How Hansa works for you

Your record, from day one

The parliament is already loaded. Each topic or campaign you work on becomes an issue in Hansa, every meeting files itself against the right person, and nothing you committed to gets lost.

01 · Masthead

A written brief, every morning

Like a junior analyst who reads everything around the clock: the Masthead lands daily, tuned to your issues, with suggested next actions you accept in one click.

It tells you everything you need to know and nothing you don't. News, Hansard and what parliamentarians are saying about your issues, filtered to the policy issues you are actually following.

The Masthead daily brief, with a lead story, suggested actions and sitting dates.
02 · Issues

Set up an issue in minutes

Name the issue and let Hansa draft the rest. Ask Beacon to help write the objective, what success actually looks like, and the current priorities, from what it already knows about the issue and your record.

The objective will determine what every brief, draft and answer is written against from then on.

The new issue wizard: issue name, objective and current priorities, each with a Suggest with Beacon button, and the advocacy vehicle types for the issue.
03 · Contacts

Every contact, from day one

All nine Australian parliaments pre-loaded: researched bios, committees, parliamentary friends groups, seat margins, election history and electorate maps. Ministerial and electorate staffers are pre-loaded and kept current by Hansa.

You add your own alongside them: media, departmental and external contacts, as well as the internal stakeholders that matter, such as subject-matter experts inside your business, or the members of your association.

The contacts directory, listing parliamentarians and staffers with party, portfolio and role.
04 · Stakeholder maps

Stakeholder maps

Every person who matters on an issue, plotted at a glance. Colour is party, size is how much you have engaged them, rim is where they stand.

Group by stance, party, chamber or portfolio to see the gap you have to close, and import an existing list by CSV, or build the map as you go.

A stakeholder map: 21 contacts plotted by stance from champion to opposed, coloured by party and sized by how often you have engaged them.
05 · Logging

One-press email logging

Record your email correspondence into Hansa in one easy step. Simply forward or BCC Hansa's address to log any meeting, call or note. It will then file it against the right issue and stakeholder. This also applies to calendar invites and follow-ups.

Alternatively, you can record it manually, with the follow-up created in the same step.

The log interaction panel: meeting, call, email or note, recorded against a stakeholder and an issue.
06 · Actions

Actions, in one place

Every commitment becomes a tracked action, raised from a logged meeting, accepted from the Masthead, or added by hand.

Allocate actions to your team, set priority, due date and recurrence, then keep track of your own work and theirs. One view shows what is open, pending or overdue across every issue and every person.

The actions list: open actions assigned to you, each tagged to an issue with a priority and due date.
07 · Consultations

From consultation paper to lodged submission

Hansa detects open consultations, grants and policy papers across Commonwealth and state registers, then extracts every proposal into a position matrix.

It drafts your submission from your recorded positions only, through to inquiry hearings and witness prep. Most platforms stop at telling you the paper exists.

An exposure draft opened in Hansa, with each proposal extracted into a position matrix from strongly agree to strongly disagree.
08 · Outreach

Outreach, drafted and addressed

Planning a series of meetings in Canberra? Hansa ranks who to contact, drafts each email and hands it to your own mail client.

It then keeps track for you: who you have contacted, who has responded, and who you need to follow up and when. Any task can become a drafted letter, email or set of talking points.

Drafted outreach in Hansa: recipients ranked and selected, with the option to send one email to everyone or a separate email to each.

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