Stay Ahead in 2024: Plural’s Custom Legislative Solutions for Every Team

The 2024 legislative sessions are right around the corner — is your team ready? When it comes to policy tracking tools in 2024, you have many options. Plural’s tailored solutions are perfectly catered to your team’s size, budget, and needs.

In 2022, total federal lobbying spending skyrocketed to $4.1 billion – the highest since 2010. With conglomerates dishing out millions of dollars to advocate for and against policies on both the state and federal levels, organizations with tighter budgets face an uphill battle.

Plural’s expanded legislative tracking, stakeholder management, and collaboration offerings come at a time when full participation in the policy creation is crucial. Plus, Plural is a minority and women-owned technology company that’s committed to innovation. When you choose Plural as your tool of choice, you won’t be getting an outdated legacy tool or supporting a company with a culture of just pandering to stakeholders. We are continually innovating ways to make our data impactful, and we’re committed to doing the right thing. Plural users are happy and productive.

Let’s dig into your options.

Plural Free Account

A free Plural account is perfect for the individual who wants to stay civically engaged on public policy. Thousands of Plural users take advantage of our free offering. With a free account, you’ll access best-in-class legislative data from 53 jurisdictions — all 50 United States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and U.S. Congress. You can also search and track bills across all 53 states and jurisdictions.

Worried that a free tool won’t be robust and accurate? The old rule of “you get what you pay for” is a thing of the past. Not only does Plural offer the most robust legislative data, but it’s also the most intuitive and easy-to-use tool on the market. We scrape our data more frequently than our competitors, with a custom cadence that’s catered to each legislature. With Plural, your days of getting caught with outdated information are over.

Think you’ll need more? Don’t worry — once you create a free account and start using Plural, you can upgrade anytime.

Plural Basic Plan — NEW!

Plural’s Basic Plan is perfect for small teams who only need to track one jurisdiction, but still need expanded functionality. 

With Plural’s Basic Plan, you can search and track bills in one state, get custom alerts for your tracked bills, and get real-time alerts on saved searches. It comes with full access to Plural for two users, who can create one collaborative workspace for notes, issue management, and more. Plus, you can create customizable markups, shared notes, and annotations on bills, and upload external files. Teams who use this tier really appreciate the high quality data and ability to collaborate.  

We recently created our Basic Plan for those small policy teams that need to pack a punch. Sound familiar? In the world of public policy, being the first to know and getting your team on the same page as fast as possible is the key to success. Plural’s Basic Plan will help you achieve your goals. With our Basic Plan, we’ve taken our robust legislative data and paired it with powerful organization and collaboration tools. However, at the same time, we know that budget is often a pain point for small policy teams. That’s why our Basic Plan is just $3,500 per year.

Plural’s Premium Plan

Plural’s Premium Plan is perfect for multi-jurisdiction public policy teams, advocacy groups, and researchers. In addition to searching and tracking  bills, organizing your work, and collaborating with your team, you can unlock revolutionary tools to deepen your policy insights and enhance your collaboration. 

And with unlimited secure digital workspaces, you can create a home for every team, client, or campaign — annotate bills, share analyses, and plan next steps all in one place. What’s more, you can easily export your data for reporting and further analysis.Plural allows you to give up legacy systems and spreadsheets. Plus, we never charge per seat. With Plural, you can collaborate with anyone on your team (or even external stakeholders!) without concern for additional fees.

Coming Soon to Plural

If you missed our product roadmap webinar, we just announced these new features that are available now to Plural users:

• Vote data. Plural users can now see how a bill was voted on, or how Legislators have voted on certain bills in Plural right alongside your work. We want to help save you time tracking a bill’s movements, and also make it easy to share vote information in multiple formats, like a legislative scorecard for example. Vote data can be found both on a Bill or Legislator’s activity feed.
• Federal staffer data. We know that managing relationships and discussing legislative priorities with lawmakers is critical, but can be labor-intensive. With Plural, up-to-date information you need is at your fingertips. You can find federal staffer data on our new “Staff Directory” tab right on the Legislator’s page. Plus, state staffer data is also coming soon!
• Mention teammates. Tag or “@” mention your teammates (similar to other collaboration or messaging software like Slack, Microsoft Teams) If there’s a particular update on a bill, legislator, or any other update that you want to flag immediately for your teammates, simply mention them in the activity feed. Tagged teammates get notified directly in their inbox with the context and information they need. We know that collaboration is a crucial part of public policy work, and hope that this feature and others helps facilitate smooth and effective collaboration within Plural.

Want to learn more about any of the features mentioned above? It’s best to meet with one of our Policy Experts for a live demo in Plural.

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