Legislata for Government Affairs
Here’s what Legislata is and how it can help you
“If you could find a way for me to start my day without checking so many different news sites, that’d be amazing.” - Lobbyist
Stay on top of the news that matters to you
Working in government affairs can be spending your days just trying to keep up with everything that’s happening. You have your own work to do, but you also need to be aware of what’s happening in committee rooms, on the campaign trail, or among your allies or opponents. Today, this is often accomplished by relentlessly checking Twitter or news websites and sending messages, emails, and notes around the office. But that’s a lot of time that could be better spent elsewhere.
There are a number of ways which Legislata can help those in government affairs. Three that we want to highlight are:
Set up alerts for what matters to you in our free bill trackers
Assemble research seamlessly
Become an informational and thought leader
Set up alerts for what matters to you
Constantly checking the news or legislative websites for updates isn’t the best way to spend your day. Each minute you’re seeing if you’ve missed something is a minute you’re missing doing something else.
To that end, we let you join offices (our term for workspaces or groups) serving political communities, from cities to states to issues, and set up notifications. When something is posted about what matters to you, you’ll receive a notification in the app and in an email. If you want to save even more time, you can have all your notifications summarized in a daily digest sent in the morning. One email you scan and you have what matters to you from the previous 24 hours.
These groups could be our free state and Congressional bill trackers, where we post updates on legislation, elected officials’ Twitter roundups, and other pieces of information. Or they could be other groups set up by experts and analysts providing their opinion on what’s happening that you need to know. Think of it like a legislative database meets social media.
Assemble research seamlessly
Working in the political world can mean drowning in paper (or the digital equivalent). Getting everything you need for an article, report, or project can be a huge hassle, especially if you’ve delegated some tasks to your team. Having interns compile press clippings every morning may save you time upfront, but now you’ve got emails or Word documents to search through whenever you need to find something.
Luckily, Legislata lets you keep and share notes and anything else you need to remember. Even better, everything can be associated with the legislation, issue, category, person, or organization it relates to. No more searching through a dozen folders to find the agenda from the meeting about potholes your colleague attended. A quick filter for “potholes” in your Legislata office and there you have it.
You can also delegate tasks in the Team tier, so that your team can see the status of each element of the project. If you’re putting together a major report on an issue, track the status of each chapter, interview, and draft without having to go to another app. For those on the Pro tier, you can create tasks and manage your email, right from a single screen.
Become an informational and thought leader
Legislata also helps you share and collaborate with others - including staying up to date with what’s happening in your networks and letting others know what you think.
Join an offices about your political networks, from geography to issue-based, and upload your statements, press releases, testimony, or events. You can tag them with what they relate to and others will receive notifications. No more sending out a press release on infrastructure and hope it get picked up by the press so infrastructure enthusiasts see it. Upload it, tag it “infrastructure”, and they’ll get an alert instantaneously.
You can also go one step further, and be the creator or moderator of relevant civic information. If it’s always been a nightmare to find all the major ESG regulators across different jurisdictions and the notices they issue, then create an office called “ESG notices” and post them there. Invite others to join and you’ll have the free marketing as the go-to people for that issue. It’s content marketing and white papers taken to a new level.
How to sign up?
If you want to get started right away, you can go to app.legislata.com and create an account (currently, it is optimized for desktop, so mobile will look odd). You can also request to join offices sharing information about different geographies, or create your own and invite others to follow you.
It’s free to join and you can select Team or Pro in the Office page to start your free four-week trial of those premium tiers.
Additional tidbits
A full user guide is available here.
A tutorial video series is here.
You can check out our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy (and Privacy Policy for California) and our FAQs to learn more about it.
You can request a personal demonstration here.