Legislative strategy first.
Software second.
Switchgrass Solutions is a consulting practice for organizations that need the legislature to move, and need their members to move first. We start with the judgment call: what your web presence should actually do, which fights are worth your list's attention, and what's noise.
Then we run it. A managed legislative page on your own site, action modules that tell members which bill matters right now and what to do about it, and ongoing curation through the session, so the work doesn't stall the week after launch.
LegiSync and VoteScope are the platforms that power that work. LegiSync handles real-time bill monitoring and AI-assisted analysis; VoteScope makes the voting record searchable and citable. Both are available directly to teams that would rather run their own program.
Switchgrass is run by Blake Severyn, a registered South Dakota lobbyist who works the legislature in person. Based in South Dakota, we take on clients across the country who share one thing: they need legislative work that produces action, not just information.
Strategy before software
Knowing what to build matters more than building it. Most engagement problems turn out to be decisions about focus, not missing features.
We know the building
Built by a registered lobbyist who works the South Dakota legislature in person, not a generic dev shop reading bill text from a distance.
Ship fast
Legislative timelines don't wait. When a bill moves, we build and deploy on the session's schedule, not a quarterly roadmap.
Let's start with a conversation.
Tell us what your members need to do. We'll tell you what it takes to get them there.
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