One product, every shop

The same RTG.
None of them see the same screen.

One seat or thirty. Answering to clients, to members, to a board, or to an executive who wants it in two paragraphs. Every workspace starts from the whole product, and what changes is the shape: what things are called, what is switched off, and what your dashboard opens on.

These are not packages.
They are settings.

Every shape below is built from switches that live in your workspace, in Fields & Features. You can start from one of them and change your mind on a Monday. Nothing is priced differently, nothing is locked, and a preview shows you what your team will see before you save.

None of them is a cut-down RTG. Live floor votes, the full CalAccess directory, position-over-time, coalition whip counts, Kaia and the Pulse app are in every one of these shapes, because there is one plan and it holds all of it. Switching something off is you deciding you do not want it on the screen, not us deciding you have not paid for it.

Which means this page is not a brochure for five products. It is five ways to set up one.

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Find your shape
Five shops · one product
01

Trade association

You represent an industry, and the industry wants to see the work.

Your bills are organized by issue rather than by client, and the people you report to are members rather than customers. Committees and working groups each own a slice of the book, so the same workspace has to carry several issue areas at once without them bleeding into each other.

Renamed
  • Category becomes Issue Area
  • Client becomes Program
Switched off
  • Advisory positions
Worked hardest
  • Votecards and whip counts
  • Legislator Scorecards
  • Coalition votecards across allied organizations
02

Union or membership advocacy

A small team, and the person running it is carrying bills too.

Nobody here only administers. The director sets the workspace up, allocates the portfolio, and takes a share of the bills personally, which means one seat has to be both the owner and a working lobbyist. Around them, comms and membership staff need to see the work without being able to move it, and organizers need only the bills that touch their patch.

Start from
  • The association shape
  • Category becomes Issue Area
Switched off
  • Advisory positions
Worked hardest
  • Votecards and whip counts
  • Legislator Scorecards
  • Read-only seats for comms and membership

The bit that breaks other tools: one person being both the administrator and somebody with a portfolio. RTG holds permissions as separate switches rather than one role, so the same seat can own the workspace and still be assigned bills.

03

Contract lobby shop

You run a roster. Every bill belongs to somebody who is paying for it.

Client is the axis everything turns on, so the position fields say so. Work is allocated rather than volunteered: someone at the desk holds the book, assigns the portfolio and sets the priority, while the lobbyists work the building. RTG lets those be two different jobs with two different sets of permissions.

Renamed
  • Advisory becomes Client Position
  • Priority becomes Client Priority
Switched off
  • Votecards
  • Legislator Scorecards
Worked hardest
  • Per-client tags, positions and priorities
  • Assignment and the Docket inbox
  • Client-ready reports and portals

Why whip counts and scorecards come off: counting votes and grading members are advocacy jobs. A contract shop is doing client service, and every switch left on is one more thing in the way. Turn them back on in a click if your shop works differently.

04

Solo lobbyist or small advocacy shop

There is no team to hand things to, so the machinery for handing things over goes away.

A one-person workspace should not carry a one-person inbox. RTG notices there is nobody to assign to and the assignment furniture disappears rather than sitting there greyed out. What is left is the part you actually use: the bills, the calendar, the alerts, and a report your board can read.

Renamed
  • Nothing by default. Rename anything you like.
Switched off
  • Advisory positions
Derives away on its own
  • The Inbox and Outbound lenses
  • The Assign section

On price: one seat is one seat, and bills are never metered. A solo shop tracks as many bills as an association does.

05

Corporate or agency government affairs

The smallest team with the widest brief, often working alongside an outside firm.

Corporate and agency teams tend to sit between the other four shapes: a couple of people carrying a portfolio that touches the whole organization, briefing executives who read at a different altitude, and frequently coordinating with a contract firm who are in RTG too. This one starts from RTG defaults, because the right shape depends more on how you split work with your firm than on what kind of organization you are.

Start from
  • RTG defaults, then switch off what your team never touches
Usually kept
  • Client or Program, renamed to your business units
  • Reports built for people who do not log in
Worth a conversation
  • Sharing a view with your outside firm
  • Read-only seats for executives
Where this actually happens

Fields & Features,
with a live preview.

Renaming and switching are one screen inside your workspace. Change a label and a panel beside it shows you the screen your team will see, before anything is saved. The five shapes above are on that screen as starting points, so you can take one, adjust it, and keep going.

A field you rename is renamed everywhere it appears, not just on the page you renamed it from. A feature you switch off is gone for the whole workspace rather than greyed out.

Example shapes
Association Contract shop Solo lobbyist RTG defaults

Tap one, watch the preview change, save when it looks like your shop. Nothing commits until you press save.

Pick a shape.
Then make it yours.

Fourteen days, the whole product, no credit card. An engineer puts a sample of your real bills in on day one, and you can reshape the workspace as many times as it takes to fit the way you actually work.