Our Story.
DoorReach was forged in a successful 2025 mayoral campaign, built with a team that had spent a decade frustrated by the tools every other campaign was stuck with.
Built out of frustration.
Ahead of Andrew Knack's 2025 Edmonton mayoral run, the campaign's tech team and leadership did what every campaign should do: an environmental scan of the canvassing software market.
The verdict was bleak. We tested the top options with the same clunky interfaces from a decade ago, now charging premium prices. It didn't make sense to spend 5 figures on software that was painful to use, sold to people who didn't have time to argue.
So someone on the team asked the obvious question: what if we prototyped something instead?
That prototype kept evolving and improving, and became the app the campaign ran on all the way to election night.
Run on a real campaign. Not a deck.
DoorReach replaced paper records entirely on the mayoral run for ground game canvassing. Volunteers used it on their own phones to surface issues and map support, turning every door into data the campaign could actually use.
Replaced the clipboard for an entire mayoral campaign. Every door, every conversation, every result.
Worked on every volunteer's phone. No installs, no training day, no devices to ship.
Support ratios mapped geographically, driving where to spend volunteer hours, GOTV, and flyering.
"The best canvassing app I've ever used."
A bet on better representation.
I want candidates and future representatives to better understand the people they serve. We all benefit when that happens, regardless of who wins on election night. Paper records are error-prone and waste volunteer hours. No records are worse.
And I don't think campaigns should need data experts or deep pockets to make data-driven decisions. The need for a large budget and insider access to data is the gap DoorReach is built to close, and it's why the price reflects the mission, not the market.
- check Campaign Core Team Tech Co-Lead, Andrew Knack's 2025 Mayoral Run (successful)
- check Campaign Core Team Tech Co-Lead, Andrew Knack's 2021 Council Run (successful)
- check Campaign Cabinet Tech Lead, Don Iveson's 2017 Mayoral Run (successful)
Designed for the door, and for the people running the campaign.
UX-first, end to end
Built around how campaigns actually prep, run, and decide, not around what was easiest to ship a decade ago.
Setup is included
Addresses and boundaries are loaded as part of onboarding. No data team required on your end, and if don't have the data, we'll figure it out together. You don't pay anything until we're ready to go.
Your data is yours
Full ownership, no lock-in. The conversations and support data your volunteers gather belong to your campaign. Period.
Toronto-ready, day one
~600,000 Toronto addresses are already loaded. Any candidate looking to start turf-cutting and doorknocking there can begin immediately.
Let's talk about your campaign.
Every DoorReach engagement starts with a conversation. Tell us about your race, and we'll walk you through what setup looks like for your ward, riding, or city.