Compass, Inc. (COMP)

A real estate brokerage with its own platform. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 6 of the 28 Real Estate companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A technology-led real estate brokerage with 3,200 employees at year-end, before its merger with Anywhere, split by description between brokerage staff and the platform's builders.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 40% now, 49% at the end of 2027, 51% at the end of 2028, 51% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 51% desk work, 24% people work and 24% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 49% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 41% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

3,200 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Derived from stated parts: approximately 20 employees in Brazil at January 31, 2026 of 3,200, the rest in the United States.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 3,200 employees across the U.S. and internationally and none of our employees were represented by a labor organization or are party to a collective bargaining arrangement.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 3,200 employees at December 31, 2025, across the U.S. and internationally, about 20 in Brazil; after the Anywhere merger the number of employees more than tripled; none represented by a labor organization.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Real Estate, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL, 113,200 employees)29% now, 33% by 2028
• Cushman & Wakefield plc (CWK, 53,000 employees)25% now, 29% by 2028
• Newmark Group, Inc. (NMRK, 8,800 employees)38% now, 43% by 2028
• Extra Space Storage Inc. (EXR, 8,393 employees)36% now, 41% by 2028
• Public Storage (PSA, 5,770 employees)37% now, 43% by 2028
• American Tower Corporation (AMT, 4,866 employees)38% now, 46% by 2028
• Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (ELS, 3,700 employees)35% now, 41% by 2028
• Simon Property Group, Inc. (SPG, 3,600 employees)36% now, 41% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

29 sentences in the filing name AI. Twenty-nine sentences, product and risk: the platform uses proprietary data, analytics, AI and machine learning to simplify real estate professionals' workflows and deliver recommendations.

• “The principal risks and uncertainties affecting our business include, among others, the following: General economic conditions, economic and industry downturns, the health of the U.S. real estate industry, and risks generally incident to the ownership of residential real estate; The effect of monetary policies of the federal government and its agencies; High mortgage interest rates; Low home in...”
• “The Compass platform also uses proprietary data, analytics, AI, and machine learning to simplify workflows of real estate professionals and deliver high-value recommendations and outcomes for their clients.”
• “Over time, we built well-designed consumer-grade user interfaces and simplified workflows for agent-client interactions, and insight-rich dashboards and reports backed by AI, machine learning and integrated data assets.”
• “It also leverages AI to provide recommendations and insights, and integrates with other aspects of the Compass platform such as Marketing Center to create engaging content.”
• “Powered by AI, our CMA enhances real estate professionals' market expertise by making recommendations and synthesizing complex data so they can help their clients build the optimal pricing strategy for their homes based on comparable properties.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 202113median 0
• Fiscal 202212median 0
• Fiscal 202327median 1
• Fiscal 202424median 4
• Fiscal 202529median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The real estate agents are independent contractors and are not counted (rule 8).
• The brokerage and software split is by description; the filing counts no employees by function.
• The 3,200 is the count at December 31, 2025, before the Anywhere merger more than tripled the workforce.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001563190-26-000057, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.