Startup Compass works with the organisations supporting founders, in two ways

    Buy Compass Plus for your participants and give every founder the full member product. Or run your own stage-gated program on the platform, under your brand, with your reviewers and your rubric. Two offers, and you pick the one that fits how your program works.

    Why programs work with us

    No placement fees.

    We take no money from the programs in our database. Founders get a straight read on what fits their stage, not a sales pitch dressed as advice.

    Stage-matched, not generic.

    Founders get the question they are facing now, not the one the average startup is told to ask. The platform reads where a founder actually is and filters to what matters at that point.

    One shared language.

    A cohort that works through the same framework arrives at reviews and conversations with the same vocabulary, so those conversations get sharper and faster.

    The two offers

    Group licences

    Compass Plus for every participant in your program. Your founders get the full member product: the assessment and stage read, the Index of over 400 Australian programs and opportunities, the Toolkit, and weekly Sessions. You give your cohort a serious product without running anything yourself. This is participant support, added to the program you already run.

    Configured instance

    Your program, running on the platform. You set the stages a founder moves through, the artefacts they submit at each gateway, the reviewers who assess them, and the rubric they are scored against. It runs under your brand, with your resource library and mentor pool, and every decision is recorded. This is your program operating on Startup Compass.

    What the configured instance does

    A configured instance gives your program four things, all configurable on the existing platform.

    Founders submit the artefacts that prove they are ready to progress at each gateway, so advancement rests on evidence rather than time served. Each submission routes to the right reviewer and is scored against your rubric. Every gateway decision is recorded in full, so an outcome can be traced back and defended if a founder or a funder asks. The whole instance is configured under your brand, with your resource library and your mentor pool.

    What we run and what we connect to

    The platform runs:

    • Assessment and stage read.
    • Gated artefact submission.
    • Reviewer routing and rubric scoring.
    • Decision audit trail and progression reporting.
    • Per-instance branding.

    It connects to:

    • Student and registrar records, by export or integration.
    • Room and space booking.
    • Events and calendar tools.
    • Mentor scheduling.
    • Your existing sign-in where you need it.

    How it lands

    A configured instance rolls out in two phases, both single-tenant.

    In progress

    Phase one

    A pilot instance. One program, configured on the core platform, live for a single cohort.

    Planned

    Phase two

    Program scale. The instance widens to your full intake, with the resource library and mentor pool configured in.

    Data and trust

    • Each program's founder data is isolated from any other's.
    • Founder data sits on infrastructure we control, hosted in Australia.
    • Any change that touches live founder data passes a human review gate before it ships.

    Talk to us

    Two conversations, depending on which offer fits.

    If you want to give your participants Compass Plus, start here.

    Support my founders

    If you want to run your program on the platform, start here.

    Run my program on Startup Compass