Simplifying Civics

Connect165 reduces the mystery of the legislative processes. Connect165 is built to help anyone interested in the Kansas legislative process to intuitively build actionable profiles on legislation. From legislators who want to manage communications within their legislative district to government affairs teams who are tracking client issues, Connect165 makes the tasks of managing information straightforward. Manage government affairs like a professional.

Our vision is to make statehouse information more accessible. Legislative activity should not be viewed as a mystery. Connect165 is built to close the information gap. It is possible to democratize the legislative process by capturing every recorded word. Once captured, words can be searched and meaning can be more broadly applied. Connect165 will reduce your cost of delivery and improve the veracity of information.

Manage Complexity

If you are not sure how to place values on the multitude of data thrown your way, simply follow along to create more efficient work. Search, track, prioritize, form tasks, file related documents, link to a client or constituent, categorize, tag, create a whiplist and create reports with a single click from a single window.

Context–switching—moving from window to window to accomplish a bill management task—is killing your productivity; it’s a real thing, look it up. Connect165 allows you to manage all the primary functions of bill management activity in one window without loss of context.

The work can be done alone or within a group. Think about it a bit. This space is about communicating with each other and working within a group allows everyone to see the same information in real time.

Features for Legislators

Bills in your committees are tracked by default, updated in real-time.

Review all your bill activities in one screen, without clutter.

Brings your constituents closer to your activities:

  • Attach your constituents to your committee- and/or independently tracked bills; track bills for and by constituents, and/or constituents by bills
  • See your entire voter registration database in the same window; filter them by name, street, city, and perform Constituent Relationship actions.
  • How you store information predicts how you can act:
    • Create proactive email correspondence.
    • Run reports on constituent concerns.
    • Coming soon: filtered constituent map.

Manage Bills

Track and Manage Bills, updated in real-time, from a Single Window

  1. Track
    • Set keywords to proactively filter bills as they are introduced.
    • Basecamp—a virtual dashboard— provides at a glance:
      • Upcoming hearings on your tracked bills by default.
      • Latest action on your Critical Priority bills.
      • Upcoming Tasks scheduled on your tracked bills (Reminders).
      • Daily Above the Line proceedings.
      • Conference Committee activities.
    • Track legislation by client or constituent.
    • Bills are updated in real-time and pushed to your recent browser of choice; no need to remember to refresh pages!
  2. Manage in one screen, without switching context
    • Create Position and Priority on each bill — Single click!
    • Create Tasks with deadlines specific to each bill — Bill details, including the most recent action, never leave your field of vision.
    • Create Notes specific to each bill, such as at hearings and testimonies.
    • Attach Documents specific to each bill, e.g., testimonies and backgrounder reports.
    • Tag bills to bucket them into fine-grained groups— Tag early and tag often!
    • Categorize bills to group them into larger buckets.
    • Create Whiplists of legislators specific to each bill.
  3. Report
    • Create custom reports with itemized bill lists in PDF and CSV formats.
    • Download PDF and CSV files of filtered bills: filtered by tags, chamber, search results, categories, clients, constituents.

Focus on a Task

Focus on a task longer by design. And free up time to focus on higher value tasks!

It’s possible to eliminate some of the Statehouse noice. Turn actual committee conversations into a primary source in minutes rather than hours and days. It’s reported that AI will eliminate 15% of every job worldwide. With one software application like Connect165, more Kansans can have insights without the need for a lobbyist.

Legislative Activities Monitoring

Not all government affairs activities require a hired professional.

Receive a pushed transcription on any individual committee.

  • Coming soon: AI Transcription. Search any word said during a recorded legislative proceeding.
  • Coming soon: AI Monitoring. Receive an AI summaries activity report for any committee or floor session.

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