Legislata for Political Risk
Here’s what Legislata is and how it can help you
“Slack is just overwhelming and I can’t keep up with all my newsletters” - Political risk analyst and broadcaster
Keep your information organized and clients happy
Legislata was started by a political risk analyst who found that predicting the ups and downs of politics, government, and economics were the easy part of his job. Much harder was keeping research organized, staying on top of the news, and communicating with (and finding) clients. If business development were as simple as forecasting elections, it would have been a much less stressful job.
There are a number of ways which Legislata can help those in political risk, and for more, you can join the Political Risk Network on Legislata. Four that we want to highlight here are:
Set up alerts for what matters to you
Create client portals
Become an informational and thought leader
Create crowd forecasts or quantitative monitors
Set up alerts for what matters to you
One reason that Twitter has become the de facto newswire is that it’s where political conversations happen. But it’s not designed to deliver the news you need to know when you need to know it. It’s instead designed for the opposite, to keep you engaged and scrolling through more and more ads.
Legislata can serve some of the same functions as social media, by letting information be easily shared with those who wish to hear it. But we’re also built for professionals who need that information to be delivered quickly and efficiently.
To that end, we let you join offices (our term for groups or workspaces) serving political communities, from states to countries to issues, and set up notifications. When something is posted about what matters to you, you’ll receive a notification in the app and in an email. If you want to save even more time, you can have all your notifications summarized in a daily digest sent in the morning. Find offices set up by those that post alerts on regulations, or speeches, or whatever other input goes into your thinking, and be fully caught up before you join your first Zoom meeting.
Create client portals
Winning business is great, but how do you ensure that your client sees your analysis in a timely manner? If it’s a single big report, maybe it’s easy to send it over as a PDF and assume they read it (or at least the executive summary). But if you’re providing ongoing analysis of a wide variety of regions or issues? Emails can disappear into an overflowing inbox. Newsletters are skimmed. Content on your own site might not be checked.
And if your client wants to contribute with their own thoughts? Then it’s even more emails that might be lost.
In Legislata, you can create an office for each client. You can post your analysis there, tag it with what matters, and know that the members of you client team can set up notifications for what matters to each of them. They can comment on the post or post their own thoughts. Rather than a one-way street with your opinions on an issue, it becomes a more collaborative endeavor. This allows the client to contribute insights to the analysis and ensures that it becomes an engagement likely to be renewed. These client portals are simple to set up and the continual engagement is the best sales pitch possible when the contract is up.
Become an informational and thought leader
Legislata also helps you share and collaborate with others - including staying up to date with what’s happening in your networks and letting others know what you think.
Join an office about your areas of interest, from geography to issue-based, and upload your analysis. You can tag them with what they relate to and others will receive notifications. No more tweeting about your latest white paper on risks to infrastructure and hoping potential clients see it. Upload it, tag it “infrastructure”, and they’ll get an alert instantaneously.
You can also go one step further and be the creator of such an office. If it’s always been a nightmare to find all the major ESG regulators across different jurisdictions and the notices they issue, then create an office called “ESG notices” and post them there. Invite others to join - such as your clients or others in your space - and you’ll have the free marketing as the go-to people for that issue. Don’t just post free analysis and hope it impresses; curate vital information and be sure that it does.
You can join the Political Risk Network on Legislata to see it in action.
How to sign up?
If you want to get started right away, you can go to app.legislata.com and create an account (currently, it only works on desktop, not mobile). You can also request to join offices sharing information about different geographies, or create your own and invite others to follow you.
It’s free to join and you can select Team or Pro in the Office page to start your free four-week trial of those premium tiers.
Additional tidbits
A full user guide is available here.
A tutorial video series is here.
You can check out our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy (and Privacy Policy for California) and our FAQs to learn more about it.
You can request a personal demonstration here.
Create crowd forecasts or quantitative monitors
We know that sometimes your clients want a number rather than a block of text. To that end, we’ve enabled you to create questions that receive numerical answers. This can be used for everything from rating the risk environment of a country to predicting who will win the 2024 presidential election.
All members of the office will be able to provide answers to the questions and the average of the answers will be displayed. This can be particularly useful for those issues on which a large team has disagreements or where the situation is constantly evolving.
You can join our Legislata Forecasting Tournament to see this feature in action.
This feature is available on request for those office at Team tier and above. Email chris@legislata.com with the name of your office to unlock it.
