty-second view of where your team actually is: bandwidth, what they're carrying, and the early signals worth watching while they're still easy to address.
You never see individuals. You see the pattern, early enough to do something small about it.
A calm, de-identified read on the room.
Real data, anonymized. Read it in sixty seconds.
This team is engaged and steady, and carrying real weight quietly. Most people show up resourced. About 1 in 4 is over-functioning or running low, and the strongest ask isn't more encouragement. It's clarity and a realistic load.
Name the scope out loud
Open the next gathering by stating what's in scope, who decides what, and what won't happen this round. Eases the two most-named signals before they cost anything.
Protect the over-functioners
A short, specific check-in ("What can come off your plate?") protects the people most likely to quietly absorb strain.
Your team can be honest, because their words stay theirs.
No account required
No login, no personal profile. A team member opens Compass, checks in, and gets their card. Nothing ties a response to a name.
Responses are anonymous
Individual check-ins and the cards they generate are never shared with leaders. What someone tells Compass stays between them and Compass.
Leaders see patterns, not people
Snapshots are aggregate and de-identified, with automatic small-group suppression. No leader can trace a trend back to a person.
Two ways in. Both support your whole team.
Start with a single show, or bring Compass to your whole season.
Every plan includes unlimited access for your entire cast, crew, staff, and students, plus the full rollout kit and all future upgrades.
- ✓ Unlimited cast, crew, staff, and student access for the run
- ✓ 3 Leadership Snapshots (de-identified): kickoff, mid-process, strike
- ✓ Full rollout kit and templates
- ✓ Light tech support
- ✓ Starts the week before first rehearsal, ends the week after strike
- ✓ Everything in Per Show, for every production
- ✓ Season-wide Leadership Snapshot: trends across the whole year, not one run
- ✓ Year-round access for staff, education, and administration
- ✓ Rate locked for the life of your subscription
- ✓ Priority support response
- ✓ Early access to new Compass features as they ship
Founding Organizations cohort. A small number of organizations are joining at current rates before pricing increases. Lock in now, and help shape how Compass grows.
The things leaders actually ask.
Is this therapy or mental health monitoring? +
Can we pilot it on just one production? +
Will people actually use it? +
Isn't this just one more thing to manage? +
We're a small organization. Is it worth it? +
How does the budget math work? +
From the rooms already using it.
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 BarrettDirector / ActorCompass 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 CacciatoriCo-founder & COO, ArtelizeCatch the real thing early. Start with one show.
Bring Compass to your next production, and give your team the language they've been missing before strike makes it expensive.