Political Intelligence Platform
Built by CL Corporate Affairs Consulting, Compass rationalises legislative tracking, weighs stakeholder influence, and structures engagement, leveraging in-house algorithms and European AI to anticipate the next political and institutional steps.
An optional zero-knowledge architecture lets users encrypt their data on-device, so no one (not even the provider) can read what they produce on Compass.
COMPASSbyCL Corporate Affairs is designed to rationalise, synthesise and centralise the work that underpins effective public affairs advisory. The platform helps practitioners identify the topics that matter, track files from the earliest Commission consultations through to the full legislative procedure, and map the relevant stakeholders around each dossier — so that engagement can be better prepared, better documented and, ultimately, more impactful.
Public affairs advisory, whether practised in-house or as a consultant, relies on a substantial body of preparatory work: legislative tracking, identification of relevant actors, mapping of positions and influence, outreach logging. In most organisations, that groundwork is fragmented across browser tabs, email threads and hand-maintained spreadsheets, time-consuming, and insufficiently structured.
Compass Political Intelligence Platform modernises the practice of public affairs through the measured use of artificial intelligence and digital structuring tools. It consolidates what used to be scattered into one integrated workspace, so practitioners can reinforce their added value where it truly lies: in their political instinct, their communication strategy, and their ability to interact humanly with all relevant stakeholders — in order to deliver public affairs strategies with ever greater impact.
Compass is rolled out incrementally and structured around several pillars. Each module solves a real practitioner pain point and addresses every aspect of the daily work of an EU Affairs professional.
Built on publicly available institutional data — EUR-Lex, OEIL, the EU Transparency Register, Have Your Say — with AI enhancement, whilst observing strict GDPR compliance. For more information, see our Privacy Policy.
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César Lesage Founder & Managing Director, CL Corporate Affairs Consulting
One evening, I realised I could no longer bear losing so much time jumping from one institutional website to another for my monitoring and follow-up work, and spending hours behind the scenes building stakeholder maps in spreadsheets and Word documents! What I really wanted was to focus on what made me choose this profession in the first place, and to make better use of my savoir-faire: substantive political analysis, advocacy strategy, a fine understanding of each actor's sensibilities and interests, and of course the human relationships to build and nurture with each of them.
Because before we are technicians, we are tacticians; before we are executors, we are strategists. Compass was never conceived as yet another gimmicky SaaS subscription to pile on the stack, but as an indispensable working tool, comprehensive and complete, built to gain in productivity and in substance. The ambition I carry through the development of this service is to help practitioners finally overcome the time-consuming, draining back-office frustration, to refocus on the heart of their craft, in a spirit of fraternal cooperation among peers, so that their public affairs strategies can have even greater impact.
César Lesage Founder & Managing Director, CL Corporate Affairs Consulting
Compass is designed for professionals across the full spectrum of the public affairs and institutional relations ecosystem: in-house public affairs teams, consultancies, trade associations, think tanks, NGOs and any organisation whose work involves engaging with policymakers.
Because Compass is built and operated by a working public affairs consultancy, access is granted in strict compliance with the ethical rules of the profession, and subject to compatibility with the consultancy's and its clients' professional engagements. This is a deliberate choice: we would rather decline an account than risk a conflict of interest with the work already entrusted to CL Corporate Affairs by others.
In practice, account requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. For most prospective users this is transparent; where a potential overlap exists, it is discussed openly before any access is granted.
Public affairs and institutional relations is a profession we know: we practise it ourselves. Because of this, we also know very well how fundamental discretion and trust are in our work, not only as principles but also as working conditions. We also believe, firmly, that a tool serving our profession must itself embody these commitments and ethics.
The files you follow are, by their very nature, profoundly sensitive, as is the engagement you build with stakeholders. All of this must be your data. And yours alone.
In every case, we commit never to consult the data you enter into this tool, nor to reuse it — even indirectly — in our own consulting engagements at CL Corporate Affairs, and we state these commitments expressly in our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.
For users who wish to reinforce these commitments with a technical guarantee, Compass offers an optional end-to-end encryption mode, activated from Manage my account. Once turned on, your notes, the annotations on your stakeholder map, attributed positions, private comments, priorities, and the very list of files you track are encrypted in your browser before being stored, with a key derived from your password. We cannot access them ourselves either.
That cryptographic separation is mathematical, and is by design, more robust than any separation between corporate entities could be: when end-to-end encryption is on, the very same structure operating both activities cannot read what you write.
The conviction that this is the right answer to any confidentiality concern comes from being both a public affairs practitioner and the mastermind who designed the tool.
Privacy by design,
Sovereignty by conviction.
Compass is more than a tool to simplify and structure the practice of public affairs — it is a comprehensive approach to refocusing it on what truly creates added value.
Discover the consultancy behind it, the philosophy that shapes it, and the ethical commitments it carries.
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Compass Political Intelligence Platform is currently in beta phase and active development.
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