Subject Intelligence Dossier
A detailed report on any Michigan subject outside an active race: sitting officeholders, lobbyists, attorneys, executives, advocates, PACs, nonprofits, law firms, PR firms, and trade associations. Corporate officer roles, property holdings, court filings, campaign contributions, nonprofit board seats, lobbying relationships, and conflict-of-interest findings. Compiled from primary public records. Same production pipeline as the Candidate Conflict Dossier, reframed for non-campaign buyers.
Buyers
The Subject Intelligence Dossier is built for people who need a defensible public-records record on a Michigan subject who is not currently a candidate:
- Journalists and newsrooms researching a sitting council member, commissioner, judge, lobbyist, or institutional actor.
- Nonprofits, watchdogs, and coalitions mapping the people and organizations behind a policy fight, a ballot campaign, or a regulatory process.
- Civic organizations and union locals doing due diligence on counterparts, opponents, or partners.
- Legal teams and investigators building a factual record ahead of litigation, administrative complaint, or ethics filing. The dossier is a research product, not admissible evidence, but every citation points at the underlying record your filing will rely on.
- Researchers, academics, and grant-funded projects needing a structured dataset on named individuals or organizations.
Investigating a candidate in an active race? See the Candidate Conflict Dossier: same deliverable, campaign-focused framing.
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.
Deliverable format
Typical deliverable is 8 to 16 pages, PDF format, with cover page, network diagrams, and full source appendix. Delivery package includes the PDF, plain text copy, chart exports (SVG and PNG), and structured data files (CSV).
Contents
A Subject Intelligence Dossier includes the following sections (8 to 16 pages). Section content adapts to the subject type. A sitting officeholder dossier surfaces governance and vote history, a lobbyist dossier surfaces MERTS filings and client relationships, an organization dossier surfaces corporate filings, 990 board, and PAC activity.
- Cover page: subject name, type, confidentiality mark
- Key facts: risk rating and top findings as factual bullet points with source citations
- Subject profile: for individuals, role, employer, jurisdiction, and affiliations; for organizations, entity type, registration, officers, principal address, tax status, and related entities
- 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 activity: contributions given (individuals) or received and distributed (PACs, ballot committees); top donors, expenditures, and timing patterns
- 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. Client list for lobbyists, lobbyist list for organizations that retain advocacy
- Conflict-of-interest and governance flags: each flag rated by severity with legal statute citations and supporting records
- Diagrams: money flow, sankey, entity relationship network, donation/transaction timeline, and chronological event timeline
- Source appendix: every source organized by database with retrieval dates
Data files included
Every delivery package includes structured data files alongside the PDF:
- Itemized contributions or transactions (party, amount, date, source)
- Entity list (corporate, political, and nonprofit entities with LARA/MiTN/EIN IDs)
- Conflict and governance flags (flag ID, severity, legal citation, description)
- Timeline events, relationship table, source coverage
- All charts as SVG (editable) and PNG (presentation-ready)
- Plain text report for copy-paste into memos, emails, or filings
Who this is not for
The Subject Intelligence Dossier is a fixed-scope research product built on Michigan public records. It is not the right product for:
- Subjects outside Michigan. Federal exposure is captured when relevant, but the core research is Michigan public records. Non-Michigan individuals or organizations produce thin reports.
- Private individuals with no public role. The subject must have a public footprint: public office, registered lobbying, corporate or nonprofit officer role, political committee, or documented institutional presence.
- Narratives the record doesn't support. Every finding traces to a primary source. Fabrication, decontextualization, and manufactured opposition stories are outside the service.
- Court-admissible evidence without independent verification. The report cites records; you or your attorney submits the underlying records if they are used in any legal proceeding.
- Legal advice. Conflict flags cite statutes for research context. A legal determination requires an attorney.
- Harassment, doxxing, or personal targeting. The service is scoped to public roles and public records. Requests that read as personal vendettas are declined.
- Anything faster than a 2-business-day rush SLA. If you need it the same day, the honest answer is I can't guarantee it.
Example output
All sample content uses fabricated subject and entity names. No real individuals or organizations are represented.
Sankey diagram showing proportional money flows. Band width represents dollar volume.
Money flow diagram showing donors, the subject, and vendors with dollar amounts.
Pricing
Price matches the tier table by scale, not by office. Pick the row that best describes the subject's reach.
| Subject scale | Examples | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Local / small | School board or township member; small local nonprofit or PAC | $400 |
| City / regional | City council member, mayor, local lobbyist; mid-size local org or law firm | $600 |
| County / judicial | County commissioner, judge, statewide lobbyist; statewide organization or 501(c)(4) | $1,200 |
| State legislative | Michigan House member, state-level PAC, mid-tier trade association | $2,000 |
| State senate / major org | Michigan Senate member, major statewide nonprofit, large PAC | $3,000 |
| Statewide / federal | Statewide officeholder, national PAC, major dark-money vehicle, large trade association | $5,000 |
Fixed scope, fixed price. No retainers, no hourly billing, no hidden fees. Unsure which tier fits? Email with the subject name and I'll tell you.
Note. The District Brief and Donor Network Analysis are campaign-specific products and don't apply to non-candidate subjects.
Delivery timeline
- Standard: 5 business days from complete order.
- Rush: 2 business days, +50% on base price.
- Clock starts when the order form is complete and payment clears.
- Delivered as a download link (PDF, plain-text copy, SVG/PNG charts, CSV data) to the email on the order.
Ready to commission a dossier?
Email info@regionpulse.com with: subject name, subject type (officeholder, lobbyist, individual, organization, PAC, nonprofit), jurisdiction, delivery email, and rush (yes/no). I'll send a Stripe invoice on receipt. Production starts when payment clears.
info@regionpulse.com