The first AI built for fiber and broadband

The way network
operators plan
just changed.

Describe a market. CompassAI builds the full project in minutes — production-ready HLD on ArcGIS, 10-year pro-forma, scenario comparisons, and a scored written evaluation. Plus permitting risk flagged per route, before a dollar is committed.

Tell Compass where you want to build. It produces a production-ready HLD on ArcGIS, models your financials with your cost assumptions, tests every scenario, writes the analysis, and flags the permitting load per route — federal, state, and local. Then keep refining in plain English: "now filter to incomes over $80K" — new scenario, instantly.

Build Evaluation — Miami County, KS

Ran 2 min ago

Map

Financials

Scenarios

Analysis

/12

Strong Opportunity

Median Age (41.2)2/2

Household Income ($72,400)2/2

Competition (≤1 provider, 68%)2/2

Avg Served Speed (94 Mbps)1/2

Miles/Passing (0.041)1/2

Density Response (+14.2 pts)1/2

AI Insight

Low competition and strong income profile — near-greenfield opportunity. Dense core IRR of 24.1% at density ≥ 60. This county builds well.

IRR by density threshold — best build configuration

density ≥ 60

24.1%

density ≥ 45

19.3%

density ≥ 30

14.8%

full footprint

8.2%

Permitting Risk Medium — franchise dependency on preferred route

Why trust us

We're not an AI company
that learned fiber.
We're fiber planners who built AI.

Our team spent years doing what CompassAI now does in minutes — designing fiber networks, modeling build economics, and helping operators make defensible capital decisions. Last year alone we supported over $2B in BEAD funding applications and designed networks across millions of miles of territory.

We took that methodology, encoded it into software, and made it available to any operator. CompassAI is that same analytical framework, running at machine speed — and at a scale manual analysis can't reach.

$2B+

in BEAD funding applications supported in the last year

Millions

of miles of fiber network designed using this methodology

All 50

states covered — rural, suburban, tribal, and municipal markets

Inside the product

Six views. One complete picture.

CompassAI is a full planning environment — map, model, insights, scenarios, and AI analysis, all connected.

Analysis

The report your board actually needs

CompassAI tests every combination of density, competition, and income thresholds, then generates a scored Build Evaluation and a complete written market analysis — territory overview, signal-by-signal rationale, network design insight, and build priority ranking.

Build Evaluation: X/12 composite score with labeled verdict

IRR tested at every parameter combination — optimal settings identified automatically

Full written report — the kind of analysis that takes an analyst team weeks

Map

Production-ready HLD on ArcGIS

CompassAI produces a production-ready high level design — fiber routes planned on satellite imagery, overlaid with competition layers, income data, and coverage boundaries. Built on ArcGIS, the geospatial platform used across broadband infrastructure planning.

Upload your existing network — CompassAI plans around what you already have

Live metric bar — miles of fiber, cost/passing, IRR, 10-year revenue, always visible

Multiple named scenarios overlaid on the same map for direct comparison

Scenarios

Every build option, side by side

Compare multiple build scenarios simultaneously — Best IRR, Balanced, Best No-Pruning, income-filtered, or your own custom configurations. Every metric shown with % deltas so the tradeoffs are immediately clear.

Named scenarios: Best IRR, Balanced, Best No-Pruning, income filters, Baseline

Side-by-side: passings, fiber miles, CapEx, cost/passing, 10-year revenue, IRR

% delta against baseline — shows exactly what each decision costs or saves

Financials

A full 10-year pro-forma, instantly

Not a summary — a full pro-forma income statement, year by year, line by line. Standard and premium subscriber revenue, new subscriber growth, cost of goods sold, grant amounts — all modeled across the decade against your assumptions.

Year 1–10 revenue by subscriber tier and growth curve

Full cost structure — hardware, OpEx, CapEx

Grant modeling built in — net cost after subsidy shown automatically

Insights

Market signals, interpreted

Provider competition distribution, download speed breakdowns, household income percentiles — powered by our proprietary location dataset and interpreted by AI for your specific build economics.

