IE Compass
Municipal work,
connected.
A modern Municipal Operating System built for clerks, managers, and the realities of small local government.
Compass starts with a municipal website — but it doesn't stop there.
Why IE Compass
One Place
Website, meetings, records, search, and workflows.
Less Duplication
Information moves through connected municipal processes.
Built-In Guardrails
Authorization, evidence, approvals, and protected records.
A better way to run the work
Compass is designed around municipal workflows — not around adding another software silo.
Protected first.
Public second.
One record. Multiple useful views.
1
Capture
Create or receive the municipal record.
2
Work
Route it through the appropriate staff process.
3
Review
Apply approvals, professional input, and guardrails.
4
Publish
Expose only what is intentionally ready for public access.
From website to municipal operating system
Compass connects the public-facing website to the internal work behind it.
Reducing the jump between disconnected tools, folders, email threads, and PDFs.
Meetings & Minutes
Prepare meetings, organize agendas, manage minutes, actions, evidence, and historical records.
FOIA & Open Meetings
Manage public-record requests and OMA-aware meeting procedures with controlled workflow, audit history, protected material, and professional review.
Ordinances & Legislative History
Maintain structured ordinances with history, comparisons, cross-references, conflict awareness, validation, and public access.
Search & Institutional Knowledge
Search municipal information, ask plain-language questions, preserve institutional memory, and use historical context and protected research safely.
Professional Portal
Bring attorneys and other professionals into the right matter with controlled access, context, review, guidance, and retained communication.
Accessible Public Experience
Publish accessible, resident-friendly web content and records with HTML-first presentation when practical while preserving original records.
See the full breakdown, including what this means for the clerk and for the manager, on the features page.
What your team can do
Prepare and publish meeting information
Manage minutes, motions, actions, and evidence
Track ordinances and legislative history
Handle public-records / FOIA workflow
Search municipal records and institutional knowledge
Use role-based dashboards and embedded "Guide Me" help
Route controlled professional guidance and municipal communications
Built around municipal trust
Human approval
AI can assist, but municipal authority remains with people.
Protected by default
Sensitive/internal information is not made public simply because it exists in Compass.
Evidence & history
Important decisions and records retain provenance and audit context.
Role-aware access
People see and act on information according to their municipal role and authority.
Accessible public information
Compass favors structured web content and discoverable records over PDF-only experiences.
Who Compass is built for
For the Clerk
Reduce repetitive record handling, keep meeting and public-record workflows organized, and make published information easier for residents to find.
For the Manager
See work across departments, upcoming decisions, approvals, tasks, and municipal priorities without chasing updates across separate systems.
See IE Compass in action.
Ask us for a 20-minute demonstration focused on the workflows that matter most to your municipality — not a generic software tour.