BallotBase for Political Consultants

Does This Sound Familiar?

You already know the data is out there. Getting to it is the problem.

Too many races, not enough time

Your clients don't care that FEC data is hard to work with. They want answers. Manually pulling committee reports, building spreadsheets, and formatting briefings across five active races isn't a workflow. It's a liability.

IE drops catch you off guard

A super PAC dumps $2M against your client on a Tuesday. You find out Wednesday. By the time you're reacting, the news cycle has already moved. You needed to see it coming, not read about it after.

Opposition research takes too long

Understanding an opponent's donor network, where the money comes from, what industries are behind it, whether the platform matches the financials, that used to mean hours of work per candidate. In a competitive primary with five candidates, that math doesn't work.

What BallotBase Does

Everything you need to understand a race. Nothing you have to build yourself.

BallotBase pulls directly from FEC and state campaign finance filings and turns them into ready-to-use intelligence.

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Race Briefings, Automatically

Pick a race. BallotBase pulls the full financial picture for every viable candidate: total raised, spent, cash on hand, burn rate, self-funding ratio, PAC receipts, and donor network profiles broken out by geography, occupation, employer, and contribution size. It scrapes candidate platforms and runs contradiction analysis against the donor data.

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Know When the Money Moves

Set up alerts on any committee you're tracking. Get notified about significant donations. Stay ahead of what's happening in a race without having to check manually.

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Search the Full Donor Database

BallotBase has ingested FEC Schedule A individual contribution data going back multiple cycles. Search by name, employer, occupation, ZIP code, or contribution amount. Filter and export to CSV. Find out who in your donor universe has given to opponents. Identify untapped donor networks by employer or industry.

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Track Outside Spending Across a Race

See which organizations are spending for or against each candidate, how much, when, and in what format. Independent expenditure activity mapped across the full campaign timeline, broken out by committee and updated with each filing cycle.

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Keep Clients Organized

Managing multiple clients across multiple races means a lot of moving pieces. Workspaces keeps everything separated and organized so you're not jumping between tabs trying to remember which committee belongs to which client.

Built for the way consultants actually work.

BallotBase isn't a data warehouse. It's not a research tool you hand to an analyst. It's built for consultants who need to move fast, brief clients confidently, and stay ahead of what's happening in a race without a dedicated data team.

The same analysis that used to take a day of manual FEC work takes minutes. The briefing that used to live in a messy spreadsheet ships as a clean PDF. The IE drop you used to find out about after the fact shows up in your inbox when it happens.