Features

Deep dives into the core Apogee product features.

Policy Graph

The engine underneath everything: the official record connected into a 200K+ entity knowledge graph, plus a private layer built from your own work - contacts, whip counts, commitments, watches, and memory. The more you use Apogee, the sharper it gets. Covers:

• The official record layer and what feeds it
• Your private layer and how each feature deposits into it
• Why the graph compounds over time
• Privacy: what stays yours

Folios

Subject-scoped workspaces. Each folio holds the conversations, watches, briefings, drafts, and memory accumulated around one topic - a bill, a rulemaking, an appropriations cycle, a coalition fight. Covers:

• What a folio is and when to use one
• Creating folios conversationally
• Watches, scoped memory, and folio briefings
• How a folio surfaces what changed since your last visit
• Example folios by role

People

Your private relationship layer - the members, staff, and advocates who matter to your work, enriched from the official record and connected to the bills, whip counts, and follow-ups you already track. Covers:

• Adding and looking up contacts conversationally
• Automatic enrichment from the official record
• Logging calls and meetings so they resurface later
• Editing and removing contacts
• How People powers whip counts and Chase
• Privacy

Whip

Head counts on the bills you are working - member positions tracked over time as you gather them. Covers:

• Recording and updating positions in plain language
• How the count changes over time as members commit or shift
• Pulse: where the count stands and what moved
• Importing an existing whip list from CSV or XLSX
• How People feeds the count, and what stays in your private layer

Standing Questions

Pin a specific answer and it re-checks itself as the official record changes, telling you when the answer moves. Covers:

• Pinning an answer from any chat response
• How a standing question differs from a briefing
• What triggers a re-check and how you are notified
• Managing and removing standing questions

Chase

The follow-ups you owe and the deadlines riding the official record, sorted by what is due first. Covers:

• Adding and resolving commitments in plain language
• Asking what is due today or before a markup
• How a commitment's deadline moves when the underlying bill moves
• How Chase draws on the interactions you log in People

Briefings

Automated intelligence reports delivered on your schedule. Read briefings in-app and ask follow-up questions, or receive them via email. Covers:

• How briefings work and how they differ from keyword alerts
• Creating custom briefings in plain language
• Scheduling, managing, and running briefings on demand
• Example briefings by role

Deliverables

Research-grounded document drafts you can iteratively refine through conversation. Covers:

• How deliverables are created from templates
• Appropriations advocacy templates (from The Appropriations Playbook)
• Regulatory notice-and-comment templates (from OIRA/OMB and EDGI guides)
• Congressional oversight templates (from POGO's Oversight Handbook)
• Earmarks / Community Project Funding templates (from POPVOX Foundation)
• General policy communication templates
• Viewing, managing, and iterating on deliverables

Memory

How Apogee stores and uses context about you and your organization. Covers:

• Memory layers: personal context, org knowledge, files, and artifacts
• What's always active vs. searched on demand
• Individual vs Team (Shared Memory)
• Uploading files and how artifacts are saved from conversations