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Advocacy timing

Know when a bill is moving, and act on it

Verified movement signals, correlated to the advocacy tools and CRM your team already runs. Committee actions, floor scheduling and comment windows, each traced to the page it came from.

99.5% field-level accuracy · Source URL, timestamp and verifier ID on every record · US federal, 50 states, France, EU, UK

Traced record

CA AB 1836, amended in Senate committee

Verified
Jurisdiction
US State / California Legislature
Change type
Amendment, committee action
Source URLThe address this record was read from. Stored in full, with a checksum of the response, so the page cannot be swapped underneath the record.
CapturedWhen the source was fetched, in ISO 8601 with a timezone offset. Written at fetch time, not at publish time.
Verifier IDThe person who checked these fields against the source text. Present on every record that went to human review.
VER-0311
ConfidenceHow certain the classifier was, at the field level. Records below the release threshold route to a human verifier first.
0.981
Effective

Joined signals

  • Watchlist 'State privacy'
  • Salesforce 'Issue: Data Privacy'
  • Matching language in CO, WA
The problem

The window is short and it opens without warning.

Constituent contact carries most weight at specific points: before a committee vote, before a floor vote, and while a comment period is open. Congressional Management Foundation research found 94% of congressional staff said in-person issue visits from constituents would have some or a lot of influence on an undecided lawmaker, and 92% said the same of individualised email (Citizen-Centric Advocacy, 2015 survey).

A late signal wastes that window. A wrong signal costs more, because every false alarm teaches an advocate to skip the next message. Both failures come from the same place: a status nobody verified.

Of congressional staff say constituent visits influence an undecided member
94%Of congressional staff say constituent visits influence an undecided memberCongressional Management Foundation, 2015
Say the same of individualised email from constituents
92%Say the same of individualised email from constituentsCongressional Management Foundation, 2015
Field-level accuracy on the signals you mobilise on
99.5%Field-level accuracy on the signals you mobilise onMatterwire SLA
Capabilities

Verified movement signals

The events that matter, not every event

Committee referral, markup scheduling, amendment, floor calendar placement and comment-period opening are captured as distinct change types you can filter on.

Dated windows on the record

Hearing dates, comment closing dates and effective dates sit in their own fields, so a campaign can be scheduled against a date rather than an inbox.

Verified before it reaches you

Low-confidence movement routes to a human verifier before release. The record shows which verifier signed it and what the confidence was.

Correlated across states

When matching language moves in another state, it joins the same record. You see a pattern forming rather than 5 unconnected alerts.

Traceability

A movement signal you can act on

Amended in Senate committee, captured at 14:38 Pacific, verified by VER-0311, and already joined to matching language in Colorado and Washington.

Traced record

CA AB 1836, amended in Senate committee

Verified
Jurisdiction
US State / California Legislature
Change type
Amendment, committee action
Source URLThe address this record was read from. Stored in full, with a checksum of the response, so the page cannot be swapped underneath the record.
CapturedWhen the source was fetched, in ISO 8601 with a timezone offset. Written at fetch time, not at publish time.
Verifier IDThe person who checked these fields against the source text. Present on every record that went to human review.
VER-0311
ConfidenceHow certain the classifier was, at the field level. Records below the release threshold route to a human verifier first.
0.981
Effective

Joined signals

  • Watchlist 'State privacy'
  • Salesforce 'Issue: Data Privacy'
  • Matching language in CO, WA

Into the tools your team already runs

Signals write to Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and your webhooks. NationBuilder is a live design partner shaping how these signals land in an advocacy workflow.

Questions

Answers before the call.

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