AI-Native Process Discovery & Certification
Turn undocumented expertise into certified, AI-ready process models in hours.
Every organization runs on processes that live only in people's heads. When someone leaves, knowledge walks out the door. When AI automation is introduced, it fails because no one has formally defined what the process actually does.
COMPASS™ changes that. An AI-native interview platform that sits down with your Subject Matter Expert, conducts a structured discovery conversation, and produces a Certified Process Model — formally validated, simulation-ready, and exportable in JSON with a complete Entity Catalog.
One trained practitioner + one COMPASS session = what used to take consultants six months.
Live Demos
Q1 2026
Availability
Live Now
In the making
44+ Years
Universal Process Grammar
Patent Pending
The $52B Automation Gap
The real reason 70% of AI projects fail.
Enterprise automation projects don't fail because of the technology — they fail because the process was never properly defined. Undocumented variations, conditional exceptions, and tribal knowledge break every downstream tool (Celonis, UiPath, custom AI agents).
COMPASS™ is upstream of all of them. It discovers and certifies the complete process blueprint — including every conditional path — so your automation actually works the first time.
Your SMEs speak plain English. COMPASS turns that into a structured, simulation-ready Process Intelligence Record. Compliance built-in. AI-ready from day one.
The COMPASS™ Solution
COMPASS™
COMPASS maps your operations with surgical precision using patent-pending Universal Process Grammar and Conditional Variable architecture. It embeds compliance and metrics by design, then delivers a complete, exportable model your IT and AI teams can use immediately.
Practitioners love it because they stay in full control. Organizations love it because complex processes that used to take months are now certified in a single session.
Two ways to start
- 01
Book a live demo
See COMPASS run a discovery session for your team, against your process.
- 02
Become a Certified Practitioner
Get trained to deliver COMPASS projects yourself — anywhere, any industry.
A Peek Behind the Curtain
Universal Process Grammar™.
Every business process — no matter the industry — shares the same deep structure: Actions, Objects, Actors, Conditionals, and Handoffs. Manufacturing a turbine, onboarding a patient, closing the books — surface-level they look unrelated. Underneath, they're the same grammar.
Universal Process Grammar™ (UPG) is our proprietary framework that formalizes that deep structure. It's what lets COMPASS extract a complete, validated process model from a conversation instead of months of consulting workshops.
UPG is rigorous at the process level. Pair it with AI at the discovery and execution layers and the result is transformative: faithful models in hours, ready for automation, simulation, and agentic workflows.
Origin: UPG draws on a generative-grammar tradition in linguistics — finite rules, infinite valid outputs — re-applied to operational work.
Universal Process Grammar — Six Principles
Application / Request
How work enters the system. Every process has a front door. Something arrives, is received, logged, and triaged.
Verification / Processing
Confirming eligibility before substantive work begins. Is this case eligible to be processed?
Assessment / Evaluation
The core work of the process: risk scoring, document review, criteria application.
Determination / Decision
The formal output of the assessment: approved, denied, escalated, conditioned.
Exception Handling
What happens when the standard path cannot apply. If your process has no documented exception path, you have a best-case scenario, not a process.
Nomenclature
Every Actor, Action, Object, Conditional, and Handoff named with precision at every level. The prerequisite for executable automation.
Why This Matters
Surface structure varies by industry. Deep structure is universal. COMPASS doesn't just document what the SME remembers to say — it knows what a complete process must contain.
What We've Already Built
Proven.
De-risked.
Ready.
We're far past proof-of-concept. COMPASS is built and validated.
August 2025
116 tasks captured across 8 milestones in one hour.
December 2025
Interview Mode prototype operational and AI-powered.
Architecture
Stage-gated SME elicitation with Universal Process Grammar validation.
IP
Patent-Pending — Provisional Patent #63/954,078.
Technical risk is substantially reduced. Q1 2026 live demos are now available.
Inside COMPASS
A look at the working product.
Four modes — Discover, Analyze, Model, Automate — orchestrated around a single certified process model. Here's what practitioners actually see.
Home
Pathway Portfolio
Every operating pathway in one orientation strip — mode, coverage, and last activity at a glance.
Discover
Guided Process Interview
COMPASS interviews your SMEs job-by-job, capturing tasks, actors, and artifacts in real time.
Analyze
Automated Findings
Nine standard queries surface inefficiencies, redundancies, sequencing fixes, and automation candidates.
Model
Scenario Arrays & Path Analysis
Compare beaten paths against baseline — see duration, cost, and automation upside per scenario.
Export
Certified Process Model
Every pathway exports as a machine-readable artifact — ready for governance, training, and AI execution.
xFormative Services
Need help doing the work?
Beyond the product, xFormative partners directly with organizations on AI strategy, data readiness, training, and COMPASS implementation — every engagement grounded in the same Universal Process Grammar that powers our software.
AI Strategy Consulting
An AI roadmap ranked by value, feasibility, and risk — not a vendor wishlist.
Data & Process Readiness
Diagnose whether your data and processes are actually ready to be automated.
Training & Workshops
Build internal fluency in AI, process discovery, and Universal Process Grammar.
COMPASS Implementation
End-to-end delivery — from first interview to certified, AI-ready process models.
Get Started with COMPASS
Request a demo. Get certified.
Request a live demo, download our free Process Variation Checklist, and get in touch about Practitioner Certification.
Practitioners, consultants, and operations leaders — this form is for you.(VCs: we still welcome accredited investor inquiries.)