What Community Tech Alliance does

Community Tech Alliance (CTA) is a Washington, DC-based not-for-profit (Delaware LLC) founded in 2021 by Kat Atwater that operates as a shared data infrastructure utility for the progressive movement. Its flagship product, PAD (Progressive Action Database), is a managed data warehouse and analytics platform built on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run, Workflows) that centralizes data from 50+ pre-built integrations spanning CRMs (Action Network, EveryAction/VAN, Salesforce), digital ad platforms (Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, Snapchat, YouTube), donor platforms (ActBlue, Stripe, NGP), voter file providers (TargetSmart, Catalist, L2), and advocacy tools (Mobilize, Hustle).

The product surface is modular: PADdle handles ETL/reverse-ETL via Airbyte with dbt transformations; Hopper provides point-to-point integrations; SketchPAD delivers Looker Studio-based visualization; PAD Connectors extends to Tableau and Periscope; NotePAD hosts the partner knowledge base; and PADLock provides security monitoring. PAD 2.0 (February 2024) added a point-and-click UI that lets non-technical users query BigQuery and run matching jobs, and in 2025 CTA launched PAD AI, a semantic governance layer that connects Claude and ChatGPT to organizational data with NL-to-SQL translation and auditability. CTA also sells professional services (custom analytics from $2,000, reporting from $3,500, custom workflows from $5,000, infrastructure assessment from $10,000, plus cloud engineering and bespoke development) alongside the subscription.

CTA generates revenue through annual subscription plans (auto-renewing, quote-based, with movement discounts) plus professional services. The team grew from 15+ technologists in late 2022 to nearly 30 by mid-2025, reportedly to support a large new contract. The platform serves mission-aligned organizations including Priorities USA, State Voices, Voter Formation Project, CIRCLE at Tufts University, Impact Action, Pipeline Initiative, Accountable.US, and SEIU Healthcare PA, and in 2025 processed 1,300+ TB of partner data in a single month with 99% uptime and a 2.5-hour average support response time on 510 tickets. CTA's entire dbt transformation library is open-sourced on GitHub, reinforcing its positioning as a community-owned public utility.

Name

Community Tech Alliance

Legal name

Community Tech Alliance LLC

Website

https://communitytechalliance.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Community Tech Alliance is a not-for-profit that operates PAD, a managed Google Cloud data warehouse and 50+ integration platform serving progressive civic, electoral, fundraising, and labor organizations with shared infrastructure and AI-enabled querying.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civic Data Infrastructure Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139), Professional Organizations (81392)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Inclusion & Civic Tech (Connectivity, GovTech for Social Good) (BPAGALAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data & Analytics Platforms (Data Warehousing, Lakes, Streaming) (HDABAAAF), Data App Builders (Forms, Portals & Internal Tools) (HDAEAKAK), Digital Workplace & Collaboration Consulting (BPAHAEAH)

Keywords

• Data warehouse platform
• Data integration services
• ETL reverse ETL
• Data visualization reporting
• Civic data infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

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, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Platform/SaaS Subscriptions: CTA offers subscription plans (Plans) to its Hopper platform and PAD services during specified subscription periods. Plans auto-renew annually unless canceled 15 days prior. Fees are quoted at time of purchase and are non-refundable.
2. Professional Services: Custom Analytics Projects (starting $2,000), Reporting & Data Visualization (starting $3,500), Custom Workflows (starting $5,000), Infrastructure Assessment (starting $10,000), Cloud Engineering Consulting, and Bespoke Development. These are one-time project fees beyond the platform subscription.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Community Tech Alliance provides a managed data infrastructure platform, headlined by PAD (Progressive Action Database), a Google Cloud Platform-based data warehouse built on BigQuery that centralizes organizing, fundraising, digital advertising, and voter file data for progressive organizations. The platform is paired with 50+ pre-built integrations, ETL/reverse-ETL via Airbyte, dbt transformations, Looker Studio visualizations, and a suite of professional services including custom analytics, reporting, custom workflows, infrastructure assessments, and cloud engineering consulting.

