Designed For High-Volume Vetting And Strategic Intelligence Operations
Nesbitt & Parrinello is the experienced partner for complex projects in endorsement research, government transition vetting, nomination campaigns, research team design, rapid-response, and counter-disinformation operations for independent and non-profit sector organizations.
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Candidate Research
Level One Book
When you need to know top vulnerabilities, ultra fast. The Level One Book provides a look at noteworthy statements and official positions, legal career, boards, and meetings via news reports; social media scan; campaign finance and contribution analysis; review of land records and personal finances; and pay-to-play assessment against networks and personal finances. Covers key votes reported in the media but does not include primary source key votes analysis.
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Level Two Book
Provides a vulnerability assessment including background and due diligence; social and traditional media; employment verification; land records and personal finances; and an assessment of primary source legal records and public acts. The Level Two Book covers key votes reported in the media and primary source key votes analysis. Suitable as the foundation for the most demanding public campaigns.
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Level Three Book
Broadest and deepest assessment. Provides a detailed vulnerability assessment including background and due diligence; social and traditional media; employment verification; land records and personal finances; and a detailed assessment of primary source legal records and public acts. The Level Three Book covers key votes reported in the media and primary source key votes analysis. Suitable as the foundation for the most demanding public campaigns. Includes fact checking and follow up support.
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Vetting & Threat Assessment Research
Level One Vet
Vet counterparties and identify threat actors with our ultra-high volume scan. The Level One Vet provides a high-confidence scan of vulnerabilities, red flags, and major concerns designed for public events, endorsements, large-scale political operations, media production vetting, or where a high-volume of reconnaissance on broad swath of targets is required. Triage social and traditional media, scan criminal and civil records, check partisanship and affiliations.
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Level Two Vet
A deeper vetting assessment. Includes Level One Vet plus an abbreviated look at public records, political affiliations, official positions like boards, agendas, testimony, and meetings.
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Level Three Vet
An expedited vulnerability assessment. Includes level two vet plus a deeper look at public records, political affiliations, official positions like boards, agendas, testimony, and meetings.
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Tracking & Media Monitoring
Tracking
Physically track targets at public (or virtual) events as they happen and feed this intelligence into your research and communications.
Media Monitoring
Monitor media and websites for mentions of your targets and campaigns.
Daily News Clips
Daily news brief tailored to your campaign and delivered to your team by email.
War Room/Virtual War Room Design
Drive your message and counter disinformation with our war room operating model, staffing model, and specialized talent services to power your virtual communications war room based on your strategy.
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This is what winning research looks like.
Designed For High-Volume Research Operations
Reduce risk, improve quality, and realize faster delivery times with 100% in-house research production.
Deliver for Your Partners at Scale
Deliver for your stakeholders on time and on budget with our in-house production. From the largest national campaign IE to the largest state level research IE, we are the sought after partner on the most complex research projects.
Unlimited Fact Checking & Support
Impress your stakeholders with best-in-class fact checking and support.
Clarity & Consistency
Realize unparalleled clarity and consistency for your stakeholders by leveraging our modern research and operations technology.
Unlimited Consultation for Your Partners
Our research and support follows each book so you can extend our best-in-class consulting, fact checking, and follow up to your stakeholders.
Fully Custom Scope
Wow your stakeholders with all research on your scope with your brand identity.
Allen Nesbitt founded Nesbitt & Parrinello in 2005.
Allen is the first Black person to lead an opposition research firm in the United States. We are a minority-owned and a woman-owned business. Our firm is over 75% women and our full-time staff is two-thirds LGBTQ. We are listed as a minority-owned business in both the DNC and the DCCC supplier diversity lists and we support the Black Consultant Group here. We strive to provide equal opportunity to all team members and future team members. We believe that extraordinary results stem from the broadest possible diversity of opinions and backgrounds.
Our Team On Your Project
Allen Nesbitt
Founder and CEO (he/him)
Allen Nesbitt is the founder and CEO of Nesbitt & Parrinello, Inc. Allen helps labor campaigns, climate causes, their allies, and senior government officials globally prepare for risks and win campaigns in volatile environments. In 16 years as a strategic advisor, Allen's teams have won multi-billion dollar fights, from better health care that is more affordable to fights to save our planet. Our wins include: the only Indian American in the 113th Congress; the first openly gay U.S. Representative from New York; the first openly gay mayor of Lexington, Kentucky; the first Black U.S. Representative from Nevada; and the first Black U.S. Senate nominee from Florida.
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Cristina Parrinello
Partner and President (she/her)
Cristina Parrinello is the President of Nesbitt & Parrinello, Inc., where she advises political campaigns and corporate leaders on strategic research, public policy, and cybersecurity. In 2018, Cristina's campaign work included serving as a lead consultant to John Chiang for Governor (CA), EMILY's List, and the winning campaign for Gil Cisneros for Congress (CA-39) -- the most expensive House race in the country. She began her political career in 2010 working on former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer's re-election campaign. Cristina has advised Am Law 50 law firms and Fortune Global 500 companies. Prior to her political work, Cristina worked at the LBJ Presidential Library and as a litigation paralegal. Born and raised on U.S. military bases overseas, Cristina grew up on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands and is now living in Nashville with her two sons.
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