Legislata

What Legislata does

Legislata is a Delaware-incorporated, Brooklyn-headquartered SaaS company (founded 2020) that operates a web-based policy information and productivity platform targeting journalists, government affairs professionals, advocates, activists, and elected officials. The platform centralizes publicly available policy information — bills, AI-generated legislative hearing transcripts, press releases, and legislator data — into a single searchable, keyword-alertable feed, organized around user-created 'offices' (workspaces) that span 12+ U.S. state legislatures and U.S. Congress. Its underlying technology is an AWS-hosted pipeline combining automated speech-to-text transcription of committee hearings, NLP-based tagging and keyword alerting, lightweight in-platform bots (CrossPostBillBot, Constituent Case bot, Deals Tracker bot), passwordless magic-link authentication, and bidirectional email sync with Outlook and Apple Mail via an OAuth-token model.

The business model blends a free public-record tier underwritten by sponsorships (with Boston Policy Institute as the named flagship sponsor on the Boston City Council feed), low-ACV paid modules including $3/user/month bot subscriptions and $10/month Massachusetts hearing transcripts, and a high-ticket Scenario Strategy Workshops professional-services line priced $15,000–$50,000 using a matrix-game methodology. A creator-economy layer (monetization tools for user-created feeds plus marketplace commissions on third-party content) is announced for later in 2026. Distribution is product-led/self-serve via the app (app.legislata.com) with inside-sales for premium upgrades and direct sales for workshops, supported by SEO-optimized state-specific transcript pages and consistent earned media in Politico Playbooks, NY Post, City & State NY, and State House News Service. To date, the company has disclosed only a single SEC Form D exempt offering ($168K of a $200K target raised in June 2021) and no enterprise customer logos beyond one nonprofit sponsor.

Name

Legislata

Legal name

Legislata Inc.

Website

https://legislata.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Legislata is a SaaS platform that centralizes U.S. state and federal legislative information — AI-generated hearing transcripts, bill tracking, press releases, and legislator data — into a searchable, alertable workspace serving journalists, advocates, and elected officials.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Policy Intelligence and Legislative Tracking Software

NAICS

National Security and International Affairs (9281)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAIAAAE

Government Digital Service & eGovernment (Service Delivery, IDs, Portals)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Central/Federal Government Administration

SECONDARYBPACAIAB

Payroll Software & Payroll-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Payroll Services & Workforce Administration

Keywords

• Legislative tracking software
• Policy intelligence platform
• Hearing transcription services
• Government affairs software
• Bill tracking tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Somerville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Sponsorships / underwriting of public-record feeds: Select partners sponsor free transcript or legislative feeds in exchange for a pinned ad post (up to 200 words, 2 images/videos) and a 50-word sponsorship message embedded in each transcript. Rates vary by feed with discounts for founding partners of new feeds.
2. Subscription fees for advanced productivity tools: Recurring fees for premium workspace features, including task management, constituent-case CRM, and inbox/email management. Massachusetts Hearing Transcripts are free for .gov/.edu accounts and $10/month otherwise.
3. Per-seat subscription for individual bots: Constituent Case bot priced at $3 per user per month with a one-month free trial, invoiced after the trial ends.
4. Scenario Strategy Workshops (matrix games): Paid professional-service engagements priced $15,000–$50,000 depending on scenario detail, in-person vs Zoom, and inclusion of subject-matter experts. Legislata platform users receive a 10% discount.
5. Marketplace commissions on third-party content: Planned commissions on third-party content sold through an in-platform marketplace; explicitly listed as 'coming later' as of the source.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Legislata is a cloud-based SaaS web application that consolidates public-policy information—bills, AI-generated committee hearing transcripts, press releases, and legislator data—across U.S. Congress and 12+ state legislatures into a searchable, keyword-alertable workspace. It adds policy-specific productivity tools (custom legislative trackers, constituent case CRM, inbox/email management) and offers always-free public-record content supported by underwriting sponsorships.

