Structured scoring for union endorsement panels —your first election cycle is free

Your Endorsement Should Reflect Your Committee's Judgment — Not Just the Loudest Voice in the Room

EndorsementCommittee is the structured scoring platform for union endorsement panels — every member scores independently before the group discusses, and your endorsements are documented, defensible, and ready to announce.

What is EndorsementCommittee?

Every member's judgment, on the record before the room

EndorsementCommittee gives each PAC committee member a simple link — no login — where they score each candidate independently on your chosen criteria before any group discussion begins. Every member's score is recorded. The group then meets with full information.

When the endorsement is decided, you get a documented record of how every member scored every candidate — and a clean, shareable endorsement announcement page ready to post.

The problem

The endorsement reflects the room, not the committee

Union endorsement processes are supposed to reflect the collective judgment of the committee. In practice, they often reflect whoever spoke most confidently in the room.

The quieter members adjust. The skeptics stay quiet. The endorsement reflects the room, not the committee. And when the endorsed candidate loses badly — or when a member challenges the process — nobody can show that every voice was actually heard.

Your endorsement carries your union's name. The process should match the weight of what you're putting behind it.

“We endorsed a candidate who lost badly. Afterward, some committee members said privately they'd had doubts. They never said so in the meeting.”

And when a member challenged the endorsement process after the election, the record was a show of hands and some email notes.

What EndorsementCommittee does

A process that matches the weight of your endorsement

Your endorsement moves members, money, and volunteers. EndorsementCommittee makes sure the judgment behind it is the whole committee's — and that you can show it was.

Every member scores before the discussion.
Each committee member records their own view of each candidate before the group convenes. The member who would have adjusted to the room has already said what they think — and it counts.
A link, not a login.
Your committee is made up of working members and rank-and-file volunteers, not software users. Each one gets a personal link and scores from their phone — nothing to install, nothing to remember.
The criteria your local actually uses.
Labor record and voting history, policy positions, candidate viability, interview performance — or whatever your PAC screens on. Set once, applied to every candidate in the cycle the same way.
The group meets with full information.
Every member's independent score is visible when the discussion opens. The doubts are already on the table instead of surfacing privately after the election.
A public results page, ready to announce.
A clean, shareable endorsement announcement page you can post for your membership and send to press the moment the committee decides — no separate scramble to write it up.
A record if the process is challenged.
Every member's score on every candidate, attributed and timestamped — so if a member questions how the endorsement was reached, the answer is a document rather than a recollection.

How it works

From the first interview to the announcement

1
Set up your endorsement cycle
Add your candidates and your scoring criteria. Invite your committee by email. Your cycle is ready before your first interview.
2
Members score independently
Each committee member scores each candidate on their own — labor record, policy positions, viability, interview — before seeing any other member's scores.
3
You get a defensible record and a public results page
A documented scoring record if any member challenges the process, and a clean public endorsement announcement page ready to share with members and press.

Pricing

First election cycle free — no payment until your second

Run a complete endorsement cycle — your real candidates, your real committee — before you pay anything. No card, no contract, no trustee approval needed to start.

First election cycle free

Talk to us about pricing for your local when your second cycle comes around.

  • Unlimited committee members
  • Unlimited candidates per cycle
  • Independent scoring before any discussion
  • Your PAC's endorsement criteria
  • Public endorsement announcement page
  • Full documented scoring record export
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Who this is for

Built for panels whose endorsement carries weight

If your endorsement means something in your community — and the process behind it is currently a discussion, a show of hands, and some email notes — EndorsementCommittee was built for you.

Union political action committees
Screening candidates ahead of an election cycle, where the endorsement commits the local's members, money, and volunteer hours.
PAC chairs and political directors
Running the process and answering for it afterward — to the executive board, to the membership, and to the candidates who didn't get the nod.
Labor locals
Where the committee is drawn from the membership and the loudest voice in the hall has always carried the room more than anyone would like to admit.
Central Labor Councils
Coordinating endorsements across multiple affiliates, where committee members come from different unions and rarely sit in the same room twice.

Why PACs choose EndorsementCommittee

Not a survey tool. Not a campaign CRM.

The quiet members get heard.
Scoring before the discussion is the one change that keeps a confident voice from becoming the committee's position by default.
It answers a challenge with a document.
When a member questions how the endorsement was reached, you have every member's score on every candidate — not a show of hands and an email thread.
The announcement is ready when you are.
A public results page comes out of the process itself, so the endorsement can go to members and press the same day it's decided.
It respects volunteers' time.
Committee members score from a link on their phone, between shifts. No accounts, no training, no extra meeting.
It costs nothing to try.
Your first election cycle is free, with unlimited candidates and unlimited committee members. Run your next endorsement on it before you decide.
It matches the weight of your name.
Your endorsement carries your union's name into a campaign. The process behind it should be as deliberate as the decision.

EndorsementCommittee does not track your members, manage your political spending, or run your campaign program — your existing tools already do that. It handles one thing: how your committee reaches an endorsement, and what you can show about it afterward.

A political director whose endorsed candidate lost — and who then heard privately that committee members had doubts they never voiced in the room — already knows this problem.

Get in touch

Questions about EndorsementCommittee, your endorsement criteria, or how a cycle runs with your committee? Email us directly — tell us how many members sit on your PAC committee and when your next cycle starts, and we'll get back to you.

First election cycle free — no payment until your second. There is nothing to sign up for before you write to us.