For agencies & consultancies
Public-affairs firms live and die on breadth under deadline. Clarion reads Parliament, nine provincial legislatures, the federal and B.C. lobbying registries, the tender portals, and six city councils every night — then sorts what changed by which client file it touches, graded for relevance. One workspace, every mandate, in both official languages.
The agency week
The bottleneck isn't talent — it's the hours lost reconstructing the same picture across a dozen files before anyone can act on one.
Every mandate wants its own monitoring across four levels of government. Doing it by hand means a junior reads everything and still misses the line that mattered to the one client who calls at 4 p.m.
A retainer is renewed on trust. Walking into a review with a confident guess instead of a sourced answer is how a mandate quietly leaves for the firm down the street.
A new mandate means a junior spends days learning who sponsors what, who's lobbying it, and where the client fits — before the firm bills a single hour of strategy.
What matters for a firm
Not a feature tour — the specific parts of Clarion that let one analyst carry many files and a partner bill credibility.
The combined inbox grades each bill, registration, tender, and council item for relevance and tags it to the client topic it matches — so a partner scans one feed and sees, per mandate, exactly what moved overnight.
Calibrated passage outlook lets you sort a client's watched bills by probability and put billable hours where the odds — and the client's exposure — are highest. Stop briefing on theatre.
Open any bill and see the sponsor, the organizations active on the bill's subject, and the points of entry — so a new analyst can brief a partner on a fresh mandate in an hour, not a week.
Ask Clarion a plain-language question and the answer streams back with the source rows — the bill, the registration, the official's name and email. Forward it to the client with the receipt attached.
On screen
Idealized views of the surfaces a firm runs every day — the graded inbox, the power map a junior briefs from, the passage outlook you triage by, and a cited answer you can forward.
C-27 reported back from INDU with amendments
Bill · 2h ago · matched to “TechCo — AI governance”
Aurora Health registered on hospital procurement
Lobbying · today · matched to “MedClient — capital”
Mississauga — development charge item deferred
Council · yesterday · matched to “Builder — GTA”
Hon. François-Philippe Champagne
Minister of Innovation, Science & Industry
The Council of Canadian Innovators filed three meetings with the Minister's office in May — a coalition your client can join, not cold-call.
›What changed on my client's file this week?
Three things moved on the AI-governance file: C-27 was reported back with amendments1, and Microsoft Canada and the Council of Canadian Innovators2 each registered new meetings with the Minister's office3 — forward this to the client with the citations attached.
Built for a practice
Workspace isolation keeps each mandate's topics separate; append-only audit logs record who saw what. And the price is on the page — so you can scope a retainer without a procurement call to us first.
Your next mandate, covered tomorrow
Start free and load a client's topics in minutes — the first graded digest lands tomorrow morning. Or book a walkthrough and we'll set up a live mandate with you.