Frequently asked questions about Echo Canyon Consulting.

Echo Canyon Consulting helps clients win elections, policy fights, and public-opinion battles. On the campaign side, the firm runs strategy, data targeting, paid door-to-door field programs, direct mail, and get-out-the-vote work. On the public affairs side, it provides stakeholder strategy, government relations and lobbying, legislative monitoring, coalition building, media relations, and crisis communications.

Echo Canyon Consulting is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, and its founding partners are based in the Washington, D.C. area. Team members also work from Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, and other states, and the firm runs field programs nationwide with a focus on the West.

Echo Canyon Consulting was founded in 2024 by Jon Seaton (CEO and Partner), Ryan Price (President and Partner), and Matt Kenney (President of Echo Canyon Public Affairs and Partner). Together they bring experience from the George W. Bush White House, John McCain's presidential campaigns, multiple Republican National Conventions, and the Arizona Republican Party.

A paid field program is a door-to-door voter contact operation staffed by trained, paid canvassers rather than volunteers alone. Canvassers talk with targeted voters, deliver the campaign's message, and record responses that feed the campaign's targeting. Echo Canyon has run paid field programs at statewide scale, including more than 1.28 million doors for Governor Greg Abbott's 2026 primary.

Yes. Face-to-face conversations remain one of the most persuasive forms of voter contact, especially in close races and low-turnout elections where television and digital ads reach voters who are already decided. Echo Canyon pairs canvassing with direct mail and audits field data with its Astralis platform so campaigns can trust the numbers coming back from the doors.

Direct mail reaches the voter's home without algorithms or ad blockers, and modern programs are measurable through QR codes, personalized links, and response tracking. Echo Canyon's mail team has designed and delivered millions of pieces across dozens of districts and won multiple Reed Awards for mail in 2026.

Astralis is an AI-powered field data auditing platform built by Echo Canyon Consulting. It reviews canvassing data instantly, checks geolocations, timestamps, and time between doors, flags entries that look inconsistent, and produces a cleaned dataset. It also shows doors knocked, contact rates, and canvasser activity without nightly manual updates.

Public affairs is the work of shaping the policy and public-opinion environment around an organization. It combines government relations, stakeholder and coalition outreach, media relations, and community engagement so that decision-makers hear from the right voices before they act. Echo Canyon's public affairs team works on energy, public safety, veterans' issues, development projects, and more.

Yes. Former U.S. Congressman Matt Salmon leads Echo Canyon's government affairs practice as Managing Director of Government Affairs from the firm's Phoenix headquarters, supporting local, state, and federal government relations and lobbying for new and existing clients.

In the 2026 awards season Echo Canyon won 13 industry awards: nine Reed Awards from Campaigns & Elections, including Best New Firm and Best Employer, and four Pollie Awards from the American Association of Political Consultants. The firm also won 14 awards from five organizations in its first year.

Echo Canyon works with candidates from city council to governor and U.S. Senate, independent expenditure committees, ballot-measure campaigns, advocacy organizations, trade associations, and corporations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to boutique organizations.

Call Echo Canyon Consulting at (602) 492-2140 or message the firm on LinkedIn to schedule a consultation about your campaign or issue. Every engagement follows the firm's six-step process, starting with defining the win.

Echo Canyon hires canvassers and regional field managers across the country each cycle. Open positions are posted on the firm's careers portal, where you can apply directly as a canvasser or as a manager.

Matt Salmon is Echo Canyon Consulting's Managing Director of Government Affairs. He served four years in the Arizona State Senate and ten years in the U.S. House of Representatives, helped found the House Freedom Caucus, founded the public affairs firm Upstream Consulting, and has served Arizona State University since 2017.

Echo Canyon follows six steps on every engagement: define the win, build the playbook, mobilize the right players, execute without hesitation, stay ahead of the opposition, and secure victory.

A win number is the number of votes a campaign needs to win, based on expected turnout. Echo Canyon's data team finds your win number and builds targeting and voter contact programs to reach it.