ISP competition by block — 0 through 4+ providers with cumulative totals

Download speed distribution — identifies underserved pockets in the footprint

Income percentiles with take rate and affordability implications

Settings

Your build economics, your assumptions

Set the financial inputs that drive every projection — fiber cost by type, ARPU tiers, adoption rates, hardware costs, grant percentage, discount rate. Pre-loaded with market-based defaults from real deployments. Change any number and everything recalculates instantly.

Network Design: aerial/buried fiber cost per mile, density threshold

Pricing & Revenue: standard and premium ARPU, subscriber mix

Funding & Grants: grant %, subsidy per location, bid multiplier

What it produces

Weeks of analysis, in minutes — plus the thousand scenarios you could never run by hand.

CompassAI doesn't just score markets — it reasons about them, at a scale analyst teams can't match. Every analysis includes a production-ready HLD, a full written report, a composite score, and a clear recommendation.

Your financial model, your assumptions

Set your aerial and buried fiber cost, ARPU tiers, adoption rates, grant percentage, and discount rate. Pre-loaded with real-world deployment benchmarks — adjust to match your market and your costs.

Composite market score — X/12

Every market is scored across six signals and tested at dozens of filter combinations. CompassAI identifies the optimal build configuration — the exact settings that maximize IRR. Not guessed. Computed.

Written analyst narrative

A professional-grade written evaluation — territory overview, signal-by-signal rationale, network design insight, and build priority ranking by competitive segment. The kind of analysis that takes an analyst team weeks.

A verdict you can defend

"Build Now." "Proceed with Conditions." "High Caution." A labeled recommendation backed by data and reasoning — with the production-ready HLD on ArcGIS showing exactly where to build.

Build Evaluation Report

AI Generated

9/12

Strong Opportunity

Miami County, KS

A predominantly underserved rural county with strong income demographics and minimal fiber competition. The dense core builds at 24.1% IRR — clear, defensible build case.

Median Age (41.2)

Strong Positive

MHI ($72,400)

Strong Positive

Competition (≤1 provider)

Strong Positive

Avg Speed (94 Mbps)

Neutral

Mi/Passing (0.041)

Positive

Density Response (+14.2 pts)

Strong Positive

Sweet Spot

density ≥ 60, competitors ≤ 2 — 8,400 BSLs in dense greenfield core, rural tails pruned.

24.1% IRR · $14.2M CapEx · 467 fiber miles

Permitting risk, up front

"This route has 200 permits. That one has 50."

The expensive surprise on a fiber build isn't the map — it's the permitting load you discover after capital is committed. CompassAI flags it before.

Federal layers, per route

Federal lands, tribal lands, wetlands, railroad crossings, and ESA critical habitat — live spatial intersection against authoritative federal layers. Every route segment labeled with exactly what it triggers.

State and local, by jurisdiction

State D.O.T. encroachments, county right-of-way, municipal franchise agreements, 811 — loaded from a per-jurisdiction knowledge base with named contacts and process flows. Not "contact the county." Name, phone, email.

Per-scenario comparison

Every scenario you build gets its own permitting analysis — so the CapEx-cheap route that gets stuck in a franchise negotiation shows up next to the route that actually clears.

We flag risk. You file permits.

CompassAI isn't a filing service. It replaces the expensive surprise — catching the permit load before capital is committed, not after the trenchers are on site.

Permitting Risk Report

Per Scenario

Medium

Franchise dependency

Miami County, KS — Best IRR scenario

Osawatomie franchise agreement required before any municipal permit can be issued — sequence-critical, not fee-critical. Engage 90 days ahead of construction.

