Distributed Canvassing
Canvassers claim their own turf from a live map and are walking in minutes, so your program grows without the war room becoming the bottleneck.
Gold WinnerInnovation in Campaign Technology
Turf shouldn’t die waiting
In most field programs, staff cut turf, print it, assign it, then re-assign it when someone flakes, and every hour of that is an hour nobody’s knocking.
In TouchStone, a volunteer opens the map, taps a territory, and it’s theirs. The walk list is on their phone in seconds, staff sees the claim the moment it happens, and nobody had to cut a packet or make an assignment.
That’s the whole idea.
The guardrails
Self-serve turf only works if the structure holds.
Self-Serve Turf
Anyone on the team claims territory and starts walking, with no dispatcher in the middle.
- Tap a territory on the map to claim it
- Walk list loads instantly
- Turf cut exactly the way your program wants it
- One household lives in one territory, so double knocks don’t happen
Territory Groups
Run persuasion, GOTV, and a petition drive at the same time without them tripping over each other.
- Each group has its own schedule, scope, and script
- Households scoped per group
- Re-walk universes across groups
- Reports and maps filter by group
Governance
The rules a field director would enforce by hand, enforced automatically.
- Reservations and assignment limits
- Stalled turf frees itself back up
- Scheduling windows by timezone
- Canvasser-level permissions
What you get
Volunteer and paid crews get the same results.
Speed
Volunteers start knocking the day they sign up, because nobody waits on staff to be given work.
Coverage
The map does the bookkeeping, so territories never overlap and doors don’t get missed between programs.
Accountability
Every territory ties to GPS-checked knocks, so you can tell a claimed territory from a worked one.
See it work on a live map
We’ll cut turf, claim it, and walk through the guardrails with you on real software.