AI-Focused Super PAC Network Paid $20 Million to Nevada LLC With Little Public Presence

Spanish Springs A shopping center in Sparks, Nevada, is home to Spirit Halloween, a hearing aid supplier and a Vietnamese restaurant. It is also the listed address for a consulting firm that received millions of dollars from one of the largest pro-AI super PAC networks ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Lantern Production Consultants’ Spanish Springs address

Lantern Production Consultants LLC does not appear to have a public presence beyond a post office box located in the Spanish Springs shopping complex, according to an examination of the company’s listed address.

Federal campaign finance records reviewed by WIRED show that Lantern Production Consultants has received approximately $20 million since last year from Think Big, a super PAC within the pro-AI network funded by Leading the Future PAC. The payments covered services including polling, digital advertising, research and strategy.

Backed by leading AI investors, Leading the Future is playing a key role in supporting candidates who favor AI-related policies. The organization describes its focus through “AI Innovation Policy Issues.”

Four Nevada LLCs received super PAC payments

Lantern Production Consultants is one of four Nevada-based LLCs that received payments from super PACs in the Leading the Future PAC network, including Think Big and American Mission. The network has raised more than $140 million to influence midterm election campaigns aligned with AI industry priorities.

Summit Ridge Media Group LLC received approximately $13 million from American Mission between December 2025 and September 2026. The company lists a postal center in a Reno strip mall as its address.

Another company named in campaign finance filings, Blue Horizon Compliance Consultants, lists an address identified as a Staples location in Reno. Prusik Partners LLC lists an address in a Henderson, Nevada, strip mall that also houses a chiropractor and a beauty salon.

Election watchdogs allege shell companies concealed payment recipients

Election watchdogs say the LLCs may be shell companies intended to conceal the identities of the strategists, consultants and production companies working with Leading the Future.

“This is about hiding where the money is going,” said Shanna Portes, senior legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center.

In May, the Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, accusing Think Big and American Mission of violating federal law through the use of the companies. The complaint argues that the Leading the Future network’s super PACs violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by failing to disclose the actual recipients of the payments.

The attorneys wrote that Lantern Production Consultants “acts as a mere extension of the super PAC that provides its services.”