The AI assistant that reads your inbox, knows your deadlines, and remembers you

Compass is the assistant inside Hive Centra, and this release made it one assistant everywhere you meet it.

Open the floating panel, the Compass room, the desk inside AI Team or your Messages thread, and the same brain answers: the personality you picked in Settings, the facts it remembers about you, the full tool belt, and a confirm step in front of anything that writes. Same question, same answer, whichever door you came in through.

That is the foundation, and what it made room for is the part worth reading about. Compass now reads your mail and drafts the reply, books your calendar, names every date on your contract, and searches live listings.

One brain, several doors

Everything that decides how the assistant behaves loads through one place. The personality preset, the facts it remembers about you, what the platform has learned about how you work, and the tool belt: one function, read by every surface. A surface supplies the chrome and nothing else. How it streams, where it keeps the transcript, how it draws a card.

The practical effect is that every door opens on the fullest version. Tools that had lived on one surface now travel with the assistant to all of them, so the desk can find you a recruit agent and the panel can too.

The one deliberate difference: Messages renders AI replies through the same bubble list as your texts, and that list has no confirm card. So on that surface the assistant drops its write tools and the language about them, and says plainly that it cannot act from here and where you can. It does not offer you a Confirm button that does not exist. That is a UX capability, not a permission. The real boundary is the confirm endpoint, which re-reads every proposal and re-fetches every contact scoped to your account before anything lands.

It reads your mail now

Connect Gmail and you can ask what came in, what is still waiting on you, and what a thread actually said three weeks ago. It drafts the reply and hands it to you to send.

It reads attachments when the question needs the contents, and it does not keep what was inside them. An inspection report answers the question you asked and then is not retained.

This one is going out in batches rather than to everyone on the same day, so if it is not in your panel yet, it is coming.

This is the feature that changed my own mornings the most, and it is not because of the drafting. It is because "what do I actually have to answer today" used to be a fifteen minute scroll.

It knows your dates, and it tells you where each one came from

Ask an assistant to walk you through a contract and most of them give you the option period and the closing date. Those are the two everyone remembers, and neither is the one that kills a deal quietly.

Earnest money delivered late is a default. A missed financing approval means the buyer loses their protection. Those are the dates worth having in front of you.

So the full chain comes back now, in date order: earnest money, title commitment, survey, buyer financing approval, property approval, option period, closing. Each one carries where it came from.

Two sources, never a third:

• A term read off your executed contract wins, always. The parties rewrite these routinely and a customary number is not what you agreed to.
• Absent that, the documented default from a verified state form, labelled as a default your contract may have changed.

Where there is no term and no verified form for the state, the milestone is left out. Title commitment and survey have no standard default at all, so an omitted term means an omitted row. A confident wrong date on a transaction deadline is worse than no date, because you will not go check it.

It searches listings

Ask it what is on the market under 300 and it tells you. The search covers city, price, beds, baths, square feet, lot acreage, property type and days on market, defaults to your own market, and handles land as well as houses. Compass reaches the same feed the rest of the product does, so you can ask from the panel instead of going to find the page.

Two rules it holds, and both of them matter more than they look:

• A page size is not a count. It asks the feed for the real total and renders a full page as a floor, "25+", rather than reporting how many rows it happened to request. A surface that reports the page length tells every agent in every market the same number.
• A lease is not a sale. Rentals live in the same feed as sales and report monthly rent in the field where a price belongs. They are filtered at the feed and there is a price floor behind the filter, because a feed that spells its enum slightly differently walks straight through a filter.

Asking prices come back labelled as asking prices. A listing can never be quoted to you as a sold price.

It remembers you, and it says when it does not know

You can tell it your title company, how you run a listing appointment, that you keep Thursday evenings clear. It holds that. You are not re-briefing a stranger every Monday.

And when it hits its own ceiling mid-answer, it says so. That sounds small. It is the difference between an assistant that is useful and one that sounds confident and cites nothing, which is the failure mode that makes people stop trusting this category of software entirely.

What this is actually for

The pitch for AI in this industry has mostly been drafting. Write me a listing description, write me a follow-up text. That is a real time save and it is also the shallowest possible use of the thing.

The work that actually eats a producing agent's week is not composition. It is holding fifty moving parts in your head: who is waiting on you, which deadline is Friday, whether the lender came back, what you told that seller in July, and whether the year is going the way you planned.

An assistant that can reach all of that and act on it with your confirmation is a different product from a chat box. That is what this release was.

If you are already with us, Compass is the panel you have been ignoring. Open it and ask it something you would have had to go look up.