Public changelog

Verified data refreshes, applied corrections, and methodology revisions. We list only changes we can corroborate against commit history and registry metadata.

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Accountability

Public changelog and page-scoped correction links

Added /changelog for verified data and methodology changes, expanded the methodology corrections section, and wired data-page trust footers to /contact/?about=<page> so reports carry page context (this commit).

Trust fabric

Homepage AboutThisData trust band consolidated

Merged provenance, corrections pathway, FAQ, and data vintage into one AboutThisData block on the homepage (commit d9ae2a9).

Differentiation

LLC state pages: fee-stack branching and chrome cut

Removed identical CiteThis/PageTrustFooter chrome from LLC state detail pages and added filing-year / fee-schedule branching to reduce rendered sibling similarity (commits b525c04 and follow-on burn-down).

Open data

/statistics SOS fee table and CC0 CSV

Published the 51-jurisdiction Secretary of State LLC first-year fee table with a downloadable CSV at /data/llc-first-year-fees.csv (commit 8448bbc lineage).

Data truth

Removed interpretive clone blocks from LLC fee pages

Stripped repeated how-to, Census, and insurance essay blocks from every /llc-costs-by-state/ page so each state page is a SOS fee registry, not a formation guide (commit 3e489ce).

Download the SOS LLC first-year fee extract cited on this page: llc-first-year-fees.csv (CC0). Method notes live on /statistics and /methodology.