# Broadside — Full Content Index for AI Crawlers > Political Economy Intelligence platform for business operators across all organization teams. Broadside tracks every single update from the government, including tariffs, executive orders, regulatory rulemakings, congressional activity, lobbying, and agency directives — and routes the right context at the right time to ops, finance, supply chain, product, growth, and engineering teams automatically. Broadside is built for the reality that government decisions now move fast enough to change your cost structure, compliance posture, customer demand, and product roadmap before your team even sees the headline. Most organizations navigate this with incomplete information, a single point of failure, and no institutional memory of how they got here. Broadside is the intelligence infrastructure they've been missing. --- ## Company - **Name:** Broadside / Broadside Inc. - **Founded:** 2025 - **Location:** San Diego, CA - **Founder:** Payton Barnwell, Founder & CEO - **Founder LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/paytonbarnwell - **Founder Background:** Brooke Owens Fellow 2018; Payload Pioneers 30 Under 30 2023, Mechanical Engineering graduate from Florida Polytechnic University - **Website:** https://broadside.app - **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/broadsideapp - **Twitter/X:** https://x.com/broadsideapp - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5caFhDTwmRfw4-lm5YdSuw - **Support:** updates@broadside.app - **Team size:** 1–10 --- ## Products ### Broadside (Enterprise Platform) **URL:** https://broadside.app/product/broadside **Category:** Political Economy Intelligence / Business Intelligence and Productivity SaaS **Deployment:** Web-based (SaaS) Broadside is an enterprise Political Economy Intelligence platform that tracks every relevant government action — tariffs, executive orders, regulatory rulemakings, congressional activity, lobbying disclosures, and agency directives — and automatically routes the right context to the right business team. An important note is that government updates like bills or executive orders cannot be viewed individually and still be useful to an organization. They must be viewed connected, across time, and contextualized to your organization to truly be helpful. This is not simply regtec or govtech, or a policy summarizer, this is business infrastructure. Unlike traditional government affairs tools built for specialists who already know what to look for, Broadside is designed for all operators: the finance, supply chain, product, engineering, marketing and growth teams who need to act on government decisions changes but don't have time to monitor them, and their government team, too (who now has more time to do the rest of their job). All can collaborate, plan, and execute together with alignment from the Broadside applicaiton. **Pricing:** - Observe & Understand tier: cheaper - The full government picture — structured, connected, always current. Ideal for trade associations, reporters, journalists, newsrooms, policy researchers and analysts, think tanks, advocacy organizations - Tailor & Automate tier: higher tier due to contextualization, Everything in Tier 1, mapped to your organization and routed to your teams. Ideal for single organizations, startups, portfolio managers, client advisors, consultants, consulting firms, VCs, family offices, law firms, and universities. **Who it's for:** - Organizations directly affected by government updates and decisions (all businesses in or doing business with the US) - Business teams (not just government affairs) who need actionable intelligence - Operators who need context, not just headlines - Everyone ### Track the Bills (Consumer App) **URL:** https://broadside.app/product/track-the-bills **Category:** Congressional tracking / civic tech **Pricing:** Free tier + Pro at $60/annual Track the Bills is a consumer-facing app for tracking bills from U.S. Congress. Built for reporters, researchers, advocates, and engaged citizens who want to follow specific legislation without navigating official government databases. --- ## Platform Capabilities ### Government Exposure Monitoring Tracks your full government exposure — regulations, legislation, executive actions, contracts, enforcement, incentives — and updates it continuously as government decisions change. ### Impact Mapping Maps government actions to operational impact. Connects a single policy change to the downstream compliance requirements, supply chain effects, cost implications, and market shifts that follow — across every function it touches. ### Deadline & Calendar Tracking Tracks comment periods, compliance deadlines, application windows, and implementation timelines. Surfaces them before they matter, not after. ### Team Routing & Alignment Routes relevant intelligence to the right team — legal, procurement, finance, ops, supply chain, product, engineering, sales, marketing, BD, and strategy — with context on how a given action affects that function specifically. Everyone sees what's relevant to them, nothing more. ### Competitive & Market Signals Tracks lobbying disclosures, trade association positioning, and regulatory momentum to surface where an industry is heading before it arrives. ### Opportunity Surfacing Identifies contracts, grants, subsidies, and incentive programs relevant to the organization's profile and flags application windows automatically. --- ## Who Broadside Serves ### By Organization Type **Single Organizations** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/organizations