A big announcement about CallTime.AI

Andrew Blumenfeld
Call Time
Published in
3 min readApr 20, 2021

The founding premise of CallTime.AI was that fundraising posed too high a barrier to entry into the political arena. We believed that countless high quality candidates and campaigns were either unsuccessful or- worse- unable to even get off the ground because the system for raising critical funds was inaccessible or too cumbersome for so many. The mission of CallTime.AI is to help break down those barriers. Candidates of all backgrounds and means should have the opportunity to raise the resources they need to run viable and credible campaigns.

We are very proud of the role we’ve been playing in realizing this vision. In less than three years, we have gone from an idea to the core infrastructure of nearly 1,000 political fundraising operations, and have quickly become the gold standard for call time fundraising technology.

Today we are excited to mark the next chapter of that work — one that will allow us to reach even more Democrats, up and down the ballot, across the country. Today we are announcing that CallTime.AI has been acquired by Political Data, Inc. (PDI), one of the country’s most impactful political technology companies, having served over 15,000 political campaigns, consultants, and pollsters for over 30 years.

PDI is recognized as California’s largest provider of high-quality voter data, but it is also home to a growing collection of cutting edge tools serving exclusively Democratic candidates and progressive organizations. PDI offers a voter CRM, phone, canvas,and bulk email tools, and recently acquired OutreachCircle, the leading relational organizing platform. CallTime.AI is thrilled to join this growing family of progressive technologies as part of PDI’s efforts to ensure there is a high degree of investment in Democrats’ most powerful tools.

What this means for our current and future users

The same product and support thousands of Democrats rely on

Day-to-day, your experience with CallTime.AI will be the same. You can continue to rely on the software as a key component to your fundraising operation, and lean on the stellar support and other resources we love providing to our community of users.

More resources and faster innovation for call time fundraising tools

A hallmark of CallTime.AI has been the speed with which we have expanded our offering and created new features to ensure users always have access to the most cutting edge technology. As a product of PDI, CallTime.AI will now enjoy a more than 10x increase in the level of technological resources available to innovate even faster, and to deliver on an even more ambitious roadmap of features.

Expanded use of voter data to enrich donor contacts and to improve targeting

CallTime.AI currently enhances user contacts with donor data and contact information, and uses that data to build likely donor scores and recommended ask amounts. Once CallTime.AI has been fully integrated with PDI’s voter data, users will be able to see key voting and demographic details about prospective donors (i.e., voting habits, household information, language and ethnicity information, etc.), and this data can be used to improve targeting and to generate even more advanced donor scores.

Even greater reliability and stability

PDI has been a major institution in the political technology ecosystem for more than 30 years, serving such significant clients as the AFL-CIO, the California Democratic Party, the DNC, and the DCCC. Users of CallTime.AI will now benefit from all the innovation that they have come to expect from this tech startup, with all of the reliability and longevity associated with a company that has been trusted by Democrats for decades.

Amidst all of this growth and positive change, it is worth restating something that remains steadfast: CallTime.AI’s commitment to helping Democrats of all stripes run well-resourced campaigns by providing them best-in-class tools that help them realize their full potential. This is a major milestone in our relentless pursuit of that vision, and we are mindful of all those who have helped get us to this point. Over the last few years, we have had the tremendous privilege of working with thousands of candidates and campaign staff whose dedication to electing Democrats and improving their communities has truly humbled us. Each of you has helped bring us to this moment, and we are excited to have you along for this exciting next phase.

Thank you!

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Call Time
Call Time

Published in Call Time

CallTime.ai creates technology that improves the political fundraising process.

Andrew Blumenfeld
Andrew Blumenfeld

Written by Andrew Blumenfeld

I’m the co-founder of Telepath and CallTime.AI, and I am obsessed with how we can use data and AI/ML to improve the world.