About the Compass
The Value-First Compass.
The ecosystem is wide enough that knowing what exists is a different problem from knowing where you are in it. The Compass answers the second one.
You say where you are. It does not work it out. The Compass asks one question, once, and you answer it — or you do not, and it still works. Nothing here watches you to find out, and nothing about you leaves your browser.
Right now
It is live, on every page of this site.
The Compass is the button in the bottom-right corner of every page here, including this one. Click it and the map opens over whatever you were already reading — you do not go anywhere to use it, and closing it puts you back exactly where you were.
It asks one question — What brings you here? — and you pick the answer that sounds like you. The field then draws itself around the spot you named: four depths, from everything Value-First builds down to the single surface you are standing on, and two lenses that read that same field two different ways. Nothing is worked out from what you read or how long you stay.
You can change your answer, turn the map off, tell it to forget your position, or ask it to show you everything it holds — separate controls, each one working without the others. Under the answers, the Compass says: “Your answer stays in this browser.”
The field
Four depths, from the whole to the particular.
The Compass renders the ecosystem as a set of nested depths rather than a list. You move outward to see context and inward to see detail; the same place looks different at each depth without becoming a different place.
Galaxy
Everything Value-First builds, at once — every site, product and surface in one view.
Constellation
A family of related surfaces that share a spine, seen together rather than one at a time.
World
A single destination — one site or one product, and what it is for.
Place
A specific surface inside a world: the page or room you are actually standing on.
The field is the layer you open over wherever you already are, never a page of its own. The Compass button in the corner of this page is what opens it.
The lenses
One field, read more than one way.
Depth and lens are independent. Whichever depth you are looking at, a lens projects a Value-First reading onto it — and changing the lens never moves you.
The Value Path Journey Map
LIVE TODAYReads the field as the eight stages of the Value Path, so you can see which stage a surface actually serves.
The Five-Layer Operating Model
LIVE TODAYReads the field by operating layer — data, customer value model, intelligence, orchestration, interface.
What it will not do
Consent is the architecture, not a setting.
Most orientation features work by watching. This one is built the other way round, and the constraints are structural rather than promises in a policy page:
- Your position is whatever you say it is. Nothing is inferred from what you read, click, or how long you stay.
- It is computed and kept in your own browser. There is no per-person record on any server, because there is no server in this layer at all.
- No cross-site identifier, no fingerprint, no analytics — the package cannot reach the network, and its build fails if that ever stops being true.
- You can turn the map off and forget your position separately. Keeping the map without the memory is a supported choice, not a compromise.
When you do declare a position, it is written to exactly one place in your browser's local storage — vf-wayfinding:position:v1 — and nowhere else. You can read it, export it, or delete it whenever you like.
All of it is built this way in the package itself, and that is what runs here. Turning the map off and forgetting your position stay two separate controls, either working without the other.