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, certification, and registration 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 directs each project — choosing the problem, setting the standard for evidence, and deciding what gets published.

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. Preston sets the research direction, approves what is published, and remains responsible for source, method, and correction decisions. The sites are built and maintained through AI-assisted data and engineering workflows directed by Willis Innovations. The company remains accountable for the published result — when you email about a number, you're reaching the publisher responsible for checking 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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