If the legacy system goes dark tomorrow, Montana's campaign-finance and lobbying registry stays online.
This is a live read-only mirror of the Commissioner of Political Practices (COPP) Sapiens/AdBench registry, stood up by Concourse as a hot-standby. The Legislature funded modernization in 2027 and the 2028 election cycle will not wait. If the part-time maintainer of the legacy system disappears — retirement, illness, defunding — citizens, journalists, and campaigns can still look up lobbyists, principals, contributions, and expenditures here, backed by a nightly export ingested into a modern cloud database.
At a glance
Ingest-first, modernize-at-your-pace
COPP hands us the existing nightly export from Sapiens/AdBench — flat CSV + XML, ALL_CAPS, whatever format the legacy Oracle job produces. We ingest it, normalize it, and publish a read-only public mirror. No data migration, no forklift. The authoritative system of record stays where it is until COPP is ready to move.
See the architecture →2028 won't wait for a rebuild
The Montana Legislature appropriated modernization funds in the 2027 session, but a full system replacement is a multi-year program. The 2028 federal election cycle begins filings in spring 2027. A public mirror, stood up in weeks from a sample export, guarantees continuity of access during the rebuild — without introducing key-person risk or blocking the existing maintainer's workflow.