Compass · by Davisville Labs

Build stronger college applications, one meaningful experience at a time.

Compass helps high school students discover what interests them, choose meaningful projects, build something real, and keep the work and moments they may want years later.

Grades 9–12 Student-led Parent-supported Compass AI Coach included
01 Discover what matters

Interests become personalized directions, project ideas, and majors worth exploring.

02 Build something real

Every project has a clear roadmap, focused milestones, and guidance when the student gets stuck.

03 Keep what matters

Finished work, important decisions, challenges, and moments of growth stay organized for later.

Compass AI Coach

Guidance built into every project

Help when they need it. Their work when they finish.

Compass AI Coach understands the project and the student’s current milestone, so it can help them get started, work through a challenge, find better questions, or improve what they have made without doing the project for them.

  • Get unstuck Turn a difficult milestone into one realistic next move.
  • Think more deeply Find useful questions, sources, perspectives, and possibilities to explore.
  • Improve the work Get thoughtful feedback while keeping the decisions, ideas, and finished result the student’s own.

How Compass Works

Explore. Build. Capture. Use.

A simple system for turning curiosity into experiences students can learn from, remember, and use later.
Explore

Start with what they care about.

Students identify interests, see personalized project directions, and begin exploring majors that may fit.

Build

Choose a project and make something real.

A clear roadmap breaks the project into manageable milestones, with Compass AI Coach available along the way.

Capture

Keep the work and moments that matter.

Students save finished work along with important decisions, challenges, discoveries, and moments of growth.

Use

Return to the experience when it matters.

Projects and preserved moments become a useful record for portfolios, major exploration, essays, activities, interviews, and future opportunities.

Built for students

Clear next steps without overwhelming dashboards.

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Parent-supported

See meaningful progress without managing the work.

Built for the long term

Important work and moments stay useful years later.

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Private by design

Student work and reflections stay connected to their account.