Government relations & venture leadership

AaronHarstine.

At the intersection of
policy, enterprise & possibility.

I build businesses and lead the policy strategies that advance them.

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Aaron Harstine / A personal perspective2026
Federal policy · Business strategy · AIScroll to discover A personal perspective / 2026
$24.1MServLine acquisition by HomeServe
Capitol HillFederal advocacy & relationships
POLISFounder & Chief Executive Officer

01 Perspective

The person behind the work

A builder’s instinct.
A strategist’s perspective.

My work connects business building, federal policy judgment and hands-on product leadership.

I co-founded ServLine, a water-loss protection business acquired by HomeServe for $24.1 million. I then led HomeServe’s federal government relations, advancing water infrastructure priorities and bringing business concerns into the policy conversation.

Today, I’m bringing that experience to POLIS—an AI platform in development for legislative operations and government relations.

Aaron Harstine
I.

Federal strategy

  • Congressional engagement
  • Regulatory advocacy
  • Coalition building
II.

Commercial execution

  • Market development
  • Business operations
  • Acquisition integration
III.

Product & AI

  • AI workflow design
  • Prototype development
  • Investor communications

02 Experience

The full résumé

From building businesses
to shaping what’s next.

A career spanning entrepreneurship, federal advocacy and the next generation of policy tools.

Mid 2026–PresentPOLISFounder & Chief Executive Officer

AI platform for legislative operations and government relations · In development

  • Set the vision and product strategy, connecting legislative intelligence, stakeholder context, communications and institutional memory.
  • Led development of congressional office prototypes and a live public research workspace with sourced briefs, legislative analysis and team approval workflows.
  • Shaped the investor narrative, subscription model and commercialization strategy; secured signed, nonbinding congressional letters of intent for a founding beta.
  • Expanded the product roadmap into corporate government relations, lobbying and European institutions, including client-impact analysis and coalition coordination.
2025–Mid 2026Independent PracticeGovernment Relations Consultant

Confidential Capitol Hill representation

  • Represented companies and individuals in confidential lobbying and government relations engagements on Capitol Hill.
  • Advocated for client priorities through direct engagement with members of Congress.
2024Ted Cruz for U.S. SenateAdvance Team

Statewide campaign operations · Texas

  • Coordinated venue evaluations, staging, technical requirements, and candidate and VIP movement.
  • Aligned communications and security teams to execute public events and resolve time-sensitive logistics under demanding campaign schedules.
2020–2024HomeServe / BrookfieldSenior Director of Federal Government Relations

Federal advocacy · Washington, D.C.

  • Led advocacy on water infrastructure and regulatory policy before congressional offices and federal stakeholders.
  • Advanced water infrastructure appropriations priorities and directed congressional engagement on FTC negative-option and automatic-renewal rulemaking.
  • Built industry and nonprofit coalitions around sustainable water management and infrastructure investment; developed public-private relationships to advance water conservation.
2013–2020ServLineCo-Founder

Water-loss protection & utility partnerships

  • Co-founded and developed the business acquired by HomeServe for $24.1 million in December 2019.
  • Directed product strategy, market development and operations, spanning financial management, marketing, customer service and team building.
  • Oversaw post-acquisition integration of ServLine’s sales and operations into HomeServe.

03 The next chapter

POLIS / In development

POLIS

Better context.
Clearer decisions.
Human judgment.

Policy work runs on relationships, information and institutional knowledge. I’m building POLIS to connect them.

The platform’s prototypes bring sourced research, legislative analysis and team review into a shared workspace. Its roadmap extends that thinking to corporate government relations, lobbying and European institutions.

My role: vision, product strategy & venture leadership
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Research with
its sources intact.

Connect legislative developments to the information behind them, so a team can understand what matters and why.

  • Sourced public research
  • Legislative analysis
  • Briefing workflows

Product vision, prototypes & roadmap

04 Foundations

Education & service

Education and board service

Rollins College · Winter Park, Florida

Economics.
International Business.

B.A. in Economics · B.A. in International Business

Emerging markets, marketing and management consulting.
Lettered collegiate rower; fourth nationally.

Board service

Congressional Energy
Engagement Foundation.

Strategic guidance and engagement with members of Congress and energy stakeholders on policy discussions and sustainable energy solutions.

05 A conversation

What comes next starts here

Let’s build
what’s next.

For conversations about government relations,
venture leadership or POLIS.