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How a Leading Research Firm Turned Aide Into Its 17+ FTE Productivity Engine
RaptorAI is Bullpen Strategy Group's custom implementation of the Aide platform. The name reflects BSG's brand identity, but under the hood, it's Aide — configured to BSG's specific workflows, data sources, and deliverable standards.
“RaptorAI turns scattered inputs into a single source of truth. It cuts research cycles from days to hours and arms our team with cleaner insights, faster decisions, and wins our clients can feel.”
Joe Pounder, CEO, Bullpen Strategy Group
Overview
Bullpen Strategy Group operates in a public affairs environment defined by continuous incoming research and fast-moving client deliverables. The firm's edge has always been the quality of its analysis and the effectiveness of its client outcomes. Aide was implemented to ensure that advantage scales as inputs grow.
By automating parts of research intake and preparation, Bullpen has reallocated over 700 staff-hours per week toward analysis, interpretation, and client counsel – while preserving the firm's standards for rigor, consistency, and precision.
The Approach
Bullpen Strategy Group implemented Aide to automate tracking, ingestion, and structuring of research inputs within a single, shared environment. This ensures teams work from a consistent factual baseline while retaining full ownership over analysis, framing, and client-facing output.
Standards for sourcing and structure embedded directly into workflows, and prior work is preserved in a centralized library for reuses or updating as conditions change.
What Changed
As information volume increased, manual workload did not. Teams spent less time preparing materials and more time refining arguments, shaping narratives, and responding to time-sensitive client requests.
Turnaround times shortened because inputs were cleaner and more consistent – while maintaining the quality on which our clients depend and expect.
The Impact
With research inputs standardized and preparation automated, workflow demands associated with scale were reduced across teams. Analysts gained additional time and clarity to focus on:
Analysis and interpretation
Message refinement
Client counsel and rapid response
Outputs remained consistent across clients, states, and time-sensitive situations while maintaining Bullpen's standards.
Implementation Highlights
GP3 Tech partnered with BSG to deploy Aide as the firm's execution engine.
Rather than layering AI onto fragmented workflows, Aide centralized BSG's knowledge and automated both simple and complex workstreams end-to-end—while keeping humans firmly in the loop. Bullpen focused first on time-sensitive deliverables with continuously arriving inputs, then scaled automation and reuse as results were demonstrated. Over time, more finished work becomes easier to reuse, refresh, and build on.
Results
~700+ hours saved per week, equivalent to ~17.5 FTEs of capacity unlocked
Significant reduction in manual formatting, assembly, and duplication
Faster turnaround on research briefs, clips, transcripts, and social media graphics
Higher consistency in structure, sourcing, and tone across teams
Compounding ROI as each new workflow increases total leverage
Bottom Line
Aide helps Bullpen Strategy Group absorb increasing information volume without increasing the time spent on preparation and formatting. It expands capacity while reinforcing consistency, speed, and quality in client deliverables.
Turning AI Into a Faster, Deeper, More Creative Workflow
RaptorAI is also the name Look Ahead Strategies uses for their implementation of the Aide platform, independently configured for their research and communications workflows.
Overview
Look Ahead Strategies adopted Aide to overhaul the way its team researches, drafts, and delivers client work. What began as an effort to eliminate manual assembly quickly became a broader transformation: deeper analysis, faster production cycles, and the ability to tackle subjects that previously required far more time or specialized capacity.
“Using Raptor AI, we've been able to adapt our research process to provide in-depth analysis on a wide variety of subjects previously not possible… we're able to work harder, faster, and more creatively to provide the answers our clients need.”
Look Ahead Strategies
The Challenge
The firm's research and communications work moved through email chains, shared drives, and scattered tools—slowing handoffs and inviting version drift. Specialized policy memos, committee activity summaries, and state-level research all required hours of manual assembly, narrowing the team's bandwidth just as client demands intensified.
Look Ahead needed a system that could ground work in verified sources, support deep subject-matter analysis, and eliminate the administrative drag that made rapid response harder than it needed to be.
The Solution
Aide became the operational backbone for research and content production. Automated monitoring pulls in new developments instantly, structured templates maintain formatting discipline, and a unified library keeps every memo, report, and brief searchable and reusable.
The team was able to fold AI directly into its research workflow—mirroring the value described in their internal use of Raptor. That meant the ability to:
Produce highly specialized state-policy memos
Build detailed analysis reports on congressional committees
Generate background dossiers on legislators and emerging issues
And do it with speed that previously wasn't achievable
Instead of assembling documents from scratch, researchers start with a consistent framework and let Aide handle the repetitive work.
In Practice
The impact shows up across the work. Look Ahead has used Aide to synthesize complex healthcare regulations into clear, client-ready analysis—turning dense policy language into actionable insight without the turnaround time that used to come with it. On the campaign side, they've leveraged real-time news trend analysis to surface opportunities for political clients navigating difficult electoral environments, giving strategists the edge that comes from moving first.
