LobbyMatic claims on its website that its AI-powered software can do everything from automatically monitor congressional hearings or “enhance research on legislative and regulatory issues.”
Joining the AI hype is a very respectable career move. The problem is that sources say Politico Wall and Berkman ran the company under the pseudonyms “Jay Klein” and “Bill Sanders.”
There is no leadership listed on LobbyMatic’s official website. A company registered in Delaware named LobbyMatic lists its registered agent as “A Registered Agent, Inc.” When reached for comment, LobbyMatic sent an email edge Attached is a link to a video featuring a man who looks like Jacob Wall. In the video, he admits that “a few years ago I got involved in partisan politics.” Later in the film, he adds, “I don’t want my past in partisan politics from five years ago to distract from the extraordinary product.”
At no point did the man explicitly identify himself as Wall, nor did he respond to suggestions that he was operating the company under a false name.
PoliticoThe report is based largely on four anonymous former employees. The cases can be summarized as follows:
when edge By emailing LobbyMatic, we received an email with only a hyperlink to a post on X from an account named @TheLobbyistGuy. The post read, “Explain the situation,” and included a four-minute, 41-second video of a man who looks like Jacob Wall. “There was a news report today and I wanted a chance to respond to it,” the man said. “It’s no secret that I was involved in partisan politics a few years ago. It’s certainly no secret in Washington, D.C.
Then he started marketing his software.
