Full-service firepower. Down-ballot pricing.
Hart Communications is a California-based political consulting firm: general strategy, digital and social ad production, and media buying across TV, CTV, and social — with fixed-price packages for campaigns that need senior work without a senior retainer.
One firm across strategy, creative, and the buy
Most down-ballot campaigns stitch together a strategist, a creative shop, and a buyer who never talk to each other. We run all three under one roof, so the message, the creative, and the media plan are built from the same math.
General Consulting
Campaign strategy from launch to Election Day: message development, budgeting, targeting, field integration, and the week-to-week decisions that decide close races.
- Campaign plans & budgets
- Message & targeting strategy
- Ballot measure management
- Debate & endorsement prep
Creative & Ad Production
Persuasion and GOTV creative built for the platforms where your voters actually are — produced fast enough to answer the news cycle, not last month's.
- Digital & social video
- Static, display & banner suites
- Script-to-cut turnaround in days
- Platform-specific versioning
Media Buying
Planning and placement across broadcast, cable, CTV/streaming, and paid social — with targeting built from the voter file, not platform guesswork, and reporting you can actually read.
- TV, cable & CTV / streaming
- Paid social & programmatic
- Voter-file matched targeting
- Transparent publisher reporting
Research & Rapid Response
Opposition and self-research built to primary-source standards, plus the rapid-response support to turn findings into contrast the same week.
- Opposition research books
- Candidate vulnerability audits
- Fundraising email programs
- Rapid-response support
Productized packages. No retainer required.
Not every race needs a full-service agreement. These packages deliver the highest-leverage pieces at a flat price, scoped in writing before you pay anything. Standard-scope pricing below; larger districts and expedited timelines quoted individually.
Deliverables
- Full research book on your opponent: voting record, public statements, litigation, financial disclosures, business history
- Self-research option on your own candidate (vulnerability audit)
- Every hit sourced to primary documents — built to survive a fact-check
- Top-line memo ranking hits by salience for your electorate
- Rapid-response addendum through Election Day (add-on)
Deliverables
- 8–12 sends per month, written in your candidate's actual voice
- Full calendar built around FEC/FPPC deadlines, news pegs, and matching windows
- Subject line and audience testing with monthly performance reporting
- List hygiene and segmentation guidance
- Deadline-week surge coverage included, not billed extra
Deliverables
- Line-by-line review of your media plan: mix, targeting, flighting, and rates
- Benchmark check on CPMs and vendor fees against what campaigns your size should be paying
- Universe and targeting review against the actual math of your district
- Written findings memo with specific reallocation recommendations
- One working session with your team or buyer to walk the findings
Built to move at campaign speed
No discovery phase that eats a month. No junior staffer learning on your race. Scope, build, deliver.
One call, one page
A 30-minute call on your race, your opponent, and your budget. You get a one-page scope with fixed price and delivery date within 48 hours.
Modern tooling, senior judgment
Production runs on the best research, creative, and planning tools available. Every finding, every cut, every plan is reviewed by senior staff before it ships — nothing goes out raw.
Ready to deploy
Finished work product your team can put in the field the same day: sourced, formatted, and built for how campaigns actually use it.
Operatives first, consultants second
Hart Communications is a California-based firm built by campaign professionals who have run the races we now serve — not account managers who've only watched them from a deck.
Our experience spans gubernatorial, congressional, and state legislative campaigns, national independent-expenditure research programs, and municipal ballot measures. We work exclusively with Democratic campaigns, committees, and nonpartisan ballot measures.
Every engagement is scoped, priced, and delivered by people who have had to live with the consequences of a bad media plan or a thin research book on their own races. That's the standard your work gets held to.
Full-service consultants are worth it — for the campaigns that can afford them. Most down-ballot races can't, so they go without research, run amateur email programs, and sign media plans no one has pressure-tested.
This firm exists to close that gap. Modern research and production tools have cut the hours these deliverables take. Instead of billing for the old hours, the savings are passed through as pricing a legislative or local race can actually budget.
The tools do the assembly. The judgment — what's salient in your district, what survives scrutiny, what actually moves your voters — is the product.
Send the race. Get a scope in 48 hours.
Email a few lines about your race — district, opponent, timeline, and what you need. If it's not a fit, we'll tell you directly and point you somewhere better.
hello@hartcommunications.com