The Dover Group

What The Dover Group does

The Dover Group (DBA Dover Strategy Group) is a woman-owned, Chicago-headquartered political consulting firm founded in 1998 that provides direct mail and digital campaign services to Democratic candidates, campaigns, PACs, and progressive advocacy organizations across the United States. Its work spans federal, state, and local races, with documented engagements in at least 18 states and recurring client relationships across multiple election cycles.

The firm's core offering is two service lines — Direct Mail and Digital — built on an integrated voter targeting stack that combines vote-history-driven modeling with creative development and production. Direct Mail covers strategic planning, concept and copy development, award-winning design, production through union printers, and delivery tracking. Digital covers persuasion advertising, advanced voter targeting in cookie-free environments, digital video production, social advertising (Facebook, Instagram, Snap), and website development. Technical differentiators include 1:1 voter matching, the ability to suppress early voters as Election Day approaches, and on-demand reporting dashboards tracking impressions, engagement, and audience composition. A data partnership with Catalist supports the targeting layer.

The Dover Group operates on a professional-services, project-and-contract revenue model with custom pricing tailored to each campaign's budget; no public pricing exists. It goes to market via direct sales to campaign managers and political organizations, supported by portfolio marketing, industry award recognition (41 Pollie and Reed Awards), and social media presence. The company is privately held with no disclosed institutional funding and a leadership bench of three Partners plus VPs across Creative, Digital, Production, and Messaging functions.

Name

The Dover Group

Legal name

Dover Strategy Group

Website

https://doverstrategygroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Dover Group is a woman-owned Chicago political consulting firm providing direct mail and digital advertising services to Democratic candidates, campaigns, PACs, and progressive advocacy organizations across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Political Consulting Services

NAICS

Direct Mail Advertising (54186), Advertising Agencies (541810)

SIC

Services-Direct Mail Advertising Services (7331), Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro primary industry

Democracy, Voting Rights & Civic Participation Advocacy (BPAGAFAJ)

Keywords

• Political direct mail
• Campaign digital advertising
• Voter targeting services
• Political consulting services
• Campaign strategy consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Political Campaign Services: Provides direct mail and digital advertising services to Democratic political campaigns, candidates, PACs, and advocacy organizations on a project/contract basis

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Dover Group provides direct mail and digital advertising services to Democratic political campaigns, candidates, PACs, and advocacy organizations. Services encompass strategic planning, branded creative development and design, production through union printers, voter targeting using vote history and data models, digital advertising across social media, mobile, programmatic video, and CTV/OTT, plus reporting dashboards tracking impressions and engagement. Each engagement is custom-tailored to fit the campaign's budget and strategic objectives.

Product overview

The Dover Group is a woman-owned political consulting firm offering two core service lines: Direct Mail and Digital. The Direct Mail service encompasses strategic planning, authentic concept and copy development, award-winning branding and design, production through union printers, and mail delivery tracking. The Digital service includes persuasion advertising, advanced voter targeting (using vote history and models in a cookie-free environment), digital video production, social media advertising (Facebook, Instagram, Snap), creative design, and website development. Both services leverage voter data to target the right message to the right voters at the right time.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Direct Mail Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Helped Jared Golden win U.S. House race in Maine against $5M NRCC spending with 53/45 victory
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Union PrinterscoreOthersPartnership with union printers for producing direct mail materials with high-quality materials, ensuring labor standards compliance important to Democratic constituency

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• 270 Strategies: Progressive political consulting firm focused on campaign strategy, organizing, and paid media for Democratic candidates and causes. Comparable in client type and project-based campaign services, with a stronger strategic/organizing emphasis.
• Trilogy Interactive: Democratic digital agency offering websites, digital advertising, fundraising, and creative for campaigns and progressive organizations. Closely overlaps with Dover's digital service line and progressive PAC client base.
• Blue State: Digital agency serving Democratic campaigns, progressive nonprofits, and advocacy groups with creative, media, and CRM. Overlaps with Dover on digital persuasion, voter targeting, and progressive organizational clients.
• GMMB: One of the largest Democratic political advertising and consulting firms, producing both direct mail and large-scale digital campaigns for Democratic candidates and progressive causes. Highly comparable to The Dover Group in service mix and client base, but significantly larger in scale.
• Bully Pulpit Interactive: Democratic-aligned digital-first agency combining creative, media buying, and targeting for campaigns and progressive organizations. Directly comparable to Dover's digital service line and voter-targeting approach, with a much larger headcount.
• BerlinRosen: Progressive communications and public affairs firm running high-profile campaigns and issue advocacy. Comparable in Democratic client base and integrated communications offering, though more oriented to PR and earned media than direct mail.
• Putnam Partners: Democratic direct mail and political consulting firm producing targeted mail programs for candidates and progressive causes. Highly comparable to Dover on direct mail production, targeting, and Democratic client roster.
• SKDK: Top-tier Democratic political consulting and public affairs firm offering advertising, direct mail, and strategic communications. Competes head-to-head with Dover for high-profile Democratic campaigns and shares the integrated direct mail + digital model.

Emerging players

• Revolution Messaging: Progressive digital agency specializing in online advertising, fundraising, and organizing for Democratic campaigns and causes. Overlaps with Dover's digital persuasion capabilities and progressive client base.
• Anzalone Liszt Grove Research: Leading Democratic polling and research firm that also offers strategic communications support to campaigns. Adjacent to Dover's targeting and messaging work; partial overlap on Democratic campaign services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/dover_group
• Facebookfacebook.com/doverstrategygroup
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dover-strategy-group

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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