How to play HANNA.
Three quick videos. Watch these before you do anything else.
Every morning, open Actions — knock out what's hot, log what you did. Each tap nudges your Scoreboard. Keep the streak alive and the votes follow.
Configure.
Lock in the foundations of your campaign in HANNA. Race basics, opponent intel, key dates, tech & account, payments, texting & data integrations. Get this right and every piece of work in your war room - walks, calls, texts, banking - flows from accurate data. Get it wrong and you'll fight your own setup for the rest of the campaign.
The Board
Voter Contact
Vote Lock-In
The Battlefield
Guided · Mike, your Campaign Manager
Mike asks what only you know; he handles the rest.
The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena — who, at the worst, if they fail, at least fail while daring greatly.
CHRONICLES · PAST
BATTLE ORDERS · 5
DECREES · 12
DISPATCHES · 2 URGENT
Your team runs most of this for you and brings you approvals in the Arena. These are the direct doors into your Hanna Engine for the moments only you can handle — calling a specific voter, jumping in on a reply, knocking turf, making a personal ask. Each one is a single tap to the right screen, no menu-diving.
Your Campaign
The facts of record - your whole team works from these. Need one changed? Tell Mike in the Arena - facts carry work built on top of them, so he restates what a change touches, makes it, and it corrects everywhere at once.
The Hanna Staff
Your specialized team of directors — one for every part of a campaign. Each role launches with its lead director; alternate personalities for each role come online through 2027, so you can flip the feel of any seat down the road. The active director is who shows up in Activities to work with you.
Your team, on your phone
Link Telegram and your whole team rides along - same conversations, same memory as the Arena. Type to reach Mike; /team lists everyone. If you skipped this during your welcome, this is the place to do it.
Your War Chest
Money raised for the campaign — this feeds your Scoreboard's fundraising numbers, not your spending balance. Online donation processing is coming; until then, log what you raise (call time, events, checks).
Your Engine Fuel
Money you add to spend — separate from your War Chest fundraising above. Three buckets pay for everything: your platform (SMS, email, automations), your staff (your directors and Bench pros), and your materials (signs, mailers, print).
Your HannaPro subscription covers the basics — your team's day-to-day operations, included messaging volume, and routine work. Engine Fuel only kicks in when you go beyond what's included, in three buckets:
Platformcovers SMS, email, and phone overages above your plan's included volume. Predictable month to month.
Hanna Staffcovers the credits your directors need for extra work — deep research, strategy worksheets, custom drafting — plus any human pros you hire from The Bench. You authorize each job.
Materialscovers physical goods you order through HannaPro — yard signs, mailers, print. Pass-through cost plus small handling.
Your Finance Directorhandles all of it. Top up your Engine Fuel, set auto-replenish, and she keeps the team paid.
Your Playbook
Each workspace produces a Plan; once saved, it lives here as a Playbook artifact. Plans gate everything downstream — without the Comms Plan, Jonah's team stays locked. Without the Fundraising Plan, Catherine's team can't start. Hover any badge for details. Upload your own materials to feed HANNA your existing work.
Understandthe Office
AlignmentScore
Self-Audit
OpponentDossier
CommitteeFiling
ComplianceCal
TechStack
YourStory
BrandKit
Readiness
WinNumber
RoutePlan
SocialPresence
PrintMaterials
TeamPlan
FundraisingSystem
CommsPlan
FieldPlan
LaunchPlan
Council
your stuff
War College Output
Lessons the War College proved across many campaigns, offered to you. You decide which your team trains on - nothing changes how your campaign runs unless you adopt it. Evidence is always aggregate; no other campaign is ever named.
Start the Playbook over
Clears every worksheet on this campaign, asks your team for fresh drafts, and puts you back at the beginning of the Path. Use this when you want to walk the whole thing again from a clean start. What you have typed into your sheets is gone for good — your campaign, your team, your funds and your record of what happened are all untouched.
Team & Access
Invite the humans on your campaign. Everyone claims their seat through the same door you did - they create their own login, and their role decides what they see. Only you can invite or remove people.
Universes & List Criteria
The campaign's official definitions of who's who in the voter file. Your team cuts every list against these - change a definition and every future list changes with it. Counts appear once your voter file is in.
Approvals & Guardrails
What your team may do without asking - and what always comes to you first. Anything above a threshold lands in the Arena as an approval card; below it, the work runs and logs to Chronicles.
Notifications & Quiet Hours
How and when the team reaches you. Crisis always gets through - a campaign fire doesn't wait for morning, and that rule is not editable.
Data & Files
The file exchange between you and your team. Originals are kept here in your own column format - the Engine copies are derived from them, never the other way around.
Compliance Locker
The boring paperwork that keeps the campaign legal - stored once, used everywhere. Deadlines surface in the Arena as they approach.
Billing & Plan
Your subscription: $250/mo full campaign, or $99/mo pause - pausing keeps everything (your data, lists, and playbook stay; the team stands down until you resume). Card changes go through the same secure checkout you purchased with.
Your World
Every campaign plays on a map. Themes change the map and the whole look of your war room - same race, same work, different world. More worlds are on the way.
Your Tools
The machine room — what's running under your war room. Live facts only.