MainFrame
Plain-English answers on issues, coverage, polling and talking points, built from the reports and sources you select. For independent campaigns and their backers.
Online discussion
Public conversation by subreddit and keyword.
News coverage
Syndicated wire stories grouped, so repetition isn’t consensus.
Your polls
Import completed polls; review columns and weights first.
Voter files
Segment the voter file you’re entitled to use.
District data
US House district and state data, in context.
TRY ASKING
Keep your pollster and your voter file. MainFrame adds what they don’t cover: current discussion and news coverage, analysed the same way every time, beside your own poll.
| Capability | Pollster | Voter-file vendor | General chatbot | MainFrame |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fielded poll of voter opinionAlso: Pollster | Yes | – | – | Imports yours |
| Voter list with licensed fieldsAlso: Voter-file vendor | – | Yes | – | Uses yours |
| Current online discussion and news coverageAlso: General chatbot (partly) | – | – | Partly | Yes |
| Same analysis on every report | – | – | – | Yes |
| Saved reports, so you can see what changed | – | – | – | Yes |
| Claims linked to their sourcesAlso: General chatbot (sometimes) | – | – | Sometimes | Yes |
| Segments with draft messages for each | – | – | – | Yes |
METHOD
Every finding links to the original article, thread or dataset, and every metric prints its named scale. A feed whose lean is unknown is labeled Unknown and left out of averages, never counted as center. Each report records the engine and models that produced it. People review poll imports before they’re saved, and pick which message drafts to keep.
Know what residents and local coverage are saying this week, what moved since your last report, and which phrases keep coming up. Import your pollster's completed poll, weights included, and walk into the forum with the report's suggested actions.
“What are people in District 00 asking about the levy?”
See your first week
YOU DO
Pick the issues, places and date ranges you care about.
Import your latest poll and check how each column was read.
Choose which drafts to keep, then export for your team.
MAINFRAME DOES
Collects discussion by subreddit and keyword, and coverage by keyword, concept and location.
Groups, measures and cites it in a report by theme.
Segments your voter file and drafts messages per segment.
What it replaces: part of a research contractor’s briefing work, and part of the list work you’d do by hand. What it doesn’t replace: your pollster. It drafts messages, but doesn’t test them with voters or forecast races.
A real MainFrame report, exported as is for a fictional client: 45 days of press and r/BART discussion on the November transit measure, grouped by theme, with where sources agree and differ.
News coverage, public Reddit discussion, district data and what you bring: how each is collected, how lean is labeled, and what MainFrame doesn't do with it.
Fourteen questions for any vendor, including us: where sources come from, what happens to your Aristotle or L2 voter file, how lean is labeled, and who can see your data — each with MainFrame's own answer.
In the demo, we build a cited briefing on an issue and district you name.
MainFrame is software built by Junction and isn’t affiliated with any political party. Product images show illustrative data.
