The Compass

Daily ritual. Four questions. One synthesis. No fluff.

Works with any AI — Claude, ChatGPT, or whatever you trust. Save your synthesis after each session and bring it into your next conversation. The thread is the practice.

Your Context

This shapes how the synthesis reads your responses. Fill it in once per session.

Name What should the Compass call you?

Current situation 2–4 sentences. Who are you, what are you building, what's the core tension?

Primary tracks 1–3 goals, one per line.

Saboteur signatures How your inner critic shows up as behaviour, one per line.

Time horizon e.g. 6 months, end of Q3 2026

Synthesis tone

Current psychological phase Optional. e.g. "Building execution identity", "Clearing old patterns". Leave blank to skip.

This Session

1 Evidence Log What did you build, ship, or complete since your last session that didn't exist before?
Verifiable outputs only — not learning, not planning. Finishes.

2 Drift Audit Where did you spend time that wasn't consistent with your primary track? What was the real reason?

3 Saboteur Signature Did the internal critic show up? In what specific behavioural form — avoidance, overengineering, social friction, drift to low-leverage work?

4 Non-Negotiable One specific output that will exist at your next session that doesn't exist today. Not a task. An artifact.