In late December of 1999, I got an urgent call from a staff member on the Hillary Clinton for Senate campaign. She reported that the Clinton campaign was having major problems with the database they were using, Aristotle Campaign Manager. She told me that they had an FEC report due the next month—January—and that they were concerned about filing it properly because of those problems. She told me that Aristotle had sent a series of technicians to their DC office, but none of them had succeeded in fixing the campaign’s database issues. The staff member, who was the campaign’s compliance director, was very calm and serious. She wanted to know if we could possibly convert their data to our system in time for the filing and whether we were confident we could help them.