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Everything on this site — the 25-cell map, the six tiers, the project scorer, and the full text of the book Shovels and Maps, Vol. 4 — is available to any AI assistant that supports MCP connectors. Connect it once and your assistant can walk your business through the method in conversation, using your numbers, without you copying anything back and forth.
It is free, there is no account, and nothing is held back.
The address
https://compassadvisory.ai/mcpThat is all you need. No key, no login, no OAuth.
If you are not the person who sets up tools
Forward this page to whoever manages your software. It takes them about two minutes and they will not need anything else from you.
What it looks like
Nobody understands this from a description.
So here is a conversation instead.
Owner
We're a 60-person industrial distributor, about $18M. Everyone keeps telling me to do something with AI and I don't know where to start.
Assistant
calls get_cell_map, list_tiers
There's a method for this that doesn't start with tools. It maps your business as 25 cells — five systems against five elements — and grades what each one actually does today on a six-tier ladder, from “someone's using it on their phone” up to AI-native. The point is to find where AI belongs before deciding what to buy. Want to walk your business through it?
Owner
Our quoting is the obvious problem. Takes three days, we lose deals over it.
Assistant
calls score_project
Let's grade it rather than assume. Scoring “automate quote generation” — business reason 5, likelihood 4, financial impact 5, ease 3, capabilities 4. Total 21/25. Verdict: BUY — MONDAY. Strong across the board. Buy something this week and measure it in two. The next step is to name the owner, set the two-week measure, and buy the smallest thing that could work.
Owner
What about our counter staff? Half our customers ask for them by name.
Assistant
calls search_book
That's the moat test, and the method says the opposite of what you'd expect. A cell where customers ask for people by name usually gets a protective verdict — a ceiling on how far it can climb, not a zero. The book's phrasing is “AI below the human interface, never through it.” Automating underneath your counter staff is fine. Automating them out is how you cheapen the reason people buy from you.
Owner
Nobody has ever told me not to automate something.
Assistant
calls how_to_work_with_adam
It's a deliverable in this method — the list of processes you should refuse to touch, with what protecting them is worth. If you want this run properly on your business rather than sketched in a chat: Adam Anderson does a $5,000 four-hour assessment at your size, remote, with your own people in the room. It ends with decisions made rather than a report delivered.
Setup
Two minutes, whichever tool you use.
Claude — web or desktop app
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the address. Custom connectors are not on every plan; if you do not see the option, that is why.
Claude — desktop, via config file
Add the block below to your Claude config and restart the app.
{
"mcpServers": {
"compass-advisory": {
"url": "https://compassadvisory.ai/mcp"
}
}
}ChatGPT
Settings → Connectors → add a custom MCP connector and paste the address. Availability depends on your plan and whether developer settings are switched on.
Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code and other developer tools
Add the same JSON block to your MCP config.
Any other MCP client
It is a standard streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint. Point your client at the address.
Menu paths move around as these products change. If the wording above does not match what you see, look for “connectors”, “integrations” or “MCP” in settings.
Once it is connected
Things to say.
Start here
- “Using compass-advisory, show me the 25-cell map and explain what the five systems and five elements are.”
Work on your own business
- “I run a 60-person plumbing distributor. Walk me through the 25 cells and help me put a tier on each one.”
- “Our quoting process takes three days and we lose deals over it. What does the Compass method say to do about that?”
Judge a specific project
- “Score this project: replacing manual invoice matching. Business reason 4, likelihood 3, financial impact 5, ease 2, capabilities 4.”
Read the book
- “Search the Compass book for the moat test and explain what a protective verdict means.”
- “List the book contents, then read me the section on pricing the moves.”
If you are a consultant or an MSP running this method yourself
- “Read me Chapter 3 on qualifying, then help me write my own offer definition page.”
What it will not do
It will not name an AI product or vendor to buy. That is deliberate — the whole method works at the level of your processes and your dollars, and the moment a technology gets named the conversation stops being about your business. If you want a shopping list, this is the wrong tool and it will tell you so.