Product overview

Legislata is a single, integrated web platform (not a platform-plus-separate-products architecture in the strict sense) with a small set of premium and free extensions layered on top of the same workspace. The core platform — branded simply "Legislata" — centralizes public-policy information (bill tracking at state and federal level, press releases, legislator data, AI-generated hearing transcripts) into a searchable, keyword-alertable feed, with premium capabilities exposed through the LegislataPRO tier (constituent CRM, inbox management, task management) and via several in-platform bots: CrossPostBillBot (custom legislative tracker), Constituent Case Bot (case management, $3/user/month after trial), and Deals Tracker Bot (pipeline tracking). Always-free hearing-transcript feeds for individual states (Massachusetts, Kentucky, Hawaii, Tennessee, Virginia, and others) sit on top of the same automated transcription pipeline and are supported by the Sponsorship program. Adjacent offerings include the Scenario Strategy Workshops (matrix-game consulting), the Massachusetts Forecasting Tournament / 2023 Forecasting Tournament, and the CA Twitter Data data product; creator tools to monetize user-created feeds are planned for later in 2026.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Legislata Platform Core web-based policy information and productivity SaaS platform that brings together publicly available policy information (legislation, committee hearing transcripts, press releases, legislator data) into a searchable, keyword-alertable feed, designed for journalists, government affairs professionals, advocates, activists, and elected officials.
• LegislataPRO Premium productivity tier layered on top of the core Legislata platform that turns the user's inbox into a hub of political productivity, positioned as an ideal solution for elected officials inundated with constituent communications.
• CrossPostBillBot Bot that automatically cross-posts new automated bill-tracker posts for tagged bills into a chosen office or community, where admins can add their own analysis, enabling users to create bespoke shareable legislative trackers with no coding.
• Constituent Case Bot Bot that tracks open constituent cases via a 'Constituent Cases' topic tag and subtopic per case, surfacing counts of open/newly-created/recently-updated cases and summaries in the workspace; $3/user/month after a one-month free trial.
• Deals Tracker Bot Bot that lets users track deal/pipeline value by writing a note, automatically computing the value of the user's pipeline so users can stay visible on outstanding deals without buying separate software.
• Scenario Strategy Workshops Workshop service using a matrix-game methodology, run on the Legislata app in person or via Zoom/Slack/email, that helps organizations test strategies against uncertain political outcomes; typically $15,000–$50,000 with a 10% discount for platform users.
• Legislata Sponsorships Sponsorship program that places partner messages (pinned ad post plus 50-word sponsorship message and link in every transcript) at the top of free transcript feeds, underwriting free access to the public record.
• Massachusetts Hearing Transcripts Service Automated AI-generated transcripts of Massachusetts State House committee hearings with keyword alerts and summaries; free for .gov and .edu accounts and $10/month otherwise.
• CA Twitter Data (top 500 most-followed accounts) Gated data product listing the 500 Twitter accounts most followed by California state legislators, released alongside Legislata's analysis of the state's political Twitter ecosystem.
• Massachusetts Forecasting Tournament Predictive-politics tournament offering cash prizes for accurate forecasts of Massachusetts political events, leveraging the platform's predictive analytics expertise.
• Legislata Forecasting Tournament 2023 2023 edition of the forecasting tournament, with cash prizes for accurate 2023 political predictions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Analyzed 57,160 bills filed at the Massachusetts State House since 2009 with a co-sponsorship relationship scoring algorithm.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability10 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core infrastructure, featured example / flagship sponsor, core to free-tier business model and minor / reputational.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)core infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationAWS hosts the Legislata platform. Data centers are accredited under ISO 27001, SOC 1 and SOC 2/SSAE 16/ISAE 3402, PCI Level 1, FISMA Moderate, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). Legislata cites AWS as a key sub-processor in its privacy policy.
• Stripecore infrastructureTechnology or IntegrationStripe is Legislata's third-party payment processor. Stripe collects customer name, email, address, phone and credit-card information to process payments for services sold on the website.
• Boston Policy Institutefeatured example / flagship sponsorGTM or Marketing PartnerBoston Policy Institute is the named sponsor of Legislata's Boston City Council transcript feed, with placement at the beginning of all transcripts to build reputation for rigorous local analysis. Cited as the model example of the sponsorship program.
• Underwriting / sponsorship partners (unnamed)core to free-tier business modelGTM or Marketing PartnerUnderwriting partners underwrite Legislata's free public-record content in exchange for sponsored placement. The homepage and sponsorship page describe this as the mechanism that keeps public-record content free.
• Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studiesminor / reputationalStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounder Chris Oates is a Lecturer at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University; the institutional affiliation is featured on the Team page and Scenario Strategy Workshops page as part of his credentials.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• LegiStorm: LegiStorm provides detailed congressional staff, member and influence data via subscription to government affairs professionals. It is comparable to the influence-mapping and donor/Twitter-graph datasets that differentiate Legislata.
• Open States: Open States maintains open legislative data across US states and is a direct comparable to Legislata's free public-record aggregation of state legislative information for civic and policy use.
• GovTrack: GovTrack offers free tracking of US Congress bills, votes and legislator data and is widely used by journalists and policy professionals. It is directly comparable to Legislata's free public-record positioning for federal legislative tracking.
• LegiScan: LegiScan provides legislative tracking and bill data across all 50 US states plus Congress via a paid subscription model. It is the closest direct competitor to Legislata's bill-tracking and alert core, targeting lobbyists, journalists and policy professionals with similar workflow needs.
• Plural Policy: Plural Policy (formerly Open States) provides legislative tracking across all 50 US states and is targeted at government affairs professionals and trade associations. It overlaps directly with Legislata's bill-tracking and workspace model for policy professionals.

Broad incumbents

• Quorum (FiscalNote): Quorum (now part of FiscalNote) provides legislative tracking, grassroots advocacy and constituent engagement software used by government affairs teams. It is a broader incumbent with overlapping capability in bill tracking and constituent case workflow.
• Bloomberg Government: Bloomberg Government sells policy intelligence, legislative tracking and government-contracts data to government affairs professionals. It is a broader incumbent competing for the same paying policy professional segment.
• Capitol Canary: Capitol Canary (formerly Phone2Action) provides advocacy, constituent engagement and legislative workflow software for trade associations, corporations and government affairs teams. It overlaps with Legislata's constituent case and productivity bot offerings.
• FiscalNote: FiscalNote is a broad policy SaaS incumbent covering legislative tracking, regulatory intelligence, advocacy and stakeholder management across global jurisdictions. It competes with Legislata at the high end of the policy-professional market while operating a much wider portfolio.
• Granicus: Granicus is a large government technology SaaS suite covering public meeting agendas, minutes, legislative management and civic engagement. Its agenda/minutes/transcription modules overlap with Legislata's AI-transcribed public meeting transcripts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/legislata

Compliance9 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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