Civic Data Research

Public records analysis for Michigan.

I research Michigan public records so campaigns, nonprofits, and journalists don't have to.

For Michigan Campaigns

Election Intelligence

I produce opposition research, voter targeting, and donor analysis for progressive Michigan campaigns. No retainers, no political consulting. You get a document you can act on.

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Campaign Intelligence Package

  • All three products for one race
  • Opposition research + voter targeting + donor analysis
  • PDF reports, data files, and chart exports
  • Starting at $750

Candidate Conflict Dossier

  • Corporate officer and LLC ownership
  • Court filings and litigation history
  • Campaign finance and donor network
  • Nonprofit board seats and lobbying
  • Conflict-of-interest flags with legal citations

District Intelligence Brief

  • Precinct-level turnout modeling
  • Universe assignment and targeting
  • Historical election results
  • Demographic and issue overlays
  • Candidate field analysis

Donor Network Analysis

  • Donor entity resolution and LLC chains
  • Geographic breakdown and untapped ZIPs
  • Top donor cities and concentration metrics
  • Out-of-state money identification
  • Categorical flow diagrams

Issue Report

  • Single-issue district analysis: PFAS, EJ, housing, healthcare, or cost of living
  • Tract-level affected-voter count with statewide-percentile context
  • Field-targeting recommendations scaled to office tier
  • Documented negative findings ship as full deliverables
  • Bundle option for all 5 issues plus cross-issue clustering

Voter Targeting Universe

  • District-level scored voter file, VAN-importable
  • Universe assignments: GOTV-HIGH, GOTV-MED, PERSUASION, BASE, OPPOSE
  • Turnout + partisan models built on the Michigan QVF
  • 5 CSVs + methodology + signed manifest in a ZIP
  • Restricted: MI political committees and 501(c)(4) only

Ballot Measure Brief

  • Single-measure analysis: millage, bond, charter amendment, statewide proposal
  • Two-sided coalition map (yes-committee + no-committee donors side by side)
  • Comparable prior measures with outcomes; tract-level base / persuasion universe
  • Per-tract fiscal-impact overlay for millages and bonds
  • Priced by measure jurisdiction. Starting at $500
For Journalists, Watchdogs, and Legal Teams

Accountability Research

Fixed-scope public-records dossiers on Michigan subjects outside an active race: sitting officeholders, lobbyists, attorneys, executives, advocates, PACs, nonprofits, law firms, and organizations. Same production pipeline as the campaign products, reframed for non-electoral buyers.

For Michigan Real Estate Agents

Property Tax Tools

A self-serve app for Michigan real estate agents. Same RegionPulse discipline — primary sources, deterministic calculations, citation appendix — applied to residential parcel records. Currently Ingham County, in beta.

Services

Impact Analysis

  • Site and project impact reports
  • Environmental and economic overlays
  • Demographic and accessibility analysis

Spatial Analysis

  • GIS mapping and visualization
  • Neighborhood and census tract analysis
  • Policy and planning research

Public Records Research

  • Entity and ownership investigation
  • FOIA strategy and analysis
  • Conflict-of-interest detection

Data Engineering

  • Data pipeline development
  • Database design and ETL
  • Reporting automation
About

Turning public records into public knowledge.

I'm a full-stack developer and geospatial engineer based in Lansing. I've spent about 17 years building data systems for federal research programs, statewide health and human services, and my own civic projects. Now I run RegionPulse, a small consultancy that researches Michigan public records for campaigns, nonprofits, and journalists.

I started this because Michigan's corporate filings, campaign finance records, property records, court filings, and nonprofit disclosures are spread across separate databases with no common identifiers. I built the infrastructure to pull from all of them, resolve entities across sources, and produce reports that connect the dots.

Every claim in a RegionPulse report traces back to a primary source with a URL. No opinions, no black boxes. If it's in the report, you can verify it yourself.

I don't use tracking pixels, behavioral analytics, or third-party data brokers on this site or in my work.

Contact

Start a conversation.

If any of this is relevant to what you're working on, send me an email.

info@regionpulse.com