Crisis · Messaging · Public Affairs

We solve problems.

Reactor Graphs is a strategic communications, crisis communications, and messaging partner to local governments, public agencies, associations, companies, and the people who lead them: any state, any issue, anywhere, whatever it takes.

Partner-Led
Two principals. Your work is never handed down to a junior associate.
Any Jurisdiction
Experienced problems, experienced solutions. Experts at the federal, state, county, municipal, and special district level.
Rapid Activation
Crisis response ready in hours, not days.
Confidential
Discretion is not a courtesy here. It is a promise and a true deliverable.

When the
pressure is
public.

Most organizations are built to run well on an ordinary day. Very few are built for the day the story turns, the vote fails, the report leaks, or a camera arrives unannounced. Reactor Graphs exists for those days, and for the long stretches of disciplined work that decide how they will end.

We are a consulting partnership built around strategic communications, crisis response, and message architecture for institutions operating in public view. Our clients are governments and the agencies that serve them, labor organizations and the members who depend on them, associations, companies, nonprofits, and individuals whose reputations are inseparable from their ability to do their jobs. We are ready to work in any state, on any issue, for any organization prepared to be serious about the outcome.

We do not sell process. We sell judgment, experience, and expertise earned in legislative sessions, contract fights, election cycles, consent decrees, press conferences, and the rooms where public institutions decide what they are going to say next.

About the firm

What we are hired to do.

Crisis Communications & Rapid Response

Officer-involved incidents. Investigations, audits, and inspector general reports. Litigation and consent decrees. Data breaches, service failures, workplace allegations, and leadership transitions gone sideways. We take command of the communications posture, write the words that go out the door, prepare the people who deliver them, and stay until the story is finished with you.

Strategic Messaging & Positioning

The durable version of the work. We build the message architecture an organization runs on: what you stand for, in what order, in whose words, and with what proof. Then we install it across leadership, communications staff, members, and partners so the whole institution says the same true thing without being told to.

Public Affairs & Legislative Strategy

Campaigns designed to move policy, not merely to comment on it. Coalition construction, third-party validators, earned and paid pressure, member mobilization, testimony preparation, and the unglamorous sequencing that determines whether a bill, a budget line, a contract, or an ordinance actually survives its own process.

Reputation Defense & Issue Management

For the issues that do not resolve in a news cycle. Long-horizon defense of institutions and executives under organized pressure, including opposition research and counter-research, monitoring, editorial-board strategy, search and social remediation, and a disciplined program that answers the critique on the merits instead of feeding it.

Research, Polling & Message Testing

We would rather know than guess. Survey research, focus groups, message and ad testing, stakeholder audits, and sentiment analysis, sized to the decision in front of you. The output is not a deck of findings. It is a recommendation you can act on, with the reasoning shown.

Procurement, RFP & Public-Sector Growth

For companies and organizations that sell into government. Positioning that survives a procurement officer, proposal narrative and past-performance framing, pilot design, reference architecture, and the trust-building work that has to happen long before a solicitation is ever posted.

There is no such thing as a communications problem. There is a real problem that communications either resolves or reveals.
Braden Frame Co-Founder, Reactor Graphs

We start by finding out which one you have. Sometimes the answer is a press strategy. Often it is an operational fix, a policy change, a personnel decision, or a conversation with a stakeholder that should have happened six months ago.

We will tell you which it is, in writing, before you spend money on the wrong one. That is the difference between a vendor and a partner.

How we work

Tell us what
you are
facing.

Initial conversations are confidential and direct with a partner. If we are not the right firm for your situation, we will say so and point you somewhere better. If we are, you will have a scope and a number quickly.

Active crisis? Complete the form and flag it urgent. We will do our best to respond the same day, including weekends.