Designed to Win the Fight for Our planet
Nesbitt & Parrinello is the experienced partner in complex, high-volume, vetting, research team design, rapid-response, and counter-disinformation operations for independent and non-profit climate organizations.
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Strategic Intelligence Services
Landscape Analysis
- The First Step In Strategy Design
- Understand The Strategic Space
Understand your strategic landscape. Identify the key players and financiers, their strengths and weaknesses, the key issues, and the key messages. Using the full array of open source intelligence techniques we lay bare the key risks and the key rewards.
Large-Scale Vetting Operations
- Fast creative approval
- High-volume scans for top concerns
- Turnaround in under 24 hours
Reduce risk related to large groups including donors, endorsements, surrogates, facilities, and organizations.
Strategic Intelligence Report
- Understand Strategic Relationships
- Map Influence
Understand an organization from leadership to organizational strategy. Understand the relationships between key players and the connections that matter to your campaign.
Power Mapping
- Understand Strategic Relationships
- Map Influence
Understand the relationships between key players and the connections that matter to your campaign. From staff, to campaign financiers, to key allies, we map the relationships that matter to your campaign.
Political Intelligence Services
Level One Book
When you need to know top vulnerabilities, ultra fast. The Level One Book provides a look at noteworthy statements and official positions, legal career, boards, and meetings via news reports; social media scan; campaign finance and contribution analysis; review of land records and personal finances; and pay-to-play assessment against networks and personal finances. Covers key votes reported in the media but does not include primary source key votes analysis.
Level Two Book
Provides a vulnerability assessment including background and due diligence; social and traditional media; employment verification; land records and personal finances; and an assessment of primary source legal records and public acts. The Level Two Book covers key votes reported in the media and primary source key votes analysis. Suitable as the foundation for the most demanding public campaigns.
Level Three Book
Broadest and deepest assessment. Provides a detailed vulnerability assessment including background and due diligence; social and traditional media; employment verification; land records and personal finances; and a detailed assessment of primary source legal records and public acts. The Level Three Book covers key votes reported in the media and primary source key votes analysis. Suitable as the foundation for the most demanding public campaigns. Includes fact checking and follow up support.
Vetting & Threat Assessment
Level One Vet
Vet your friends and identify threat actors with our ultra-high volume scan. The Fast Vet provides a simple, high-speed scan of vulnerabilities, red flags, and major concerns designed for endorsements, large-scale political operations, media production vetting, or where a high-volume of reconnaissance on broad swath of targets is required. Triage social and traditional media, scan criminal and civil records, check partisanship and affiliations.
Level Two Vet
An expedited vulnerability assessment. Includes level one vet plus an abbreviated look at public records, political affiliations, official positions like boards, agendas, testimony, and meetings.
Level Three Vet
An expedited vulnerability assessment. Includes level two vet plus a deeper look at public records, political affiliations, official positions like boards, agendas, testimony, and meetings.
Research & Vetting
Leadership ready research
- Research books
- Polling memos
- Custom scope
- Nomination fights
- Power mapping, influencer analysis
- Lay-of-the-land reports
- Real-time tracking with AI-powered speech-to-text transcription
- Ultra-high bandwidth social media monitoring, tracking, and response
- Leadership briefing content
Fast creative approval
- Press-ready content for traditional and digital platforms
- Data visualizations
- Leadership-ready presentations
- White-label and branded deliverables
- Line-by-line, side-by-side, fact-checking docs
- Full text documentation
- Cites matched to each creative element
- One-click original source documentation
Compliance
Designed for legal and political approval.
- Fact-checking
- Fully "walled off" IE team
- Cites designed for creative
- One-click source documentation
Rapid Response Operations Design
Stand up your rapid response operation on time and on budget, in accordance with your strategy.
- Rapid response operating model design
- Rapid response staffing model design
- Decision model design
- Recruiting, training, and onboarding
- Physical and virtual command center design and stand up
- Technology consulting for rapid response operations
Our Team On Your Project
Allen Nesbitt
Founder and CEO (he/him)
Allen Nesbitt is the founder and CEO of Nesbitt & Parrinello, Inc. Allen helps labor campaigns, climate causes, their allies, and senior government officials globally prepare for risks and win campaigns in volatile environments. In 16 years as a strategic advisor, Allen's teams have won multi-billion dollar fights, from better health care that is more affordable to fights to save our planet. Our wins include: the only Indian American in the 113th Congress; the first openly gay U.S. Representative from New York; the first openly gay mayor of Lexington, Kentucky; the first Black U.S. Representative from Nevada; and the first Black U.S. Senate nominee from Florida.
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Cristina Parrinello
Partner and President (she/her)
Cristina Parrinello is the President of Nesbitt & Parrinello, Inc., where she advises political campaigns and corporate leaders on strategic research, public policy, and cybersecurity. In 2018, Cristina's campaign work included serving as a lead consultant to John Chiang for Governor (CA), EMILY's List, and the winning campaign for Gil Cisneros for Congress (CA-39) -- the most expensive House race in the country. She began her political career in 2010 working on former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer's re-election campaign. Cristina has advised Am Law 50 law firms and Fortune Global 500 companies. Prior to her political work, Cristina worked at the LBJ Presidential Library and as a litigation paralegal. Born and raised on U.S. military bases overseas, Cristina grew up on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands and is now living in Nashville with her two sons.
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