COMPASS Articles
Short reads on prequalification, risk, and the Q Score from the COMPASS team.
What is the COMPASS Q Score?
New to COMPASS? You're here for a Q Score to get prequalified and grow your business. Here's what it measures, why it's the industry's standard, and why more than 300 general contractors rely on it.
Perspectives
You don't vibe-code trust
I spent close to fifteen years helping take a credit ratings agency digital. The lesson that stuck has almost nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with what AI is about to do to our industry.
Perspectives
The Q Score is your construction credit score
You don't exist without a Q Score.
Perspectives
If no one can find you, do you even exist?
Tips for subcontractors to grow their business on COMPASS.
Perspectives
AI where it matters: the three-layer approach to construction data
Risk, trust, and where AI actually belongs in prequalification.
Perspectives
I have bonding. Why do you need more?
A bond tells a GC that a surety backed you. It doesn't tell them how you run the business. Here's why prequalification asks for more — and what it's really trying to see.
Perspectives
Won't they grind down my margins if I show them my financials?
What general contractors are actually looking for when they review your financials, and why it isn't your margins.
Product
COMPASS product update: May 2026
OCR autofill across the 1Form, a smoother renewal and authorization experience, group-level approvals, public profiles for subs, and faster reviews for GC teams.
Perspectives
There's no project. Why should I update my information now?
Why only updating your information for projects is not enough.
Product
COMPASS product update: April 2026
A more precise 1Form, clearer verification cues for review teams, public profiles begin rolling out, and tighter bid integrity for sealed projects.
Engineering
Progressive releases: built for stability, built with you
Goodbye, big-bang releases. We're moving to a three-stage progressive delivery model so you see what's coming weeks before it goes live, and you have full control over when to opt in.
Product
COMPASS product update: March 2026
Verification icons for review teams, the building blocks of public sub profiles, a new health and safety question on the 1Form, and a smoother first sign-in — plus a long list of fixes.
