It is operated by a social enterprise called Vox Pop Labs in partnership with locale-specific news organizations, including the Wall Street Journal, Vox Media, the Canadian and Australian Broadcasting Corporations, Television New Zealand, France24, RTL Group, and Grupo Globo.

Vote Compass also operates under the trademarks Boussole électorale and Wahl-Navi for French- and German-language iterations, respectively.

Vote Compass was developed by Clifton van der Linden, a professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.

It is run by van der Linden along with a team of social and statistical scientists from Vox Pop Labs.

Propositions are crafted in collaboration with political scientists local to each jurisdiction in which Vote Compass is run.