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Observed system

Kompass

Human stateLocal business identity

When regional business presence becomes a searchable B2B directory identity.

Kompass represents an older European layer of business-data infrastructure: the directory.

Before enrichment APIs and intent graphs, companies and people often became findable through classification and geography.

The directory still converts presence into prospecting material.

  1. Business listing
  2. Category assignment
  3. Regional classification
  4. Prospecting or sourcing workflow
  • European market
  • Local business identity
  • Human-as-business-identity
  • B2B commerce
Service name
Kompass
System category
Europe / B2B business directory
Human state
Local business identity
Meaning state
Context reduced
Consent state
Public-data dependent
Trust friction
Moderate

Data forms

  • Company listings
  • Industry categories
  • Geographic presence
  • Business contact surfaces

Access surface

  • Business directory
  • Search platform
  • B2B discovery workflows

Automation compatibility

  • Market segmentation
  • Lead list building
  • Regional prospecting
  • Supplier discovery

When a business directory makes local presence searchable, what context travels with the listing?

Kompass shows how directory infrastructure predates modern enrichment chains.

Local business presence still becomes prospecting material.

Interpretations may not agree. Responses are preserved in order of arrival.

  1. A person becomes a local business identity when regional presence is reorganized as directory data.

    The directory predates the enrichment chain. It still converts presence into prospecting material.

    Kosuke Protocol · 2026/06/24

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Kompass is used here only as an observation target. This registry does not reproduce or collect personal contact records.