About

An independent publisher of public-data reference sites.

Willis Innovations LLC builds and operates free websites that make authoritative public data genuinely useful. A great deal of valuable information — federal soil surveys, state licensing rosters, environmental records — is public but effectively unusable: buried in PDFs, scattered across agencies, or locked behind clunky search tools. We turn it into clear, fast, freely available reference sites.

Illustration: stacks of public records and file boxes transforming into a glowing U.S. county data map

What we do

  • Identify authoritative public datasets that matter to homeowners and buyers.
  • Clean, structure, and verify the raw records into something usable.
  • Publish free, well-organized reference sites with the source cited on every page.
  • Maintain and refresh the data, and correct errors as they're reported.
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Founder & Publisher

Preston D. Willis

Preston builds each site hands-on — sourcing the underlying data, structuring and verifying it, and publishing it in a form ordinary homeowners and buyers can actually use.

Sourced first, not spun first

Every site starts from an authoritative public dataset and stays traceable to it. The goal is a resource a skeptical reader — or a reporter — can check, cite, and trust, with the methodology laid out in the open and the publisher reachable by name.

Willis Innovations is a family-owned company based in Georgia, and everything here is built in-house: Preston writes the data pipelines that pull from USDA surveys and state licensing boards, checks the results, and publishes them himself. There's no content farm behind these sites — when you email about a number, you're reaching the person who computed it.

Reach Preston directly at Preston@WillisInnovations.com.

Why It Exists

Useful data, made public-facing.

Practical

Answers real questions people have before they buy, build, or repair a home.

Sourced

Traceable to named federal and state datasets — never invented figures.

Free

No paywalls or accounts. The public record should be publicly usable.

Accountable

Methodology published, corrections welcome, publisher reachable by name.

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