ArtsManaged Compass
Choppy water.
Quirky ship.
You weren't meant
to go this alone.
As an arts management practitioner you often feel lost at sea — whether in unfamiliar or how-am-I-here-again depths. ArtsManaged Compass helps you get your bearings, with the questions a seasoned colleague would ask and the pushback a good one would give.
Built for Purpose
Guided by maps. Grounded in practice.
Generic AI tools have broad knowledge. ArtsManaged Compass has deep context and careful curation — built on the ArtsManaged Field Guide, Field Notes, the Ten Functions framework, and three decades of research, writing, and teaching in nonprofit arts management.
That body of work has an author: E. Andrew Taylor, tenured faculty of arts management at American University. It's publicly available, citable, and findable — you can verify it before you trust it.
The Plan
How it works
Start a conversation
A challenge, a question, a decision you’re facing in your arts management practice. Or upload a file to explore.
Think it through
ArtsManaged Compass asks questions, surfaces relevant frameworks, and helps you find the better path.
Take it with you
Download your profile or session report. Read it. Edit it. Bring it back to pick up where you left off.
“Compass has become the close, thoughtful mentor I’ve needed in a field that is traditionally apprenticed.
“Compass just talked me through a persistent challenge I’ve faced across roles and organizations, and is helping me create a plan to address it that feels durable AND do-able.
“Compass helped me synthesize my thoughts and even think about better or more eloquent ways of putting them together.
Start for Free
Build your Compass Profile
In ten minutes, you'll have a Compass Profile, a crisp snapshot of your current practice: your role, your active challenges, and the tensions you're carrying. Yours to keep, edit, share, and bring to any Compass session.
No cost. No obligation. Just your email address.
Build your Compass ProfileOur Thesis
Sharpening your practice,
not writing your content
Evolving AI systems can certainly write for you. But that doesn't build your capacity for better practice.
What makes you better is thinking more clearly about your program logic, your theory of change, your organizational dynamics — and then crafting solutions yourself, in your voice, from a place of genuine and lived understanding.
ArtsManaged Compass helps reveal the path to get there.
Pricing
$15/month
7-day free trial · Cancel anytime
- ✓Ten-minute profile interview to frame your context and focus your work
- ✓Conversation with a field-informed AI thinking partner
- ✓Ten Functions and 20+ other time-tested arts management frameworks
- ✓Monthly conversation budget with usage tracker — designed for thoughtful sessions, not unlimited chat
- ✓Session Portfolio to carry context between sessions
- ✓PDF document upload for in-session analysis
- ✓Your data stays yours — no conversation is stored on our servers between sessions
Education
$10/month
7-day free trial · For current students and faculty at accredited institutions
- ✓All features of the full plan
- ✓Active .edu email and annual confirmation of student or faculty status required