A companion that grows up with you.

There are already a lot of apps marketed to autistic people. Most fall into three buckets. Speaking apps help nonverbal people communicate. Schedule apps help plan a day. Meditation apps help calm someone down after they're already overwhelmed. Parent apps mostly monitor children.

What's missing is a single companion that travels with a person across the lifespan — one an autistic seven-year-old can use today and the same person, at thirty-seven, can still rely on. The kid market treats autism like a problem to fix. The adult market treats autistic adults like a niche productivity segment. Neither gets a tool that respects them as a whole person, growing and changing.

Compass fills that gap. It is one product that does not change its mind about who you are just because you got older.

The Junior surface is gentler and visual, led by a friendly Specialist character. The Adult surface is clean and professional, with no cartoons and no "you got this" energy. Both share the same spine. A family can use both.

Three core modules sit on a shared spine. The MVP ships the spine — sensory toolkit, body-cue translator, and visual day — which alone is more useful than most single-purpose autism apps on the market today.

Seven specific things separate Compass from anything currently in the autism app market.

1. iOne product across the lifespan. Nobody else does this. The same product grows with the user instead of handing them off from a "kid app" to an "adult app."
2. iiDesigned with autistic adults — including the kid version. Tools designed with autistic input outperform tools designed without it. Every Junior feature is reviewed and signed off before release.
3. iiiNo surveillance posture. Compass defaults to the child's privacy. Where parent windows exist, they surface safety flags only — never content — and the child knows about them.
4. ivNo gamification that punishes a bad day. No streaks, no points, no shame. Skipping is a feature. A bad day cannot break anything.
5. vThe body is the source, not the problem. The body-cue translator helps you notice what your body is telling you. It offers candidates. You pick. Or you don't.
6. viYou choose your own language. An identity-language toggle lets you pick "autistic" or "person with autism," and the app updates everywhere.
7. viiPrivacy-floor by architecture. Sensory data, voice, and body-cue information are processed on the device. They never leave the phone unless you explicitly send them.

Compass holds the same privacy floor as every other product America's Future builds. That floor is not a setting you have to find — it is architectural, built into the code at the foundation. Sensory data, voice, and body cues are processed on the device and never sent anywhere. Voice is analyzed in memory and immediately destroyed. Compass will never sell user data — not behavioral profiles, not sensory patterns, not anything. Stated in product, enforced in code, audited annually.

Four subscription tiers and a sponsored-access program. The free tier is genuinely useful, not crippleware. Mission seats keep the app accessible to families who cannot pay.

Compass ships in eight versions from MVP to v2.0. The Shared Spine alone is something an autistic adult or kid actively reaches for.

1. v0.1The Shared Spine — sensory toolkit, body-cue translator, visual day, both surfaces, on-device floor.
2. v0.2Live Translator — bidirectional social decode and draft, post-mortem mode.
3. v0.3Special Interest Engine — interest hub, deep-dives, portfolio export for IEPs and interviews.
4. v0.4Safety-Flag Window — opt-in caregiver view, safety flags only, strict scope.
5. v0.5Sensory Map — community-rated venues, privacy-first, anonymized contribution.
6. v1.0Family Bridge — consented pairing across instances. Shared regulation language. Launch.
7. v1.1Ecosystem Plug-Ins — Whiteboard persona, Family Detective Lab toolkit, Kit-in-a-Box tier.
8. v2.0Pro & Workforce — clinician console, workplace accommodation builder.