case studycompleted
Compass
A completed job-search and relationship-management project, now packaged as a public build kit for creating your own private version.
claude codepythonsqlitejob search
- year
- 2026
- check-ins
- 4
Build log
Check-ins written while building, most recent first.
CompassBuild your own Compass: the system is now a public build kitI turned the useful parts of Compass into a public, privacy-first repository that another person can hand to an AI coding harness and use to build a job-search system around their own decisions.13 OctCompassCompass: The search is complete. The context carries forward.I’ve accepted a new role and am closing Compass as a standalone project. Its relationship-management concept is becoming part of PersonalOS, and the Compass name now belongs to the MCP and vault access layer.12 OctCompassA network engine that happens to be job huntingCompass is a system for the 2,164 people I have met over twenty years. It is pointed at a job search right now because that is where I am, and the search is the forcing function rather than the point.19 AugCompassThe half of Compass I did not need to buildCompass runs my job search against a target list I built by hand. Two or three working hours went into building the other half, the part that would generate that list for me, and the useful result was killing it.19 Aug