Why RTG

The work RTG takes off your desk.

Real Time Gov (RTG) is the California legislative tracking software that sends live floor vote alerts within minutes and gives you the legislative intelligence to prepare for hearings, brief clients and coordinate your coalition.

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01 · REAL-TIME, LITERALLY

From the floor to your phone in minutes.

RTG sends California Assembly and Senate floor vote results to your phone within minutes of the vote. Daily-update tools tell you how a vote ended. By the time the morning email lands, the on-call window came and went, and your chance to move a member went with it.

Live floor votes, Assembly and Senate
One alert when a tracked bill goes on call, another with the result
SMS, push and email, routed per user and per bill
The record updates when members add or change a vote

In practice11:02 AM First alert: the bill your team has whipped for six weeks is on call, roll open. There is still time to reach a member.
11:17 AM Second alert: the result, with every member's Aye, No or NV.
1:00 PM Your board call starts already knowing the outcome and the breakdown.What changesYou act while the roll is open, and you have the result before anyone asks.

02 · VERSION-LEVEL BILL ANALYSIS

Same bill number. Someone else's fight.

RTG reads every version of every California bill, compares them, and labels each amendment non-substantive, substantive or gut-and-amend. In California a bill's contents can be replaced wholesale in a single amendment, and you cannot watch what you don't know to watch.

Classified non-substantive, substantive or gut-and-amend
The reasoning shown: why this classification
Runs across every bill, not only the ones you track

In practiceA transit bill you never tracked is amended for the sixth time in June. RTG flags it gut-and-amend, confidence high, author unchanged, six changes itemized, with a paragraph naming who the bill now affects.What changesYou hear it from RTG, not at the hearing.

03 · COALITION WHIP COUNTS

One count across organizations.

RTG lets separate organizations, on separate accounts, build one shared whip count. Coalitions don't run on one account: three organizations means three logins and three spreadsheets that drift.

Personal, workspace team, or cross-customer coalition
Every position attributed and timestamped
Anticipated against actual, scored at vote time

Born from a real ask. A coalition lead came to us stuck whipping votes across several organizations in a shared spreadsheet. We built Votecards.

In practice4:00 PM The shared count shows 42 aye, 15 no, 23 unknown, each entry marked with who set it.
Next morning The Assembly passes the bill 41 to 16. Anticipated against actual shows the one member who surprised you, and who had flagged her as unknown all along.What changesNo reconciling spreadsheets the afternoon before the vote.

04 · POSITION INTELLIGENCE

Who is on which side, and who just moved.

RTG keeps every committee analysis side by side and shows which organizations changed position between hearings. Those changes are the signal most teams miss, because they work from one snapshot at a time.

Every snapshot side by side, per bill
Filter to the organizations that switched
The full footprint of any organization

In practiceYour association is sponsoring a bill. A trade group that registered support in Labor has moved to oppose by Higher Education. RTG flags it when the analysis publishes, and your next call is to that organization's director.What changesYou make the call while there is still time to address it.

05 · CALIFORNIA-DEEP LOBBYIST DATA

Every lobbyist, every firm, every $5,000+ spender.

RTG pulls CalAccess, California's public lobbying registry, in full, cross-references it and refreshes it daily. The registry is public, but it arrives as flat filings and quarterly reports.

Lobbyists, firms, employers, spenders and officers
Click through from any record to who they represent
Duplicate filers detected

In practiceA lobbyist you have never met emails about your bill. One search shows their firm, the firm's clients and the bills those clients are moving on.What changesYou know who you are talking to before you return the call.

06 · ONE PRODUCT, EVERY SHOP

All of it included. Only what you want on screen.

Every full seat includes the complete product, and you choose what your workspace shows. There are no tiers and no add-ons, so there is nothing to un-buy, only things to switch off.

Rename fields, positions and labels, everywhere at once
Switch off a feature and it is gone, not greyed out
Three themes, type size and density, set per person

In practiceOne shop calls a Client a Program and a Category an Issue Area, and turns off votecards and law tracking. The association down the hall keeps both and runs the Evening Session theme on late floor nights. Same RTG, different screens.What changesYour team sees its own job, not a feature list.

Questions buyers ask.

Can RTG identify gut-and-amend changes on bills I'm not tracking?

Yes. RTG compares every version of every California bill in the session, not only the bills on your list, and labels an amendment as a gut-and-amend when the bill's purpose changes. The classification shows its reasoning so you can check it.

Can separate organizations share a whip count in RTG?

Yes. RTG supports coalition whip counts across separate customer accounts. Participants work from one shared count, with every entry attributed and timestamped, so the coalition can see who recorded each anticipated position.

Where does RTG get its lobbying and position data?

Lobbying data comes from CalAccess, the Secretary of State's public lobbying registry, pulled in full and refreshed daily. Organization positions come from the committee analyses the Legislature publishes for each hearing. Floor votes are captured from the floor session as they are called.

Does RTG cover states outside California?

No. RTG covers the California Legislature only. If you don't work California legislation, RTG isn't built for you.

The math

What hours back actually buys you.

Every advocacy team we've talked to has the same problem: too much information, not enough hours. Here's what changes when the tool actually works.

10–15Hrs/week savedfor heavy users during session

10 minBoard reportnot Sunday night, not three tabs deep

EveryChange in the public recordevery committee snapshot, compared against the last

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Track the California bills that matter to your team. Review amendments, prepare for hearings, and share positions and assignments in one workspace. Free for 14 days, no credit card, with optional setup help.

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