Compliance, deadlines, the Legislature, bill tracking, drafting, and research — everything a lobbyist needs to run their practice, in one place. No more hopping between the Secretary of State's site, the FPPC, leginfo, and advocacy-group pages. SiLobbyist keeps you on the work.
What it does
SiLobbyist is organized around what lobbyists actually do all day: stay compliant, know the players, move bills, write the words, and stay ahead of the news. Every module feeds the others.
Registration walkthroughs for lobbyists, firms, and employers. Quarterly filing checklists for Forms 602–635 with real deadlines. Gift and honoraria quick-reference, revolving-door rules, Cal-Access how-tos.
Open the toolkitAll 80 Assemblymembers and 40 Senators, current leadership, and standing committees with chairs — the people you need to know, with the context that matters for advocacy.
Meet the LegislatureHow a bill becomes law in California, step by step — and a tracker that keeps your watchlist organized with direct links to official leginfo records.
Track billsAll 120 legislators — district, party, committees, leadership — plus the advocacy groups behind every coalition. Build dossiers, map supporters and opponents, and walk into every meeting prepared.
Open the research deskAsk anything about CA lobbying law, FPPC rules, legislators, or bill strategy. Goldie answers from a curated knowledge base of primary sources — statutes, FPPC guidance, legislative rules.
Ask GoldiePosition letters, testimony, client memos, talking points, plain-language explainers of laws and legislators for your clients. It drafts — you send. Nothing goes out without your eyes.
Start draftingCalifornia lobbying and policy news that affects your practice — FPPC actions, rule changes, session developments — curated in one feed.
Read the wireThe Nov 3 general election as a lobbying tool: statewide races, competitive House seats, ballot measures, the election calendar, and post-election new-member playbooks — every fact cited and dated.
Open the elections hubWho funds whom in Sacramento — donor profiles, per-legislator fundraising, independent expenditures, behested payments, and donor↔lobbyist-client overlap. Every dollar tied to its Cal-Access filing.
Follow the moneyThe legislative year at a glance — where we are, what passed, what's coming, with countdowns. Never open a .ca.gov site for "when does session end?" again.
See the timeline58 counties, priority cities, local ordinance tracking, and state→local implementation mapping — because cities and counties decide what state law means on the ground.
Go localEnforcement actions with fines and rules broken — vetting and compliance lessons — plus ballot measures, veto messages, and advisory opinions.
Study the recordYour searchable Sacramento memory — meetings, calls, fundraisers, notes, and follow-ups. Never walk into a room unprepared again.
Open the CRMNew-client conflict screening, billable time tracking into invoices, and firm team task management — the business side of the practice.
Screen a clientThe war room
Everything around the work: model outcomes, know the money and the people, research faster, and run the business of the firm.
A transparent win-probability score for every bill — 18 weighted factors, full breakdown, uncertainty band, never a black box. Backtested on 119 bills from 2023–24.
Score a billWar-game the what-ifs: amendments, vote flips, next-session runs, veto overrides, coalition changes, budget climate, ballot leverage. Assumptions stated, estimates not predictions.
Model a scenarioWin, lose, or veto — the plan for all three. Compliance roadmaps for wins, autopsy + reintroduction roadmaps for losses, override math or next-session strategy for vetoes.
Open the playbookRehearse the hard conversations — committee staff, opposition, the client — against how Sacramento actually negotiates.
Start a sessionThe midnight-amendment console: when a bill gets gutted and amended at 11 PM, know in minutes what changed and what to do.
Open the consoleYour private vote count — who’s yes, who’s leaning, who needs a call. Never leaves your browser.
Count the votesRecess is when sessions are won: interim hearings, district visits, and the groundwork that makes January easy.
Plan the interimEvery bill awaiting the Governor's signature or veto — deadlines, veto risk reads, and what happens next.
Watch the deskAll 67 vetoes of 2026 with the Governor's rationale in his own terms — the patterns that predict next year's vetoes.
Study the vetoesWhat's on the ballot, who's spending, and how each measure moves the legislative landscape.
See the measuresPush the moment significant outside money moves — opposition IEs, new committees, major donors. The money map, live.
Set up alertsWho's termed out, which seats open when, and the candidate pipeline — the map of Sacramento's future.
See the mapThe 29 firms on the other side of the table — client rosters, practice areas, and where you'll meet them.
Know the competitionWhat committee consultants actually think — read from their analyses, never invented. No public record means no public record.
