Our Expertise
WHAT WE CAN DO
Understand the landscape.
Shape your next move.
Political strategy, public affairs, legislative insight, research, and communications—brought together around your organization’s most consequential decisions.
01 / OUR EXPERTISE
Public Affairs & Coalition Building
Build understanding. Organize support.
Connect your priorities to the people, institutions, and public conversations that shape them. We help organizations explain complex issues, understand competing interests, and build relationships around shared goals.
How we can help
- Stakeholder mapping across government, business, civic organizations, and community groups.
- Issue advocacy, coalition development, and partner engagement strategies.
- Public-facing narratives, outreach plans, and preparation for contentious policy debates.
What an engagement can include
A stakeholder map, an issue narrative, and an engagement plan with clear priorities.
02 / OUR EXPERTISE
Legislative Affairs
Understand the process. Prepare your position.
Translate legislative developments into practical choices for your organization. Drawing on state legislative and federal government experience, we help clients assess policy proposals and prepare to engage decision-makers.
How we can help
- Legislative landscape analysis, policy monitoring, and assessment of proposals affecting your priorities.
- Mapping relevant committees, institutions, stakeholders, and decision points.
- Policy briefs, testimony and hearing preparation, meeting materials, and legislative engagement strategy.
What an engagement can include
A policy brief, a decision-maker map, and a plan for communicating your position.
03 / OUR EXPERTISE
Data Centers & AI
Understand the community before asking for its support.
Major technology projects need more than a compelling business case. They need a clear understanding of local priorities and credible, sustained engagement. We bring public-opinion research, policy analysis, and communications counsel to the public affairs challenges surrounding data centers and AI.
How we can help
- Measure awareness, concerns, and expectations through local polling, surveys, focus groups, and listening sessions.
- Explore community questions about electricity demand and costs, water use, land use, noise, jobs, and local economic benefits.
- Map residents, civic leaders, local businesses, elected officials, and other stakeholders; develop relationships and an ongoing dialogue.
- Prepare clear project communications, community meeting materials, public-question responses, and outreach around local review processes.
- Assess public attitudes toward AI adoption, including trust, workforce implications, privacy, and accountability.
What an engagement can include
A community sentiment assessment, stakeholder map, and phased engagement and communications plan.
04 / OUR EXPERTISE
Polling, Surveys & Focus Groups
Know what people think—and why.
Put public sentiment at the center of your strategy. We combine quantitative research with qualitative insight to understand attitudes, test assumptions, and identify the concerns that deserve a response.
How we can help
- Public-opinion polling, custom surveys, questionnaire design, and focus-group research.
- Audience and geographic analysis to distinguish broad trends from local concerns.
- Message testing and research to understand trust, priorities, and reasons for support or opposition.
- Findings that explain methodology, limitations, and practical implications for your next decision.
What an engagement can include
A research brief and findings report with clear implications for strategy, messaging, and engagement.
05 / OUR EXPERTISE
Political Strategy & Campaigns
Connect political insight to execution.
Build a coherent strategy around the electorate, the issues, and the choices ahead. Our campaign and government experience informs positioning, coalition development, and preparation for consequential political moments.
How we can help
- Political landscape and electoral analysis, issue research, and campaign positioning.
- Voter and coalition analysis to understand priorities and opportunities for engagement.
- Candidate preparation, strategic message development, and campaign communications counsel.
What an engagement can include
A strategic roadmap connecting your objective, audiences, message, and priorities.
06 / OUR EXPERTISE
Communications & Executive Counsel
Communicate clearly when the stakes rise.
Give leaders a clear position and the preparation to deliver it. We connect political context, public opinion, and media experience to the communications challenges facing businesses and public figures.
How we can help
- Narrative development, speechwriting, executive messaging, and issue communications.
- Crisis counsel, rapid-response planning, and preparation for public scrutiny.
- Media training, interview preparation, spokesperson development, and difficult-question practice.
- Executive briefings, keynote presentations, moderated discussions, and election analysis.
What an engagement can include
A message framework, communications plan, and preparation tailored to your leadership team.
07 / OUR EXPERTISE
China & International Affairs
Put global developments in context.
Understand how international political developments shape public positioning and leadership decisions. Jianli Yang, PhD., contributes perspective on China, democratic governance, human rights, and political economy.
How we can help
- China and international affairs briefings tailored to the questions facing your organization.
- Political-context analysis for leadership discussions and stakeholder engagement.
- Counsel on communicating about sensitive international issues and reputational considerations.
What an engagement can include
A tailored briefing that connects international developments to your organization’s decisions.
ONE TEAM. CONNECTED PERSPECTIVES.
Experience that works together.
Our approach brings together Shermichael Singleton’s experience in campaigns, federal government, national media, and entrepreneurship; Sebastian Ridley-Thomas’s background in the California Legislature and public policy; Natalie Jackson’s expertise in polling and survey methodology; and Jianli Yang’s perspective on China, human rights, and political economy.
That combination allows us to connect what people think, how institutions make decisions, and how leaders communicate—then shape an engagement around the question you need to answer.
Meet our teamSTART A CONVERSATION
Bring us the question.
Tell us about the policy challenge, project, community, or audience you need to understand. Let’s define the right scope together.