Offline behaviour, voter-file formats, TCPA handling, account hierarchy, and what it costs — answered plainly.
Sovereign Field is a multi-modal field-organizing platform for political campaigns. Volunteers canvass doors, phone-bank, and place yard signs from one Progressive Web App, switching between the three modes mid-shift. Campaigns deploy at any scale: a single city-council race, a county GOP, or a whole state-party operation. Built for ground games that actually knock doors, not for spreadsheet-only operations.
Sovereign Field runs three volunteer modes (canvassing, phone banking, and sign placement) from one login. Most competitors require separate tools for each. It scales from a single race to a full state-party operation with no re-tooling. County and LD sub-accounts pull from the state's voter universe through scope filters.
The phone-bank flow includes TCPA-aware cell/landline separation, only imports reliable numbers, and keeps permanent bans on bad numbers even after monthly data refreshes.
Walk lists work fully offline. Knocks save on the device and sync when the connection returns. Self-hosted maps mean zero extra cost as volunteer numbers grow.
Yes. Phone banking is one of three volunteer modes alongside canvassing and sign placement. Volunteers switch between them on the fly from the chip at the top of the screen. Each phone-bank list captures a 1-to-5 support stance and survey answers on every call. Bad numbers flagged during calls (disconnected, wrong number, do-not-call) get a permanent ban so the same dead line never shows up again after the next data refresh. TCPA-safe: cell and landline numbers are stored separately, SMS exports pull only mobiles, and phone-bank lists can dial either.
Yes. Sovereign Field uses an account hierarchy built for state and county party operations. A state party owns the master voter universe at the top. Counties, LDs, city or ward campaigns, and individual candidates read from it through automatic scope filters (county, LD, ward, ZIP). Sibling campaigns cannot see each other's knocks or call outcomes. Data is walled off by default. The master account aggregates everything with full attribution per campaign. Same software at every level, no separate tools.
We're data-agnostic. Bring whatever source you have and we'll take it, as long as the records are geocoded. If they aren't, we offer custom geocoding as a paid service.
L2 (standard and custom export profiles), GOP Data Center files, and hand-built CSVs all use the same import path. Confidence codes, partisan scores, and district names normalize automatically on the way in. State-specific quirks (Washington's top-two primary rules, year-by-year voting history columns, and the rest) get handled in the projection logic.
Yes. Phone numbers are stored separately as cell or landline at import based on the source vendor's classification. SMS exports pull only mobile numbers, keeping the TCPA distinction clear: you can call landlines, but texts go only to mobiles with consent. Bad numbers flagged during phone-bank calls (disconnected, wrong number, do-not-call) get a permanent ban so the same dead line never shows up again after the next data refresh. Only high-reliability numbers enter the dialing universe in the first place.
Each L2 refresh auto-prunes voters L2 has stopped shipping — people who moved out of state, became deceased, deregistered, or got merged/split by L2's data team. The universe self-cleans on every import; no manual SQL, no ghost rows. The same import flow preserves your prior geocode pin corrections via a cache keyed by address, so manual fixes survive monthly refreshes (L2 sometimes re-ships the original wrong coordinates, but the cached fix wins).
Yes. The volunteer app caches the assigned turf's voter pins, household notes, and basemap tiles locally before the volunteer leaves service. Knocks logged offline queue in IndexedDB and sync to the server automatically when connectivity returns. Failed writes surface for review instead of getting lost silently. Volunteers in rural areas, apartment basements, or stadiums with congested cell service can canvass uninterrupted for hours.
Yes. Sign placement is one of three volunteer modes (alongside canvassing and phone banking). Sign placers see open requests on the map, drop a pin when the sign goes up, and snap a photo for proof of placement. Admins watch placements live on the same map as door knocks. Sign placements are tracked across the campaign with photo provenance per pin.
Yes. The Ballot Bucket feature (admin-enabled per campaign, where state law permits ballot harvesting) lets canvassers pick up sealed ballot envelopes at the door, record chain-of-custody at each transfer, capture a consent confirmation and volunteer signature, and drop ballots at official drop boxes. Every pickup is GPS and photo verified. Built-in compliance audit trail.
Volunteer access is free. We charge by the campaign account, not by the number of users or volunteers. Every account comes with the full feature set and unlimited users. Pricing scales with universe size (active voters in your file). Most local and state-legislative campaigns fall under the small-tier price; statewide and federal campaigns scale up. Contact the team via the demo form on the homepage for a quote.
Volunteers visit svrnfield.app on their phone, tap "Add to Home Screen" from the browser share menu, and the app installs as a Progressive Web App. No app store account, no review delay, no per-device licensing. The app launches full-screen, works offline, and updates silently the next time the volunteer opens it. Sign-in is a single-line code issued by the campaign. No passwords, no email.