Project DarkPoe is run by an operator who has chosen to remain unnamed publicly. This is a deliberate decision rooted in operational security — yours and ours. Here's the reasoning, in full.
Political web work attracts attention. Opposition researchers map every vendor of every campaign they're trying to defeat. Hostile actors probe infrastructure they can attribute. Journalists follow money. Every public detail about a vendor becomes a thread an adversary can pull on.
The reverse is also true: every detail you can't pull on is one less attack vector. We don't have a LinkedIn. We don't speak at conferences. We don't have a press contact. The website is the product, the pricing is published, the work speaks for itself, and the rest is none of anyone's business.
This isn't paranoia. It's discipline. Most political vendors get away with sloppy operational footprints because nobody bothers to target them — until somebody does. By then it's too late to retroactively become hard to find.
Anonymity does not mean opacity. There's plenty you can check before signing a contract — we just don't put it in a marketing brochure.
Project DarkPoe is a properly formed LLC in good standing. We provide the registration document under NDA during contracting. Your attorney can verify the filing directly with the state.
Live URLs of completed builds. Some are public — you'll recognize the work. Others are released under NDA on request. You can inspect the code, the performance, the compliance.
Prior clients available on request, contingent on their permission. We won't name them publicly. We will introduce you privately. Most are happy to talk.
Standard professional services agreement. Reviewable by your attorney. No exotic clauses, no lock-in, no liability transfers. Indemnification in both directions.
Payments go to a properly named business account at a US bank. Wire instructions are issued on official LLC letterhead. ACH and wire only — no Venmo, no Cash App, no crypto.
The most reliable signal is the staging build. Once architecture is approved, you'll see real code on a real URL within days. Quality is verifiable from the first commit forward.
We work with candidates and committees we believe in operating well — that means honest budgets, honest timelines, and honest communication from your side. We will turn down work from campaigns that don't meet that bar, regardless of party, regardless of budget.
You don't, until you do diligence. Verify the LLC. Talk to references. Review the contract. Hold the deposit at 50% with the balance on launch — meaning if we vanish after taking your money, you've lost half a build, not a whole one. The math heavily favors us delivering.
Yes — once a contract is in flight. We do voice or video calls with active or contracted clients. We don't do prospecting calls because they don't filter for anything except your willingness to schedule one.
It's stated plainly where it's relevant — the Parties page is clear about who we work with. We just don't turn it into a slogan on every page. The platforms we integrate and the clients we take make the alignment obvious; broadcasting it louder than that serves opposition researchers more than clients.
Yes. Mutual NDA, indefinite term, standard carve-outs. We're as motivated to protect your operational details as our own.
Only with explicit written permission, and only after Election Day. Many clients prefer we don't publish their work at all — that's the default unless you tell us otherwise.
We don't comment for the press. If you have a legitimate inquiry related to a campaign or an LLC matter, route it through your committee's general counsel. We respond to attorneys, not reporters.