Compound is a short daily edition of what happened in venture and tech, built so you do something with it. You read the day, then commit to a call on it. Over time your record starts to show you how you actually think. Five minutes, most days.
The investors you admire formed views before the answers were in, then lived with how those views aged. That loop is what trains judgment, and no amount of reading substitutes for it. Compound gives you the loop.
Five steps, and you can see all of them a screen from here.
One edition, cut down from the serious sources of the venture world to the few stories that matter. There is no feed to scroll. When you reach the end, you're done.
Each story is reasoned through the way a seasoned investor would frame it, including what they'd be skeptical of and where the second-order effects hide. The Lens stops at the live tension and never gives a verdict, so the call stays yours, not an echo. Then you commit: pick a side, set how sure you are, and say why in your own words.
Once you commit, the call is locked and dated. Your reasoning is kept word for word, so the version of you that made it can't be quietly rewritten later. They wait here until the news settles them.
When the news settles a call, a reflective card walks you through what happened and asks whether your reasoning was sound given what you knew. A sound call that got unlucky is still a sound call.
You said Yes at Likely confidence.
"Regulators will grumble, but the divestitures are pre-baked and the scale logic is real."
The EU opened a Phase 2 review; the deal slipped past the window.
The divestitures answered overlap. The regulator cared about data consolidation.
Sound given what you knew then, not whether it worked out.
Your calls add up to a judgment profile. It shows whether the calls you marked likely land that often in practice, whether being right was earned or lucky, and it keeps every lesson you write down along the way.
Screens show sample data. Yours starts empty and fills in as you make calls.
There is no archive to fall behind on and no inbox guilt. One edition a day, and the news is mostly raw material for the practice.
Compound never tells you the answer. That would defeat the whole thing. It sharpens the question and hands you the call.
There is nothing to memorize. The frameworks stay invisible in the daily flow, and they surface only if you go looking for them in The Method inside the app.
Good forecasters' 70%s happen about 70% of the time. That skill is called calibration, and it's the centerpiece of your judgment profile.
Process over result is where learning lives, so Compound grades the decision you controlled, not the outcome you didn't. It also expects you to change your mind when facts change, not when the clock runs down. Do that daily, and it compounds.
I made Compound because I wanted to get better at venture judgment, and reading more wasn't doing it. This is the practice I wanted to exist. It works better with company.
— Sami