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Compass 2.0
The founder diagnostic that isn't an AI chatbot
A year ago, Compass launched with an AI coach. Today we replaced it with something far better: honest, deterministic clarity. Compass 2.0 is a 10-minute diagnostic sensor for founders. Answer 10 questions to see: • Where your business actually stands • What’s proven vs what’s still a guess • The single highest-priority action for your current phase No hallucinated advice. No empty engagement loops. Just a calm, grounded compass for the journey ahead. Free and self-serve.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I’m Jason, co-founder of Prepare 4 VC.
When we first launched Compass on Product Hunt about a year ago, our tagline was “10-min founder diagnostic + weekly AI coach.”
Like a lot of teams in 2024–2025, we thought pairing an assessment with an AI conversational agent was the future. We built chatbots, automated email check-ins, and conversational guidance.
Then we listened to founders using it.
The feedback was consistent and humbling: founders didn’t want another chatbot pretending to be a mentor. They didn’t need generic LLM encouragement or speculative advice. When you're drowning in decisions and running every role at once, opening a chat box is just more cognitive load.
What founders actually needed was an instrument—something calm, honest, and fast that helps them orient themselves:
What matters right now? (Cutting through 50 competing priorities to the 1–3 areas that actually determine survival and traction).
What’s proven vs. what’s still a guess? (Separating self-reported assumptions from observable evidence).
What do I do next? (One concrete, practical step for your exact stage—not a generic to-do list).
So over the past year, we made a deliberate architectural decision: we killed the AI chatbot entirely.
We rebuilt Compass 2.0 as a deterministic diagnostic sensor. It takes 10 targeted questions (~5–10 minutes) and delivers a structured, grounded readout of where your venture stands and where your blind spots are. No vanity scores, no hallucinated advice, and no sales traps.
It is 100% free and self-serve at compass.prepare4vc.com.
Steve, Chris, and I would love your honest feedback:
If you’re a founder: does the readout give you genuine clarity on your current bottlenecks, or does it feel like familiar ground?
What’s the hardest part about prioritizing your own time right now?
We’ll be here in the comments all day answering questions. Thank you for checking out Compass 2.0!
About Compass 2.0 on Product Hunt
“The founder diagnostic that isn't an AI chatbot”
Compass 2.0 was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #37 on the daily leaderboard. A year ago, Compass launched with an AI coach. Today we replaced it with something far better: honest, deterministic clarity. Compass 2.0 is a 10-minute diagnostic sensor for founders. Answer 10 questions to see: • Where your business actually stands • What’s proven vs what’s still a guess • The single highest-priority action for your current phase No hallucinated advice. No empty engagement loops. Just a calm, grounded compass for the journey ahead. Free and self-serve.
On the analytics side, Compass 2.0 competes within Productivity, Artificial Intelligence and Startup Lessons — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Compass 2.0 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Compass 2.0?
Compass 2.0 was hunted by Jason Kraus. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Compass 2.0 including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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