Built by CL Corporate Affairs Consulting, Compass rationalises legislative tracking, weighs stakeholder influence, and structures engagement, leveraging in-house algorithms and European AI to anticipate the next political and institutional steps.
An optional zero-knowledge architecture lets users encrypt their data on-device, so no one (not even the provider) can read what they produce on Compass.
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is designed to rationalise, synthesise and centralise the work that underpins effective public affairs advisory. The platform helps practitioners identify the topics that matter, track files from the earliest Commission consultations through to the full legislative procedure, and map the relevant stakeholders around each dossier — so that engagement can be better prepared, better documented and, ultimately, more impactful.
Modernising the practice of public affairs
Public affairs advisory, whether practised in-house or as a consultant, relies on a substantial body of preparatory work: legislative tracking, identification of relevant actors, mapping of positions and influence, outreach logging. In most organisations, that groundwork is fragmented across browser tabs, email threads and hand-maintained spreadsheets, time-consuming, and insufficiently structured.
Compass Political Intelligence Platform modernises the practice of public affairs through the measured use of artificial intelligence and digital structuring tools. It consolidates what used to be scattered into one integrated workspace, so practitioners can reinforce their added value where it truly lies: in their political instinct, their communication strategy, and their ability to interact humanly with all relevant stakeholders — in order to deliver public affairs strategies with ever greater impact.
One evening, I realised I could no longer bear losing so much time jumping from one institutional website to another for my monitoring and follow-up work, and spending hours behind the scenes building stakeholder maps in spreadsheets and Word documents! What I really wanted was to focus on what made me choose this profession in the first place, and to make better use of my savoir-faire: substantive political analysis, advocacy strategy, a fine understanding of each actor's sensibilities and interests, and of course the human relationships to build and nurture with each of them.
Because before we are technicians, we are tacticians; before we are executors, we are strategists. Compass was never conceived as yet another gimmicky SaaS subscription to pile on the stack, but as an indispensable working tool, comprehensive and complete, built to gain in productivity and in substance. The ambition I carry through the development of this service is to help practitioners finally overcome the time-consuming, draining back-office frustration, to refocus on the heart of their craft, in a spirit of fraternal cooperation among peers, so that their public affairs strategies can have even greater impact.
Live tracking of legislative files from the Parliament's OEIL database, with direct access to MEP amendments and the underlying Commission text. Each tracked file is enriched with a forecast of its next legislative steps and likely adoption date, computed by an in-house model calibrated on the previous EP mandate. The platform also surfaces the Commission's Have Your Say portal of public consultations and calls for evidence — the pre-legislative space, outside the formal lawmaking procedure, where stakeholders shape the early framing of EU initiatives.
Stakeholder mapping & position analysis
Identification of the stakeholders who matter most around a file — rapporteur, shadows, EP committees, Commission DGs, Council working parties. Each actor is weighted by influence and qualified by their stance on the dossier (support / neutral / oppose), so practitioners can distinguish primary targets from peripheral observers and prioritise where engagement effort will pay off. GDPR-compliant by design, sourced exclusively from publicly available transparent registers.
Outreach tracking & evaluation
Structured logging of meetings and exchanges with rapporteurs, shadows, Commission desk officers and Council representatives. Tracking how messages are received, evaluating outreach effectiveness over time, and consolidating a shared institutional memory that survives team turnover.
AI you control
Compass relies on Mistral, the European AI provider. The model can be run locally via Ollama on the user’s own machine (default), or accessed via Mistral’s European cloud API as an opt-in alternative. Either way, sovereignty is preserved by design: data either stays on the practitioner’s device, or is processed within European infrastructure. Never beyond. The practitioner always holds the pen: AI suggests, you decide.
How it works, in short
At the heart of Compass is a personalised radar. You pick one topic from a curated catalogue of EU policy areas, optionally refine it with keywords, and the platform delivers automatic tracking of legislative files as they progress, matched continuously against the institutional sources. You monitor, you track, you decide.
Everything is built on the collection of publicly available, relevant data from official institutional sources (Commission, Parliament, EU Transparency Register). Positions are analysed through modern, GDPR-compliant mapping tools, in line with the sector-specific framework recognised by the CNIL for the public affairs industry. The user retains full control over what is pulled and how it is used.
For the detail of what we process and why, see our Privacy Policy.
For whom is Compass intended
Compass is designed for professionals across the full spectrum of the public affairs and institutional relations ecosystem: in-house public affairs teams, consultancies, trade associations, think tanks, NGOs and any organisation whose work involves engaging with policymakers.
Because Compass is built and operated by a working public affairs consultancy, access is granted in strict compliance with the ethical rules of the profession, and subject to compatibility with the consultancy's and its clients' professional engagements. This is a deliberate choice: we would rather decline an account than risk a conflict of interest with the work already entrusted to CL Corporate Affairs by others.
In practice, account requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. For most prospective users this is transparent; where a potential overlap exists, it is discussed openly before any access is granted.
Your topics, your stakes : none of our business
Public affairs and institutional relations is a profession we know: we practise it ourselves. Because of this, we also know very well how fundamental discretion and trust are in our work, not only as principles but also as working conditions. We also believe, firmly, that a tool serving our profession must itself embody these commitments and ethics.
The files you follow are, by their very nature, profoundly sensitive: the positioning of stakeholders, the assessment of their influence, the engagement you build with them. All of this must be your data. And yours alone.
In every case, we commit never to consult the data you enter into this tool, nor to reuse it — even indirectly — in our own consulting engagements at CL Corporate Affairs, and we state these commitments expressly in our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.
For users who wish to reinforce these commitments with a technical guarantee, Compass offers an optional end-to-end encryption mode, activated from Manage my account. Once turned on, your notes, stakeholder mapping, attributed positions, private comments, priorities, and the very list of files you track are encrypted in your browser before being stored, with a key derived from your password. We cannot access them ourselves either.
That cryptographic separation is mathematical, and is by design, more robust than any separation between corporate entities could be: when end-to-end encryption is on, the very same structure operating both activities cannot read what you write.
The conviction that this is the right answer to any confidentiality concern comes from being both a public affairs practitioner and the mastermind who designed the tool.
Released in layers
Compass is rolled out incrementally. Each module solves a real practitioner pain point and plugs into the same topic/radar backbone.
Public Consultations & Feedbacks
EU public consultations and calls for evidence on the Commission's Have Your Say portal. Saved watches, closing-soon alerts, automatic suggestions from your tracked dossiers.
Legislative Tracking
Search and monitor EU legislative procedures. Committees, rapporteurs, shadows, procedural timeline, related Commission documents — all in one place. Compass also anticipates the next legislative steps and the likely adoption date of each tracked file, from an in-house algorithmic model calibrated on the legislative archives of the previous EP mandate.
Amendment Drafting
Draft your own amendments directly on the Commission proposal. On MEP amendments tabled in committee, position yourself (for, against, neutral) and add your comments — without editing their content. Side-by-side diff against the Commission text, EP-style DOCX export, single-amendment attachments ready to email.
Stakeholder Mapping
Influence scoring, position analysis, interactive visualisation of all the actors around a dossier.
Outreach Tracking
Log meetings, track message reception, build institutional memory across the team.
Compass is more than a tool to simplify and structure the practice of public affairs — it is a comprehensive approach to refocusing it on what truly creates added value.
Discover the consultancy behind it, the philosophy that shapes it, and the ethical commitments it carries.
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What will remain intact:
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stakeholder directories) and your past public-affairs outreach logs that
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