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The Lobbying Firm That Put the Whole Campaign Under One Roof
CGCN sells access, analysis, storytelling, and outside pressure as one coordinated system. A 20-year campaign for salon tax relief shows why the parts matter most when they move together.
Bravo Group Found the Voters Who Stopped Picking Up the Phone
The Harrisburg firm began with a political operative's instinct: every hard business problem contains a campaign. Then the phone stopped working - and Bravo built its own way to listen.
The Firm That Sells the Whole Weather System
Mercury Public Affairs does not merely polish a message. It assembles the politicians, pollsters, press hands, digital operators, and local organizers who can change the weather around it.
The Meeting Is the Easy Part
Washington runs on access, but FTP built a business around the harder question: once the door opens, what should a client actually say - and who else needs to say it?
The Campaign Never Ended. It Just Moved Into the Boardroom.
BHA Strategy borrowed the machinery of a political campaign - intelligence, narrative, coalition and cadence - and rebuilt it for organizations whose growth depends on what government does next.
The Career That Didn’t Happen Built a Lobbying Firm
Ezra Friedlander expected to work at City Hall. When that future disappeared, he built a firm around the slower craft of making an argument travel - from a client’s mission to the people with the power to act on it.
The Firm That Learned to Campaign Between the Aisles
Tharon Johnson built an Atlanta firm around an unfashionable political idea: the person who understands the message should also understand the room where policy gets made.
The Six-Year Yes: How PolicyWorks Sells Patience in a Town Built on Deadlines
PolicyWorks spent six years helping fantasy sports clear the Iowa Legislature. Its real product is not a press release or a lobbyist's handshake - it is the stubborn coordination of politics, publicity and time.
The Lobbying Firm That Outgrew Its Own Name
Prism Group spent years adding policy, communications and creative muscle. Then, in 2026, it admitted the obvious: the old label no longer described the work.
Prime Policy Group and the Strange Power of the Right Room
Washington influence is usually described as a business of access. Prime Policy Group’s own casebook suggests something more interesting: the decisive skill is arranging a coalition so that an ignored problem becomes impossible to ignore.
Before the music starts, EKA gets the city to listen
A Hollywood Boulevard concert needs more than a headliner. EKA works on the permits, politics, and public trust that let ambitious plans leave the drawing board.
Lighthouse Public Affairs and the business of getting to yes
A flower market, a driverless car, and a city contract have something in common: somebody else gets a vote. Lighthouse Public Affairs makes a business of understanding who, and what it will take to move forward.
Axiom Advisors and the business of getting California to say yes
Axiom Advisors is putting lobbyists, campaigners and communicators under one roof. Its wager: a company’s toughest California problem rarely stays inside the Capitol.
Platinum Advisors and the price of knowing whom to call
A governor’s recall exposed the fragility of political access. Two decades later, Platinum Advisors sells a broader proposition: knowing how a public decision actually gets made.
Fed10
Fed10 is a full-stack AI legislative consulting firm that monitors every bill introduced across all 50 U.S. state legislatures and Congress, classifies whether each bill is a threat or opportunity to a specific client, drafts amendment language, and maps out who to call and what to say. Founded in 2025 by three former teenage lobbyists who dropped out of Harvard, Williams, and Berkeley, it aims to do the work of a $500/hour policy consultant in seconds instead of days.
American Bankers Association
The American Bankers Association (ABA) is the largest financial trade group in the United States, representing banks of every size and charter in Washington. Founded in 1875 in the wake of the Panic of 1873, ABA lobbies on behalf of the roughly $24 trillion U.S. banking industry and provides its members with professional certifications, training schools, research, conferences and community. Its members range from small community banks to the largest money-center institutions and together account for the overwhelming majority of the industry's assets and employees.
Biotechnology Innovation Organization
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) is the world's largest trade association for the biotech industry, representing more than 1,000 companies, research institutions and state and regional bio centers across the United States and 30-plus countries. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., BIO lobbies on drug pricing, intellectual property, regulation and biosecurity, and runs the BIO International Convention - the industry's flagship annual dealmaking and networking event. Led since 2024 by President and CEO John F. Crowley, a rare-disease entrepreneur whose own children have Pompe disease, BIO's stated mission is to advance a 'bio revolution' that cures patients, protects the climate and nourishes humanity.