Designed For Justice In America

Nesbitt & Parrinello is the experienced strategic research partner in campaigns for justice in America. From strategic landscape analysis to custom strategic intelligence to war room design, we are the sought after advisor on the most complex research projects.

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Strategic Intelligence Services

Landscape Analysis

  • \\ The First Step In Strategy Design
  • \\ Understand The Strategic Space

Understand your strategic landscape. Identify the key players and financiers, their strengths and weaknesses, the key issues, and the key messages. Using the full array of open source intelligence techniques we lay bare the key risks and the key rewards.

Large-Scale Vetting Operations

  • \\ Fast creative approval
  • \\ High-volume scans for top concerns
  • \\ Turnaround in under 24 hours

Reduce risk related to large groups including donors, endorsements, surrogates, facilities, and organizations.

Strategic Intelligence Report

  • \\ Understand Strategic Relationships
  • \\ Map Influence

Understand an organization from leadership to organizational strategy. Understand the relationships between key players and the connections that matter to your campaign.

Power Mapping

  • \\ Understand Strategic Relationships
  • \\ Map Influence

Understand the relationships between key players and the connections that matter to your campaign. From staff, to campaign financiers, to key allies, we map the relationships that matter to your campaign.

Candidate Research

Level One Book

    \\ 1-2 Week Turnaround
    \\ Candidates, Nominations, Government Transitions
    \\ Custom Issue Set
    \\ High Depth

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.

Level Two Book

    \\ 2-4 Week Turnaround
    \\ Candidates, Boards, Nominations, Government Transitions
    \\ Custom Issue Set
    \\ Ultra-high Depth

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.

Level Three Book

    \\ 4-6 Week Turnaround
    \\ Candidates, Boards, Nominations, Government Transitions
    \\ Custom Issue Set
    \\ Ultra-high Depth

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.

Vetting & Threat Assessment

Level One Vet

    \\ Same Day Turnaround
    \\ Donors, Surrogates, Nominations, Government Transitions
    \\ Custom Issue Set
    \\ High Speed

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.

Level Two Vet

    \\ 0-2 Day Turnaround
    \\ Candidates, Boards, Nominations, Government Transitions
    \\ Custom Issue Set
    \\ High Breath

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.

Level Three Vet

    \\ 3-5 Day Turnaround
    \\ Candidates, Boards, Nominations, Government Transitions
    \\ Custom Issue Set
    \\ High Breath

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.

Supercharge Your Campaign

Daily News Clips

  • Daily publication
  • Customized to your campaign
  • Unlimited recipients

Daily news brief tailored to your campaign and delivered to your team by email.

Tracking

  • Track targets in public

Physically track targets at public (or virtual) events as they happen and feed this intelligence into your research and communications.

Media and Website Monitoring

  • Counter disinformation

Monitor media and websites for mentions of your targets and campaigns.

War Room/Virtual War Room Design

  • Counter disinformation

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.

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.

Our Team On Your Project

Allen-Nesbitt

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

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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