Quorum vs. FiscalNote: The 2025 Platform Comparison

Quick Decision Guide

What to Ask During Demos

Don’t accept feature lists. Request actual demonstrations:

• Platform Architecture: “Show me the complete workflow from bill alert to campaign launch, and show me how many logins are required.”
• AI Capabilities: “Show me bill prioritization for my specific organization. Can AI draft messages? How personalized are they?”
• Support Structure: “What’s included vs. what costs extra? Average support ticket response time? Can I talk to current customers?”
• Company Stability: “Product roadmap for next 12–24 months? Any planned migrations? Customer additions vs. losses past year?”
• Migration Process: “Implementation timeline with details? What data can you migrate? Can we run both platforms in parallel?”

The vendors who give straight answers deserve serious consideration. The ones who deflect are telling you something important.

What’s Actually Happening Right Now

If you’re reading this, you’re probably dealing with one of three situations: you’re a FiscalNote customer navigating the PolicyNote migration, you’re evaluating public affairs software for the first time, or your current platform isn’t working anymore.

This isn’t a typical vendor comparison filled with vague marketing promises. We’re going to walk through the meaningful differences between Quorum and FiscalNote, including the architectural decisions that impact your daily work, the AI capabilities that either save time or not, and what it actually means to choose a unified platform versus connected tools.

The FiscalNote PolicyNote Transition

FiscalNote has spent the last decade acquiring companies, including CQ Roll Call (2018), Fireside (2019), and VoterVoice (2020). Each acquisition added capabilities but also increased complexity, resulting in separate products, logins, and databases. One anonymous employee shared “the company seems to have no high level strategy for its acquisitions and streamlining different products and services, resulting in redundancies…” In 2023, FiscalNote launched PolicyNote to consolidate these tools into a single platform.

The challenge? Customers are living through this consolidation right now. They have “struggled to get customers moved onto the latest PolicyNote platform,” with forced migrations despite missing features, support teams stretched between old and new systems, and uncertainty about when full feature parity will arrive.

Meanwhile, FiscalNote’s stock is down ~97% from its merger price. There’s been a CEO transition, divestitures, and public discussions about cost reduction. This affects product investment priorities and the quality of support.

How Quorum Built Differently

Quorum launched in 2014 with a different approach: building a unified platform. Federal tracking came first (2014), followed by state tracking (2015), stakeholder management (2016), native advocacy tools (2017), and AI capabilities (2022), each building upon the same architecture. Quorum is privately held, venture-backed and product decisions are driven by customer needs, not earnings targets.

The practical difference is evident in how the platforms actually function. Information Systems Director, Eric S, shares how “Quorum is a one-stop shop… it consolidates what would otherwise be several databases.”

Platform Architecture: Two Systems, Two Outcomes

Policy moments rarely happen slowly. A bill drops with major implications, a committee surprises you with new language, or a vote is rescheduled with little notice. In these moments, having the right solution can be the difference between winning and losing.

With Quorum, everything is connected and clear. When you open a bill in Quorum, you’re not just reading. You’re seeing:

• The provisions most relevant to your organization
• Sponsors, co-sponsors, and committee members with human-verified data
• District-level member presence
• Stakeholder relationships you already manage
• Past votes, similar bills, and emerging risks
• Pathways to mobilize supporters — from the exact bill you’re viewing

This is orchestrated influence. Everything you need to act is connected automatically.

As Sierra Club’s Director of State Lobbying and Advocacy put it after a Quorum-powered early warning helped stop a harmful bill:

“Had we not had Quorum, we wouldn’t have known that that bill had passed… and wouldn’t have been able to put together a broader strategy.”

With Quorum, you don’t toggle — you move.

With FiscalNote, you have to be the integration layer since the product doesn’t do it for you. PolicyNote tracks policy. VoterVoice handles advocacy. Stakeholder work lives partially in Fireside or older systems, depending on your history. Customers say, Fiscalnote “needs to better integrate with its multiple components.” This creates blind spots — and blind spots in public affairs are expensive.

AI Capabilities: A Force Multiplier vs. Assistance

AI is table stakes — but what the AI does is the difference between winning early and scrambling late.

Quorum AI is deeply embedded into the platform, unifying policy intelligence across your GA function. With Quorum Intelligence powering Legislative, PAC, and Grassroots efforts, your entire public affairs team can easily access and act on shared insights. Its patented AI is trained on over a decade of proprietary legislative data. It:

• Prioritizes bills: California introduces 2,500+ bills per session. Instead of manually reviewing all of them, AI Bill Tracking analyzes each bill against your policy priorities and historical tracking, assigns relevance scores, and surfaces high-priority bills automatically. It catches the “consumer protection” bill that buries algorithmic accountability requirements in Section 14—something a keyword searches miss.
• Automates personalized summaries: Not generic abstracts, but bill summaries highlighting provisions specifically relevant to your priorities based on what you’ve tracked historically. A hospital association and a tech company tracking the same healthcare AI bill receive different summaries, each emphasizing different provisions.
• Personalizes communications: Never start from a blank page. Jump-start your policy communications with AI messaging and instantly tailor messages for different audiences, creating more engaging, personalized outreach.
• Transforms hearings into insights: AI Committee Transcripts transforms hours of state hearing video into searchable, time-synced transcripts—empowering your team to act on what’s said in the room, within hours of a hearing.
• Quickly turn data into action: Search all of Quorum’s data by typing conversationally—no complex keywords or filters needed. AI also reads bills for meaning, not just keywords, surfacing bills written in unfamiliar terms or dense legal jargon that legacy search misses. Teams uncover emerging risks sooner, skip endless keyword tweaking, and capture critical policy language the moment it appears.

