Nexus Public Affairs

Senior state strategy. A clearer view of what matters.

Rob Shrum leads senior coordination on state issues: strategy and sequencing, witness and stakeholder preparation, coalitions and communications. Nexus works alongside a client’s team and any retained lobbyists, with responsibilities defined for each engagement. Intelligence supports the work and is also offered on its own.

Official-source checking, with source cutoffs and coverage gaps stated. One strategist accountable for the work.

The problem

Too much ground, not enough people.

State government affairs teams cover more ground than they can staff. A portfolio of dozens or hundreds of bills moves faster than a small team can read. An issue can turn up in many states at once. And leadership expects an answer the same morning. The usual options each leave a gap.

Software Strong on tracking, alerts and configurable reports. Deciding what matters to your business still has to be owned by someone.
Large multistate firms Broad capability across many states. Scope and staffing vary by firm and engagement.
Hiring a team Capacity and company knowledge, at the cost of building and managing it.
Nexus Senior coordination on the work you need, alongside your team and retained lobbyists, with intelligence scoped to support the decisions ahead.
What Nexus does

Senior issue coordination, with intelligence behind it.

When an issue involves several states, lobbyists, coalition partners or witnesses, keeping that work aligned is its own job. Rob leads that coordination with your team. A client can keep its own tracking and engage the coordination, or engage the intelligence on its own: focused legislative tracking, state intelligence or stakeholder work.

01 Focused legislative tracking

Nexus Legislative Intelligence

Your portfolio within an agreed scope, in a daily edition with a tracker behind it. Official-source checking, with source cutoffs and coverage gaps stated. Offered as a scoped standalone engagement or alongside other work.

02 Where your issue goes next

Nexus State Intelligence

Which states are likely to move on your issue, and when, with the evidence behind each call. For a company whose issue is spreading across states. Scoped with each engagement.

03 Who is pushing it

Nexus Influence Mapper

The stakeholder landscape on your issue from the public record, with confidence stated on each entry. For corporate affairs, communications and issues teams. Scoped with each engagement.

Why it holds up

Built to be forwarded to leadership and counsel.

Checked against the record Official-source checking, with source cutoffs and coverage gaps stated. A vendor feed is a lead to check, never the answer.
Read by a person Commissioned Nexus reports are reviewed by Rob or an authorized reviewer before they are sent. Rob remains accountable for the work.
Corrections, directly If we identify a material error in a delivered report, we notify the affected client promptly and provide a correction. Read the methodology
The strategist

One senior strategist, accountable for the work.

Nexus Public Affairs is led by Rob Shrum, a senior state government affairs strategist. He runs the advocacy, the coalitions and the stakeholder work, and he answers for every read that reaches you.

If the right tool for a client's situation does not exist, Nexus builds it.

About Rob Shrum→

Start with a conversation.

Tell us the issue, the states and the decision ahead. The first conversation is about fit: what you are facing and where Nexus can help first.

Talk with Rob