Compass Suite badge
Compass Suite

About the Author

The human imprint behind the Compass public tools.

Compass pages are designed to be useful on their own, but they should also make the source of the work clear. This page gives the short version of who made the suite, what it is for, and where to find the official public pages.

Back to Compass Suite

Jonathan Kyle Hobson

Jonathan Kyle Hobson is a UX researcher, product strategist, and AI tool builder with 10+ years of experience across design, storytelling, and emerging technology. He holds a master's degree in User Experience from Arizona State University.

Kyle builds the Compass Suite to make high-quality AI-assisted review more concrete, evidence-bound, and useful for people doing real work under real constraints.

Connect with Jonathan Kyle Hobson on LinkedIn

Why the Compass Suite exists

The Compass Suite gives AI assistants narrower jobs and stronger boundaries. Instead of asking a model to generally critique everything, each Compass focuses the work: reasoning, prompt design, UX review, or another bounded workflow.

What makes the tools different

The public Compasses are local-first, evidence-aware, and designed around explicit validation. They are not magic judges. They are structured helpers that make the review process easier to inspect, repeat, and improve.

Official release boundary

Official Compass releases are published by Jonathan Kyle Hobson through the linked public pages and GitHub repos. Modified forks should keep attribution, but they should not present themselves as official Compass Suite releases.

Critical Compass

Critical Compass helps pressure-test claims, evidence, framing, bias, and reasoning before high-stakes writing shapes decisions.

Open Critical Compass

Prompt Compass

Prompt Compass helps turn rough intent, messy drafts, and fragile AI instructions into prompts that are clearer, safer, and easier to use.

Open Prompt Compass

UX Heuristics Compass

UX Heuristics Compass helps make heuristic UX audits more concrete, structured, and useful before an interface ships.

Open UX Heuristics Compass