Vale '26
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Live activity
See every door your team knocks, in real time.
While your team is knocking doors, you're watching the board fill in. Completion rates, response breakdowns, and team activity — all updating live, in real time. No more waiting for end-of-day reports. Course-correct while it still matters.
How It Works
Bring your voter file or your own contact list, invite your team, and prepare for your first doors.
Create Your Campaign
Name your campaign or program, set its dates, and write the script your team reads at the door.
Invite with a QR Code
Share one QR code or link. Canvassers scan, sign up, and join your team in seconds — no app store required.
Canvass with Live Sync
Canvassers swipe through their assigned doors, log responses, and submit feedback. You watch the dashboard update in real time.
From file to field
A voter file becomes a plan for your team
Bring a voter file you are authorized to use. Activate prepares it for import, then shows the list and quoted Credits before you approve it. Here is a small example you can use to plan a walking shift.
Try the small synthetic example
The downloadable file contains fictional people and addresses. It includes split street columns, units 2A and 2B, and ZIP 02134. One row has only a voter ID and is skipped.
- source rows
- 9
- accepted records
- 8
- skipped row
- 1
6 people have street addresses: 4 household stops across 3 buildings. The 2 accepted records without a street address need review before walking assignments.
People and household stops are different counts
Two people share unit 2A. The person in unit 2B is a separate household stop in the same building. Keep those units distinct when you plan the shift.
| Household stop | People |
|---|---|
| 101 N Example St · 2A | 2 |
| 101 N Example St · 2B | 1 |
| 103 N Example St | 1 |
| 105 N Example St | 2 |
Fictional addresses. This is a manual planning example, not an application screen, an optimized route or a promise about travel time.
The tools to organize your team, measure the work, and reach every door
Clips from our product film. Vale '26 is a fictional campaign.
What Activate actually doesPerfect for races and programs like yours
Mobile field work for political campaigns, civic and community programs, and businesses running their own door surveys, with texting when your work calls for it.
Political campaigns
From school board and city council to the state legislature.
Civic and community programs
Your own field question, your volunteers, and a list you are permitted to use.
Business door surveys
Door surveys and interest canvasses for your own business.
Text campaigns
Text people who asked to hear from you.
Canvass with confidence
- Large, thumb-friendly buttons — no squinting in the sun
- Clear voter info at a glance — name, age, address, phone
- Submit and move to the next assignment in seconds
Your first hour with Activate
A realistic first hour — from signup to doors knocked.
A vision ten years in the making.
Daniel saw what was missing in the canvassing space — a tool that was actually fun to use, simple to get started with, and freely available to any campaign that needed it. For nearly a decade, he held onto a clear vision: canvassing software should empower volunteers, not slow them down.
That vision became Activate — a canvassing app, free to start, built to strengthen democracy from the ground up. We believe every candidate, regardless of budget or background, deserves the tools to connect with their community and earn every vote. No credit card required. No gatekeeping. Just show up and organize.
Read Daniel's story
Plan your costs
Calculate the Credits for your field work.
Choose a campaign or organization program. Core field work is free; estimate metered use before you start.
Activate doesn't sell voter data. Credits pay for secure handling of the official file, by its size; any state fee is paid to the state. Access and permitted use depend on the state's rules; an estimate does not establish eligibility.
1,000 messages
Estimated savings
Up to 84%
Save about $1.6K on platform access and data setup
| Plan details | Example paid tool | Activate |
|---|---|---|
| Platform access | $891 | $0 |
| Data setup | $1.0K | $300 |
| Core subtotal | $1.9K | $300 |
Campaign texting requires eligible registration, including Campaign Verify, and usable phone numbers. Civic and community programs and business campaigns text after a short review by us.
Campaign SMS add-on
$140Estimated at $440, rounded up to the next Credit pack. Unused Credits stay in your account.
Rounded estimates; the exact cost is quoted in the app before you confirm. Savings compare an example paid tool at $99 per person per month (team of 3, 3-month campaign), not a market average. Free and cheaper tools exist.
No Hassle, only Hustle.
Start free. Canvass today.
No credit card, no subscription, no per-seat fee.
Free to start
$0
No subscription. No credit card required.
Free canvassing, unlimited volunteers, and a clear starting allowance.
- 5,000 records included every 12 months
- Live campaign dashboard
- QR code team invites
- Swipe canvassing
- English and Spanish
Where Credits start
Texting, official voter-file handling and records past your first 5,000 use Credits. The app shows the exact cost before you confirm.
Credits are one-off purchases, never a subscription, and every verified account starts with 25 free.
Field guides
Practical writing on canvassing, volunteers, and the numbers a field program runs on.
Community Canvassing Checklist for Door-to-Door Programs
A planning checklist for a nonprofit or community group's door-to-door program, covering the field question, a permitted contact list, visit planning by building, a volunteer briefing and how to turn recorded answers into the next round.
How to Turn a Voter File into Canvassing Walk Lists
A synthetic 9-row voter file becomes 4 household stops in 3 buildings, then a turf sized from a 1-block test walk, a checked first assignment and a planned Not Home pass.
How to Choose a Canvassing App: 8 Checks to Run
An afternoon trial for choosing a canvassing app: 8 hands-on checks, from how a volunteer joins to what texting costs, with a pass/fail scorecard.
Ready to activate your campaign?
Your team is waiting. Give them the tool they deserve — and watch your ground game come alive. Toward Victory!