Candidate Conflict Dossier
A detailed report on any Michigan candidate. Corporate officer roles, property holdings, court filings, campaign contributions, nonprofit board seats, lobbying relationships, and conflict-of-interest findings. All compiled from primary public records.
Researching a sitting officeholder, lobbyist, attorney, or organization not currently in a race? See the Subject Intelligence Dossier: same production pipeline, non-campaign framing.
How I build it
Every dossier is compiled from primary public records in Michigan and federal databases. No opinions, no black boxes. Every factual claim traces back to a primary source URL in the appendix.
Data sources
- LARA corporate filings (officers, registered agents, annual reports)
- County parcel records (property ownership and valuations)
- MiCOURT civil and criminal case filings
- MiTN state and local campaign finance
- FEC federal campaign finance
- IRS Form 990 nonprofit filings and board composition
- Michigan lobbyist and lobbying agent disclosures (MERTS)
- Register of Deeds property transfers
- Public meeting minutes and council votes where available
Analytical methods
- Entity resolution across multiple public record sources
- LLC ownership chain resolution to ultimate beneficial owners
- Conflict-of-interest detection with legal citations
- Temporal pattern detection across filings, donations, and votes
- Network analysis of relationships between entities
Validation
Every claim in the deliverable is traced to a primary source URL, acquisition date, and record identifier. The underlying data pipeline is deterministic and reproducible.
Deliverable format
Typical deliverable is 8 to 16 pages, PDF format, with cover page, network diagrams, and full source appendix. Delivery package includes the PDF, plain text copy, chart exports (SVG and PNG), and structured data files (CSV).
Contents
A Conflict Dossier includes the following sections (8 to 16 pages):
- Cover page: subject name, title, confidentiality mark
- Key facts: risk rating and top findings as factual bullet points with source citations
- Subject profile: office, party, jurisdiction, term dates, residence, all political committees
- Corporate affiliations: LARA business entities where the subject appears as officer, registered agent, or incorporator
- Property holdings: parcels, assessed values, and transfer history with deed types and recording numbers
- Campaign finance: key relationships, top donors, expenditures to top vendors, timing analysis of payments
- Court history: state (MiCOURT) and federal cases, criminal registry checks
- Nonprofit and board affiliations: IRS 990 board seats, 527 political organization filings with purpose statements and custodian details
- Lobbying relationships: MERTS and Senate LDA disclosures
- Conflict-of-interest flags: each flag rated by severity with legal statute citations and supporting records
- Diagrams: money flow, sankey (proportional flows), entity relationship network, donation timeline (with spike detection), and chronological event timeline
- Source appendix: every source organized by database with retrieval dates
Data files included
Every delivery package includes structured data files alongside the PDF:
- Itemized contributions (donor name, amount, date, source)
- Itemized expenditures (vendor, amount, date, description)
- Entity list (corporate and political entities with LARA/MiTN IDs)
- Conflict flags (flag ID, severity, legal citation, description)
- Timeline events, relationship table, source coverage
- All charts as SVG (editable) and PNG (presentation-ready)
- Plain text report for copy-paste into memos or emails
Who this is not for
The Conflict Dossier is a fixed-scope research product built on Michigan public records. It is not the right product for:
- Subjects outside Michigan. Federal exposure is captured when relevant, but the core research is Michigan public records. Non-Michigan candidates, officeholders, individuals, or organizations produce thin reports.
- Narratives the record doesn't support. Every finding traces to a primary source. Fabrication, decontextualization, and manufactured opposition stories are outside the service.
- Court-admissible evidence without independent verification. The report cites records; you or your attorney submits the underlying records if they are used in any legal proceeding.
- Legal advice. Conflict flags cite statutes for research context. A legal determination requires an attorney.
- Anything faster than a 2-business-day rush SLA. If you need it the same day, the honest answer is I can't guarantee it.
Example output
All sample content is produced by our standard pipeline on a real Michigan public figure / organization / committee. Identifying details have been replaced with generic labels. All data-source chains, citation formats, and analytical structure are identical to production deliverables.
Sankey diagram showing proportional campaign finance flows. Band width represents dollar volume.
Money flow diagram showing donors, the subject, and vendors with dollar amounts.
Pricing
Available individually or as a Campaign Intelligence Package (all three products for one race). Price reflects the scope of public records for the office level.
| Office | Conflict Dossier | District Brief | Donor Network | Package |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| School board / township | $400 | $500 | $350 | $750 |
| City (mayor, council) | $600 | $750 | $500 | $1,500 |
| County / judicial | $1,200 | $1,500 | $1,000 | $3,000 |
| Michigan House | $2,000 | $2,500 | $1,500 | $5,000 |
| Michigan Senate | $3,000 | $4,000 | $2,500 | $8,000 |
| Statewide / federal | $5,000 | $7,500 | $4,000 | $15,000 |
Fixed scope, fixed price. No retainers, no hourly billing, no hidden fees.
Delivery timeline
- Standard: 5 business days from complete order.
- Rush: 2 business days, +50% on base price.
- Clock starts when the order form is complete and payment clears.
- Delivered as a download link (PDF, plain-text copy, SVG/PNG charts, CSV data) to the email on the order.
How to order
Email info@regionpulse.com with: subject name, office and district, delivery email, and rush (yes/no). I'll send a Stripe invoice on receipt. Production starts when payment clears.
info@regionpulse.com