Texas REALTORS® called Quorum’s AI “a huge, monumental change” and “a paradigm shift.” This isn’t AI for simple shortcuts. It’s AI for orchestrating policy influence.

PolicyNote’s AI, on the other hand, functions as a conversational interface: ask questions about bills and get answers, request summaries of legislative content, and search documents using natural language. This saves you some time, but it doesn’t automate workflows or multiply your team’s impact. With PolicyNote, you log in to see 50 new bills, but now you must determine which of those bills matter to your unique risks and opportunities. Once you identify which stakeholder to contact and write outreach messages, you must separately log into VoterVice to execute advocacy. PolicyNote is attempting to build an LLM connecting data and insights across a myriad of disconnected products.

Grassroots Advocacy Integration: Unified vs. Connected

Quorum Grassroots gives advocacy teams everything they need in one place — campaign creation, supporter engagement, and performance tracking, all unified with policy and stakeholder data. Users can identify a bill, segment lawmakers by role, and launch personalized campaigns within minutes, without ever leaving the platform. Campaigns are faster to launch, easier to personalize, and directly tied to legislative outcomes. Interactive Campaigns, video messaging, and AI-generated outreach help organizations scale authentic engagement across every channel — while all results flow back into one unified workspace. The VP of State Policy and Advocay shares:

“I’ve found Quorum to be an easy to use tool for tracking legislation and advocate activation.”

By contrast, FiscalNote’s VoterVoice operates as a separate tool. Even with recent updates that allow users to view advocacy data inside PolicyNote, campaign creation and reporting still happen elsewhere. Teams must navigate between two systems, slowing response time and fragmenting insights. The result: Quorum empowers advocacy teams to act in real time, not wait on integrations. It’s true unification, not connection by workaround.

Data Quality & Support

Quorum maintains its own in-house data teams that update legislative information and human-verified policymaker contacts across federal, state, local, and EU institutions. When a staffer moves committees or when a legislator’s district office changes personnel, those updates flow instantly through the platform. Teams don’t have to second-guess whether they’re looking at accurate information.

FiscalNote’s data, on the other hand, is sourced from multiple acquired systems, each with its own structure, history, and maintenance processes. Customers often feel the result of this fragmentation. One user reported “lag time between legislative events and reporting,” while others point to inconsistencies or gaps across components. When data systems weren’t built together, keeping them aligned becomes an ongoing challenge.

The difference extends beyond data to support. Customers consistently rate Quorum’s support higher than FiscalNote’s. With dedicated onboarding, tailored training, and responsive customer success teams, Quorum’s 8.5/10 support rating reflects a culture of partnership. FiscalNote’s 6.7/10 support rating and user reports of delayed help and added fees tell a different story.

Decision Framework

Choose Quorum If…

You want a platform that is a force multiplier that consistently delivers better policy outcomes, not just faster tasks.

• You need one unified workflow where legislative tracking, stakeholder management, and advocacy live together — giving you orchestrated influence motions, not fragmented tasks.
• You want AI that drives strategy, not just answers questions — identifying priority bills, providing personalized summaries, and drafting tailored content at scale.
• You value platform stability and want to avoid forced migrations, missing features, and shifting product strategies.
• You rely on high-quality support, dedicated CSM partnership, and rapid response during critical policy moments.
• You need leadership-ready reporting that shows how policy changes, advocacy actions, and stakeholder engagement connect to real-world outcomes.
• You want a platform proven to shape results — from early-warning insights to successful veto campaigns.

Consider FiscalNote If…

You’re comfortable with a platform still consolidating and evolving.

• You’re a current FiscalNote customer with favorable pricing and are willing to stay through the PolicyNote transition.
• You’re okay with more manual work or siloed workflows.
• You can tolerate short-term friction and uncertain timelines in hopes of long-term feature parity as PolicyNote matures.

You’re not choosing between “good” and “bad” software—you’re choosing between two entirely different philosophies of how public affairs work should happen. Quorum represents a unified, orchestrated, outcomes-driven approach designed to help teams actually win their policy fights. FiscalNote, by contrast, relies on stitched-together tools that provide information but leave the heavy lifting—and the coordination—up to you.

See Quorum in Action

Join 1,800+ organizations — including 50%+ of the Fortune 100 — that trust Quorum to run their public affairs operations.

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About This Comparison

Last updated November 2025. Based on current product capabilities, G2 verified buyer reviews, public SEC filings, product documentation, customer interviews, and direct platform testing. Created by Quorum—we encourage prospects to verify information with both vendors during evaluation.