State Affairs

State Affairs is a news and policy intelligence platform covering state governments across the United States. Its editorial operation is described as the largest team of statehouse journalists in the country, producing award-winning, nonpartisan coverage of politics and policy in all 50 states. The company publishes more than 35,000 original stories a year, supplying political context, insights and early intelligence to decision makers, policy professionals and citizens.

Alongside its journalism, State Affairs operates a data and technology platform built on AI-native tools. Its technical work spans artificial intelligence and machine learning, natural language processing, data aggregation and analytics, and legislative data tracking. The company processes over 180,000 bills annually and transcribes more than 55,000 hours of legislative hearings each year, and maintains more than 38,000 profiles of legislators, staff and officials.

The resulting product, the State Affairs Platform, combines nonpartisan statehouse coverage, state government data and analytical tools in a single service. Its customers are drawn from government affairs, associations and trade groups, consulting and lobbying firms, corporate government affairs teams, communications and public relations agencies, and the media. The work sits at the intersection of editorial publishing, data and applied machine learning, at national scale.