Hi, I'm Darrius — baker, business owner, and the person behind Modern Compass Guides.
Back in 2014, I started Get Down Pound Bakery out of my own kitchen. I thought the baking would be the hard part. It wasn't. The hard part was everything around it — figuring out what to charge without underselling myself, telling a sweet customer “No,” handling the one order out of a hundred that went sideways, and keeping it all organized while the orders piled up.
Before the bakery, I spent ten years on the phone in customer service, helping people through their worst days. That turned out to be the most valuable training a baker could have — because how you handle your customers and your pricing matters just as much as how your cakes taste.
I built Modern Compass Guides for the baker I used to be: the one with real talent and real orders, but no roadmap for turning it into real income. This is the business side of home baking, taught plainly by someone who's actually lived it — the pricing, the systems, the customer conversations, the legal basics. The stuff recipes never cover.
If you're baking from your kitchen and wondering whether this could be something more — you're in the right place. Let's build it.
— Darrius
Get Down Pound Bakery, est. 2014
hello@moderncompassguides.com