Research / For Political Campaigns
Digital background check for political campaigns
Opposition research happens whether or not you commission it yourself. You can either learn what it will find before the other side does, or find out after the ad runs. We run that research on your own candidate first.
Self-vet before you announce
An opposition research firm working for a rival campaign has one goal: find the thing that changes the race and time its release for maximum damage. A candidate who has already been through that same process on their own terms has a plan ready, a statement drafted, and no surprises on the day it surfaces. A candidate who has not is reacting live, on a news cycle they do not control.
This work is most valuable before you announce, but it holds value at any point in a cycle. Mid-race, it tells you what an opponent's next attack is likely to be built from. Pre-launch, it tells you whether a run is even advisable in its current form.
The full public record, read the way an opponent would
Voting records, public statements, and old interviews, checked for anything that reads differently today than it did when it was said. Campaign finance history and any past donor or business relationships that could be framed as a conflict. Social media history going back years, including posts made under different names or before the candidate had any public profile at all. Litigation, licensing actions, and any filings that could be surfaced during a campaign, whether or not they were ever newsworthy the first time.
We deliver it the way a campaign manager needs it. We organize the findings by likely line of attack and include a suggested response for each one. We never hand over a bare list of links.
Sensitive engagements never become named stories. The measured work we can publish lives in our case studies, and the same standard applies here.
Find it before the other side does.
We run the opposition research on your own candidate and organize it by likely line of attack, with a drafted response beside each one. Before you announce, it tells you whether the run holds up in its current form. Mid-race, it tells you what the next ad is built from. Nothing we find leaves your team.