Perhaps most meaningfully, Aide has allowed staff to produce quick, credible answers on issues outside their existing expertise—compressing the learning curve and opening the door to deeper research across more topics than the team could previously take on.
What Changed
Projects that once took hours now take minutes. Every deliverable pulls from the same fact base, styling rules, and source structure—reducing rewrites and eliminating inconsistencies. Teams now move through research → drafting → review → outreach as one continuous workflow instead of juggling tools.
“…we have been able to develop products more effectively and efficiently… including proposed state legislation, congressional committee activities, and state legislative profiles.”
Aide simply made that process faster, more organized, and far easier to scale.
Impact
Automating briefs, clips, social content, and reporter lists removed a massive layer of administrative burden. Researchers could finally shift their time toward:
Deeper policy analysis
More creative narrative development
Rapid-response drafting
Supporting principals with cleaner, faster, executive-ready products
The firm broadened the scope of what it could cover—mirroring the quote's core point: analysis on subjects “previously not possible” with the same level of speed or depth.
Implementation Highlights
The team started by automating its highest-volume and highest-pressure deliverables—clips, transcripts, and one-pagers. Then they embedded their house style, review flow, and reusable content blocks directly into Aide's templates.
By connecting research inputs, monitoring, transcripts, and outputs, Look Ahead can now repurpose insights instantly across issue areas, states, and client needs.
“Using Raptor, we are able to work harder, faster, and more creatively.”
This became the guiding principle for the implementation.
Bottom Line
Aide gives Look Ahead Strategies a governed, scalable system for high-impact communications—turning operational drag into speed, precision, and the ability to deliver deeper analysis across more subjects than ever before.
Unlocks ~7.85 FTEs of Weekly Capacity in 30 Days
Overview
National public affairs firms work with Fortune 500 companies, national coalitions, and major political campaigns—often in moments when speed and precision matter most. To keep up with rapid-response demands and multistate coordination, the firm brought Aide into its workflow. The payoff: roughly 300 hours a week reclaimed from manual production and poured back into strategy, message development, and client support.
The Challenge
Workflows were scattered across different softwares and toolsets, leaving research, news clips, transcripts, and media lists disconnected. High-pressure situations demanded fast synthesis without cutting corners on sourcing or accuracy, while large national efforts needed consistent outputs across states and teams, even during chaotic news cycles.
The Solution
Aide became the operational backbone for research and content production. Automated monitoring pulls in new developments the moment they break, structured templates enforce formatting and style discipline across every deliverable, and a unified library keeps internal documents searchable, reusable, and secure.
Teams can fold AI directly into their existing workflows — across research, communications, and content — with the ability to:
Deliver verified research briefs with consistent structure and sourcing
Compile daily news clips enriched with tags, timestamps, and metadata
Generate social media content optimized for reach, engagement, and brand consistency
Produce instant, speaker-labeled transcripts for hearings, interviews, and press hits
Built-in governance controls — required fields, formatting standards, and quality checks — ensure every output stays consistent, compliant, and on-brand. Instead of rebuilding from scratch each time, teams start from a proven framework and let Aide handle the rest.
What Changed
Work that once took hours now takes minutes, with consistent structure and sourcing throughout, and teams operate from the same set of facts and framing, reducing message drift. Rapid-response cycles move faster, with video, transcripts, quotes, social content, and outreach all happening in one place. And as work accumulates, it becomes part of a secure, searchable knowledge base that compounds in value over time.
Impact
Implementing consistent templates and sourcing standards removed roughly 300 hours a week of manual formatting and production. Teams could finally redirect their time toward:
Deeper client strategy
Stronger relationship-building
Higher-value thinking
More accurate, consistent outputs as eliminated inconsistencies compounded into measurable quality gains
Implementation Highlights
The team started by automating its highest-volume and highest-pressure deliverables — news clips, transcripts, and one-pagers — then embedded their house style, review flow, and reusable content blocks directly into Aide's templates.
By keeping research, news clips, transcripts, and outputs connected, every asset can be repurposed instantly across issue areas, states, and client needs, with consistency locked in from the start.
Client Outcomes
Decision-makers get concise, sourced one-pagers and clear media targeting paths, while outreach hits the right reporters with the right angles at the right time. The result is a shift in how human time gets spent — away from production and toward strategy, messaging, and relationship-driven work.
Bottom Line
Aide gives a single system for producing high-stakes communications at scale. With automation and shared standards in place, hundreds of hours were reclaimed each week—and that time was turned into a strategic edge.
“Firms in politics and public affairs know they need to implement AI, but don't know how to start. Aide was built for our public opinion data analytics and analysis. And, with the GP3 Tech team's expertise, we've implemented AI effectively and we've seen immediate impact.”
Gene Ulm
Partner, Public Opinion Strategies
“RaptorAI turns scattered inputs into a single source of truth. It cuts research cycles from days to hours and arms our team with cleaner insights, faster decisions, and wins our clients can feel.”
Joe Pounder
CEO, Bullpen Strategy Group
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