Quorum vs. FiscalNote: The 2026 Platform Comparison

FiscalNote finished forcing its customers onto PolicyNote in early 2026, but the migration cost it real customers along the way, and its most recent earnings call in August disclosed serious doubts about the company’s ability to keep operating. Here’s how the two platforms actually compare today, and what FiscalNote’s financial position means for anyone relying on its roadmap.

Quick Decision Guide

What to Ask During Demos

Don’t accept feature lists. Ask vendors to actually show you the work.

• Platform Architecture: “Walk me through tracking a bill and launching a campaign against it. Can an agent help me with this and how many logins does that take?”
• AI Capabilities: “Show me the AI actually doing a task, not answering a question about one. Can it prep a meeting, log a note, or draft outreach on its own?”
• Advocacy Integration: “If I build a stakeholder list for legislative tracking, can I launch a campaign to that same list without re-entering it somewhere else?”
• Support Structure: “What’s included versus what costs extra? What’s your average ticket response time? Can I talk to a current customer?”
• Company Stability: “What’s your product roadmap for the next 12 to 24 months? Are you gaining or losing customers? What does your latest earnings say about your ability to keep investing in this product?”

The vendors who answer directly deserve serious consideration. The ones who deflect, especially on that last question, are telling you something important.

What’s Actually Happening Right Now

If you’re reading this, you’re probably a FiscalNote customer wondering what the migration to PolicyNote actually delivered, a prospect trying to separate FiscalNote’s marketing from its financial reality, or someone whose current platform just isn’t working. This comparison walks through what’s changed on both sides in 2026, backed by SEC filings, G2 reviews, and each company’s own public statements.

Customers Are Leaving, and FiscalNote’s Own Numbers Show It

FiscalNote are continuing to lose customers, including large enterprise customers who left the platform entirely earlier this year rather than staying through a forced migration to FiscalNote’s newer PolicyNote system. The picture over the full year still looks worse than any single recent quarter, and FiscalNote’s own filings acknowledge the losses directly.

Customers complain of lag time between legislative events and reporting, and a need to better integrate across the company’s multiple products. Separately, FiscalNote’s own employees have raised similar concerns on public employer review sites, citing a lack of clear strategy around its acquisitions and low morale tied to repeated layoffs and budget cuts.

A CEO Change and Real Doubts About the Company’s Ability to Keep Operating

FiscalNote’s own SEC filing states there is substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. It also disclosed breaching a loan agreement with real risk of disruption to the platform, support, and roadmap customers depend on.

On top of that, FiscalNote cut its financial guidance, lowering both revenue and profitability targets, which reflects customers continuing to leave the platform and less money available to invest in customer experience and product innovation. Back-to-back write-downs have also collapsed the company’s equity to almost nothing, and its CEO of the past year and a half resigned, with a board member stepping in to run the company.

None of this is a reason to pile on. It’s a reason to ask hard questions about what gets funded, and what doesn’t, at a company in this kind of financial and leadership turmoil.

What this means for you: FiscalNote’s customer losses, thin reviews, employee complaints, and financial distress aren’t separate stories, they’re the same story told from different angles. A company that’s losing customers and without financial stability has less room to invest in your support, your roadmap, and your day-to-day experience. That’s worth weighing seriously before you sign, or renew.

Platform Architecture: One Login vs. Two

Policy moments move fast. A bill drops with major implications, a committee changes language overnight, a vote gets rescheduled with no warning. What matters in that moment is whether your platform gets in the way.

With Quorum, everything connects. Open a bill and you see the provisions relevant to your organization, the sponsors and committee members with human-verified contact data, your team’s stakeholder history, and a direct path to launch outreach, all from the same screen, in the same login.

With FiscalNote, PolicyNote handles tracking, but advocacy execution still happens in VoterVoice. A team that wants to track a bill and then mobilize supporters against it has to work across two products with two logins, even after the migration FiscalNote just spent a year completing.

AI: Working Agents vs. a Data API

Every vendor claims AI now. The real question is whether that AI does your team’s work, or just answers questions about it.

