Imagine a single platform that boosts your team’s productivity, helps you with mandatory reports, and keeps everyone on the same page. SWell is that platform – a comprehensive web-based tool built by congressional staff, for congressional staff, to tackle the unique challenges of U.S. Congressional offices. Supercharge your workflows and stay ahead.
The Challenges Facing Congressional Offices
Congressional offices are high-pressure environments where Communications Directors and Chiefs of Staff juggle complex tasks under tight deadlines. SWell solves these everyday pain points:
- Content Creation & Workload: Comms staff draft speeches, op-eds, and newsletters nonstop, struggling to maintain creativity under time pressure.
- Approval Bottlenecks: Press releases, 499s, Op-Eds, and so much more require multiple approvals, causing delays and miscommunication.
- Franking Compliance: Strict rules for newsletters and mailings demand tedious submissions and quarterly reports, risking ethics issues if mishandled.
- Information Silos: Legislative research and correspondence are scattered, making it hard for new staff to find past letters or issue context.
- Financial Tracking: Chiefs of Staff worry about incomplete GPC/GTC documentation, risking audit findings, and ethics issues.
- Scheduling Overload: Thousands of invites overwhelm schedulers, leading to missed events, sketchy details, ethics conflicts, or double-bookings.
Introducing SWell: Built by Staff, for Staff
SWell is an integrated platform designed by congressional senior staffers, addressing your office’s needs with AI-driven tools and seamless workflows. Here’s how it works:
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Franking Workbench
Easily store and track your franking projects, franking approvals, content changes, and easily generate quarterly reports. Save hours and avoid costly compliance errors. Give your Chief of Staff peace of mind that you are on track and in compliance.
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Content Creation Workbenches
Generate strong member specific draft op-eds, 499s, and press releases in seconds with AI assistance, compliant with House rules. Cut drafting time to allow your communications team to focus on crafting your Member’s message and voice instead of being bogged down with content creation.
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Purchase Card Workbench
Track GPC/GTC transactions with receipts and approvals in one dashboard. Stay audit-ready and eliminate missing documentation risks.
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Social Media Workbench
Streamline social media with AI-suggested posts and approval workflows. Publish faster and keep your messaging on point with access to conference messages, news of the day, and even send yourself social posts to reshare on the go. This one stop shop revolutionizes the content creation process.
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Legislative Workbench
SWell doubles as a research repository and legislative drafting hub. Need to pull background on an issue quickly? SWell’s legislative hub can search bills, letters, and even leverage AI for detailed results. Staff turnover is no longer a barrier – new staff can quickly find “that draft bill from last year” or see what research you have on a subject. Remember how offices used to struggle to track past legislation in a meaningful way? SWell solves that by providing an always-accessible, searchable archive of your office’s legislative and official activities. This not only saves time but also ensures consistency in messaging over the years.
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Letter Workbench
Store and search all official letters and official correspondence in a secure archive. New staff can quickly find past responses, ensuring consistency and saving time. Moreover, every official letter your office has sent can be stored and indexed by signers and addressee. Letters can become a messaging stronghold and no longer fire and forget.
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Content Calendar
SWell includes a content calendar timeline that lets you plan communications across weeks or months. You can plot when newsletters will drop, when press releases on upcoming votes should go out, and coordinate with the Member’s schedule (e.g., district work periods, major events). This big-picture view helps you balance workloads and seize opportunities (“We should plan a veterans’ story for Veterans Day”). The calendar can be viewed by the whole team, so legislative and district staff also know what comms is doing when – breaking down silos. Never miss that national holiday, legislative win, or key messaging opportunity again. The content calendar also streamlines approval processes and has features to keep the train on the tracks.
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Schedule Management
Manage thousands of invites with auto-extracted details and a master calendar. Avoid conflicts and generate briefing docs with ease. This process allows an office to keep a digital repository of every event invite, assign the right people to attend, and get the right approvals. Easily print or download the calendar file to seamlessly upload approved events to your own calendar to keep everyone, especially the member, fully in sync!
Why Communications Directors Need SWell
As a Communications Director, your world is fast-paced and content-driven. SWell is your secret weapon to stay ahead:
- Streamlined Approval Chains: Assign reviewers and track approvals in real-time on collaborative draft pages. No more endless email threads or wondering if the boss has signed off.
- Calendar Sync & Planning: Plan communications with a shared content calendar, coordinating with district work periods and major events to balance workloads.
- Franking Workbench: Store franking requests, approvals, and invoices in one repository. Easily create quarterly reports to guarantee compliance.
- Legislative & Letter Archive: Access bills, letters, research, and drafts, indexed and searchable to maintain consistency despite staff turnover and boost productivity.
Why Chiefs of Staff Love SWell
Chiefs of Staff juggle oversight of every operation. SWell brings all threads together for peace of mind:
- Budget & Compliance Oversight: Log GPC/GTC transactions with receipts and approvals, ensuring complete documentation for audits.
- Simplified Scheduling: Digitize invites with auto-extracted details and a master calendar to avoid conflicts and optimize your Member’s time.
- Inter-Department Coordination: Sync legislative, comms, and scheduling teams with shared priorities and announcements, breaking down silos.
- Security & Access Control: FedRAMP-moderate equivalent security with role-based access ensures data protection and proper controls.
AI-Enhanced Content Creation
SWell's built-in AI assistant acts like an extra staffer on your team, boosting creativity and efficiency. It can draft outreach emails, press releases, or talking points in seconds, based on your inputs. This means you get a head start on writing and can produce polished content faster. Congressional comms experts have found that generative AI can “boost creativity” and cut down drafting time for staff – SWell puts that power at your fingertips (all within House rules). For example, you can input bullet notes about an upcoming infrastructure bill and get a draft press statement that you then tailor to your Member's voice. The result: more content, less crunch-time stress.
Pricing and Subscription Details
For $1,000/month, SWell equips your entire team with unlimited users and all modules (comms, franking, scheduling, research, finance, ect.). Commit until the end of this congress for a discounted $950/month and save! Pay via your Office MRA with no hidden fees, including free onboarding training. For the cost of a congressional intern, save dozens of staff hours a week, put your content creation on overdrive, and hyper-boost your team!
Get StartedSupercharge Your Office Today
Ready to transform your office? Request a demo to see SWell in action. Join the new era of Hill efficiency and remain on the cutting edge. Make sure every tax dollar is being maximized for the benefit of your constituents.