Legible AI Partners with CyBIZ Lab to Map National Expansion
Founded by longtime friends Zack Krawiec and Kasey Clary, Legible AI is transforming how lobbyists, government affairs teams, and associations track and respond to legislation. What started as a direct-to-consumer news app quickly evolved into a powerful policy intelligence platform, now serving the majority of Iowa’s lobbying community with hopes of expanding nationwide. With a desire for rapid growth came a need for strategic focus—enter CyBIZ Lab, whose partnership provided crucial market research to guide Legible AI’s next phase.
Zack and Kasey’s partnership began back in 2014 when they served as Iowa House Pages. Their careers initially took different paths prior—Zack into law and finance, Kasey into tech—but they reunited to launch what is now Legible AI. The platform uses AI to summarize bills, surface relevant legislation, and streamline stakeholder reporting, saving government affairs professionals 10–15 hours of work each week. By early 2025, Legible AI had captured an estimated 70% of Iowa’s lobbying market and secured $1.2 million in funding led by Acadian Software.
With Iowa as proof of concept, Zack and Kasey have set their sights on expansion. But breaking into new states required more than ambition. It required extensive data. During the spring of 2025, Legible partnered with CyBIZ Lab to help build a market entry roadmap. The project gave the student team a unique challenge: determine how to prioritize which states offered the best opportunities for growth. Students developed a robust dataset on all 50 states, including information such as the number of bills introduced per session, registered lobbyists, session length, and competitive landscape. They also went beyond public records, calling legislative staff and lobby associations to gather insights on market dynamics and barriers to entry.
“The most value we got out of it was qualitative,” Kasey explained. “The students were sitting on the phones calling prospects to understand the competitive landscape directly from them, which is really important because the companies that compete in this space are really hard to find via search engines. The students were actually calling people, connecting with them, asking qualitative questions and getting good data.” Armed with both quantitative and qualitative insights, the students delivered data that ultimately created a ranking model to guide Legible’s expansion strategy, complete with a deep dive into the top 10 states.
The impact of this project has been significant. This data gave Zack and Kasey a level of credibility that they did not originally have. Zack noted, “That credibility helped us in investor conversations to build confidence with folks who are looking for predictability and de-risking in their investments.” With this data, the pair could point to the twelve factors the CyBIZ team researched to weigh state viability, and that background work set them apart in the market. Beyond investor conversations, the research has become a tool that the founders reference as they execute go-to-market strategies—balancing state size, commercial potential, and ease of entry. As Zack put it, the students “brought data to the madness.”
With CyBIZ Lab’s research under their belt, Legible AI is scaling fast—building out its engineering and sales teams, refining its enterprise-ready product, and preparing to enter new states with confidence. For Zack and Kasey, the collaboration was not only practical but energizing. “It was great to see the level of excitement the students had. You could tell they enjoyed digging into our industry and were invested in helping us succeed,” Kasey shared.
The founders strongly recommend CyBIZ Lab to other entrepreneurs. “Find the thing you most want done but don’t have time for,” Zack advised. He believes a team of CyBIZ Lab students can take on any project and deliver insights that are more impactful than any company could imagine. With a clear roadmap ahead, Legible AI is well on its way to modernizing how policy professionals work, making the lawmaking process more accessible, efficient, and effective across the country.
