How We Work
Fast to Stand Up. Steady in Rhythm. Built to Surge.
No two engagements are alike. Here's the model behind all of them, and what it actually looks like once you sign.
The Model
Every deliverable starts with what your community is saying
01
Listen
The CSC Intelligence Platform monitors the conversations that decide projects: Facebook groups, hyper-local news, government meetings, and regulatory dockets. Most of it invisible to standard media monitoring.
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Strategize
Analysts turn that signal into strategy: messaging, audience segmentation, timing, and tactics grounded in evidence rather than assumptions.
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Create and Deploy
Websites, mailers, ads, FAQs, event materials. The formats are familiar. What goes on them, who receives them, and when they land is driven by live community intelligence. Then we measure the response and adjust.
No Two Engagements Alike
Four Ways In
Some clients want monitoring and nothing else. Some want creative firepower. Some want the whole loop. Every engagement is assembled from the pieces that fit your project, priced flat, and resized as your project's phases change. We recommend only what you need, because nothing we recommend pads our margin.
Monitoring Only
The Intelligence Platform and the weekly digest. Eyes and ears on your community, nothing you don’t need.
Creative & Strategy
Messaging, materials, and campaigns, fed by our intelligence engine even when monitoring isn’t the engagement.
The Full Engagement
Listening through strategy through creative, one team, one flat fee. The whole loop working for your project.
Something Bespoke
A docket deep-dive, a statewide study, a one-time community assessment. If it’s in our wheelhouse, we’ll scope it.
Whatever the scope, the experience is the same
Fast to stand up, steady in rhythm, and built to surge when your project needs it. Here's a full engagement; yours includes the pieces you picked.
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The First Days
Your monitoring stack goes live in days, not quarters, and the strategic foundation gets built at the same time. While the platform starts listening, we're mapping who actually holds influence and shaping how your project should sound before it ever speaks.
- Monitoring live: Facebook groups, local news, government meetings, regulatory dockets
- Community assessment: who lives there, who leads there, what they care about
- Strategic communications plan: messaging, segmentation, and a content roadmap
- Project identity where needed: naming, brand, and a project website
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The Rhythm
Then the drumbeat starts. Intelligence arrives weekly, and creative ships continuously: materials timed to your project milestones, with messaging tuned as community sentiment shifts. You always know what your community said this week, and your community always hears from you in language built from it.
- The weekly intelligence digest, every week, per project
- A steady output of materials: FAQs, social content, mailers, website updates
- Messaging and targeting adjusted as sentiment moves
- Dashboards always on for your team
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When It Heats Up
A hostile agenda item, an organizing push, a misinformation wave: flagged the day it appears, answered within days. This is where the engine pays off, because the response isn't generic. It speaks directly to what was actually said, in the rooms where it was said.
- Same-day alerts on what changed and what it means
- Hearing prep and public comment support
- 24-72 hour creative production: palm cards, mailers, ads, presentation boards
- Counter-misinformation materials grounded in the actual claims circulating
The listening behind all of it runs on the CSC Intelligence Platform, and the strategy and creative it fuels are covered in our services.
In Step with the Ground Game
Communications that ignore what's happening on the ground fail. Ours run on a continuous loop with the field: ground teams surface what communities are saying face to face, and we put refreshed materials in their hands as conditions change.
