ResearchFinding out, not confirming
A poll that tells you what you already believe is an expensive mirror.
So we go looking for the answer you don’t want. We would much rather find the problem in your file in March than read about it in October.
Every winstarts witha way in.
Ingress Strategies runs campaigns that can’t afford to lose. We start with judgment and pick the tools after.
Every campaign is a locked room. A bill that hasn’t cleared committee in two sessions. A county that made up its mind a year ago and stopped taking calls. Ingress exists to find the way in. We’ve led political, government and corporate campaigns, and what that experience buys you is judgment: knowing which fight you’re actually in before anyone spends a dollar. Tools come second. Polling, paid media, a voter file, a coalition nobody expected. We use whatever moves the outcome you need and leave the rest on the shelf.
That’s the whole pitch. You won’t find a menu on this site.
We’ve led that work at every size, from a single city council vote to statewide and national fights. Highly regulated industries are our specialty.
If the smartest move is one phone call, the plan is one phone call.
Sometimes the right advice is to say nothing. Sometimes a fight isn’t winnable this year, and you should hear that from us before you’ve paid for it.
Whatever the political weather, there’s a winning path. We find it the way a scientist would, and we trust what the evidence says.
How we work, in practice.
CommunicationsPicking the argument
A message is a decision about who you’re willing to lose.
Good communications start narrow: the audience that decides, and the one argument that moves them, repeated more often than feels comfortable. The channel changes. The argument doesn’t.
AnalyticsKeeping score early
Set the scoreboard before the first dollar moves.
A handful of numbers that say whether you’re winning. When they move, so do we.
The longer version of how we workWho calls us
Candidates and causes. Public agencies that have to earn trust they’re assumed not to have. Companies in regulated industries whose next move depends on a vote, a permit or a headline. Sometimes all three are in the same room.
You won’t find a client list here. We don’t name the people we work for or the campaigns we run with them, and we’d expect the same discretion if we were in your seat.More on who we work forFind your
way in.
Tell us what you’re up against. There’s no pitch deck. If we aren’t the right firm for it, we’ll say so.