Most likely, if you've gotten to this site, then you've seen some misleading marketing by Aristotle International, which used to include an attack web site at this address (after we filed a complaint against them for infringing on our trademark, they handed over the url to us at NGP). Here's a response we included in one of our newsletters in 2008, a letter from NGP Founder Nathaniel Pearlman:

When I founded NGP Software in 1997, I was determined to run the company in a principled way: to take good care of our clients; to operate honestly and with integrity; and to charge reasonable fees for the products and services we provide. I was convinced that the Democratic campaigns I cared about were not well served by existing software firms. Indeed, I believe that the success of NGP (which now serves almost 80% of the Democrats in Congress) was made possible because a competing software firm was famous for poor customer service, misleading marketing, and nuisance lawsuits.

That other firm, Aristotle, now serves, for the most part, PACs and Republican campaigns (and "adult" web sites with their "Integrity" product), as well as a handful of Democrats. Having lost scores of Democratic clients to NGP, they are frustrated and have returned with a vengeance to the misleading advertising and litigious behavior that damaged them in the past. Their strategy, if it can be called a strategy, is to send mailings that claim that NGP is not a Democratic firm, and to sue us because we advertise that we are one. I can honestly tell you that I do not understand their logic, respect their tactics, or admire the way they do business.

What sort of firm is NGP? Proudly Democratic. Here are the facts: by any measure, NGP is a Democratic firm. Our software has been used by thousands of Democratic campaigns and exactly zero Republican campaigns. We are pleased to serve many important Democratic entities like the Obama and Clinton campaigns, the DSCC, and the DCCC. NGP is proud to sponsor events, like the upcoming RootsCamp, which build the progressive movement. Our customers also include Democratic leadership PACs and party committees, and progressive non-profits.

In addition, a small number of non-partisan PACs use a version of our software. Aristotle has focused on this handful of non-partisan PACs, which they conveniently neglect to mention gave a majority of their contributions to Democrats this past cycle, in order to pretend outrage about what Aristotle claims is NGP’s impurity.

We have filed a counter-suit against Aristotle, on which we hope to prevail, for their false and misleading advertising, and we believe that we will prevail in the lawsuit that they filed against us (some of the original claims have already been dropped).

We can make this promise: that we will continue to operate according to our principles and that we will continue to strive to provide you with the best software and services possible.

We appreciate all the kind notes and support we have received on this matter.

If you have any questions, please feel free to either contact me or NGP's President Stu Trevelyan directly.

Thanks,

Nathaniel Pearlman

For more information on NGP, visit us at www.ngpsoftware.com