Field note 01 · Finance
The finance director’s cell is on four hundred call sheets. She takes a new job in November. The donors keep calling her.
For political campaigns · Not built yet
Give everyone a campaign number. Keep it when they go.
Campaign Phone puts a campaign line on the cell phone your staff and volunteers already carry. The campaign owns the number, the call history and the contacts. Nobody hands a voter their personal cell, and nobody walks out the door with your donor calls.
We’re asking before we build. Three questions, no pitch.
Field notes
You’ve seen all of these.
Field note 02 · Field
A volunteer texts a voter about the canvass from his own phone. The voter is still texting him in July.
Field note 03 · Turnover
An organizer leaves on a Tuesday. Her precinct captains only have her number. Wednesday is quiet in a bad way.
Field note 04 · Wind-down
The cycle’s call history lives in fourteen personal phones and one group chat nobody can find.
The promise
One number per person. Owned by the campaign. On the phone they already carry.
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The number is the campaign’s.
Each staffer or volunteer gets a campaign number that rings on their own cell, right next to their personal line. Hand it out on day one. Take it back on their last.
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The history stays put.
Calls, texts and voicemails on a campaign line belong to the campaign. When someone moves on, the next person picks up the conversation instead of a blank phone.
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The contacts stay put.
Voters, donors, precinct captains, the volunteer with the truck. The campaign keeps the address book, not whoever happened to collect it.
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Personal stays personal.
Nobody prints their own cell on a walk packet again. When the shift ends, the campaign line can go quiet without the phone going with it.
One cycle, one line
Staff turn over. The number doesn’t.
- People who held the line
- 0
- Conversations kept
- All of them
A campaign is a startup that knows its shutdown date. People join late, leave early and change jobs in the middle. The line is the one thing that should be there the whole way.
Who it’s for
The people who get the phone calls about the phones.
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Campaign managers
One list of who has a line and who doesn’t. One place to hand them out and take them back.
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Field directors
A new organizer has a number on day one. When they leave, their turf’s conversations stay with the turf.
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Finance directors
Donor call history belongs to the campaign, not to a departing staffer’s recents.
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State & local party staff
Lines that carry over from one cycle to the next, through every candidate and every volunteer in between.
Fine print, up front
What we’re not going to tell you yet.
You’ve sat through enough vendor pitches. Here’s the short version of this one.
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Pricing
There isn’t any. We’d rather hear what a campaign your size would expect to pay than guess.
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Testimonials
There are no customers. It isn’t built. Anyone quoted here would be making it up.
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A launch date
When there is one, the interest list hears first.
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Whose side
Nobody’s. Campaign Phone is for campaigns of every party and of no party. Phones don’t caucus.
The interest list
Tell us you want it.
Three questions. They decide what gets built first and who hears when there’s something to try. That’s all we do with them.
Stored: email, role, campaign size. Nothing else.