Real Time Gov Adds Chris Micheli and Vincent Micheli as Advisors

SACRAMENTO, Calif., November 10, 2026. Real Time Gov (RTG), the California legislative tracking service, today announced that Chris Micheli and Vincent Micheli of Snodgrass & Micheli have joined the company as advisors. RTG sends live floor vote alerts within minutes and gives advocacy teams the legislative intelligence to prepare for hearings, brief clients and coordinate their coalition. Chris Micheli advises on legislative process. Vincent Micheli advises on advocacy practice.

RTG goes a mile deep on one state, California, and covers the whole record. As California legislative tracking software it watches both chambers live. When a tracked bill goes on call you are told, and told again when the result is in, within minutes of the roll closing. It compares every version of every bill and labels each amendment non-substantive, substantive or gut-and-amend. It keeps committee analyses side by side so a team knows which organizations changed position before the hearing. Separate organizations can build one shared whip count, attributed and timestamped. RTG calls it the chamber view, for everyone who isn't in the chamber.

The two join Matt Powers, a former Chief of Staff in the California State Assembly who advises RTG on industry relations. Between them the advisors cover the three places an RTG customer works: the building, the process and the halls.

Chris Micheli is an attorney, lobbyist and founding partner of Snodgrass & Micheli. He has worked the California legislative process for three decades. He has written extensively on how the Legislature actually operates, from bill drafting and committee practice to floor procedure and the Governor's desk, and teaches the subject at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and UC Davis School of Law. He advises RTG on keeping the product and its voice true to how a session moves.

His writing is already in the product. A new Library area gives RTG customers his short explainers on how the Legislature works. Seven more, on how California elects its Legislature and how non-partisan races, the top-two primary, ballot measures, initiatives, referenda and recalls work, accompany RTG's public live election results page.

Vincent Micheli is a registered lobbyist and associate at Snodgrass & Micheli. He advocates for trade associations, nonprofits and Fortune 100 companies in Sacramento, and gained experience in two Assembly offices and two public affairs firms while finishing his degree. He is the firm's primary daily RTG user. He advises on usability and legislative workflow, and leads the firm's outreach to a new generation of practitioners.

"RTG is head and shoulders above the other legislative tracking options I've seen," said Chris Micheli. "Law Radar stands out. Following an area of California law and seeing which bills propose to change it is a different way of working than tracking a list of measures. I'm glad to help the team keep building tools that reflect how a session actually moves."

Law Radar lets users follow a section or a broader area of California law and surfaces the bills that propose to change it. It runs between sessions alongside the Session Wrap Report, Legislator Scorecards, Lobbyist Search, the Governor's vetoes and the weekly Fast Facts Friday. The 2027-28 session convenes December 7, 2026.

"The daily experience is what matters," said Vincent Micheli. "I need to see the bills that affect our clients, know what changed and know what needs attention before my next decision. I look forward to helping refine that, and to showing RTG to colleagues."

"We are software people who learned the building, and we keep learning it one conversation at a time," said Aud Nachilo, product and crew lead, Real Time Gov. "Chris knows the process. Vincent works the halls every day. Their feedback tells us what to build next, and whether what we shipped is right."

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