What's New

Weekly updates from the Civly team — new features, improvements, and what we shipped.

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March 16, 2026
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Civly Connect — Your Built-in CRM

A brand new contact management system right inside Civly. No more switching to HubSpot or spreadsheets.

  • Contacts list with search, filters by status, and source tracking
  • Contact detail pages with notes, activity history, and tasks
  • Donor dossiers on contact profiles showing giving history, party alignment, key topics, news, and personality insights
  • Auto-sync with Prospecting: save a donor and they become a CRM contact automatically
  • Bulk import from saved prospects, dossiers, or CSV files

Unified Social Media Analysis

One tool to search and analyze social media across Facebook, Truth Social, YouTube, and more.

  • Search by person or by topic across platforms
  • Get a briefing-style summary highlighting cross-platform themes
  • Save analyses to your vault with citations for later reference

People Search — State and Federal Data in One Place

A unified profile pulling together state and federal records:

  • Federal profiles with five tabs: voting record, FEC contributions, stock trades, election history, and pay-to-play
  • State campaign finance data from 7 states (AL, CA, CO, MI, NC, PA, TX) alongside federal FEC records
  • Party alignment percentages and improved committee lookups using FEC candidate linkage

Briefing Room Improvements

  • Action cards now display relevant images alongside each briefing item, making it easier to scan and recognize stories at a glance
  • Improved image quality: filtered out low-resolution cached thumbnails so you only see clear, relevant visuals
  • Better fallback handling when images aren't available, so cards still look clean

Simplified Help and Chat

The individual chatbots from across the platform are now consolidated into a single help button on the side of the screen. One chat widget, available from any page, that adjusts to where you are and what you need help with.

March 8, 2026
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Donor Intelligence & Prospecting

  • Donor Intelligence Hub: unified view of enriched donors with dossier generation, chat, and social posts
  • Contact Finder pipeline with Civly enrichment, weighted party scoring, and web search fallback
  • Saved contacts with save/unsave, bulk save, and enrichment status tracking
  • Mini Book dossier generation with citations, sources, personality traits, and AI chat interface
  • Bulk dossier generation for batch processing hundreds of donors at once

Pay-to-Play Analysis

  • Government contracts command center: cross-reference 10.6M federal contracts against campaign donors
  • Narrative summary with expandable donor and contract details
  • Committee typeahead search across FEC and state campaign finance data

State Campaign Finance

  • Colorado TRACER campaign finance ETL with contributions, expenditures, and classification
  • Donor data cleaning pass 2: suffix stripping, regex employer junk detection, and SQL helper functions
  • Donor classification: persistent person/committee/unknown type on 6.4M+ donor profiles
  • Pre-computed sub-matviews for 10x faster donor profile rebuilds

State Legislation

  • Expanded to all 50 states (added 32 states including NY, IL, NJ, WA, OR, CT, MA, MD, and more)
  • 10x faster matview rebuilds with single-pass unified JOIN strategy

Race Tracker

  • Race tracker with 60+ races from RealClearPolitics coverage
  • Poll data with pollster details, sample sizes, and candidate spreads

Research & Intelligence

  • Content scorer with research-backed criteria and dual-audience clarify flow
  • Bill topic classifier, legislator scoring, and profile cards
  • Substack full article fetcher via slug API
  • Social discovery with inline Serper API search

Platform

  • Dark theme support with toggle
  • Issue submission form with screenshot upload
  • Improved CSV export error handling across all features
  • Learning Center guides for YouTube Analysis with annotated screenshots
February 28, 2026
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State Campaign Finance

  • Texas campaign finance: 34M+ contributions and 5M expenditures searchable with filters
  • Michigan campaign finance with ML-powered occupation and employer classification
  • Alabama and North Carolina campaign finance data with AI chat analysis
  • California campaign finance models and ETL pipeline
  • Cascading filter options and autocomplete across all state finance tables

Government Data

  • Congressional stock trade explorer with Senate eFD scraper (2021–2026)
  • House financial disclosure parser with OCR fallback for scanned PDFs (2014–2020)
  • State legislation expanded to 19 states (added TX, VA, IA, CO, MN, NH, NV, SC + session backfills)
  • Browsable federal votes table with column-header filters
  • Election explorer with searchable column-header filters

Research & Intelligence

  • Big Book: government contracts pay-to-play analysis
  • War Room: dedicated Polling tab with custom configuration

Learning Center

  • New Learning Center with per-feature step-by-step guides
  • Annotated screenshots with highlights for Social Media Analysis and Research War Room

Performance & Reliability

  • Materialized view auto-ANALYZE after refresh for consistent query performance
  • Centralized matview refresh utility with SEC matview support
  • Optimized social alerts dashboard and briefing loading
  • Deploy gate for concurrent development session safety
February 19, 2026
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Research & Analysis

  • Multi-state legislation support: California, Vermont, and Alabama
  • Unified Instagram and TikTok video analysis with AI-powered filtering
  • Interest group scorecard ratings for legislators

Data & Intelligence

  • Redesigned FEC Explorer with server-side pagination and aggregate totals
  • SEC insider trading details and red flag detection
  • Cross-platform topic tracking and Reddit trending detection

Collaboration & Workflow

  • Shared vault with full transcripts and article content in saves
  • War Room citations resolve to clickable links
  • Chat links open in new tab with smarter currency formatting

Platform & Security

  • Two-factor authentication and Azure AD login support
  • Rate limiting and access control hardening
  • Upgraded AI models and faster data pipelines
February 8, 2026
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Social Alerts

  • Automated refresh pipelines with configurable auto-refresh per person or topic
  • Bulk refresh to update all tracked entities at once
  • Live progress indicators showing collection and analysis status on each card
  • Consolidated digest emails — one summary per refresh cycle instead of per-alert
  • Per-user trending detection so every user receives their own trending alerts

Big Book (Opposition Research)

  • Upgraded AI models for higher quality research and writing

Social Media Analysis

  • Faster, more efficient data pipelines for Reddit and Substack monitoring

Platform Reliability

  • Smarter AI retry logic with automatic model fallback during high-traffic periods
  • Improved background worker architecture for faster, more stable alert processing
February 1, 2026
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Big Book (Opposition Research)

  • Deep research now pulls LinkedIn, Wikipedia, MIT Election Data, and property records
  • Choose a political angle (left, right, primary challenge, or neutral) for framed research
  • Enhanced AI models for higher quality writing
  • Hyperlinked citations, Wikipedia sources, and full bibliography
  • New sections: political donations, property records, Truth Social, Path to Victory
  • Professional prose formatting; better support for lesser-known candidates

Social Alerts

  • Monitor up to 10 candidates across YouTube, Substack, and more
  • AI-categorized alert severity with review/dismiss/escalate workflow

Data Breach Check

  • Screen individuals against known data breaches

Election History & Explorer

  • Browse historical election results and explore race/candidate data

FEC & Campaign Finance

  • PAC contributions view in FEC Committee Explorer
  • AI-powered queries for more accurate data lookups

Social Media Analysis

  • Toggle to include/exclude replies; advanced Twitter search with auto-retry
  • Facebook public page scraping for Big Book research

Command Center MCP

  • MCP server lets external AI tools interact with Civly's research capabilities
January 26, 2026 — Launch
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