Candidate Intelligence

Know the whole file — before the other side does.

Every candidate, consultant, and donor leaves a trail in the public record. We follow it — thoroughly, discreetly, and faster than the cycle moves — and hand you a briefing your team can put to work.

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Public records & lawful sources  ·  Every finding cited
Preliminary briefings delivered in hours, not weeks
The Approach

Every opponent has a record. The only question is who finds it first.

Opposition research is as old as politics, and for most of that history it has been slow — a room of investigators, weeks of work, and a binder that arrives after the moment it was meant for has already passed.

The record itself is public: court filings, property records, business registrations, campaign finance, and the long memory of the open web. The difficulty was never whether the facts existed. It was finding them, organizing them, and putting them in your hands while they still matter.

Heritage does that work in hours instead of weeks — and every finding arrives traced to a source you can stand behind.

The Intelligence

Six ways to know more than they'd like you to.

A complete file on any subject — an opponent, a consultant, a donor, or your own candidate — drawn from public records and open-source intelligence and organized for the way a campaign actually moves.

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Background & Public Records

Court records, property filings, business registrations, professional licenses, and public statements — cross-referenced for what doesn't line up.

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Open-Source Intelligence

Publicly available information from across the web, aggregated and organized into a single, reviewable picture instead of a hundred open tabs.

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Digital Footprint

A map of a subject's presence across platforms, publications, archived pages, forums, and comment sections — not just what's on the profile today.

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Reverse Username & Alias Search

Reused handles traced across legacy forums, dormant platforms, and niche sites — surfacing what a subject long assumed was forgotten.

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Campaign Finance Intelligence

Donor networks, PAC relationships, and fundraising patterns read for conflicts, overlaps, and the vulnerabilities they expose.

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Network Mapping

The people around the candidate — consultants, staff, surrogates, and major donors. The vulnerability is rarely the candidate alone.

Hours.

Most preliminary briefings are delivered the same day they're requested. The kind of deep-record work that once took a team weeks now lands while the moment is still yours to use.

On Offense

Run the table on the other side.

Every opponent has a record; the only question is whether you find it before they spin it. We surface the verifiable facts — votes, filings, statements, associations — then go a layer deeper into the people around them.

  • A full file on your opponent, built and cited in hours
  • Vulnerabilities mapped across consultants, staff, and donors
  • Old posts, dormant personas, and forgotten affiliations resurfaced
  • Finance conflicts flagged for your rapid-response team
On Defense

Know your own file first.

Your opponent is running the same playbook. Before you announce, run yourself and your team — see exactly what an aggressive researcher will surface, so nothing knocks you off message in October.

  • A self-audit on you and your inner circle
  • Rebuttals prepared before the attack ever lands
  • Running mates, hires, and endorsers vetted before you're tied to them
  • Walk into every debate knowing there are no surprises left
How It Works

From a single name to a complete file.

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Request an introduction

Tell us the subject and what you need to understand about the race.

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We build the file

From public records, open sources, and lawful means — every data point traced to where it came from.

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Findings in hours

A structured, fully-sourced briefing delivered to you or your team, ready to act on.

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Turn it into strategy

Messaging, rapid response, debate prep, and the decisions that follow from knowing first.

Who We Serve

Built for the campaigns that intend to win.

Candidates

Understand your opponent, your race, and your own exposure before outside groups define the narrative for you.

Consultants

Give clients faster, deeper candidate intelligence without waiting on a long traditional research cycle.

PACs & Advocacy

Review candidates, records, online activity, and finance data before you commit resources to a race.

Parties & Committees

Support a full slate with scalable research across candidates, districts, and competitive cycles.

Heritage works with conservative candidates and the committees, consultants, and causes that serve them. We are selective about the work we take — and the company we keep.
Discretion & Standards

On the record. Sourced. Discreet.

Every Heritage briefing is built from public records and lawful, open-source means, with every finding traced to a public, citable source — so you always know exactly where it came from, and can confirm it before you use it. What we do for you stays between us: we publish no client lists and no case studies.

Public-record sourced Every finding cited Confidential engagements Traceable to the source
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