Part 3, Arizona: Campaign Brain Borne From Cycle-After-Cycle of Challenges

Campaign Brain Founder and CEO Nate Levin has spent the last few cycles working for Democratic campaigns in all corners of the country, including Maine, Texas, and Arizona. In this series of blog posts, Nate shares how these experiences are informing the solutions we are building at Campaign Brain.

Focused explicitly in the world of communications, I was engaged on a different side of campaigning compared with organizing in Maine and management and training in Texas. My experience working for Mark Kelly diverged from experiences I had working with gubernatorial, Congressional, Presidential, and local campaigns in Maine and Texas.

Tasked with supporting the narrative-driven strategy of the Kelly Campaign on both the positive and negative tracks, a familiar challenge presented itself. While the Kelly Campaign was well-funded thanks to an outstanding fundraising team and massive support nationwide from donors, our communications still struggled with a problem that plagued Texas and Maine campaigns: scale.

For instance, while doing debate preparation, we focused on reviewing questions put forth by Arizona debate moderators in the past, understanding how our candidate had effectively positioned himself previously, and researching how Republicans had attacked Democrats on the debate stage previously. Working to watch, review, and synthesize these debates took weeks. With speech-to-text AI technology, this work could have been synthesized in a matter of minutes.

In another example, while preparing for the final days of the campaigns, we wanted to be comprehensive in our preparations for what wild-card Republican candidate Blake Masters might throw at us. As a result, we prepared press releases and rapid response plans on countless issues.

While this is a feasible (and smart) approach for a well-funded Senate campaign, a local campaign is unlikely to have the time to build out even a basic communications strategy. They may lack the time (or knowledge) to have a campaign-launch press release, to highlight some of their key policy positions, or to create and maintain a website.

Even if they do spend the time to do these things, it is at the expense of talking with voters: the backbone of our democracy.

In a world with AI — particularly in this case, generative AI — this makes no sense.

We are building Campaign Brain to, among other things, leverage generative AI to remove financial, time, and knowledge barriers for campaigns and allow them to focus on speaking directly with voters and building support for their campaign.

To learn more about how Campaign Brain is democratizing artificial intelligence for progressive political campaigns, visit us at campaignbrain.ai.