Product overview

Community Tech Alliance offers a modular data infrastructure platform built around PAD (Progressive Action Database), its core data warehouse and integrations platform powered by Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery). PAD serves as the central hub, with interconnected modules: PAD AI adds a natural language query and AI governance layer; PADdle provides ETL/reverse ETL via Airbyte with dbt transformations; Hopper enables point-to-point tool integrations; SketchPAD delivers visualization via Looker Studio; PAD Connectors link to third-party BI tools; NotePAD provides the knowledge base; and PADLock handles security monitoring. CTA also offers a suite of professional services including custom analytics projects, dashboard building, workflow automation, infrastructure assessment, cloud engineering consulting, and bespoke development. The architecture is designed to scale from lightweight Hopper-only point integrations to full PAD warehouse deployments with all modules combined.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PAD (Progressive Action Database): CTA's data warehouse and integrations platform powered by Google Cloud Platform.
• Hopper
• PADdle
• SketchPAD
• NotePAD
• PADLock
• PAD Connectors
• PAD AI

Products and services

• PAD (Progressive Action Database) CTA's primary data warehouse and integrations platform, built on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery), that allows organizations to store, move, analyze, visualize, share, and report on data from disparate sources. Provides both SQL-based querying and no-code interfaces for users of all technical skill levels.
• PAD AI AI governance and natural language query layer that sits between AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT) and organizational data, translating natural language into verified, scoped, and auditable SQL queries with a semantic layer enforcing organizational definitions and context.
• PADdle ETL and reverse ETL data integration layer powered by Airbyte, with data transformation and augmentation via dbt. Enables syncing data from third-party tools into PAD and pushing processed data back to external tools.
• Hopper Point-to-point data integrations between tools, allowing organizations to move data between specific platforms without full warehouse deployment. Operated as a cloud-hosted service at cta.tools.
• SketchPAD CTA's customized data visualization tool built on Google Looker Studio (formerly Data Studio), enabling users to create interactive dashboards and reports from PAD data without writing SQL.
• Custom Analytics Projects On-demand analytics consulting service starting at $2,000, where CTA analysts (specializing in digital ads, voter files, voter contact tools, and more) plug into a partner's team to deliver actionable insights on a time-and-materials basis.
• Reporting & Data Visualization Dashboard building and report automation service starting at $3,500, where CTA constructs automated, interactive dashboards customized to an organization's unique needs using PAD data.
• Custom Workflows Workflow automation service starting at $5,000, where CTA builds end-to-end automated workflows across GCP for tasks such as data collection, movement, cleaning, and external tool connections.
• Infrastructure Assessment Data infrastructure planning package starting at $10,000, including discovery interviews, written recommendations, and architecture outlines for organizations considering a data warehouse migration or tech stack upgrade.
• Cloud Engineering Consulting GCP-focused engineering consulting covering infrastructure assessment, architecture design, compute service selection (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run), ETL pipeline design using Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and Composer, data migration support, and optional plan execution.
• Bespoke Development Custom software development service for building business platforms, infrastructure rebuilds, and data management systems tailored to organizations of all sizes, ranging from custom business platforms to full infrastructure rebuilds.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1300+ TB of data processed in one month for partners
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration47 records

