Advocacy & issue campaigns
Proof that people are with you — collected this week, not next quarter
Every decision-maker asks the same question, and they ask it early: how many people actually care about this? A petition answers it thinly. A public consultation you ran yourself — with a map, a survey and a results page anyone can check — answers it properly, and it answers it in your favour when the answer is on your side.
- Live in an afternoon, not a procurement cycle
- No account for respondents — two minutes on a phone
- A public results page that doubles as organising material
What gets in the way
Three things that stop this work, and what we do about them
“The hearing is in three weeks and all I have is a mailing list.”
Publish a real consultation the same day you decide to run one.
Create the campaign, add a survey and a map, hit publish. You get a public URL, a QR code and a social card immediately. There is no implementation call, no configuration workshop and nothing to install — the gap between deciding and collecting is measured in hours.
“Our supporters are on their phones and will not make an account.”
Respondents never sign up for anything.
The public page is mobile-first and asks for nothing before the first question. People answer in about two minutes, drop a pin on the block they are worried about, and leave. Contact capture is opt-in and comes at the end, once they have already given you the thing you needed.
“The tools budget is whatever is left after printing.”
$0 to prove it works, $39 a month for unlimited campaigns.
The free plan runs one live campaign with 200 responses a month — enough to test the message on a neighbourhood before you commit a cent. When the push gets serious, Starter removes our branding and unlimited campaigns for less than a box of yard signs.
Example campaign
Six weeks to a council vote
A neighbourhood coalition wants a traffic-calming plan approved. The vote is six weeks out. Here is how those weeks look with a campaign page doing the work.
- Week 1
Build it in one sitting
Eight questions: do you walk this route, how often, what stops you, which of three designs do you prefer, plus an open box and an optional email. Then a map centred on the corridor with three categories — Feels unsafe, Works fine, My idea. Logo and colour on, publish, done before dinner.
- Week 2
Launch to the people who already agree
Email the list, post the link with its social card, and ask the three partner orgs to embed the survey on their own sites. Early responses set the tone of the map and give later visitors something to react to.
- Weeks 3–4
Go where the people are
Print the QR code on a flyer for the farmers market, the school pickup line and two coffee shops. Canvassers open the same link on a tablet at the door. Every route feeds the same dashboard, so you can see which one is actually working and drop the one that is not.
- Week 5
Turn the numbers into momentum
Switch on the public results view and share it: 1,200 responses, a heat pattern clustered on two intersections, and the top open-text themes. People join things that are visibly working, and a live counter is more persuasive than a press release.
- Week 6
Walk in with evidence
Export the CSV for the appendix, the GeoJSON so the city's own planners can load your pins into their GIS, and a PNG of the two charts that matter for the slide. Testimony backed by a dataset the other side can check is a different kind of testimony.
Total tooling cost for those six weeks: $39 on Starter, or nothing at all if 200 responses was enough.
Your campaign can be collecting responses tonight
Start free, build the survey and the map, publish when you are ready. Nobody has to approve a purchase order first.
Free plan, no card. 200 responses a month, forever.