How AI Helps Political Scientists
Policy shops spend hours summarizing bills and hearings before analysis starts. 12² builds brief and summary templates and a deadline tracker in the team's environment.
Policy Brief & Research Desk · From $4,500 + $349/mo, by team size · proposed estimate · It says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly, and your team reviews what it drafts before it goes out.
Ai for policy research: the short answer.
12² builds AI for political scientists that takes on the routine work: drafting policy brief sections from your research, summarizing bills, reports and hearings you supply, and tracking legislation and comment deadlines. It runs inside the tools you already use. Analysts check every claim.
Sources
- General office-writing evidence, not a study of this job: in an RCT, ChatGPT cut professional writing time 40% and raised quality (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023)news.mit.edu
Research figures above describe the cited studies, not results 12² promises. Results vary. Disclosures
Where the hours go now.
Policy brief sections
Policy shops spend hours summarizing bills and hearings before analysis starts.
Bills, reports and hearings you supply
Hours go to reading and re-reading before the real work starts.
Legislation and comment deadlines
The dates and records live in inboxes, spreadsheets and people's heads.
What it handles, and what it never does.
What it handles
- Policy brief sectionsIt drafts policy brief sections from your research.
- Bills, reports and hearings you supplyIt summarizes bills, reports and hearings you supply.
- Legislation and comment deadlinesIt tracks legislation and comment deadlines.
- Grant and funder reportsIt drafts grant and funder reports.
- Hand-off to your teamAnything that needs a person goes to the right person, with the details attached.
What it never does
- Make up a price or a factIt works only from the documents, records and price lists you give it. Anything it can't find goes to your team.
- Promise a resultQuestions about outcomes go to the person who does the work.
- Pretend to be a personIt says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly.
- Send anything on its ownDrafts wait for your team's approval before anything goes out.
Built and tested on your own work.
Before handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Tested on your own workBefore handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Retainer, then balance on deliveryRetainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
- Fixed price, scope and timelineAll three in writing before work starts. The timeline is set in your quote.
- What 12² buildsBrief and summary templates and a deadline tracker in the team's environment.
- How it connectsWe confirm how it connects to the tools you already use on the first call and write it into your quote.
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From $4,500 + $349/moSetup + monthly, by size. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes and re-tests for your package as your templates, documents and staff change. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Proposed starting estimates by team size, not fixed prices; the final price is in a written quote.
- Small: Small firm (1-10 staff)From $4,500 + $349/mo. The core build for 1-10 staff: brief and summary templates and a deadline tracker in the team's environment. Proposed estimate. Small tier; monthly covers hosting, monitoring and fixes.
- Mid-size: Mid firm (11-50 staff)From $9,500 + $750/mo. Everything in Small firm, for more users, inboxes and calendars, with hand-off rules set for each role. Proposed estimate. More users, locations or integrations.
- Enterprise: Large firm / enterprise (50+ staff)From $25,000, custom quote. Everything in Mid firm, across locations or departments, with system integrations and a security review scoped in your custom quote. Proposed estimate floor; scope, integrations and security review set the final number. No cap.
- Retainer up front Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass. Scope, price and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
- You own itThe accounts, scripts, templates and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
- Compliance and dataResearch data confidentiality; IRB or data-use agreements where they apply; researchers verify every citation and finding. Lobbying-disclosure rules apply where relevant (unverified).
- Not professional advice12² builds software and automations. It is not a licensed professional in your field, and your team makes every professional decision. Disclosures
Straight answers.
Does AI take positions?
No. Your analysts write the argument.
How does payment work?
Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
How long does it take?
Timelines are set per project in the quote, after we see your systems and volume.
Are these prices final?
No. They are proposed starting estimates. You get a written custom quote after a short scoping call.
Tell us how you handle policy brief sections now.
A few lines is enough. If it's a fit we'll say so, and if it isn't we'll tell you why.
- You'll hear back within one business day12² reads your note and replies about your project.
- A free 20-minute callHow the work runs now, what gets missed, and what your team needs from it.
- A fixed quoteYour size, scope, date and price in writing before any work starts.
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