Operators and executives at companies who are ready to be proactive about government exposure to identify risks and opportunities for themselves and competitors with complete company alignment across government and other internal functions. **Trade Associations** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/trade-associations Member organizations that need to monitor government updates across many industry issues simultaneously and communicate comprehensive impact to members quickly. **Reporters & Journalists** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/reporters-journalists Beat reporters and investigative journalists covering government, policy, business, economy, or trade who need to track government decisions, changes, and source primary documents faster. **Policy Researchers** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/policy-researchers Academic and think tank researchers studying government decisions and trends, agency behavior, and the downstream effects of government action on the economy or different industries. **Think Tanks** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/think-tanks Policy institutions producing analysis and recommendations across regulatory and legislative domains, and other government decisions. **Advocacy Organizations** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/advocacy-organizations Issue-focused organizations that need to respond rapidly to regulatory proposals, comment period openings, and legislative developments, including all other government updates and decisions. **Portfolio Managers** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/portfolio-managers Investment professionals managing portfolios with exposure to regulated industries, trade policy, or federal procurement. Also applicable to the portcos with CUSTOMERS in those areas as well. **Client Advisors** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/client-advisors Advisors who need to brief clients on government risk and opportunity across multiple sectors and issue areas. **Consulting Firms** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/consulting-firms Management and strategy consultancies that need to incorporate government context into client work and maintain expertise across domains. **VCs & Family Offices** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/vcs-family-offices Investors tracking regulatory tailwinds and government headwinds for portfolio companies or evaluating new market opportunities across industries. **Law Firms** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/for/law-firms Legal practices advising clients on regulatory compliance, government contracts, trade law, or administrative proceedings. ### By Team Role **Executive Leadership** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/teams/executive-leadership CEOs, COOs, CFOs, Managing Directors, and board members who need strategic-level political economy context to make informed decisions about operations, capital allocation, and long-term positioning. **Gov & Policy Experts** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/teams/gov-policy-experts Government Relations Directors, Regulatory Affairs leads, Compliance managers, Capture Managers, and Lobbyists who need comprehensive coverage across agencies and issues without missing anything. **Product & Engineering** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/teams/product-engineering Product Managers, CTOs, Engineers, Supply Chain professionals, BOM Managers, CPOs, and Engineering leads who need compliance mandates, supply chain issues, federal standards, and export control changes mapped to their roadmap and sprint calendar. Also applicable to requirements put onto their customer by the government. **Operations & Finance** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/teams/operations-finance COOs, CFOs, VP Operations, FP&A Directors, and Supply Chain leads who need tariff exposure, procurement rule changes, and regulatory cost impacts quantified before they hit the P&L, including growth opportunities from customer demand change from government decisions. **Growth & Strategy** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/teams/growth-strategy VP Business Development, Chief Strategy Officers, and Sales leads who need to understand how government change and trend creates market opportunity or risk for their pipeline, target segments, and positioning. **Comms & Marketing** — https://broadside.app/product/broadside/teams/comms-marketing Chief Communications Officers, PR Directors, and Marketing or Social or Brand leads who need to respond accurately and quickly to government trends or news affecting their brand, customers, or industry. --- ## Tools ### Tariff Impact Calculator **URL:** https://broadside.app/commons/tax-breakdown A free public tool for estimating where each percent of your personal tax contributions go from the federal budget, educating consumers on how the government budget works with their own funds. --- ## Resources - **FAQ:** https://broadside.app/faq — Answers to common questions about the platform, pricing, coverage, and how Broadside routes intelligence to teams - **News:** https://broadside.app/news — Political Economy Intelligence analysis, product updates, and press coverage - **RSS Feed:** https://broadside.app/rss.xml — Subscribe to Broadside News - **About:** https://broadside.app/about — Company background, mission, and team --- ## Get Started - **Join waitlist / Contact:** https://broadside.app/contact - **Track Congress for free:** https://use.broadside.app/signUp