FastDemocracy
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you are an advocacy or government-relations team tracking bills across multiple states and need hearing alerts and vote records.
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FastDemocracy vs FiscalNote
FastDemocracy and FiscalNote both land on Depends.
FiscalNote
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Large government-affairs teams needing deep legislative coverage, advocacy tools, and APIs can still get value . but demand short contract terms given the NYSE delisting and going-concern warning.
| Compare | FastDemocracy | FiscalNote |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Advocacy orgs tracking many state bills | Global enterprise government-affairs teams |
| Who it's not for | Casual followers of a few bills | Small teams tracking a handful of bills |
| Privacy | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.11 | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed. |
| Support quality | No support evidence in sources | No direct support-quality evidence found |
| Public sentiment | Public evidence is thin: one visible user comment is positive, ACLU of West Virginia publicly runs its bill tracker on the product, and the Android app scores 3.2/5. | Employee reviews are bleak (20% would recommend, ~2/5 overall) while sales reps rate the product 3.3/5 and enterprise customers report policy-management gains. |
| Biggest gotcha | Professional-tier gating: expect an upsell for hearings and transcript AI² | Going-concern warning means multi-year contracts carry real vendor-viability risk13 |
Pick FastDemocracy when
- Advocacy orgs tracking many state bills
- Government relations teams
- Coalitions sharing public bill lists
- Researchers needing legislator vote records
When FastDemocracy is not a fit
- Casual followers of a few bills
- Buyers requiring published pricing upfront
- Orgs needing published security or compliance docs
- Occasional one-state trackers . free DIY works
Pick FiscalNote when
- Global enterprise government-affairs teams
- Associations tracking US federal and state legislation
- Orgs needing grassroots advocacy (VoterVoice)
- Teams wanting policy data via API
When FiscalNote is not a fit
- Small teams tracking a handful of bills
- Buyers needing transparent, self-serve pricing
- Anyone signing multi-year deals without vendor-viability tolerance
- Startups wanting simple alerts . massive overkill
Sources
- FastDemocracy homepagefastdemocracy.comofficial
- Hearings (professional feature)fastdemocracy.comofficial
- Transcript AI (professional feature)fastdemocracy.comofficial
- AIMO case study . Vote Scorecardfastdemocracy.comofficial
- FastDemocracy on Google Playplay.google.comreview
- FastDemocracy on the App Storeapps.apple.comreview
- ACLU of West Virginia bill tracker postfacebook.comnews
- USLege vs FastDemocracyuslege.aireview
- Legistorm buyer's guideinfo.legistorm.comreview
- Arch Grants on FastDemocracyarchgrants.orgofficial
- FastDemocracy security pagefastdemocracy.comsecurity
- FiscalNote official sitefiscalnote.comofficial
- FiscalNote 10-Q: loss and going-concern riskstocktitan.netnews
- Wikipedia: delisted March 25, 2026en.wikipedia.orgnews
- Reddit: NYSE notice of delistingreddit.comnews
- Quorum vs. FiscalNote comparisonquorum.usreview