Every state publishes lobbying disclosures. Every state
publishes them differently — a spreadsheet here, a PDF there, a search form
that will not export. This is those filings in one place, answering questions
none of them answers alone.
Questions it answers
Who represents my competitor, and since when? Every client a firm has held, with start and end dates. Colorado reaches back to 1995.
Who just picked up — or lost — an account? States publish who is registered. None publishes who left. We compare periods and show the difference, counting arrivals and departures separately from business genuinely won.
Does this firm actually win? Filers scored on the bills where they declared a side, measured against what those same positions would have produced by chance.
Who lobbied this bill, which side, and how did it end? Bill pages naming every firm, the client they acted for, the side they took, and the outcome.
Who is being hosted, and by whom? Officials named in spending filings, matched to a legislator roster for party, chamber and district.
What it costs
Tier
Price
What is included
Free
$0
A summary of every firm, lobbyist, company and bill — enough to find who you are looking for. Apple Inc. open in full as a worked example. Washington, Nebraska and Indiana in full, permanently. The states, coverage and methodology pages.
Professional
$250/mo
One seat. All states, the change feed, the scoreboard, and data exports.
Firm
$750/mo
Up to five seats, alerts when a competitor registers a client or a firm loses an account, and priority on new states.
API
$1,000/mo
Programmatic access to everything, for teams who want it in their own systems.
Annual billing saves two months. Cancel any time; we do not
lock anyone into a term.
Three states are free, permanently
Washington, Nebraska and Indiana sit outside the paid
tier entirely. Nebraska's disclosure statute says filings "shall not be
sold or used by any person ... for commercial purposes", with a civil penalty
of up to $5,000 for each violation. Washington's Public Disclosure Commission
attaches a condition of release to every dataset saying the same thing.
Indiana's data comes from a portal whose terms license it for personal use
only. We publish all three because publishing is not selling — and we will not
put them behind a paywall, in an export, or in the API. If you need those three
states commercially, the honest answer is that nobody can sell them to you.
What we will not claim
We do not sell influence. Lobbyists choose winnable
fights and already-sympathetic legislators, most lobbying never appears in any
filing, and a contested bill has filers on both sides with no way to apportion
credit. What we publish is a record — a position someone declared, and what
then happened to the bill.
A dollar is not a dollar. Some states publish money
received, some a contract rate, some a bracket that is re-cut for inflation
every year. Every figure is tagged by kind and never totalled across kinds.
Texas publishes brackets, so we publish no Texas dollar figure at all.
A 50-state compensation database cannot exist.
Seventeen states never require lobbyists to disclose what they are paid.
Anyone advertising nationwide compensation coverage is selling something
else.
See it before you pay
Apple Inc. is open in full — the company, the firms and people it retains,
the bills it took a side on, and how it shows up in the change feed. Follow it
end to end without an account:
start here.
Prefer something to forward? The same summary as a one-page
PDF: download.