Aristotle

Aristotle provides political data, campaign software and consulting, spanning FEC reporting, PAC technology and compliance, advocacy technology, and political, consumer and digital audience data.

Offering compliance outsourcing alongside the software is the notable structural choice and it recognises something most vendors avoid saying. Campaign finance compliance is a specialist discipline, the rules differ federally and across fifty states, and the penalty for getting it wrong falls on the committee rather than the software. A PAC or campaign that cannot hire a compliance professional is better served by outsourcing the function than by buying a tool and hoping, and Aristotle sells both.

Political action committee coverage is treated as its own business line with technology, consulting and compliance outsourcing, which is appropriate given PACs face contribution limits, source restrictions and disclosure obligations that differ from candidate committees. Pay-to-play compliance is offered as a distinct data product, addressing rules that bar firms from public contracts if their executives donated to the officials awarding them, which is exactly the kind of exposure a company discovers only after the fact.

The data business covers political data, consumer data, digital audience data and data services, with MatchIt for record matching and an early and absentee voting dashboard. Early and absentee voting tracking has grown steadily in importance as a rising share of the electorate votes before election day, which changes when a campaign must reach a given voter. International campaign work is offered alongside the domestic business. Pricing is not published.