Plural Policy
AcquiredFounded 2018 Β· 16 employees on LinkedIn Β· 8 known investors
Plural is an AI-powered policy intelligence platform that helps enterprises and organizations track, summarize, and analyze state and federal legislation. It provides bill analysis, predictive insights, stakeholder intelligence, and cross-jurisdiction bill search for public policy and government relations professionals.
Also known as Civic Eagle Β· Open States by Plural Β· Plural Β· Plural Policy Β· Plural Policy Foundation
Founders & leadership
Plural Policy was founded in 2018 by Damola Ogundipe.
Investors Β· 8
Also in the syndicate Β· 4
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Plural (Plural Policy) operates a legislative and regulatory tracking platform that covers bills and regulations across all 50 US states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, Congress, and more than 40 countries. The product combines natural-language search over legislative text, automatic AI summaries of bills and regulations on arrival, version comparisons that flag what changed between drafts, and links back to source text for verification. Alongside bill data it supplies profiles of legislators and legislative staff β sponsors, co-sponsors, committee assignments, voting history and contact details across all 50 states and Congress.
Workflow features are aimed at government affairs teams: bill triage with assignments, positions and notes; issue-, client- or region-specific dashboards; alerts on bill movement, noticed hearings and saved-search matches; and configurable, schedulable reports and exports that carry team positions and notes. Saved searches run continuously and notify users when new matter matches.
The company also maintains an open-data arm derived from the Open States project, which Plural adopted in 2021 after acquiring OpenStates.org in December 2020. It offers free "Find Your Legislators" and bill lookup tools, bulk legislative data downloads and a public API, with API key registration handled through open.pluralpolicy.com, a separate application from the main Plural product. Plural's application itself is not open source; the company has stated its free democracy tools and open data are funded by premium policy intelligence features sold to organizational customers.
Founding story
Accounts differ on founding details: a 2023 company press release states Plural was founded in 2015 by Yemi Adewunmi, Damola Ogundipe and Shawntera Hardy, with the team initially building an app to encourage civic engagement among constituents before rebuilding it into an AI-enabled platform for lobbyists; SAI360's 2025 acquisition release states Plural was founded in 2018 by Damola Ogundipe and Yemi Adewunmi.
Business model
Software-as-a-service subscriptions sold to organizations and individual policy professionals, with a free tier of public bill-tracking and legislator-lookup tools plus open legislative data and APIs used as an on-ramp to paid plans.
Tiered annual and monthly subscriptions. Essential is $609 per year per seat (or $59 monthly) for a single user with unlimited bill tracking across Congress, all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico but no AI or collaboration features. Professional is $5,000 per year and adds AI summaries and version comparisons, hearings, committee and legislative staff data, shared positions/notes/assignments, exports and flexible seat licensing. Enterprise is custom-priced and adds international coverage across 40+ countries, unlimited users, executive reporting and custom dashboards, single sign-on and multi-factor authentication, and a dedicated success manager and support.
Traction
As of the 2023 free-tier launch, Plural reported more than 34,000 users and work with over one hundred organizations including Common Cause, Equal Justice USA and The Nature Conservancy. The company's website states it is used by over 500 teams across advocacy, academia and government affairs.
Latest developments
On December 1, 2025, SAI360 announced it had acquired Plural Policy, describing it as an AI-driven regulatory intelligence company built to analyze legislative and regulatory text at scale. SAI360 said Plural's LLM tuning experience will be combined with its Regulatory Compliance Management module to support obligation analysis and earlier detection of emerging regulatory topics; financial terms were not disclosed. CEO and co-founder Damola Ogundipe said joining SAI360 would bring Plural's legislative AI capabilities into a broader risk and compliance ecosystem.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Positioned as an AI-native legislative and regulatory tracking tool spanning US state, federal and international jurisdictions; as of the company's site it reported use by over 500 teams across advocacy, academia and government affairs. Following the SAI360 acquisition, its capabilities are being combined with SAI360's Regulatory Compliance Management module within a broader governance, risk and compliance platform.
