Today
Unified diagnostic
One frame, every dimension. Operations on the top row (capacity, break-even, labor). Strategic on the bottom (materials, health, growth moves). Every signal in your shop, in one read.
Connect your tools or load a sample shop — the diagnosis appears here.
This week
Quick wins
Top recommendation pulled from each connected tool — the moves you can make in days, not quarters.
This year
Strategic moves
Larger plays that reshape capacity, cost structure, or both. Modeled across all three tools at once.
Decisions in flight
Strategic trajectory
Every big move you decided in NextMove AI lives here. Compass tracks what you projected, what's actually happening, and what you'd do differently next time — the lessons most operators only learn after the fact.
On your radar
Equipment wishlist
Every machine you've evaluated in MachineROI — saved with its frozen payback math. Compass auto-refreshes the ROI as your throughput grows, ranks the wishlist by current payback, and alerts when one moves to top-of-list.
12-month plan
Goal tracking
Set targets across capacity, cost, and revenue — Compass tracks how every change moves you toward or away from them.
Your targets · 12 months out
Capacity
6,410 SF/wk
8,500 SF/wk
Labor cost
$2.74 / SF
$2.00 / SF
Monthly revenue
$165,000
$240,000
Break-even buffer
1.1×
1.6×
42% of the way there · 7 mo elapsed
Recommended targets
Compass suggests targets based on your shop's archetype, machinery profile, and market segment — calibrated against the top quartile of comparable fabricators.
SUGGESTED · MID-MARKET QUARTZ SHOP
Capacity → 8,500 SF/wk
Labor → < $2.00 / SF
Margin → 42%+
Labor → < $2.00 / SF
Margin → 42%+
Your path
Path to goal
A sequenced plan, not a wish list. Each step shows the move, the cost, and the impact on capacity, labor, and break-even simultaneously.
1
Tighten part spacing on the horizontal polisher. Your gap loss is at 4.8% — dropping it to 2% adds ~340 SF/wk capacity at zero cost. Move time: 1 week.
+340 SF/wk
2
Hire one fabricator instead of running 12 hrs OT/wk. You'll cut OT cost by $19k/yr while adding 65 SF/wk of capacity. Net labor cost drops $0.18/SF. Move time: 4–6 weeks.
−$0.18/SF
3
Add a sink-only CNC. Sinks are 24% of your main CNC time. A dedicated sink CNC unlocks ~620 SF/wk and shifts the bottleneck back to the saw. CapEx: $85k · Payback: 14 months.
+620 SF/wk
4
Re-price your top 3 ticket sizes by 6%. Your break-even buffer hits 1.4× — the right time to absorb a re-price. Modeled close-rate impact: −2 points, net margin +$31k/yr. Move time: 30 days.
+$31k/yr
Reality check
Track your actuals
Log real SF produced, hours spent, and revenue weekly. Compass calibrates against your forecasts and surfaces drift before it becomes a quarter you have to explain.
SF produced · weekly trend
5,840
vs. forecast 6,410−8.9%
Labor $/SF · weekly trend
$2.91
vs. target $2.00+45%
Revenue · monthly trend
$172k
vs. break-even $148k+16%
Bottleneck shifts · last 12 wks
Saw
9 wks saw · 3 wks CNCPattern: stable
Where you stand
Industry benchmarks
Anonymous comparison against shops in your archetype, region, and material mix. Where you lead, where you lag, where the gap is worth closing.
Labor $/SF
You
$2.74
Top 25%
$1.89
Industry
$3.12
SF/wk per fabricator
You
427
Top 25%
615
Industry
385
Gross margin
You
38%
Top 25%
48%
Industry
35%