Category comparison
Emily Politics, set beside two kinds of tool public affairs teams already buy. This page names the categories, not the vendors.
| Feature | Emily Politics | Legacy political monitoring suites | Single-feature transcript tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live transcript from the chamber | Real-time, speaker-attributed Commons and Lords transcripts while Parliament sits, then the official Hansard text when it publishes. | Built around keyword alerts on a record that arrives after the sitting. A live speaker-attributed feed that becomes Hansard is not the core of the suite. | Chamber transcription is the product. |
| Proprietary AI for bills, policies and briefings | Analyses legislation, written questions, committees and consultations, and drafts cited briefings. | Briefings are assembled by hand from the alerts the suite sends. | No multi-source drafting across bills, questions and consultations. |
| CRM for meetings and interactions | Every MP, peer, meeting note, commitment and follow-up in one place. | A static contact list bolted on beside the monitoring feed. | No stakeholder CRM. |
| Full access via WhatsApp | Questions, morning briefs and stakeholder notes from WhatsApp, alongside the web app. | No native WhatsApp workflow. Work stays in the desktop suite. | No WhatsApp workflow. |
| Live access to news and X | Breaking news from X, Westminster news sources, regulators and Government press offices. | Keyword alerts on a fixed set of sources, not a live news and X feed. | No live regulator, X or press feed. |
| Pricing and contract | Standard: £69/month inc. VAT (1 seat). Professional: £149/month inc. VAT (1 seat). Small-team seats on request. Monthly, cancel online. | Per-seat annual contracts, commonly £3,000 to £9,000 or more a year. | A single transcription product, priced as that product alone. |
| Coverage | Commons, Lords, the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd and the Northern Ireland Assembly, plus 19 UK government departments and 98 regulators and public bodies. | Westminster is the usual base. Devolved chambers and regulators are often extras on the contract. | The chamber the tool transcribes. |
Annual, per-seat contracts, commonly £3,000 to £9,000 or more a year. The daily habit is a rigid keyword alert. Contacts sit in a static list beside the feed. Briefings are assembled by hand. There is no native WhatsApp workflow.
The chamber transcript is the whole product. There is no stakeholder CRM, no live regulator, X or press feed, and no drafting that draws on bills, written questions, committees and consultations together.
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