Election Intelligence

Candidate Conflict Dossier

A detailed report on any Michigan candidate or elected official. Corporate officer roles, property holdings, court filings, campaign contributions, nonprofit board seats, lobbying relationships, and conflict-of-interest findings. All compiled from primary public records.

Methodology

How I build it

Every dossier is compiled from primary public records in Michigan and federal databases. No opinions, no black boxes. Every factual claim traces back to a primary source URL in the appendix.

Data sources

  • LARA corporate filings (officers, registered agents, annual reports)
  • County parcel records (property ownership and valuations)
  • MiCOURT civil and criminal case filings
  • MiTN state and local campaign finance
  • FEC federal campaign finance
  • IRS Form 990 nonprofit filings and board composition
  • Michigan lobbyist and lobbying agent disclosures (MERTS)
  • Register of Deeds property transfers
  • Public meeting minutes and council votes where available

Analytical methods

  • Entity resolution across multiple public record sources
  • LLC ownership chain resolution to ultimate beneficial owners
  • Conflict-of-interest detection with legal citations
  • Temporal pattern detection across filings, donations, and votes
  • Network analysis of relationships between entities

Validation

Every claim in the deliverable is traced to a primary source URL, acquisition date, and record identifier. The underlying data pipeline is deterministic and reproducible.

Turnaround and format

Typical deliverable is 12 to 18 pages, PDF format, with cover page, network diagrams, and full source appendix. Turnaround depends on the subject's public footprint:

  • Most candidates: 3 to 5 business days
  • Subjects with complex corporate structures or multi-jurisdiction records: 5 to 10 business days
What's in the deliverable

Contents

A Conflict Dossier includes the following sections (12 to 18 pages):

  • Cover page: subject name, title, confidentiality mark, engagement ID
  • Executive summary: overall risk rating and three to six top findings with source citations
  • Subject profile: office, party, jurisdiction, term dates, residence, all political committees
  • Corporate affiliations: LARA business entities where the subject appears as officer, registered agent, or incorporator
  • Property holdings: parcels, assessed values, and transfer history with deed types and recording numbers
  • Campaign finance: top donors with concentration metrics, expenditures to top vendors, timing analysis of significant payments with political context
  • Court history: state (MiCOURT) and federal cases, criminal registry checks
  • Nonprofit and board affiliations: IRS 990 board seats, 527 political organization filings with purpose statements and custodian details
  • Lobbying relationships: MERTS and Senate LDA disclosures
  • Conflict-of-interest findings: each finding rated by severity, cited to specific statutes, supported by evidence blocks, with significance analysis
  • Timeline: chronological view across all data sources with key events highlighted
  • Network diagrams: money flow diagram and entity relationship graph (SVG)
  • Source appendix: every source organized by database with retrieval dates
Sample

Example output

Sample screenshots and a downloadable fake-data sample PDF will be published here. All sample content uses fabricated candidate and entity names. No real individuals will appear in any published sample.

Sample PDF and screenshots coming soon.

Pricing

By office tier

Same template, same deliverable, different price based on the office. The work is the same. Pricing reflects the norms of the race tier.

  • Federal (US Senate, US House): $5,000 to $8,000
  • Statewide (Governor, AG, SoS): $5,000 to $8,000
  • Michigan Senate:$3,000 to $5,000
  • Michigan House:$2,000 to $4,000
  • County (prosecutor, sheriff, commission): $2,000 to $4,000
  • Local (mayor, council, school board): $1,000 to $3,000

Engagement-based pricing. Fixed scope. No retainers, no hidden fees.

Start an engagement

Ready to commission a dossier?

Email with the subject's name, race, and any context you think is relevant. I'll respond within one business day with scope and timeline.

info@regionpulse.com