The CHELCIE Capital Compass is a working instrument for research institutions reconciling the commitments they have made against the funding still available to keep them. One workspace, from mandate to award.
The Compass is at once an operating system for execution— priorities, approvals, post-award, stakeholders — and a funding pathway engine that moves an initiative from identify, to match, to prepare, to authorized submission.
Every seam between the two is instrumented. A discontinued line surfaces the pathways that could replace it. A matched opportunity opens the approval routing that will clear it. Nothing is left on a whiteboard.
The Compass prepares the package, routes it through the institution's approvers, and hands it to the authorized signatory. The submission itself is the institution's act — recorded, attested, auditable.
This is the legal firewall, and the product value: a defensible instrument that a Sponsored Programs office can adopt without changing who signs.
The pilot cockpit is live. Begin at Command, or trace the APECS worked example end-to-end from priority to authorized submission.