Federal lands crossed

None

Wetlands intersected

3 segments

Rail crossings

2 — BNSF

County ROW permits

Miami Co. — standard

Municipal franchise

Osawatomie required

ESA critical habitat

None

Route comparison

Best IRR route: 47 distinct permits, franchise-blocked. Balanced route: 28 permits, no franchise dependency.

How it works

Build. Refine. Analyze. Decide.

CompassAI is built on ArcGIS — the industry-standard geospatial platform used across broadband infrastructure planning — with a purpose-built AI layer that turns the map into a planning conversation.

Describe your market

Tell CompassAI what you want to build — and upload your existing network so it plans around what you already have. It produces a production-ready HLD on ArcGIS and loads all market data automatically.

You say"Build me a fiber plan for Miami County, KS — $40k/mi aerial, 60% take rate."

Refine with follow-up instructions

Keep narrowing: "now build only to incomes over $80K" or "filter out areas with 3+ competitors." Each instruction builds a new scenario on the map instantly — real build options, not just numbers.

You say"Now show me just the dense core — density over 60 and greenfield only."

Read the AI evaluation

CompassAI tests every combination of density, competition, and income parameters, then writes a full market evaluation — scored signals, network design insight, build priority ranking, composite score, labeled verdict.

Output"9/12 — Strong Opportunity. Dense core builds at 24.1% IRR. Build Now."

Make the call

Walk into your board meeting or capital planning session with a scored, written, defensible market analysis — every assumption documented, every number traceable back to the model.

ExportBoard summary, full evaluation report, scenario comparison table.

The new equation

Your team, operating at a different level.

An experienced analyst team gives large telcos a powerful combination: deep domain expertise plus analytical horsepower. CompassAI gives that same combination to any operator — permanently embedded, always available, and operating at a scale no analyst team can match by hand.

Before

Your team + gut feel

→

Old alternative

Analyst team + weeks

→

With CompassAI

Your team × CompassAI

🧠

Real expertise, encoded

CompassAI encodes the analytical framework used to plan billions of dollars of fiber deployment — broadband market dynamics, build economics, competitive displacement, capital efficiency — applied to your specific market.

⚡

A different scale of analysis

An analyst team can compare a handful of scenarios. CompassAI compares a thousand — every density threshold, every income cut, every competitive filter — and reports the configuration that actually maximizes IRR. Not just faster analysis. A different shape of analysis.

🗺️

Industry-standard foundation

Built on ArcGIS — the same geospatial platform used across the broadband industry. The AI layer makes it accessible to any operator, not just GIS-trained specialists.

Pricing

One plan. Everything included.

Founding Rate

^$199

per seat · per month*

Full AI planning environment — map, financials, scenarios, analysis
Proprietary location dataset included — no separate data license needed
Upload your existing network — brownfield-aware planning from day one
Unlimited market scoring, scenario modeling, and build comparisons
AI-written evaluation reports with composite scoring
Board-ready exports and full evaluation reports

Month-to-month. Cancel anytime — no annual contract.

* - Restrictions Apply

The way network
operators plan
just changed.

90 seconds. One complete market evaluation.

We're not an AI company
that learned fiber.
We're fiber planners who built AI.

Six views. One complete picture.

Weeks of analysis, in minutes — plus the thousand scenarios you could never run by hand.

"This route has 200 permits. That one has 50."

Build. Refine. Analyze. Decide.

Your team, operating at a different level.

One plan. Everything included.

The network AI your competitors
don't have yet.

The way networkoperators planjust changed.

90 seconds. One complete market evaluation.

We're not an AI companythat learned fiber.We're fiber planners who built AI.

Six views. One complete picture.

Weeks of analysis, in minutes — plus the thousand scenarios you could never run by hand.

"This route has 200 permits. That one has 50."

Build. Refine. Analyze. Decide.

Your team, operating at a different level.

One plan. Everything included.

The network AI your competitorsdon't have yet.

The way network
operators plan
just changed.

We're not an AI company
that learned fiber.
We're fiber planners who built AI.

The network AI your competitors
don't have yet.