WASHINGTON, D.C.—A political consulting firm has created software that could change how campaigns verify information collected by door-to-door canvassers.
Echo Canyon Consulting (ECC) unveiled AstralisAI this week, calling it the first system of its kind designed to detect errors and fraud in field-campaign data. The Washington-based company says the platform addresses a longstanding problem in political organizing.
Every election cycle, campaign workers knock on millions of doors across the country. The information they gather shapes everything from where candidates spend money to what messages they use. However, there's been no reliable way to quickly check if that data is actually accurate.
"Astralis was built to solve a problem that field teams have dealt with for decades," said Ryan Price, the ECC President. The company specializes in grassroots campaigning and claims to have knocked on nearly six million doors since the summer of 2024.
The software scans uploaded voter contact information and looks for suspicious patterns. What used to take human reviewers weeks to analyze now happens in seconds. When something looks off, like a canvasser who reported talking to voters at impossible times or locations, the system flags it for closer inspection. Additionally, completely fake entries are automatically filtered out.
Campaigns can upload their data directly or connect AstralisAI to the apps their field teams already use. The goal is to give organizers cleaner information faster, so they can spend less time auditing spreadsheets and more time actually talking to voters.
“As one of the top field operators nationwide, we know how much campaigns rely on accurate, timely data and how tedious the process has been to produce it. Astralis changes that," President Price concluded.
As political campaigns grow increasingly data-driven, tools like this could become standard. For now, ECC is betting that accuracy matters more than ever, and that technology can help deliver it.