Breadth of jurisdictional coverage (all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, Congress and 40+ countries), AI models tuned specifically to legislative and regulatory text with summaries linked back to source text, integrated legislator and staff contact data, and a free tools/open-data layer inherited from the Open States project.
Technology
The platform applies and tunes large language models specifically for legislative and regulatory language, generating bill and regulation summaries, comparing versions, identifying key themes and flagging meaningful changes, and supporting plain-English search without boolean syntax. It also delivers automated updates on bill text changes and on whether a bill is gaining momentum. The underlying open-data web application, open.pluralpolicy.com/openstates.org, is built in Django and offers v2 (deprecated) and v3 APIs plus bulk downloads.
Go-to-market
Self-serve signup for the free and Essential tiers, with demo-led sales for Professional and Enterprise (a 30-minute walkthrough run against the prospect's own jurisdictions and issue areas). A free bill-tracking offering launched in 2023 was positioned to broaden access for smaller, budget-constrained organizations and as an upgrade path to paid plans.
Government affairs, advocacy and public policy teams β advocacy organizations, chambers of commerce, corporations, law firms and lobbyists, libraries and universities, associations, and journalists β as well as individual policy professionals, researchers, students and constituents using the free tier. Named users have included Common Cause, Equal Justice USA and The Nature Conservancy.
Geography
Listed by investor S3 Ventures with a location in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the 2023 free-tier announcement was datelined Atlanta. Data coverage spans every US jurisdiction β all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico and Congress β plus more than 40 countries.
History
The team's original consumer civic-engagement app was later revamped into a policy platform for lobbyists with AI capabilities. In December 2020 Plural acquired OpenStates.org, and in 2021 it adopted the Open States project, which underpins its free "Search a Bill" and "Find Your Legislator" tools, bulk data and APIs. In July 2023 the company launched a free version of its bill-tracking platform, at which point it reported over 34,000 users, more than one hundred organizational customers and $12.3 million raised. On December 1, 2025, SAI360 β owned by private equity firm STG β announced its acquisition of Plural Policy for undisclosed terms.
Risks & controversies
Public sources report inconsistent founding information (2015 with three founders versus 2018 with two). The free open-data service at open.pluralpolicy.com is being migrated into the main Plural application, with the v2 API already deprecated and slated to be taken out of service.
Compiled by commissioned research from 15 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Competitors Β· 1
by search overlapCompanies competing with Plural Policy for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline Β· 5
launches, deals, and filingsSAI360, owned by private equity firm STG, announced the acquisition of Plural Policy to combine Plural's AI-driven legislative and regulatory intelligence with SAI360's Regulatory Compliance Management module. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Plural made a no-cost version of its AI-enabled legislative platform available to policy professionals, researchers, students and constituents, including the 'Search a Bill' and 'Find Your Legislator' features.
Following a pilot with Afrilabs, Plural expanded its AI-powered policy tracking platform into Africa, including South Africa and Nigeria, to provide access to public policy data.
Plural announced a $10 million Series A led by S3 Ventures with participation from Menlo Ventures, Consonance Investment Managers, Debut Capital, Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar and Colin Kaepernick, plus returning investors Backstage Capital, ffVC, M25, Camelback Ventures and Higher Ground Labs. Proceeds were earmarked for sales and marketing expansion and product development. S3 Ventures principal Aaron Perman joined the board.
$10M source β
Plural acquired OpenStates.org, which underpins its free 'Search a Bill' and 'Find Your Legislator' functionality; the company states it adopted the Open States project in 2021 and continues to expand its open data and APIs.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
βΈResearch sources Β· 15
primary sources listed
- Pluralpolicypluralpolicy.com Β· web
- Plural Secures $10M in Series A Funding Led by S3 Ventures - Plural Policypluralpolicy.com Β· web
15 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Plural Policy do?
- Plural is an AI-based legislative and regulatory tracking platform, acquired by GRC software vendor SAI360 in December 2025.
- Who founded Plural Policy?
- Plural Policy was founded by Damola Ogundipe in 2018.
- Who are Plural Policy's investors?
- Plural Policy's investors include Bread And Butter Ventures, Llc, Consonance Investment Managers, Ff Venture Capital, Tech Square Ventures.