We have 12 clients across clean energy, gun safety, tech regulation, and more. My team is manually checking Congress.gov, pulling clips from three different tools, and writing briefs in Google Docs every week. I need one platform that tracks every hearing, vote, and media mention per client — and tells us what to act on each morning.
D
Got it, Ben. Let me make sure I scope this right — a few questions before I start building:
1. Client data source — how should I load your 12 client profiles?
A
Upload a spreadsheet with client names, issue areas, and priorities✓
Connect to your existing HubSpot CRM and pull client records directlyC
Describe each client in chat and I'll build the profilesD
Start with 5 key clients, add the rest later2. What should I monitor for each client?
A
Congressional hearings and bill activity onlyB
Congress + media monitoring across major outlets✓
Everything — Congress, media, social media, and sentiment tracking3. Client-issue mapping — how should I connect clients to relevant activity?
A
Manual tagging — you assign each client to their relevant issues✓
Smart matching — I analyze each client's issue areas and priorities to auto-detect relevant activityC
Hybrid — I auto-detect and you review before alerts go out4. Output format — how do you want intelligence delivered?
A
Dashboard only — you check it when you want✓
Daily brief — one email each morning with everything that mattersC
Real-time alerts for urgent items plus a daily digestD
All of the above5. Actionability — how detailed should recommendations be?
A
Informational — "Here's what changed and why it matters"B
Directional — "This affects Client X, consider reaching out to Sen. Y's office"✓
Full action items — specific talking points, Hill meeting prep, and media response drafts1. B — HubSpot has everything
2. C — all of it
3. B — smart matching, that's the whole point
4. B — daily brief is the killer feature
5. C — full action items, my team needs to know exactly what to do
D
Two more quick ones before I build the spec:
6. Delivery time — when do you want the daily brief?
✓
7:00 AM email — before your first meetingB
9:00 AM email — when you're at your deskC
Slack message so it's in your workflowD
Different preference7. Media spike alerts — how should I notify you when a client issue spikes in coverage?
✓
Immediate Slack alert when mentions spike >200% in 6 hoursB
Include in daily brief only — no real-time interruptionsC
Both — immediate Slack for major spikes, daily brief recap1. A — 7 AM, I read it before my first call
2. A — yes, immediate Slack for spikes
D
Perfect, Ben. Here's the spec I've drafted — it covers client ingestion from HubSpot, congressional hearing and bill tracking, Meltwater media monitoring, Twitter/X social listening, sentiment analysis, daily intelligence briefs at 7 AM, real-time Slack alerts for hearing starts and media spikes, and weekly PDF digests per client. Take a look and let me know if there's anything you'd change.
9:06 AMThis is exactly what I need. Build it.
