AUTM Compass is an AI-powered guide that helps you quickly explore technology transfer topics, uncover practical insights, and connect with relevant guidance from across the Technology Transfer Practice Manual. Whether you're building foundational knowledge, evaluating new approaches, or navigating complex licensing and commercialization questions, AUTM Compass helps you find answers faster. It launched on the AUTM platform on June 21, 2026.

Ask a question. Explore a topic. Discover the collective wisdom of the technology transfer profession.

Prefer to browse the full manual?
AUTM Compass provides an interactive way to explore the Technology Transfer Practice Manual — helping you quickly find answers, discover relevant chapters, and navigate decades of technology transfer expertise. If you'd rather read the complete manual in its traditional format, AUTM's full Technology Transfer Practice Manual, 3rd Edition is available to members and subscribers by volume:

• Volume One: Laws and Regulations
• Volume Two: Managing a Technology Transfer Office
• Volume Three: Managing the Invention Disclosure, Review, and Protection Processes 
• Volume Four: Specialized Topics and Complex Issues

AI Use, Governance, and Data Protection
AUTM Compass is designed to help users explore technology transfer knowledge responsibly and securely. Use of AUTM’s AI tools is governed by AUTM’s Privacy Policy, AI Acceptable Use Policy, and AI End User Agreement. Users should not submit confidential, proprietary, or sensitive information and should always apply their own professional judgment when evaluating AI-generated responses. AUTM Compass is a tool to support learning and informed decision-making; it's not a substitute for professional expertise.

Thus, AUTM Compass is a specialized RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) assistant (an AI consultant connected to corporate knowledge sources) limited to the TTPM framework, rather than a universal AI tool. For organizations operating in international technology transfer networks, its value lies in instant access to the systematized practical information presented in the TTPM.

Conclusion for RCTT. AUTM Compass confirms that a RAG assistant trained on an organization's professional content is becoming a standard in the world's leading technology transfer networks. Thus, the RCTT AI consultant, operational since April 23, 2025, is also a RAG assistant connected to the database of documents and materials on the RCTT internet portal https://www.ictt.by. However, unlike AUTM Compass, if the RCTT AI consultant cannot find the answer in its knowledge base while preparing a response to a question, it turns to generative AI to generate the answer. AUTM Compass does not currently have this feature.