The Challenge

Affirm’s Government Affairs team tracks legislation across high-priority states like California, New York, Florida, Texas, and Illinois, while also monitoring federal financial services activity. Before Plural, the process was manual and fragmented across spreadsheets, lobbyist emails, state legislative websites, and PDF markups in Google Docs.

Before using Plural, it was difficult to:

1. Quickly identify relevant bills across multiple jurisdictions
   
2. Keep legal, federal, and state stakeholders aligned in one place
   
3. Maintain updated status, analysis, and ownership for each bill
   
4. Produce internal reporting without spending hours formatting

As the volume of bills increased – especially around consumer finance and “Buy Now Pay Later” regulation – the team needed a way to centralize tracking and move faster.

The Solution

Affirm adopted Plural as its central workspace for multi-state and federal bill tracking.

Plural enabled the team to:

1. Summarize new legislation instantly with AI-powered bill summaries
   
2. Use Saved Searches and Alerts to surface bills earlier in the process
   
3. Consolidate state and federal bill tracking into one shared workspace
   
4. Tag bills by priority level, responsible owner, stage in analysis, and issue area
   
5. Share clean, ready-to-read bill summaries and exports with Legal and lobbyist teams
   

As they scale, Affirm is now expanding usage to issue-specific workspaces (AI, privacy, product compliance) and preparing legal leadership to collaborate directly inside Plural.

Impact

Plural has helped Affirm dramatically reduce manual effort and improve cross-team coordination.

By streamlining bill discovery, analysis, and internal coordination, Plural enables Affirm to focus on strategy, not administrative work. The result: more time influencing policy and engaging stakeholders where it counts.

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