Platform Communications, founded in 2017 by Keith Gilkes, is a Midwestern strategic communications firm specializing in public relations, crisis communications, public affairs, policy analysis, and advocacy campaigns. Based in Wisconsin with national reach, Platform has the expertise and relationships with policymakers and opinion leaders to get you real results.

Our clients and projects include Fortune 500 and global companies, economic development projects from the Wisconn Valley Science & Technology Park to mining and energy projects across the Midwest, a wide range of advocacy efforts like the ballot initiative Marsy’s Law for Wisconsin, thinktanks like the Institute for Reforming Government and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, and industry associations and nonprofits of all shapes and sizes.

We’ve been at the forefront of major legislative victories like the lifting of Wisconsin’s mining moratorium and successful coalition building to bring Foxconn Technology Corp. to the state. We’ve handled crisis management in the private sector and government alike. And our team of professionals has decades of collective experience in state and federal government – not to mention roles in dozens of successful political campaigns at the local, statewide, and federal levels.