Quincy, Quorum’s AI assistant, 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 AI is trained on over a decade of proprietary legislative data. Beyond Quincy, Quorum’s Agents do the heavy lifting for you:  

• Bill Tracker scans every new bill, ranks it by relevance, and tags a suggested position grounded in your organization’s priorities, so your team’s judgment goes to the close calls instead of the routine ones.
• Meeting Prep builds a full brief before every meeting with an elected official or government stakeholder, pulling your team’s engagement history, recent bills and statements, advocacy efforts, and PAC contributions, so anyone on your team can walk in with full context and drive the conversation.
• CRM turns a spoken or typed note into a logged interaction, mapped automatically to the right bill and official, preserving institutional knowledge so a new hire can understand a decade of dialogue instantly.
• Campaign Builder turns a press release, bill brief, or URL into a fully populated, ready-to-launch grassroots campaign, with targeting, messaging, and action steps pre-built, so your team only has to review, edit, and approve before it goes live.
• Policy Comms monitors your company’s press releases, rewrites each announcement for a staffer audience, and queues a ready-to-review draft in Quorum Outbox, bridging comms and government affairs so nothing sits on someone’s to-do list.

Customers describe the effect directly. JobsOhio’s Danita Bradley called the CRM Agent “a genuine game-changer” for logging notes between back-to-back meetings. Texas REALTORS’ Tray Bates called Quorum’s AI bill review “a huge, monumental change” in how his team operates.

PolicyNote’s AI works as a conversational assistant: ask it a question, get a summary, request a draft. That’s useful, but it’s request-and-response, not automation running on its own. FiscalNote’s recent AI investment has focused elsewhere: exposing PolicyNote’s data through an API and an MCP server so external AI systems can query FiscalNote’s legislative data directly. t is not the same as a public affairs professional getting a meeting brief, a logged CRM note, or a drafted campaign without doing the work themselves.

What this means for you: ask any vendor to show you AI doing your actual job, not just answering a question about it. That distinction is where the real time savings live.

Grassroots Advocacy: Still Two Logins

Quorum Grassroots shares its data with legislative tracking and stakeholder management, so a campaign is built from the same bill and stakeholder data your team already tracks, launched without switching tools, and reported on in the same dashboard.

FiscalNote’s VoterVoice remains its own product. Recent updates let some VoterVoice data flow through to developers via API, which is a meaningful data capability, but day-to-day campaign creation, segmentation, and reporting still happen inside VoterVoice itself, separate from PolicyNote.

What this means for you: every extra login is a place where context gets lost and response time slows down, exactly when speed matters most.

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.

Company Stability: What FiscalNote’s Own Filings Say

FiscalNote’s own words are the clearest way to convey their challenges. Its most recent SEC filing discloses:

• FiscalNote May Not Be Able to Keep Operating: FiscalNote has publicly admitted there’s serious doubt about whether it can keep the business running, and it’s at risk of defaulting on its debt.
• FiscalNote Just Lowered Its Own Outlook: This is a sign that customers are leaving and there’s less money for FiscalNote to invest in your experience.
• FiscalNote Is In Financial and Leadership Turmoil: Its finances have taken a major hit this year, and its CEO stepped down in the middle of it all.

Quorum, by contrast, is privately held and profitable, serving 2,000+ organizations including more than half the Fortune 100, with product decisions driven by customer needs rather than quarterly earnings targets or lender negotiations.

What this means for you: these aren’t abstract investor concerns. A company negotiating with lenders and writing down its own equity has less room to invest in your support, your roadmap, and your day-to-day experience.

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 does the work for you, not just answers questions — meeting prep, CRM logging, bill triage, campaign building,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 a current customer with favorable legacy pricing and are comfortable with the company’s financial position.
• You mainly need policy data delivered through an API for your own internal tools, rather than a full workflow platform.
• You’re comfortable planning around a vendor currently managing loan defaults and a going-concern disclosure.

This isn’t a choice between two similarly positioned vendors. It’s a choice between a platform built as one system from day one and a platform still running two logins for tracking and advocacy, backed by a company whose own SEC filings say there’s substantial doubt about its ability to keep operating.

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About This Comparison

Last updated August 2026. Based on FiscalNote’s SEC filings, current G2 verified buyer reviews, FiscalNote’s own public product and blog content, Quorum’s product documentation, and customer and prospect conversations. Created by Quorum. We encourage prospects to verify information with both vendors during evaluation.

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