Unions · Advocacy organizations · Ballot measure committees
The technical person you have never had.
Most organizations your size have nobody to ask whether something should be bought or built. You are also the only clients whose work outlives a cycle, which makes you the best fit we have. Undiplomatic toward everyone else, but true.
Why the fit is better here
- Your timelines are real. A six-month build is normal for you and impossible for a campaign.
- Someone will still be there. To run it, extend it, and tell the next person how it works.
- None of the campaign finance complexity applies. You are not a candidate committee, so contributions, in-kind valuation, and corporate money are simply not in play. Free help is just free help.
- Your problems are the interesting ones. Member data across decades. Chapter structures. Permissions that have to respect an actual constitution.
What we usually end up building
- Member data that lives in four places. A legacy membership system, a spreadsheet a staffer maintains, an email platform, an events tool. None of them agree. Reconciling those continuously instead of as an annual heroic effort.
- Multi-local and multi-chapter structure. Locals with their own data and autonomy, a federation that needs to see across them, and permissions that match how the organization is actually governed rather than what a SaaS vendor assumed.
- Engagement history that spans years. Who showed up, to what, how often, and how that changed, impossible when every cycle starts a fresh spreadsheet.
- The reading nobody has staff for. Bill text, agendas, filings, regulatory notices, public comment. This is the work that changed most: a pipeline now does what a research team did, and it flags what changed rather than that something changed.
- Ballot measure operations. Signature tracking and validation rates, so you know in week three whether you are on pace instead of week nine.
- Board and funder reporting. Quarterly numbers produced by a pipeline instead of somebody's weekend.
The one thing that trips organizations up
Larger organizations often cannot accept help without a contract behind it. No entity exists here, so there is no vendor agreement, no certificate of insurance, and nothing your operations director can file.
If that is a hard requirement, we are the wrong people right now. Much better established before anyone invests a month. The fit page covers it in full.
