The Washington firm treats public affairs like a field campaign: research the terrain, find the pressure point, and put every discipline on the same side of the table.
Scott & Co sells no paintings, builds no museums and curates no biennials. Yet it has learned how to move all three through the world - by treating public relations as an editorial act, and culture as an argument worth making.
Potential Energy Coalition discovered that a single bad word can drain support from a good climate policy. So it built a nonprofit advertising shop that treats every slogan as a hypothesis - and every audience as a jury.
The six-year-old advocacy shop learned that a historic climate law could still be politically invisible. Its answer was to stop leading with the climate - and start with the bill on the kitchen table.
A vote, a donation, a forgotten filing. Nesbitt & Parrinello turns the public record into usable intelligence for progressive campaigns - and puts a price on being prepared.