Glossary
Plain definitions for every term you see in Mandate.
- Alerts
- Emails and in-app notices when a saved search, a bill you follow, or your tracked bills have new activity.
- Assessment
- Mandate's AI analysis of one bill for your organization: a summary, why it matters, a recommended action and an impact level.
- Atlas
- Mandate's AI assistant. Open it with Ask Atlas in the top bar.
- Campaign
- A public action page that helps supporters contact their lawmakers or file a public comment.
- Dashboard
- Your home page: what is new and needs attention, upcoming deadlines, alerts, projects and campaigns.
- Federal add-on
- An extra that adds Congress and federal agency rules to any paid plan.
- Help Center
- Articles on every part of Mandate. Open it with Help in the top bar, or ask Atlas.
- Impact
- The AI's rating of how much a bill would affect you: High, Medium, Low or Not relevant.
- Confirmed action
- A supporter who clicked the confirmation link in our email after acting on a campaign. Mandate cannot see whether their message was sent.
- Jurisdiction
- A state, DC, Puerto Rico, or Federal.
- Monday brief
- A weekly email with the bills that matter most to you, ranked by impact.
- Not relevant
- Clears a bill from Recommended without tracking it.
- Officials
- Directory of legislators and other officials, with their committees and contact details.
- Policy library
- Every collected bill and federal rule your plan covers, searchable without AI analysis.
- Priority
- Your own ranking of a bill. Separate from impact.
- Project
- A private group of bills with a description and notes.
- Recommended
- Bills Mandate assessed for you that you have not tracked or cleared yet.
- Recommended & tracked
- The group in global search and Atlas for bills in Recommended or Tracked.
- Reviewed
- A checkbox you tick once you have read a bill.
- Scan
- A run where Mandate assesses new matching bills for your organization.
- Search terms
- Words that would appear in a bill. They decide which bills get assessed.
- Settings
- Tracking setup first, then search defaults, plan and billing, and account security. Open it from the top bar.
- Stance
- Your position on a bill: Support, Oppose, Monitor or No position needed.
- Topics
- The issues you care about. They help judge impact.
- Track
- Follow a bill. Tracked bills appear in Tracked and in tracked bill alerts.
- Tracked
- The list of bills you chose to follow.
- Tracking setup
- The first section of Settings: your organization description, jurisdictions, topics and search terms. They decide what gets recommended.
- Why am I seeing this?
- The note on each recommendation showing the jurisdiction, matched search terms, the AI's reason and the latest action that put it there.