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In 24 states, your bill testimony is read by one session aide. Or the legislator, personally.

Only 26 states keep year-round personal staff. Everywhere else the filter collapses to one question: real constituent in my district?

NCSL Legislative Staffing · CMF 2017 · Walker & Le, Socius 2023

What the session aide opens

[email protected] · Inbox · 312 unread
305 more identical subject lines · aide rule-filed them to a folder before the hearing

No identity verification. No district proof. No local specificity. Rule-filed to “mass comment” before hearing.

What the session aide receives from Commons

Example packet · Texas HD-108 · Feb 2026

Texas HD-108 · SB-4 Testimony Packet
District Texas House District 108
Bill SB-4 (reproductive rights restoration)
Period Feb 12 – Mar 4, 2026
1,204 verified constituents
in HD-108
Identity 812 gov ID · 392 address-matched
Authorship 967 individually composed · 237 shared statements
Geography 43 communities across district
Screening One submission per person · duplicates removed
Cryptographic audit trail · independently verifiable

How each field answers the session aide's triage question

Identity
answers the triage question:
“Is this person actually in my district?”
CMF 2004 / CMF 2015 · constituent identity and address the primary filter for state legislative offices; form-letter submissions lack both
Geography
answers:
“What district is this? What communities are represented?”
CMF 2017 · district-specific impact information weighted by 91% of Congress staff; the same geographic specificity drives local credibility in state offices
Authorship
answers:
“Did they actually write this, or is it a form email?”
CMF 2015 · 92% of staff weight individualized constituent contact; 51% weight form email
Screening
answers:
“Is this astroturf from out of state?”
CMF 2004 · Walker & Le, Socius 2023 · unverified out-of-district submissions undermine credibility of legitimate constituent contact

Your platform submits to Fireside State, IQ, or nothing at all. Commons delivers a document the session aide can route immediately — each constituent individually authored, identity-proven, district-matched, screened for duplicates.

CMF 2015: 92% of staff weight individualized constituent email · 51% weight form email

Verified constituent packets enter the committee analysis. Form-email counts don't.

State legislative boundaries we cover

  • Texas HD-108
  • California SD-14
  • New York Assembly Health Cmte
  • Pennsylvania General Assembly
  • Illinois General Assembly
  • Ohio HB-68
  • Florida Senate Rules Cmte
  • Georgia HD-52
  • Michigan Senate Judiciary

50 state legislatures. 7,383 state legislators. Commons supports district-keyed packets across every chamber.

NCSL total, 99 chambers. Includes CA Position Letter Portal, IL Witness Slips, TX Witness Registration — and the 40+ states with no standardized intake system at all.

State legislative intake has no CWC. 24 states have no year-round personal staff. The aide who reads your bill testimony is the same person scheduling appointments.

The fragmentation is the opportunity: California has a Position Letter Portal, Illinois has Witness Slips, but Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Georgia — most states — have a personal inbox and a single session aide. The “real constituent in my district” filter is the entire triage in 24 states. A verification packet that arrives with authorship, district, and proof is instantly dispositive. California's Position Letter Portal is the exception that shows what the packet achieves at scale; the other 40+ states are where it becomes the aide's only structured input.

NCSL Legislative Staffing Survey · synthesis lines 99–105 · CA Position Letter Portal (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) · IL Witness Slips (ilga.gov)

The advocacy stack has changed hands four times this cycle. Session aides have read the form letter 50,000 times. Orgs are shopping.

Not $15/mo per seat.
Not $40,000/yr with a year-long implementation.
$0. 100 verified actions · 2 seats · no time limit

Starter tier published · enterprise by quote · Apr 2026

One verified action = one constituent, identity-proven, district-matched, authored for you. Metered at submission, not at send.

Free $0 100 verified actions · 1,000 emails · 2 seats
Starter $10/mo 1,000 verified actions · 20,000 emails · 5 seats
Organization $75/mo 5,000 verified actions · 100,000 emails · 10 seats
Coalition $200/mo 10,000 verified actions · 250,000 emails · 25 seats

No demo required. No procurement review. Import your list from Action Network, EveryAction, NationBuilder, or any CSV export — a packet produced before the next hearing, not a year from now.