FiscalNote Alternative with Stable Ownership and No Forced Migrations
If you are evaluating alternatives to FiscalNote, the platform itself works. The bigger questions for many customers right now are about stability, product investment direction, and forced product migrations.
Why teams are evaluating now
Two signals from primary sources are worth knowing:
- NYSE delisting notice (April 2025). FiscalNote filed an SEC Form 8-K on April 10, 2025 disclosing a second NYSE delisting notice after its 30-trading-day average share price fell below $1.00. The share price is down roughly 90 percent from the ~$10 SPAC merger close in August 2022.
- PolicyNote consolidation. CQ, VoterVoice, and Fireside customers are being migrated onto the PolicyNote platform. Forced migrations are disruptive on integrations, saved searches, alerts, and team workflows; even when the new product is good, the migration window is rarely smooth.
Neither signal is a verdict on FiscalNote's product. Customer-facing impact varies. But both are reasonable reasons to evaluate alternatives, especially if your renewal is coming up or your team is feeling migration friction.
Why Apogee is the natural alternative
Apogee is built for single-issue policy shops: state lobbyists representing one or two clients, nonprofit advocacy teams running a specific issue, and boutique policy firms working the federal-and-state seam. The product roadmap reflects that focus, not enterprise GRC consolidation. Independent ownership, no acquisition overhang, no forced platform migrations.
| FiscalNote / PolicyNote | Apogee | |
|---|---|---|
| Ownership | Public company, NYSE delisting notice (April 2025) | Independent |
| Product consolidation | CQ / VoterVoice / Fireside migrating to PolicyNote | Single product, no migrations |
| Pricing | Enterprise contracts, sales-led | Public; self-serve; see /pricing |
| Signup | Contact sales | Self-serve, 5 minutes |
| AI approach | Inside the FiscalNote platform | Inside Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot, wherever you already work |
| Annual contract | Yes (typical) | Monthly, cancel anytime |
What Apogee gives you
1. Public pricing
Pricing is public and self-serve, with all capabilities and data sources on every plan. Government and nonprofit pricing is reduced automatically by email domain. See pricing for current plans.
2. MCP-native AI integration
Apogee uses the Model Context Protocol to connect 49+ legislative data sources directly to your AI assistant. Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot a question in natural language and get a researched answer with citations across federal and state sources.
"Find recent committee hearings on AI safety and summarize the key witnesses."
No new dashboard. No saved-searches maintenance. No migration to a new platform when ownership changes hands.
3. Focused U.S. coverage, no global overhead
FiscalNote offers global coverage, geopolitical risk, ESG monitoring, and stakeholder CRM. If your work is primarily U.S. federal and state policy, you are paying for surface area you do not use. Apogee focuses where single-issue policy shops actually work:
- Federal legislation and regulations (49 official sources)
- Congressional Research Service, GAO, CBO
- Hearing transcripts, schedules, witnesses
- Lobbying disclosure and campaign finance
- State legislation (federal-complete; state expanding, Massachusetts first)
4. No annual contract, no sales-cycle ambush
Monthly billing. Cancel anytime. You can evaluate fit before you commit.
Where FiscalNote still goes further
- Global regulatory coverage (EU, APAC). Apogee is U.S. only.
- Geopolitical risk and ESG monitoring. Apogee does not cover these.
- Stakeholder CRM. Apogee is a research and intelligence workspace, not a CRM.
- State legislative breadth, today. FiscalNote covers all 50 states for bills and votes. Apogee covers state legislative staff and contacts across all 50 states and DC, with Massachusetts bills and votes live and more states rolling out.
If you need global regulatory intelligence or a built-in stakeholder CRM, FiscalNote may still be the right choice. For focused U.S. policy work with stable ownership, public pricing, and modern AI integration, Apogee is the focused alternative.
For teams in transition
If you are evaluating because of the NYSE delisting notice, the PolicyNote migration, or a renewal cycle that no longer feels right:
- Monthly billing, no long-term lock-in
- Self-serve evaluation, usage-metered, no card required
- 5-minute setup, no sales call
- Direct access to the team building the product
Ready to evaluate?
You can run a single-issue evaluation across federal and state. No card required, no sales call. Sign up or see pricing.