Read the leaningsThe 13 caucuses that move votes — membership, leadership, and what each one cares about.
Meet the caucusesNobody watches 4-hour hearings. Get the 90 seconds that matter to you — topic-scoped briefs with timestamped video links.
Summarize a hearingCut shareable 60–90 second hearing moments — the chair backing your position, the opposition's key admission — for clients or advocacy.
Build a clipChaptered-bill history packets for legal interpretation work — intent materials, committee analyses, prior versions, every item sourced.
Assemble a packet39 DCA boards under the sunset microscope — review schedules, what's at stake, and where to engage.
Track the reviews15 cross-session lineages — the bills that keep coming back, and what their history teaches about this year's version.
Trace the lineageCases shaping lobbying practice — docket awareness, never legal advice. Verify on the live docket before relying on it.
Watch the docket18 federal actions with California lobbying implications — preemption fights, funding conditions, the SI executive order.
See the nexusYour white-label client portal — silobbyist.com/{slug}, per-client access codes, plain-language bill updates with your approval gate.
Build the portalYour own FPPC autopilot — log gifts, meals, and expenses as they happen; live tallies against the limits; auto-drafted quarterly reports.
Stay compliantTrip planner, Capitol visitor guide, hotel intel, and expense capture that flows into billing, budgets, and the client portal — one entry, three destinations.
Plan a tripOnboard junior hires with structured courses — CA Lobbying 101, the Political Reform Act, procedure, filings. Training only, never accredited.
Start trainingCompliance-grade version history on everything Goldie drafts — every version, who approved, what changed, hash-chained and exportable.
Open the trailGoldie learns your writing voice from your past emails and memos — drafts come back sounding like you, not like AI.
Teach Goldie your voiceFPPC deadlines, hearings, floor sessions, and fundraisers synced to your real calendar — with travel time blocked.
Sync the calendarImport your phone and email contacts, auto-matched against legislators, staff, and lobbyists — you confirm every match.
Import contactsSourced-only benchmarks for what firms charge — scope your fees with real data, not vibes.
Check the benchmarksSacramento's power tables — where to take the meeting, what to order, who sits where. Client-ready dining intel.
Find a tableProgrammatic access to bills, legislators, probability scores, and deadlines — tenant-scoped keys, signed webhooks.
Read the docsThink-tank-grade policy research at lobbyist speed — past laws' outcomes, live-bill deep dives, future trends and model-legislation traces. 2-minute brief, 20-minute memo, or full dossier, every claim line-labeled.
Open the engineAttach PDFs, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to Goldie — summarize a 200-page analysis, extract budget numbers, compare bill versions. Build .xlsx workbooks, charts, and decks from your private numbers. Stays private to you.
Open the libraryHer fundraising practice: invitation directory, host/attend cost intelligence, filing-derived legislator profiles, strategy trade-offs, FPPC compliance budgets, and private ROI on her own spend. Ethics guardrails built in.
Open fundraisingEvery fundraiser on a map, calendar, and list — with timing-vs-her-bills flags, blackout auto-checks, a donor-fatigue heatmap, a suggested slate, and her private attendance history overlaid.
Open the mapStrategic attendance analysis for every fundraiser: go / skip / send someone else, with a confidence level and the full reasoning. Client calculus in client-ready language, weekly importance ranking, and honest don't-go cases.
Run the engineHow it's different
Bill trackers show you data; compliance portals show you forms; advocacy groups show you their agenda. None of them run your practice. SiLobbyist combines tracking, compliance, drafting, and research in a single workflow — the way an LCME accreditation hub keeps med schools on one site instead of bouncing between org pages.
Every compliance answer traces back to the statute, the FPPC regulation, or the official form — Government Code sections, FPPC fact sheets, the Secretary of State's Cal-Access. When the law is the answer, you get the citation, not a summary of a summary.
The Drafting Studio and Goldie prepare emails, memos, and talking points for you to review, edit, and send yourself. The agent does the research and the writing; the judgment — and the send button — stays yours.
Lobbying law is different in every state, so we started where the rules are toughest: California. The platform is built to expand state by state — each with its own compliance brain — without changing how you work.
The goal: everything except the dinners and fundraisers handled. Start with the toolkit, meet your Legislature, and put Goldie to work.
Bill movement, deadlines, and policy shifts — one short email, a few times a week during session. No spam — unsubscribe anytime.