Organic chaos · Digital precision
Designing the future in harmony with life.
Compass Core is two practices under one roof. Compass Core AI builds AI-assisted systems that take real work off people's plates. Compass Core Studios makes functional art by hand, in wood, resin, and 3D print, and creates AI-generated video for artists and makers.
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Compass Core AI, in under thirty seconds.
Systems that do the work, with a person in charge. A short look at the dashboards, workflows, and handoffs we build around the way your team already works.
Compass Core AI
Systems that do the work, with a person in charge.
We map how work actually moves through an organization, then build AI-assisted systems around it: intake, follow-up, reporting, and the handoffs that fall through the cracks. We design for the days when things go wrong, not only the demo.
AI workflow design and automation
Agent-assisted workflows that connect to the tools you already use, such as Google Workspace, Shopify, and your email and calendar, with an approval step wherever a decision carries weight.
Websites and digital operations
Websites, internal dashboards, and the automations behind them, built together so the information your team relies on stays current without anyone copying it by hand.
Operational audits
A structured look at where time, money, and information leak out of your operation, followed by a prioritized plan: what to fix by hand, what to automate, and what to leave alone.
Systems for recovery and human services
Workflow tools for recovery housing, peer support, and care-coordination teams, designed by people who have directed those programs. Consent, privacy, and human escalation are built in from the start.
Ennette
Our multi-agent framework. It coordinates specialized AI agents on a task, pauses for approval when it should, resumes where it left off, and keeps a readable record of what each agent did and why.
Life Engine
A structured workflow engine for recovery programs, productivity routines, and personal planning. It runs small, repeatable loops such as daily planning and check-ins, and asks before it acts on anything outside the plan.
Voice Security
A voice-based identity app that lets people confirm who they are by how they speak. It is built on sovereign-identity principles: your voiceprint belongs to you, stays under your control, and is used only with your consent.
How we build
Approval before action
Anything consequential, such as sending, spending, or changing records, waits for a person to confirm it.
Scoped, consented data
Each system sees only what it needs. Access is explicit, logged, and easy to revoke.
Measured pilots
We start with one workflow and a short pilot, and report real numbers: time saved, errors, and overrides.
No lock-in
Workflows are written to move between AI providers, so a vendor's pricing change never strands you.
Working together
- ConversationA short call about what's slowing your team down and what a good outcome looks like.
- AuditWe map the workflow as it really runs today and pick the single best place to start.
- PilotWe build that one workflow and run it alongside your team, measuring the results.
- ScaleIf the numbers hold up, we extend it. If they don't, you keep the audit and the plan.
Compass Core Studios · Objects
A cabinet of forms that seem almost alive.
Each piece conceals a practical purpose beneath its grain, glow, and unfamiliar geometry. We pair live-edge wood and luminous resin with forms we model and print in-house, and every object is made to be used.
River Panels and Tables
River panels, tables, and stained display boxes. Each slab is chosen for its edge and grain; the resin is poured to work with the wood, not cover it.
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Round Platters
Platters and trays poured ring by ring in layered color, finished by hand.
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Serving and Charcuterie Boards
Boards made for the table: poured, cured, and finished by hand for everyday serving.
Make it yours →Planters and printed objects
Self-watering planters, modular enclosures, and storage systems, designed in-house and printed in small runs on a Bambu Lab P2S with multi-material AMS 2 Pro.
Sculpture and series
Bio-surrealist sculptural work, including the Aurum Rift series: limited, documented pieces that sit between object and artwork.
AI-generated video
Commercial spots and short films for artists, makers, and small brands, created with AI video generation and edited to a finished cut. We work from your concept, artwork, and images, and can fold in footage you already have. Delivered in the formats you need for web, social, and presentations.
Commissions
Tell us the space, the use, and the size. We'll send sketches, material options, and a timeline before anything is cut, poured, or rendered.
Anatomy · The self-watering planter
A living system disguised as an object.
Integrated layers keep moisture below the soil, so plants drink on their own schedule, not yours.
Upper plant basket
A removable, breathable insert keeps the growing medium aerated and lets excess water drain away from the roots.
Capillary wicking cord
Draws moisture up from the reservoir as the soil needs it.
Sub-irrigation reservoir
Holds water below the soil line for steady, even hydration.
Fill port
Clean, no-mess refills without lifting the plant.
Matter dreams too
Wood remembers.Resin suspends.Light reveals.The hand makes it singular.
The machine repeats. The hand interrupts. Our work moves between exact digital formation and intuitive craft until the object feels inevitable, but never anonymous. The same idea runs through our AI work: structure in service of something human.
Singular specimens
The Dark Archive
Past pieces suspended like specimens: one grain, one pour, one unrepeatable material event.
Metallic Resin Serving Board
Mineral Current
Nothing here is made twice.
Every pour settles differently. When a piece is gone, it's gone, which is why commissions start with a conversation.
Commission a piece ↗The seal of origin
The Compass Core Mark
One symbol unifies every Compass Core endeavor. It stands for direction, intelligence, and life in symbiosis, across the systems we build and the objects we make.
Origin, made visible.
The mark travels with the work, on our objects, our systems, and our documentation, as a record of where it came from.
What the mark means.
Direction, integrity, life, and continuity: the four commitments behind everything we put our name on.
People
A small founding team.
Backgrounds in operations, human services, technology, and craft.
Doug Panessa
Founder · CEO
Leads strategy, operations, and the studio. Two decades directing complex operations, including a 192-bed transitional living program, before founding Compass Core.
Jesse Wit
Co-Founder · Chief Mission Officer
Keeps the company's work anchored to its mission and to the communities it serves.
Daniel Moreira
Chief Technology Officer
Leads technical architecture across Compass Core's AI frameworks and client systems.
Summon an object · Start a system
Describe the thing that does not exist yet.
Give us its purpose, its setting, and its scale, whether that's a workflow, a table, or a thirty-second film. We'll translate it into a plan, a timeline, and a tailored estimate.
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