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Part of Tabotec AtlasAtlas Compass — help that lives inside Atlas.
Compass is the help built into Tabotec Atlas. Instead of hunting through a manual, you ask Atlas how to use Atlas, in your own words, and it answers from its own guides with the exact passage it used. It works offline, it is included with every licence, and nothing you ask leaves your computer.
What it is
Atlas already answers questions about your documents. Compass makes it answer questions about itself.
When Atlas is installed, it reads its own Quick Start Guide, User Guide and the install guide for AI agents into a workspace called Atlas Help. Those guides are indexed exactly like your contracts or reports are. So the same thing that lets you ask "what is the notice period in this lease" lets you ask "how do I add a colleague to a workspace", and get an answer with the page it came from.
Inside Atlas, in the Atlas Help workspace
Where do I see how many seats my licence has?
What it does
Ask in plain language
"Where do I paste my licence?", "What does the memory slider do?", "How do I move Atlas to a new computer?" Compass answers from the guides and shows the passage, so you can check it.
Help for your AI assistant too
The install guide written for AI agents is part of Atlas Help. Hand it to Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant and it can walk you through installing and setting up Atlas, step by step, without guessing.
Private and offline
The guides live inside the app. Questions are answered by the same model that answers about your documents, on your computer when you chose a local configuration. No support server, no tracking.
Atlas knows its own screens
A map of every page, button and setting, generated from the app itself, so Compass can answer "where is the export button?" precisely rather than in general terms.
A Help button on every page
Ask about the screen you are on. Compass will know which page is open and answer about that slider, that table, that setting.
"Take me there"
Answers end with a link that opens the right page in Atlas. Read the answer, click, you are there.
How to use it
Three steps, no setup.
- Open Atlas and switch to the Atlas Help workspace. The workspace switcher is at the top of the window. Atlas Help is created on the first start and filled in the background; on a laptop the first fill takes a few minutes while the local models load.
- Open AI Chat and ask your question the way you would ask a colleague. You do not need to know the name of a feature. Describe what you want to do.
- Read the answer and click the citation. Every answer names the guide and section it came from. Click it to see the full passage. If Compass says the guides do not cover something, email [email protected] and a person answers.
Questions people ask Compass
What Compass knows
The guides, and only the guides.
Compass answers from the documents Tabotec ships with Atlas. It does not read your own documents to answer a help question, and it does not read the application's source code. The guides describe how to use Atlas; they contain nothing about how Atlas is built.
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Quick Start Guide | Install, the four setup screens, your first answer, common problems. |
| User Guide | Every feature: workspaces, projects, memories, people and seats, licence, models, software updates, backups. |
| Install Guide for AI Agents | The same installation, written so an AI assistant can carry it out with you. |
Keeping it current
Updated with Atlas.
The guides are part of the Atlas download. When you update Atlas, Atlas Help is refreshed with the guides for that version, so Compass never describes a screen you do not have. The same guides are also saved as PDF files in an Atlas folder in your Documents during installation, for reading away from the app or for printing.
Deleted the Atlas Help workspace? It is recreated the next time Atlas starts. Nothing you ask Compass is stored anywhere except your own conversation history in Atlas.
Questions
Frequently asked
Does Compass cost extra?
No. It is part of every Atlas licence, personal or corporate.
Does it need an internet connection?
Not when Atlas runs a local configuration: the guides and the model are both on your computer. If you chose a cloud writer such as Claude or OpenAI at setup, help questions are answered by that service, like every other question in Atlas.
Will Compass see my documents?
No. Atlas Help is its own workspace, and a workspace only searches its own documents. Your documents stay in your workspaces.
Can my team use it?
Yes. Atlas Help is a workspace like any other: everyone who had an account when it was created is a member, and anyone added later can be given access from the workspace's people settings.
Can I add my own instructions to it?
Yes. Atlas Help is a normal workspace, so you can drop in your firm's own how-to notes next to the guides, and Compass will answer from those too.
What if the answer is wrong or missing?
Click the citation to check the passage. If the guides do not cover your question, email [email protected]; we answer and, when it is a gap, we add it to the guide in the next release.
Get started
Compass comes with Atlas.
One download for Mac, a four-screen setup, and the help is already inside.