Comment Review

GAD Consulting offers expert qualitative analysis of public comments submitted during the rulemaking process. What sets the company apart is its dedicated focus on qualitative analysis for comment review—a skill typically acquired at the graduate level in social sciences such as sociology and political science, rather than in a hard science or biological science curriculum. Even for technically oriented proposed rules, comment analysts must excel in qualitative methods to accurately interpret, summarize, and address stakeholder input.

For agencies anticipating more than 100 comments on a proposed rule, engaging qualified reviewers is essential to ensure the final rule thoroughly addresses substantive feedback, thereby mitigating litigation risks. GAD Consulting guarantees high-quality comment review by employing analysts with graduate-level training and maintaining an inter-rater reliability agreement of at least 80% among analysts—conducted prior to analysis and periodically throughout the process. To our knowledge, GAD Consulting is the only comment analysis firm offering this rigorous level of quality assurance.

Comment review is a specialty niche of GAD Consulting. Leveraging qualitative analysis software and advanced AI techniques, GAD Consulting delivers high-quality comment reviews to state and federal agencies, streamlining their decision-making processes for final rulemaking. Further GAD Consulting prepares the administrative record with appropriate Bates numbering should an agency receive litigation once the final rule is published.