Pulse Decision Science

§1About

✎ Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Pulse Decision Science describes itself on its website as a firm offering survey research, predictive analytics and data-driven strategy; the site gives placeholder contact details and no address, team or client list.¹ A February 2026 memo on the Texas Republican Senate primary is signed by Conor Maguire of Pulse Decision Science and describes a phone survey of 801 likely Republican primary voters drawn from the state voter file.² Memos from Bryon Allen to Club for Growth PAC and Club for Growth Action describe Pulse polls of Republican primary voters in Arizona in April 2025 and in Alabama and Oklahoma in May 2026, conducted by live telephone interviews and, in Oklahoma, partly by text-to-web.^3,4,5

Kind

Commercial firm¹

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Who paid for its polls

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Works for Republican candidates or groups, by its federal filings. From 2023 through 2026, 9 federal committees reporting Republican affiliation paid it, and none reporting Democratic^7,8,9,10. Its website does not say whether it works for candidates or parties and names no clients; the memos read are addressed to Club for Growth organizations, which are not party committees or campaigns.^1,3

Of its 2 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 2 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁶.

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 15 federal committees reported paying Pulse Decision Science $759,292 for polling, surveys or research^7,8,9,10. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 0 Democratic, 9 Republican, and 6 none (most PACs and super PACs report none).

§4Its polls

§5What we looked for and didn't find

• No founding year, location, ownership or leadership was found; the only person named for the firm is Conor Maguire, who signed a February 2026 memo without a title.
• Bryon Allen wrote the Club for Growth memos, but no page read says whether he has any role at Pulse Decision Science.
• Lone Star Liberty PAC appears as the sponsor of one of its polls in our data, but that source is a post on X, which was not read, and no release from the PAC was found.
• No news partners or fieldwork or panel vendors were found.
• Searches and AAPOR's statements page found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm.