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Campaign finance dashboard
A source-backed starting point for large contributions, recent filings, top donors, recipients, and yearly trends.
Louisiana-first political money intelligence
Follow the money without fighting the data.
BackerBase brings campaign finance and public-record data into one searchable, visual, AI-powered research platform, starting with Louisiana.
Search
Donors, PACs, races
Visualize
Charts and relationships
Ask
AI grounded in app data
Research workspace
Source-backed
Campaign financeLouisiana EthicsSecretary of StateFEC filingsPublic filingsDonor networksRelationship mappingAI research
The problem
Public data shouldn't be this hard to use.
The records exist, but usable insight is buried across state systems, public filings, PDFs, spreadsheets, and interfaces that were not built for modern research.
Sources are scattered
Researchers jump between state systems, federal filings, public spreadsheets, PDFs, and historical CSVs.
Records need context
A contribution row is useful, but the real question is how donors, candidates, committees, filings, and entities connect.
Search slows the work
Outdated interfaces make it too hard to move from a name or question to the records behind the answer.
The solution
From fragmented records to political intelligence.
BackerBase brings public sources into a modern research workflow built for speed, clarity, discovery, and source-backed analysis.
Bring records together
Campaign finance, Ethics filings, FEC records, Secretary of State records, officials, races, and nonprofit public filings where loaded.
Make research searchable
Use modern filters, tables, and profile views to move from names to source-backed records faster.
Reveal relationships
Inspect donors, recipients, entities, officer roles, grants, loans, expenditures, and related-party signals in one workflow.
Capabilities
Built around the questions political-money researchers actually ask.
Every capability below is supported by the app repo audit. The product starts with Louisiana and expands from source-backed data workflows.
Search donor and contribution records
Find donors, PACs, businesses, committees, contribution rows, and giving history with filters built for research work.
Triage large money and filings
Review dashboard summaries, large contributions, recent Ethics filings, FEC filings, top recipients, and cross-campaign donors.
Open candidate, race, and official views
Move from a question to loaded race, recipient, candidate, and elected-official records where the app has supporting data.
Explore relationships
Use graph-style workflows to inspect contributions, expenditures, loans, grants, officer roles, and related-party links.
Use charts and timelines
Turn tables into contribution trends, donor composition, recipient reach, official insights, and profile timelines.
Ask grounded AI questions
Ask plain-English questions and get concise answers based on loaded BackerBase campaign finance data.
Product
A research workspace, not another filing maze.
The app already includes dashboards, donor search, relationships, and AI-assisted research surfaces. The screenshots below are real captures from the BackerBase app repo.
Donor and committee search
Search, filter, and rank contributors by giving, recipient reach, donor type, and contribution patterns.
Relationship workbench
Search entities and inspect relationship paths, counterparties, evidence rows, and money-flow context.
AI research assistant
Ask plain-English Louisiana campaign finance questions and use answers as a source-backed research starting point.
Modern research
Built for how research actually happens now.
Political-money research rarely follows a straight line. BackerBase is built for jumping from questions to records to connections without rebuilding the same context over and over.
Legacy workflow
Search one system, download a file, open a PDF, repeat the search somewhere else.
BackerBase workflow
Start from a donor, race, official, filing, or plain-English question and move through connected records.
Legacy output
A pile of rows that still need manual reconciliation.
BackerBase output
Tables, charts, timelines, relationship context, and source-backed next steps.
AI research
AI that helps you get to the point faster.
BackerBase AI is an accelerator layered on top of better data aggregation, better search, better usability, better discovery, and better analysis.
Ask in plain English
The app routes questions through a planner and analytics service before generating concise answers.
Stay grounded in loaded data
The AI answer route instructs the model not to use outside knowledge or invent entities, dates, amounts, parties, or causal claims.
Keep source records central
AI accelerates orientation. It does not replace source records, evidence links, or research judgment.
Who it's for
Built for people who need real answers.
BackerBase is for people whose work depends on understanding political money, public records, and the relationships behind them.
Journalists
Find leads in filings, donors, races, and public records without losing the thread across disconnected systems.
Campaigns
Understand donors, races, committees, and competitive money movement from a single research workspace.
Researchers
Move from broad questions to tables, charts, source links, and relationship views that support deeper analysis.
Political consultants
Scan contributors, entities, race slates, officials, and finance patterns before strategy conversations.
Watchdogs
Track public filings, large contributions, cross-campaign donors, and evidence-backed relationship signals.
Advocacy groups
Understand the money and organizations around policy fights, public officials, and political committees.
Government affairs
Monitor official records, candidate activity, and public-money context with clearer research workflows.
Pricing
Flexible access for serious research workflows.
Pricing is intentionally request-based while BackerBase expands coverage, onboarding, and team workflows.
Researcher
For individual analysts, journalists, and researchers who need sharper access to Louisiana political-money data.
Request access- Core research workspace
- Donor and contribution search
- Dashboard and filing triage
- AI-assisted questions
Professional
For consultants, campaigns, and organizations that need repeatable workflows across donors, races, and entities.
Schedule a demo- Everything in Researcher
- Relationship exploration
- Race and official research views
- Priority onboarding
Team
For teams coordinating research, reporting, advocacy, or political intelligence workflows.
Talk to us- Team-oriented access
- Shared research workflows
- Data-source alignment review
- Roadmap and coverage planning
Request access
Ready to follow the money?
See how BackerBase makes political finance research faster, clearer, and easier to use.