Campaign Timeline Generator

Builds a week by week campaign operating plan from launch through the primary or final election date.

Training note: this tool creates planning guidance. Filing, legal, tax, employment, disclaimer, campaign finance, procurement, and platform requirements should be verified with the proper public agency, attorney, treasurer, or compliance professional before action.

Inputs

Enter the dates, goals, and capacity assumptions. Empty optional fields are handled by the generator.

1. Campaign basics

Candidate name

Office sought

Community, district, or jurisdiction

Race scale

Campaign launch or training start date

Primary Election Day or final campaign date

Candidate filing deadline, if known

Campaign registration trigger date, if known Use only if the candidate has already triggered filing or registration obligations.

Ballot drop date or first voting date This date drives the mail program and turnout schedule.

Current status

2. Goals and capacity

Total campaign budget goal

Cash on hand

First 30 day fundraising goal

Candidate fundraising call time hours per week The workbook’s first two months checklist calls for protected weekly dial blocks.

Candidate campaign hours per week outside fundraising calls

Team or volunteer hours per week

Default field session length in hours

Available field sessions per week

3. Field assumptions

Door knocking target Default pace is 25 doors per hour.

Voter call target Default pace is 35 calls per hour.

Literature drop target Default pace is 50 homes per hour.

Community event target

Priority voter or household universe

Field start logic

4. Communications and website

Maximum mail pieces to schedule The generator offers mail dates from the first mailing window through the Wednesday before the primary.

First mail drop date, optional Use this to force a late July first mailing. If blank, the tool starts before ballots drop.

Days before ballot drop for first mailing Used only when first mail drop date is blank.

Days between mail drops The final offered mail date is the Wednesday before the primary date.

Digital program intensity

Include website build schedule

Include mail, digital, email, and content calendar tasks

Include AI review and publication checklist tasks

5. Labor, endorsements, and risk

Include labor, housing, and endorsement preparation tasks

Include public risk and self review tasks

Include final voter contact and turnout tasks

Known endorsement dates or screening deadlines

6. Compliance and custom dates

Known compliance report dates The tool will also add reminders 14 days and 3 days before each date.

Other campaign dates Category is optional. Suggested categories: Message, Compliance, Money, Field, Digital, Communications, Labor, Risk, AI, Operations, GOTV.

Timeline output

Generate a schedule, then review the dashboard, weekly plan, critical path, pacing, and export options.

Enter the campaign dates and generate a timeline.

Export tools

Exports are generated in the browser. No campaign data is sent to a server by this prototype.

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