FiscalNote (Washington, DC, est. 2013, NYSE: NOTE, ~414 employees) is a publicly traded policy intelligence platform. Combines AI with expertise to help organizations track, analyze, and influence policy at local, state, federal, and global levels. Products include PolicyNote (legislative/regulatory monitoring), CQ and Roll Call (reporting), VoterVoice (grassroots advocacy). G2: 4/5 (3 reviews). Serves government affairs, legal/compliance, and public policy teams. Not a traditional law firm tool — primarily serves corporate policy/government relations teams, trade associations, and advocacy organizations. Competes with Quorum, Bloomberg Government, and LexisNexis State Capital. Pricing not transparent.
Company Info
- Founded: 2013
- Stock: NYSE: NOTE
- Team size: ~414 employees
- HQ: Washington, DC
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Workflows
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What practitioners struggle with
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Contract auto-renewed at 15% higher because nobody tracked the 60-day opt-out window buried on page 37
Legal research costs $400-600/hour in associate time and takes hours of manual digging — searching Westlaw/Lexis, reading irrelevant results, synthesizing case law. Clients increasingly refuse to pay for research hours on invoices. AI can compress a 4-hour research memo into 20 minutes, but most firms have no approved tool
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