What Campaign Finance US does

Campaign Finance US, LLC is a privately held Michigan-based software provider that operates a cloud-based Campaign Finance Management Suite for county clerks and elections offices in Michigan. Founded in 1999 as a custom solution by the founder and formally incorporated as an LLC in July 2011 as a spinout from a family consulting engineering firm, the company is led by Managing Director Fred S. Weiss, Technology Director Fred Shapiro, and Operations Director Kenneth Shapiro. Its platform automates enforcement of Michigan's Public Act 388 of 1976 and the Michigan Campaign Finance Act by tracking candidates, campaign committees, elections, filing deadlines, jurisdictions, elective offices, and late filing fees. The product suite includes CFUS Enterprise (full-featured solution for larger counties), CFUS eFiler (electronic filing system for candidate committees, launched 2021), and CFUS Lite (affordable tier for smaller counties), all supporting both paper-based scan/upload/index workflows and electronic filing with validation.

The company's go-to-market is sales-led and direct-to-government, targeting Michigan county clerks through attendance at Michigan Association of County Clerks conferences, direct outreach, and a clerk-contact web form that generates constituent emails to non-client counties. Pricing is quote-based, tiered by county size, and billed as an annual subscription. The firm is operationally lean (1–10 employees) and serves 17 of Michigan's 83 counties, including 14 of the state's 20 most populous counties, with no disclosed outside funding, no parent company, and no out-of-state operations. Its growth has been entirely organic and bootstrapped since 2011.

Name

Campaign Finance US

Legal name

Campaign Finance US, LLC

Website

https://campaignfinance.us

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Campaign Finance US, LLC provides a cloud-based campaign finance management suite for Michigan county clerks and elections offices. Founded in 1999 and spun out as an LLC in 2011, it serves 17 of Michigan's 83 counties under annual subscription contracts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Franklin

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, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Annual Software Subscription: Campaign Finance Management Suite billed annually to county governments for access to the full platform including paper filing workflow, eFiler service, public access portal, and late fee tracking.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Campaign Finance US sells a cloud-based Campaign Finance Management Suite to Michigan county clerks and elections offices that automates compliance with Michigan's campaign finance law. The platform tracks candidates, committees, elections, filing deadlines, jurisdictions, and elective offices, supports both paper-based (scan/upload/index) and electronic filing workflows, automatically assesses late filing fees, and exposes filings through a public access portal for citizens and press.

Product overview

Campaign Finance US provides a cloud-based Campaign Finance Management Suite for Michigan county clerks. The product portfolio includes CFUS Enterprise (full-featured solution for larger counties), CFUS eFiler (electronic filing system for candidate committees launched in 2021), and CFUS Lite (affordable version for smaller counties). The platform automates campaign finance law enforcement including candidate and committee tracking, election filing deadlines, jurisdiction management, and late filing fee assessment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CFUS Enterprise: Full-featured campaign finance management solution for county clerks
• CFUS eFiler
• CFUS Lite
• Lite Tool Suite

Products and services

• CFUS Enterprise Full-featured cloud-based campaign finance reporting solution designed for larger Michigan counties, providing complete automation of Michigan campaign finance law (Public Act 388 of 1976) enforcement, including candidate and committee tracking, election deadline management, jurisdiction management, paper and electronic filing workflows, late filing fee assessment, and a public access portal.
• CFUS eFiler Cloud-based electronic filing service that allows candidate committees in Michigan counties to create, store, validate, and submit required campaign finance reports directly into the county elections office system, eliminating paper filings, identifying typos and calculation errors for correction, and routing filings into the same compliance workflow used by clerks.
• CFUS Lite Lighter, more affordable version of the Campaign Finance Tool Suite designed for smaller Michigan counties, created in direct response to feedback gathered at the Michigan Association of County Clerks Conference to address clerks' concerns about cost and complexity.

Quantifiable outcome

• Paper filings can be archived after single upload; public access visits to elections offices virtually cease after adoption

Named customers15 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Michigan Association of County ClerkscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2011The Michigan Association of County Clerks (MACC) is a key industry association. Campaign Finance US announced their new 'Lite' product at the MACC Conference, having gathered direct feedback from clerks at this conference. This represents strategic engagement for product development and market access.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Granicus: Granicus is a large government-experience platform serving federal, state, and local agencies with communications, records, and meeting management software. It sells into the same county clerk buyer as Campaign Finance US, but as part of a much broader portfolio rather than as a campaign-finance specialist.
• OpenGov: OpenGov provides a government operating system spanning budgeting, procurement, and civic transparency for state and local agencies. It is comparable as a broad incumbent serving the same county-government buyer with overlapping transparency and disclosure functionality.
• Tyler Technologies: Tyler Technologies is a major public-sector software vendor serving counties and municipalities with ERP, records, and civic software. It is a broad incumbent serving the same county clerk buyer from a much wider footprint and could plausibly bundle a campaign finance module.

Emerging players

• Filestamp: Filestamp provides electronic filing, document management, and audit-trail solutions for campaign finance and disclosure workflows. It is an emerging player in adjacent e-filing technology that competes for the same workflow as Campaign Finance US's eFiler module.
• NGP VAN: NGP VAN provides campaign finance, compliance, and organizing software primarily to political campaigns and Democratic Party committees rather than government filers. It overlaps in product category (campaign finance software) but serves the opposite side of the filing workflow from county clerks.
• Digital Democracy: Digital Democracy builds civic engagement and disclosure tools for state and local government, including campaign finance transparency portals. It is an emerging niche vendor in the same vertical SaaS category as Campaign Finance US.

Direct peers

• PCC Technologies: PCC Technologies provides campaign finance and election management software for state and local government. It competes in the same niche as Campaign Finance US — vertical SaaS for campaign finance compliance administered by clerks and election offices.
• Aristotle International: Aristotle provides campaign finance compliance and lobbying disclosure software to state and local government agencies across the US. It is the closest direct competitor to Campaign Finance US in the same vertical SaaS category, serving overlapping customer segments (state/local election administrators).
• Civix (Democracy Live): Civix builds election administration and civic engagement software used by state and local governments, including campaign finance disclosure portals. It is directly comparable as a peer selling into the same clerk/elections office buyer.

Regional players

• eFileOhio: eFileOhio is the state-level electronic filing portal for Ohio campaign finance disclosures — a regional/state-run analogue to the workflow Campaign Finance US sells into Michigan counties. It is comparable because it occupies the same functional slot for a different state's filers.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/campaign-finance-us-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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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