A place for web and business development
Seventh Compass is a small web development and business consulting firm located in Gainesville, Florida. We build Ruby on Rails based applications for retail use, as well as custom-built applications for select clients. We also provide Business Process Management consulting and training, with a focus on corporate prioritization and allocation.
txtsignal.com (2004) is a private, secure group text messaging system that provides group text messaging, group management, full message history, and much more.
Go to txtsignal.com
SimplyTXT (2008) is a partnership with Group Publishing and Simply Youth Ministry.com; private, secure group text messaging with integrations into other Simply Tools.
Go to Simply Communicate
Live Curriculum (2009) is an electronic publishing platform that provides customized curriculum delivery centered around 1, 2, or 4-year learning tracks (including integrated calendars).
Go to Live Curriculum
trunc.us (2010) is a link-shortener that we built to integrate into our apps. Other link-shorteners are very invasive and are really just market-mining tools.
This link shortener is simple: it just shortens your link. (Easy API too).
Go to trunc.us
AgText.com (2011) is a real-time messaging platform built for scientific communities to connect with agriculture professionals and farmers.
In partnership with the University of Florida.
Go to AgText.com
We hope you like our tools and our approach. We get to the core of what needs to be done. We prioritize. We do the important things, forget the rest.
Want to learn how to be a corporate shepherd?
Email us for consulting
shep·herd (noun) is a:
1) a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep or
2) a person who protects, guides, or watches over a person or group of people
In order to guide others, business leaders need to be shepherds. They, at times, will have to protect, other times guide, but always watching over their business. But, what steers the shepherd? How do they know when to protect? How do they know when to guide (sometimes gently; other times not so gently?
We believe there is a precise place for the shepherd in any company and we have consulting services that help every business build from these principles.