People
People is your private relationship layer in Apogee - a rolodex of the members, staff, and advocates who matter to your work, enriched from the official record and connected to the bills, whip counts, and follow-ups you already track.
People
People is your private relationship layer: the members, staffers, lobbyists, and advocates you work with, kept in one place and wired to the official record. It is the who of your Policy Graph. Where an ordinary contact list stores names, People builds a connected network. Look someone up and Apogee pulls their profile from the official record; log a call and it attaches to their record with the date; and every contact is linked to the bills, whip counts, and follow-ups you are already tracking.
Everything in People is private to you. It is never shared with other users or aggregated across accounts.
When to use People
Use People whenever a person matters to the work, not just a bill or a document:
- Tracking who is a yes, no, or lean on a vote you are counting
- Keeping a running record of meetings and calls with a member's office
- Remembering how you know someone, and who introduced you
- Knowing who to reach out to next, and who has gone cold
For pure research on a topic, use a regular chat. People is for the relationships you return to.
Adding and looking up people
People works conversationally. From the People workspace, name someone and Apogee creates their record:
"Add Jane Doe, policy director at the Sierra Club"
"Look up Rep. Ro Khanna"
"Add these names to my contacts: ..." (paste a list to add several at once)
Enrichment
When you look up a public figure, or add someone with a real organization or government email domain, Apogee researches them and fills in their record from the official record: role, organization, committee assignments, and recent legislative activity. It tells you it is looking them up, then adds what it finds. If it is unsure it has the right person, it asks you to confirm before saving.
Contacts added from a personal email address (gmail, outlook, and similar) are saved as-is; you can always ask Apogee to look someone up later.
Logging interactions
As you work, tell Apogee what happened and it attaches the note to the right person, with the date:
"Called Sarah about the markup, she is leaning yes"
"Met with Rep. Craig's LD Tuesday, discussed HR 5"
Logged interactions resurface later: when a bill you discussed moves, the interaction comes back in your briefings and chat context.
Editing and removing
You can change or remove a contact in plain language:
"Change Jane's organization to Demand Progress"
"Fix her title to Legislative Director"
"Remove Daniel Schuman from my contacts"
Removing a contact also removes their relationship links and any commitments tied to their record. Apogee confirms before a permanent delete.
How People connects to the rest of Apogee
People is not a standalone address book. The network powers the rest of the product:
- Whip counts read the network to know who to lean on and who is within reach of a target
- Chase surfaces the follow-ups you owe the people in your network, sorted by what is due first
- Briefings flag when someone you track is tied to activity on a bill you follow
Privacy
People is the private side of Apogee. Your contacts, notes, and relationships are scoped to your account and never surface in shareable or published output, and never mix with another user's data.