How each field answers the session aide's triage question
Identity
answers the triage question:
“Is this person actually in my district?”
CMF 2004 / CMF 2015 · constituent identity and address the primary filter for state legislative offices; form-letter submissions lack both
Geography
answers:
“What district is this? What communities are represented?”
CMF 2017 · district-specific impact information weighted by 91% of Congress staff; the same geographic specificity drives local credibility in state offices
Authorship
answers:
“Did they actually write this, or is it a form email?”
CMF 2015 · 92% of staff weight individualized constituent contact; 51% weight form email
Screening
answers:
“Is this astroturf from out of state?”
CMF 2004 · Walker & Le, Socius 2023 · unverified out-of-district submissions undermine credibility of legitimate constituent contact
Your platform submits to Fireside State, IQ, or nothing at all. Commons delivers a document the session aide can route immediately — each constituent individually authored, identity-proven, district-matched, screened for duplicates.
CMF 2015: 92% of staff weight individualized constituent email · 51% weight form email
Verified constituent packets enter the committee analysis. Form-email counts don't.
State legislative boundaries we cover
Texas HD-108
California SD-14
New York Assembly Health Cmte
Pennsylvania General Assembly
Illinois General Assembly
Ohio HB-68
Florida Senate Rules Cmte
Georgia HD-52
Michigan Senate Judiciary
50 state legislatures. 7,383 state legislators. Commons supports district-keyed packets across every chamber.
NCSL total, 99 chambers. Includes CA Position Letter Portal, IL Witness Slips, TX Witness Registration — and the 40+ states with no standardized intake system at all.
State legislative intake has no CWC. 24 states have no year-round personal staff. The aide who reads your bill testimony is the same person scheduling appointments.
The fragmentation is the opportunity: California has a Position Letter Portal, Illinois has Witness Slips, but Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Georgia — most states — have a personal inbox and a single session aide. The “real constituent in my district” filter is the entire triage in 24 states. A verification packet that arrives with authorship, district, and proof is instantly dispositive. California's Position Letter Portal is the exception that shows what the packet achieves at scale; the other 40+ states are where it becomes the aide's only structured input.
NCSL Legislative Staffing Survey · synthesis lines 99–105 · CA Position Letter Portal (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) · IL Witness Slips (ilga.gov)
The advocacy stack has changed hands four times this cycle. Session aides have read the form letter 50,000 times. Orgs are shopping.
Not $15/mo per seat.
Not $40,000/yr with a year-long implementation.
$0.100 verified actions ·2 seats · no time limit
Starter tier published · enterprise by quote · Apr 2026
One verified action = one constituent, identity-proven, district-matched, authored for you. Metered at submission, not at send.
No demo required. No procurement review. Import your list from Action Network, EveryAction, NationBuilder, or any CSV export — a packet produced before the next hearing, not a year from now.