FiscalNote Alternative with Stable Ownership and No Forced Migrations

If you are evaluating alternatives to FiscalNote, the platform itself works. The bigger questions for many customers right now are about stability, product investment direction, and forced product migrations.

Why teams are evaluating now

Two signals from primary sources are worth knowing:

1. NYSE delisting notice (April 2025). FiscalNote filed an SEC Form 8-K on April 10, 2025 disclosing a second NYSE delisting notice after its 30-trading-day average share price fell below $1.00. The share price is down roughly 90 percent from the ~$10 SPAC merger close in August 2022.
2. PolicyNote consolidation. CQ, VoterVoice, and Fireside customers are being migrated onto the PolicyNote platform. Forced migrations are disruptive on integrations, saved searches, alerts, and team workflows; even when the new product is good, the migration window is rarely smooth.

Neither signal is a verdict on FiscalNote's product. Customer-facing impact varies. But both are reasonable reasons to evaluate alternatives, especially if your renewal is coming up or your team is feeling migration friction.

Why Apogee is the natural alternative

Apogee is independent, AI-native, and publicly priced. The product direction is set by the customers we serve: congressional staff, nonprofit advocacy teams, state lobbyists, and policy shops. There is no SPAC overhang, no acquisition consolidation, no forced migration roadmap.

What Apogee gives you

1. Pricing on the homepage

Government and nonprofit pricing is reduced automatically by email domain.

2. MCP-native AI integration

Apogee uses the Model Context Protocol to connect 49+ legislative data sources directly to your AI assistant. Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot a question in natural language and get a researched answer with citations across federal and state sources.

"Find recent committee hearings on AI safety and summarize the key witnesses."

No new dashboard. No saved-searches maintenance. No migration to a new platform when ownership changes hands.

3. Focused U.S. coverage, no global overhead

FiscalNote offers global coverage, geopolitical risk, ESG monitoring, and stakeholder CRM. If your work is primarily U.S. federal and state policy, you are paying for surface area you do not use. Apogee focuses where most of our customers actually work:

• Federal legislation and regulations (49 official sources)
• Congressional Research Service, GAO, CBO
• Hearing transcripts, schedules, witnesses
• Lobbying disclosure and campaign finance
• State legislation (federal-complete; state expanding, Massachusetts first)

4. No annual contract, no sales-cycle ambush

Monthly billing. Cancel anytime. The free tier is enough to evaluate fit before you commit.

Where FiscalNote still goes further

• Global regulatory coverage (EU, APAC). Apogee is U.S. only.
• Geopolitical risk and ESG monitoring. Apogee does not cover these.
• Stakeholder CRM. Apogee is a research and intelligence workspace, not a CRM.
• State legislative breadth, today. FiscalNote covers all 50 states; Apogee is federal-complete and expanding state-by-state.

If you need global regulatory intelligence or a built-in stakeholder CRM, FiscalNote may still be the right choice. For focused U.S. policy work with stable ownership, public pricing, and modern AI integration, Apogee is the focused alternative.

For teams in transition

If you are evaluating because of the NYSE delisting notice, the PolicyNote migration, or a renewal cycle that no longer feels right:

• Monthly billing, no long-term lock-in
• Free tier with $1/month token budget for evaluation
• 5-minute setup, no sales call
• Direct access to the team building the product

Getting started

1. Sign up for Apogee
2. Generate your API key or use the Apogee chat directly
3. Connect to your AI assistant if you want MCP integration
4. Start researching

See the Quick Start Guide or pricing.

Questions

Comparing for a specific workflow or coverage area? Check Data Sources or contact us.