Ayoola Jegede — Founder, TaxLienSimple

Background

Ayoola Jegede is the founder of TaxLienSimple. His background is in program and project delivery -- work centered on taking messy, ambiguous problems and turning them into systems that hold up under scrutiny. That background, not a personal track record as a tax-lien investor, is what TaxLienSimple was built on: a rigorous, statute-sourced US tax-sale dataset built to correct an industry full of unsourced claims and outdated blog posts.

Why TaxLienSimple exists

The tax-sale information space is crowded with expensive courses, unsourced claims, and sites that get basic state law wrong. TaxLienSimple was built as the corrective: every state rule traced to its governing statute, every auction listing traced to the county or state's own official source, and every entry carrying a visible verification date instead of a build-time timestamp pretending to be fresh.

Role in data methodology

Ayoola's operating role is data-systems builder: designing how TaxLienSimple sources, verifies, and labels confidence on every record -- confirmed vs. statutory projection vs. not-yet-announced, per the site's editorial policy. Software and automation are used to gather and structure public data at scale, but statutory classifications and rates are verified against primary sources before publication, and an unknown is recorded as unknown -- automation is not permitted to invent a value.

Editorial responsibility

TaxLienSimple is built and edited by Ayoola Jegede. Editorial responsibility for the data and its corrections sits with the TaxLienSimple Editorial Team, which Ayoola leads. TaxLienSimple is not paid by auction platforms, counties, or educators to place, rank, or describe them favorably, and corrections are public: when the site gets something wrong, the underlying data is fixed and the correction propagates to every page that uses it. See the corrections page and the editorial policy for the full standard.

What TaxLienSimple is, and isn't

TaxLienSimple is a research reference and tracking tool, not a financial advisor. Ayoola is not a tax attorney or licensed adviser, and nothing published on the site is investment, legal, or tax advice. Some educational articles are narrated in the first person under the name “Marcus”, an illustrative narrator used to make statutory material concrete -- Marcus is not a real customer, and those stories are disclosed teaching scenarios, not personal trading history.

Contact

Corrections, source questions, and press requests: press@taxliensimple.com. TaxLienSimple is operated by Blueprint Creations LLC, Richmond, TX.