A top D.C.-based federal multi-client lobbying firm needed to scale Congressional hearing coverage as client demand grew, and so without adding headcount or burning out staff. By integrating Statt into its daily workflow, the firm reduced the time required to produce hearing summaries from roughly 6 hours per hearing to minutes, freeing senior staff to focus on strategy, policymaker access, and results.
The Challenge
Hearing coverage became a bottleneck
For multi-client lobbying firms like this one, Congressional hearings are not background noise. They are where early signals emerge, including member posture, lines of questioning, witness responses, and foreshadowed legislative vehicles. As a result, clients increasingly expect fast hearing summaries.
Traditionally, the firm used a multi-step process. An intern watched hearings, typically 2 to 6 hours and longer for markups, and drafted a summary. That draft moved to an associate for revisions, then to a vice president, and finally to a partner for approval before distribution.
While this produced high-quality outputs, it came at a cost in time and throughput. During busy legislative periods, the process created bottlenecks, slowing work on high-value issues and pulling senior staff into formatting and draft cleanup instead of analysis, strategy, and client engagement.
The Solution
One-Click “Easy Button” for Scalable Hearing Intelligence
Statt’s machine learning team incorporated the firm’s Congressional hearing summary template (structure, tone, stylistic choices) as a customized workflow in Statt: literally, a one-click “Summarize Hearing” button in Statt. The workflow sits on Statt’s proprietary hearing transcription tool, the fastest and most accurate on the market, which transcribes all Congressional hearings. Instead of building every deliverable from scratch, interns and associates now use Statt to instantly generate a first-draft summary of the hearing aligned with the firm’s specifications, then route it quickly for associate and lobbyist review.
“Before Statt, keeping up with hearings meant blocking off hours to watch or skim transcripts and then distilling the key moments for clients. Now I can track the hearing, get a clear summary of the substantive exchanges, and turn around a deliverable in minutes, not hours. It lets me spend less time hunting for what happened and more time being out in the world with key clients and contacts.”
The Outcome
Faster deliverables, more strategic time, higher-value work
With Statt, the firm’s hearing summary process is simpler, more standardized, and faster, freeing partners, associates and interns to focus on what they do best: generating access, advisory and results for clients.
By integrating Statt into its hearing workflow, the firm unlocked capacity across levels, from junior coverage to senior advisory.
Beyond Summaries
Turning Hearing Signals Into Action
Statt’s Congressional hearing transcripts and summaries are available across Statt’s AI toolkit, enabling customers to quickly interrogate hearings: what questions did a Member ask? How did our witness respond? What was the most onerous part of the hearing for a specific client? Statt customers deliver within-the-hour hearing readouts, flag tone, and risk signals that shape advocacy, and quickly spin up client-specific analyses across their large client bases.
Key results
- ~4 hours saved per hearing by avoiding full live attendance
- Summary production reduced from ~6 hours to minutes for a first draft
- Senior reviewers shifted from formatting and cleanup to strategy and client positioning
- Greater reuse of hearing insights across multiple deliverables