Tom Bartels
President & CEO. Prior GovTech SaaS exit, 23x investor return; veteran operator across software, healthcare, and finance.
Aequum Solutions
A market this size shouldn't still run on spreadsheets.
Meet the operating system for political campaigns.
There are more than 500,000 elected offices in the United States. 96% are local. Most local campaigns still operate with insufficient tools. They're tracking field operations in Excel, managing compliance filings by hand, and coordinating volunteers over group texts.
A3Q is replacing today's patchwork of disconnected tools with one unified platform.
Origin story
This is what happens when a talented software engineer's mom decides to run for office.
Adil Patel was at AWS when his mother ran for local office. He watched her wrestle with disconnected campaign tools: spreadsheets, group texts, manual compliance filings, clunky canvassing tools, all with no operational visibility and constant fear of missing required filings. So he built her a better system.
Other campaigns saw it and asked to use it. That's when he saw that legacy tools are built for the top 1% of federal races, and even those campaigns are stitching together a dozen disconnected products. Everyone else has nothing. A3Q is building an answer for all.
Market reality
"Ill-fitting tools or fragmented ones?" - The Market "Neither." - The Customer
Local Races
Repurpose free, ill-fitting tools, like spreadsheets and consumer apps never built for campaign operations. No reminders, no flagged issues, nobody knows if something is wrong.
Advanced Campaigns
Can afford to use legacy point solutions, but still need to stitch separate tools together. Another login, another export, another copy and paste, and nobody has the full picture.
What A3Q is
A3Q is built on modern infrastructure, not bolted onto decades-old systems.
Innovative Features:
- Real-time canvassing maps with live door-knock and turf data
- Door-knock voice recording and transcription analytics
- FEC and state compliance tracking, with filing deadlines flagged automatically
- Donor scoring and outreach prioritization
Campaigns fail because critical information lives in too many places. A3Q brings it all together into one unified tool.
Compliance
Field Operations
Donor & Fundraising
Campaign Operations
Open window
Timing is everything.
The political campaign software market is already worth over a billion dollars and growing close to 10% a year. It still has no dominant operating platform.
Scrutiny is rising.
Campaign finance, compliance, and fundraising infrastructure are under a brighter spotlight.
Stacks are being chosen now.
The 2026 cycle is live, and campaign technology decisions tend to persist.
Integration is expected.
Today's users expect tools to work together.
Traction
Traction is early, real, and documented.
"This is everything I've wanted." - campaign manager using A3Q
Team
A team that's lived the problem.
Adil Patel
CTO. Former AWS engineer who built the A3Q platform; deep expertise in enterprise AI, ML and scalable cloud infrastructure.
Rashmee Sharif
COO. Operations leader across corporate, nonprofit, and political environments; former Senior Project Manager at Cigna.
Cecil Bostany
CFO. Veteran CPA with nearly five decades structuring capital raises; former partner at Warren Averett and Ernst & Young.
Tony Parker
SVP. 40+ years in polling, voter analysis, and redistricting; advised five presidential campaigns.
Grant Hallmark
SVP. Co-founded and exited a prior political-tech company; 15+ years advising campaigns at every level.
Alyssa Frost
Sr. Product Engineer. Built backend platform services at Quest Diagnostics; expertise in AI/LLM systems and data pipelines.
Steph Bilovsky
VP, Marketing. 25+ year marketing leader across B2B SaaS, GovTech, and healthcare; builds 0→1 marketing functions.
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