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Getting Started

Welcome to Compass

In This Article: An overview of what Compass is, how its seven tabs are organized, and what each area is designed to ...

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My Compass Homepage

In This Article: A section-by-section guide to the My Compass homepage — including the Business Spotlight dashboard, ...

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Dashboards

Understanding Dashboards

In This Article: What dashboards are in Compass and how they differ from static reports, how the Dashboards tab is or...

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Creating and Building Dashboards

In This Article: How to create a new dashboard, use the Metrics panel to filter and drag charts onto the canvas, arra...

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Managing and Sharing Dashboards

In This Article: How to find, organize, and act on your dashboards from the Dashboards landing page — including using...

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Power BI Dashboards in Compass

In This Article: How Power BI dashboards built by your Compass team appear directly in the Compass Dashboards tab — w...

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Tasks & Requests

Creating and Managing Tasks

In This Article: When and why to use Tasks in a finance workflow, how to create tasks and fill in required fields, ho...

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Submitting and Tracking Requests

In This Article: How to submit a request to your Compass analyst team — including filling out the request form, assig...

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Lakehouse

Introduction to the Lakehouse

In This Article: An overview of the Lakehouse — Compass's secure file storage hub. Learn what it is, how to nav...

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Managing Files in the Lakehouse

In This Article: The hands-on guide to day-to-day Lakehouse operations: uploading files, the accepted formats a...

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Smith AI

Getting Started with Smith

In This Article: An orientation to the Smith tab in Compass — what it is, how the interface is organized, how to star...

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Prompts and Personas

In This Article: What makes an effective prompt, the four-element prompt anatomy with finance-specific examples, how ...

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Smith Settings and Configuration

In This Article: A reference guide to the configuration options available within Smith — including the...

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Understanding Smith Usage

In This Article: How Smith consumption is measured inside your Compass package, the four prompt complexity tiers, wha...

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Settings & Support

Account Settings and Security

In This Article: How to manage your Compass profile, update account credentials, understand plan and permission setti...

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Getting Help and Finding Resources

In This Article: Support channels, self-serve help center resources, FAQs for every Compass tab, real-world finance w...

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What's New

Release notes: August 2026

  This release brings a large set of changes to Compass and to Smith inside Compass. The headlines are a reworked Sm...

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