Every legislative tool on the market assumes you're already an expert. We built CivicNexus for the organizations, businesses, and nonprofits who need to engage with government but don't have a full-time lobbying shop.
Our story starts with a simple idea: organizations like yours shouldn't be left out of the legislative process. But the software market has been built for lobbyists, not the people who need it most. We're changing that.
Picture the compliance lead at a regional bank, or the executive director of a nonprofit, who owns government affairs alongside three other things. They're smart, they're busy, and they're doing it in a spreadsheet—because nothing else is built for them.
One missed bill can put the economics of their business or the future of their mission at risk. There are hundreds of thousands of organizations with someone in that seat, and no one was building for them. So we did.
Most people think legislation only gets changed by lobbyists
who have back room meetings, and 20 year relationships. While
those certainly help, 90% of the time
legislators are trying to shape bills to best fit their constituents.
The problem is that most legislators don't have time to
reach out to the community directly, andorganizations
don't know what processes to follow. We built CivicNexus to help.
Our core tenant is to make legislation easy and accessible to everyone.
When more people participate in the legislative process,
the more our laws are representative of the community we live in.
Now you can quit complaining about the laws that don't represent you, and start
doing something about it.
We took the key actions that lobbyists do, and put them
into our product so that businesses and non-profits can
take action without hiring a lobbyist. That shows up in four steps.
Plan tells you what to do—which
department to engage, when your voice counts, and
the move most likely to land.
Detect finds the bills that matter
to you. Decide shows you what
changed and what it means.
Deliver gets your testimony written
and filed on time.
Those four steps serve two kinds of organizations. If you've never engaged with government, planning is where you start: it answers the question that stops most small teams before they begin. If you already know the playbook, tracking is where you gain—it takes the busywork off your plate so your judgment covers more ground.
We build in partnership with the people writing, tracking, and testifying on legislation every session—so the workflow matches how state and local government actually works.
We work with lobbyists and legislators to embed their lobbying practices into the product. You don't need to be an expert, because every bill arrives with guidance on who decides and what to do about it. This is the same process that lobbyists use to get bills changed 90% of the time.
Existing tools are priced and designed for full-time lobbying firms. We build for the compliance lead, executive director, in house counsel, or policy analyst who is doing this alongside their other three jobs. We built CivicNexus to be easy to use for everyone, not just the experts.
Plan, Detect, Decide, Deliver—in one place. No rabbit holes, no features you'll never use. Just a clear path from "I should probably be paying attention to this" to "we responded."
Our team brings over 20 years of product and engineering experience from high-growth companies like PitchBook and Tableau. Co-founder Pierce came home to advise one of the largest lobbying firms in Hawaii.
That blend—deep product craft, real lobbying experience, and advisors who've been in your seat is why CivicNexus works for teams who aren't traditional lobbying shops but still need to show up at the Capitol. Our team is dedicated to making legislation easy and accessible to everyone.
We're building for how these organizations actually work: small teams, big stakes, and no room for a missed bill.
"We had much easier bill intro review, more of us reviewed all the bills and we did a better job of assigning bills to clients...We were able to use technology to run hearing notices on priority bills every day and multiple times a day, this was a huge/radical improvement—we didn't lose [our] deep knowledge, instead we complemented it with technology"
Llasmin Chaine · Women's rights advocate, Hawaiʻi
Llasmin went from 24 pieces of testimony in a year to 165, on the same budget. Seven times the coverage, seven times the capital efficiency, and seven times the voice for the people she represents.
Book a demo and we'll walk through your bills, your deadlines, and the moves worth making. No prep required.