Your direction through the atlas
Byway Atlas is the world. Byway Passport is your record of it. Byway Compass is your direction through it. The more you drive, the better Byway knows your kind of road.
Byway Compass Instrument
A specimen taste model across 32 dimensions, learned over 40 drives. Its strongest axes are Scenic, Mountain, Viewpoint, Remote, Nature, Quiet.
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- strongest signal
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- model settled
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A specimen, not a person: the model above starts at nothing and is fed forty completed drives. Every axis is one of the 32 dimensions the product carries. Cool where it is still unsure, warm where it has committed — the needle rests on whatever is strongest so far, and stops hunting as the vector settles.
A working compass, derived from real drives
The instrument above is not a drawing. The needle points to the kind of road you lean toward hardest. The arcs show how strongly your driving has spoken on each of the 32 kinds of place Byway knows. Nothing here came from a questionnaire.
The real axes
The same categories the app writes to and the engine scores against — the model's own list, not one written for a page.
Learned, not declared
The model moves with every drive — route events update the vector automatically.
Account-bound, not surface-bound
One taste profile powers the app, Byway AI, MCP, and (soon) phone and car.
The 32 axes of taste
Every axis is a kind of place the engine can score. Your model holds a weight on all of them at once, which is why two travelers asking for the same road are offered different stops. A brand-new traveler starts with all 32 equal, and equal means silent — until your driving gives the model something to say, the road and the record carry the plan. The list below is the model's own, read from the app rather than written for this page.
- scenic
- viewpoint
- coast
- beach
- mountain
- nature
- waterfall
- historic
- cultural
- food
- local gems
- hidden gems
- hidden towns
- family
- wildlife
- adventure
- art
- photography
- sunset
- sunrise
- quiet
- popular
- free
- paid
- easy
- strenuous
- pet friendly
- accessible
- remote
- urban
- educational
- romantic
Nothing learned from others outranks what's learned from you
One rule constrains everything Byway builds next: nothing learned from the crowd can ever outrank what your own driving taught the model. Byway may someday learn which tastes tend to travel together — that is a fact about taste, not about you, and it would rank below you too.
No cross-user ranking
Your taste vector is never blended with another traveler's. The model is stored against your account, not the surface.
Crowd patterns stay beneath you
Learning which tastes tend to co-occur is a fact about taste, not a person — and it is unbuilt today, listed under 'Building next', ranked below your own driving whenever it lands.
Explicit choice leads
Your onboarding picks always rank first. The learned model only fills gaps — it never overwrites what you declared.
One taste profile, everywhere you drive
Byway Compass is not a surface — it is the model that powers every surface. The architecture stores taste against the account, so a surface is a client, not a copy.
App plan
Byway weights every byway toward what you love — and learns the rest as you go.
Byway AI
Conversational drive requests resolve through your taste vector.
MCP
Assistants call the same taste profile via the MCP tool surface.
Phone app
Native app shares the same account-bound taste vector.
Car integration
Tesla / CarPlay / AA surfaces read the same vector.
Pick what you love. The model learns the rest.
Onboarding takes 60 seconds. Your explicit choices seed the vector; every drive refines it.