The Problem
Door-knocking is the single most effective thing a campaign does. It's also the most operationally painful.
Your field director spends a Saturday morning in a spreadsheet trying to build routes. PDFs get texted to volunteers, who get lost looking up addresses. Paper walk lists come back illegible, and someone types outcomes into VAN on Sunday night. Volunteers knock the same doors twice, or skip a door because two of them each thought the other had it.
You're a campaign, not a logistics company. But you're spending campaign hours on logistics.
The Product
Flip replaces the entire canvass workflow — from voter list to data export — with a single web app. No install. No training.
- Upload your voter list. The system geocodes every address, groups voters by household so volunteers never knock the same door twice, and clusters them into optimized walking routes.
- Distribute. Your coordinator logs in and sees every route on a live dashboard. Text a link to a specific volunteer, share a self-serve page where volunteers pick their own route from a district map, or print walk sheets with QR codes for paper-first teams.
- Canvass. Volunteers tap the link on their phone. Google Maps opens for them. At each door they see who's registered there, their party and demographics, and tap one of six outcomes. Flag yard signs and literature drops with a single checkbox.
- Export. One click. Clean spreadsheet with every contact, every outcome, every voter — ready for VAN, NGP, or whatever your campaign uses.
What Your Team Sees
The Campaign Coordinator
Coordinators log in with their own account and see every canvass they manage. The live dashboard shows route cards with color-coded status — Available, Claimed, In Progress, Complete — volunteer names, progress bars, and estimated completion time per route. If a volunteer drops halfway, the next person picks up with already-knocked doors marked done. One click exports results as an Excel file. Share a self-serve link and let volunteers claim routes from a district map on their own.
The Volunteer
Tap a link — or pick a route from the self-serve map. See the current stop — the address, who lives there with their party affiliation and voting history, and a "Navigate in Google Maps" button. Knock the door. Tap one of six outcome buttons. Check "yard sign" or "left lit" if applicable. Move on. Leave notes about a specific voter if you want. That's the whole workflow.
The Data
Every contact captured with timestamp, volunteer name and email, voter-specific notes, and household outcome. Export is one row per voter — nothing gets lost, nothing needs retyping.
What Volunteers See at Each Door
For each household, the volunteer sees:
- Who lives here — "ACKERSON, Peggy, Hank" — surname and each registered voter's first name
- Per-voter detail — party (R/D/U), modeled party ("Lean Democrat", "Swing", "Strong Republican"), age and sex, voting frequency in general and primary elections
- Tap-to-expand extras — ethnicity, phone numbers with one-tap calling, private notes field per voter
- One button to Google Maps — turn-by-turn directions to this specific door
- Interactive route map — see all stops as numbered pins on a real street map. Tap a pin to jump to that stop. Pins turn green as you work. Pinch to zoom, one-finger to pan.
- Yard sign + left lit checkboxes — one tap to flag a household that wants a sign or received literature. Both export to the spreadsheet.
- Two levels of notes — household notes and per-voter notes. Both auto-save, both export.
Your canvasser walks up knowing whether the house voted in the last four primaries, or whether the voter who answers is a swing voter versus a lifelong partisan. The right conversation with the right person.
Self-Serve Distribution
Don't have time to assign every route individually? Share one link to your volunteer group. They see a district map with numbered routes and pick the one nearest them. Each route shows its stop count and estimated time. Claimed routes go gray — no double-claiming.
The Walk Sheet — for Paper-First Volunteers
Not every volunteer canvasses off a phone. Older volunteers, rural areas with spotty service, backup for a phone that dies an hour in — paper still matters.
Flip includes a one-page walk sheet per route that prints cleanly:
- Left column: address, household members with party, age, sex, voting history
- Right column: checkbox grid for all outcomes plus notes space
- QR code at the top — a volunteer who starts on paper can scan to flip to digital mid-shift
When the paper walk sheets come back, the coordinator scans the QR code on their phone — opens the route — and taps in outcomes digitally. No retyping addresses. Coming soon: photograph the completed sheet and Flip reads the checkboxes automatically.
One product. Two modes. Paper and digital data ends up in the same export.
What It Replaces
| Today | With Flip |
|---|---|
| Field director in a spreadsheet for 2 hours | Drop file on the website, wait 60 seconds |
| PDFs of walk lists texted around | One link per volunteer — or self-serve from a map |
| Paper tallies on clipboards | One tap per door (or a printable walk sheet with QR) |
| Sunday night data entry | Download Excel, done |
| Volunteers knocking the same door twice | Household-level grouping, automatic |
| "Who's working Route 4?" | Dashboard shows everything, live |
| "What did Mary say about the bond?" | Per-voter notes, auto-saved in the moment |
| "Where am I in the route?" | Interactive map with numbered pins that change color |
| "Does this house want a yard sign?" | One-tap checkboxes for yard signs and literature drops |
| Retyping paper walk sheet results | Scan QR, enter digitally. Photo-scan coming soon. |
| Volunteers' phones dying mid-shift | Lightweight web page that sips battery |
Your Volunteers' Phones Will Survive the Day
If your team has used canvassing apps before, you've heard the same complaint: the app kills their phone. Three hours in, battery dead. Plugged into the car charger, phone got hot enough to shut itself down. Some phones permanently damaged.
Traditional canvassing apps track volunteer location every few seconds, draw maps continuously, constantly sync data back to HQ. The GPS chip never sleeps. The screen redraws maps all day.
Flip doesn't do any of that.
- Walking to a door: Google Maps provides navigation — the most battery-optimized app on any phone for that purpose.
- At a door: Flip sits idle. Not tracking, not drawing, not syncing.
- Recording an outcome: One tiny message to the cloud — a few hundred characters — then sleeps again.
Across a 20-stop shift, Flip sends about as much data as loading a single Instagram image. Your volunteer canvasses a full shift, phone cool in their pocket, battery still has plenty left for the ride home.
Why It Works
Built for the Kansas HD 33 race in 2026. The door-knocking model isn't a theory — it's been run against real voter lists, by real canvassers, on real phones. Designed around how campaigns actually operate, not how software companies think they do.
Cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Voter data stays in your tenant. HTTPS end to end. Volunteer phones don't store anything — close the tab and it's gone.
What It Costs
Pricing in development. Early partners get launch pricing locked in.
- Per-campaign pricing for one-off races
- Monthly subscription for consulting firms running multiple campaigns
- Free trial on your first canvass day — your real voter list, your real volunteers
Compare against: two hours of a field director's time, a Saturday of volunteer friction, or a door double-knocked that hurt your brand.