AI capability4 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Impact ActioncoreTechnology or Integration · 30 March 2025Impact Action teamed up with CTA to build a Districts Dashboard in PAD blending voter file, predictive models, demographics, and district information from seven battleground states into a single reporting tool.
• America VotescoreTechnology or Integration · 27 August 2024CTA partnered with America Votes to offer AV's Harris and GOTV models via PAD, expanding the platform's predictive modeling capabilities for progressive campaigns.
• SEIU HCPA (Healthcare Partners of America)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 May 2024CTA partnered with SEIU Healthcare PA to host a data training session for SEIU locals and build an affordable centralized data warehouse with reliable data integrations, freeing their team to use data more effectively.
• CIRCLE (Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, Tufts University)coreTechnology or Integration · 6 April 2024CTA partnered with CIRCLE to set up a data warehousing and analytics solution in PAD for their large-scale civic engagement research project, providing data storage, voterfile sync, and analytics infrastructure that enabled CIRCLE's most efficient project cycle yet.
• Clarity Campaign LabscoreTechnology or Integration · 14 February 2024CTA announced a partnership with Clarity Campaign Labs offering PAD users access to their extensive national model suite.
• Voter Formation Project (VFP)coreTechnology or Integration · 29 August 2023VFP and CTA partnered to bring together data sources from across VFP's ecosystem (social platforms, ad platforms, Google Sheets, voter file) into PAD, enabling VFP to run and optimize an effective digital program.
• Pipeline InitiativecoreTechnology or Integration · 25 July 2023CTA partnered with Pipeline Initiative to solve the challenge of bringing together disparate school board district data from various progressive data vendors into PAD, creating a cutting-edge dashboard displaying district profiles and demographics.
• Accountable.UScoreTechnology or Integration · 21 October 2022CTA helped Accountable.US build the American Democracy Scorecard — an interactive dashboard integrating FEC, state financial reports, and corporate shareholder information for tracking corporate democracy support.
• Google Cloud PlatformcoreTechnology or IntegrationCTA's entire platform (PAD, Hopper, all tools) is built on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run, and Workflows. GCP provides the underlying compute, storage, and security infrastructure.
• AirbytecoreTechnology or IntegrationCTA uses Airbyte as the ETL/reverse-ETL engine for PAD syncs and has contributed custom Airbyte connectors (ActBlue, StackAdapt) to the open-source Airbyte community.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• Salesforce.org (Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud): Salesforce's nonprofit/NGO cloud offering delivering CRM, analytics, and data capabilities to mission-driven organizations. A broad incumbent with deep relationships and packaged analytics that overlaps with CTA's data infrastructure value proposition.
• Bonterra: Larger nonprofit technology suite (formerly Network for Good/Convio/Social Solutions) providing CRM, fundraising, case management, and data tools across a broad nonprofit audience, including many of the same mission-driven customers as CTA.
• Blackbaud: Large incumbent providing CRM, fundraising, financial management, and analytics for nonprofits and social good organizations. Serves similar customer segments with a broader product portfolio and could expand into managed-data-warehouse capabilities.

Emerging players

• Hustle: Peer-to-peer texting and outreach platform widely used by progressive campaigns. Intersects with CTA's advocacy tool integrations and shares the same progressive customer base as an emerging data-capable engagement platform.
• TargetSmart: Voter file and political data vendor that CTA directly integrates with. An adjacent data provider serving the same progressive customers that could move upstack into broader data infrastructure over time.
• Mobilize: Progressive-leaning event and volunteer engagement platform with growing data and analytics capabilities. Intersects with CTA's membership- and organizing-program use cases and shares the same progressive customer base.

Direct peers

• Catalist: Progressive data infrastructure and voter file analytics provider serving many of the same Democratic and progressive organizations as CTA. Closest direct peer given shared mission, target customer base, and overlap in voter file integration and modeling services.
• Action Network: Progressive organizing and advocacy platform with built-in CRM, email, and reporting capabilities. Overlaps with CTA's organizing-program and digital-program use cases for the same progressive movement customers.
• Civis Analytics: Data science and analytics platform originally built for progressive campaigns and now serving commercial clients. Provides shared data infrastructure and modeling services comparable to PAD's progressive data warehouse offering.
• NGP VAN (EveryAction): Dominant progressive campaign technology platform offering CRM, organizing, fundraising, and data tools. Directly competes for the same progressive organization customers and increasingly bundles data infrastructure capabilities that overlap with PAD.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 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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