Political stakeholder management
Modern tools for valuable data
Lobster’s centralised stakeholder management not only saves your team time but helps you stay in GDPR compliance.
Stakeholder & Organisation Profiles
Key profiles enriched with parliamentary votes, MEPs’ roles and speeches, and relevant news feeds.
Centralised data
All stakeholder information in one clear location for the whole team. No more outdated and duplicate listings. Also accessible from any device, and with your own AI service.
Tools for GDPR Compliance
Lobster’s GDPR Audit lets you discover and manage non-compliant stakeholder profiles with minimal effort.
Easy access to up-to-date political stakeholder information
Public Affairs teams accumulate stakeholder data of politicians and officials over time. With the key information coordinated in one place, your team not only saves you time but helps you stay in GDPR compliance.
The core of Lobster is data
The core of Lobster is the data of key political stakeholders. Lobster’s reference data covers Finland and the EU institutions: MPs and MEPs, Commissioners and their cabinets, and the officials listed in the EU’s official Whoiswho directory — the Commission’s Directors-General and heads of unit, the Council secretariat, the EEAS, and the Parliament’s administration and political-group secretariats. A Finnish MP’s profile shows how they voted; an MEP’s shows the rapporteur, shadow and committee-chair roles they hold, their plenary speeches and their roll-call votes on the files Lobster tracks. The reference data is read-only and kept in sync for you, so nobody on your team has to maintain it. Which data sets are switched on is agreed per organisation.
With Lobster your team keeps all stakeholder information in one clear location that the whole organisation uses. This not only saves your team a great deal of time but most importantly, removes the need to keep any potentially risky shadow listings in any format, paper or digital, elsewhere.
GDPR compliance made simple
When you have all the stakeholder data in one centralised location, it’s a lot easier to keep track of what data you have as it accumulates over time.
With Lobster’s GDPR Audit you’ll see with one click how many stakeholders there are in your data. You’ll also see whether there is recent activity tied to the stakeholder so that you can evaluate if there are still grounds to store the profile.
Find and protect
Fast to search, careful about who gets in
Search that forgives
Lobster’s search ignores accents and tolerates typos — “Poyry” finds “Pöyry” — and puts the closest matches first.
Secure sign-in
Sign in with Google or Microsoft single sign-on, or with a password backed by two-factor authentication. Every new user is approved by your Lobster admin before they get in.
Who is being lobbied right now
See which stakeholders and organisations are lobbied most at the moment — a ranking built from anonymised activity across all Lobster customers. It never shows who did what.
Your own Lobster
Every customer gets a dedicated instance with its own database, hosted in the EU. Your data is never in a shared database with anyone else’s.
Slack? Teams? Single sign-on?
Lobster can post to your Slack or Teams channel when work is created, updated or completed, and send a daily summary of what’s coming up. Your team signs in with their Google or Microsoft accounts.
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