Distributed Canvassing Application for Political Campaigns
TouchStone is a distributed canvassing application built around quality control and ease of use: canvassers claim turf from a live map and are walking in minutes, every contact is verified as it happens, and your program scales without sacrificing quality or burying administrators.
Distributed canvassing,
verified data.
Every field tool makes you choose between growth and control: self-serve apps let anyone grab a list but give you no way to check the work, while legacy systems demand a staffer's time for every list cut. TouchStone ends that tradeoff with two tightly connected systems.
Distributed Canvassing
Turf gets claimed straight off a live map, with staff seeing every claim as it happens. Territory groups run persuasion, GOTV, and petition programs side by side, and governance rules keep it orderly: reservations, assignment limits, scheduling windows, stalled turf that frees itself back up.
How it works →Verification & Data Integrity
Every contact records GPS coordinates, a timestamp, and an accuracy rating as it happens, and doors logged from the curb or through a location spoofer get flagged for review by proprietary verification techniques we keep developing. When a client or an elections office asks how you got your numbers, you can show them.
How it works →From new canvasser to verified doors, in one sitting.
Our Partnership with Progressive Turnout Project
TouchStone is an independent platform, and Progressive Turnout Project (opens in new tab) is the partner that shapes it most. PTP is the largest grassroots-funded voter contact organization in the country, and a platform engineered for their scale can handle yours. What their organizers learn at the door feeds directly into what we build next.
Everything a field program runs on,
in one application
TouchStone covers the whole canvass: cutting and claiming turf, collecting data at the door, checking the work, and reporting it out. One database under all of it, so nothing gets lost between tools.
Territory & Turf
Cut turf to fit your strategy, run parallel programs on the same ground without collisions, and let canvassers claim their own territories. One household, one territory: no double knocks.
See Territory & Turf →Verification & Anti-Spoofing
GPS, timestamps, and accuracy ratings on every contact, with proprietary checks that flag spoofed or curbed doors for review.
See Verification →Surveys & Voter Data
Build any script, survey, or petition flow, attach it to a territory group, and capture responses against the voter file with results you can crosstab as they land.
See Surveys & Voter Data →Reporting & Analytics
Live dashboards of doors, contacts, and flags by canvasser, territory, or program. Export lists for mail, media, or the next pass.
See Reporting & Analytics →Admin & Governance
Roles and permissions down to the individual canvasser, audit logs with rollback, scheduling enforcement, and retention rules on voter data.
See Admin & Governance →Mobile, Offline, Multilingual
A canvasser-first app that works with weak or no signal and speaks the canvasser's language, wherever the turf is.
See the Mobile App →
CampaignTech Gold, 2025
Campaigns & Elections named TouchStone the Gold winner for Innovation in Campaign Technology at the 2025 CampaignTech Awards.
We Run Our Own Programs on It
The crews we field for clients and our direct partners run canvassing, petition, and registration programs on the same software we license. When something at the door slows a canvasser down, we feel it first, and it gets fixed. Last fall that meant 50,000 doors for a San Francisco recall defense, finished ahead of schedule with zero technology failures. Field data can also feed paid media through our partner Tuesday Digital.
We take on the features other platforms can't or won't build.
Most field tools were built once, got adopted, and stopped moving. TouchStone is developed in a constant feedback loop with our customers, our clients, and the progressive voter contact community at large. When a real program hits a real wall, that becomes our roadmap.
No other canvassing application brings all of this together:
- GPS accuracy ratings with anti-spoofing detection on every contact
- Self-serve turf with real governance: reservations, assignment limits, scheduling windows, stalled-turf release
- Territory groups running persuasion, GOTV, and petition programs side by side
- A true offline mode, built for the places canvassing actually happens
- Multilingual canvassing at the door, in the canvasser's hand
See the platform live
Thirty minutes, your program, live software. We'll walk through turf, verification, and reporting, and answer the hard questions.
Custom integrations with the voter files and CRMs you already use. Licensing that fits a school-board race or a statewide program. Real humans who train your team and answer the phone during GOTV.