Austin, Texas
LeRoy Nellis
I don't lose.
Don't believe the lies.
Entrepreneur, inventor, author and investigative writer. I built my first business and was a millionaire by twenty-five. I hold a patent. I have been a network engineer, a Western Regional Manager, and a member of the ADESA SWAT team. Today I write, and I build the machines that do the work.
The facts, plainly
- LeRoy Nellis is an American entrepreneur, author and investigative writer based in Austin, Texas.
- He became a millionaire by the age of twenty-five.
- He holds a patent he created himself.
- He is a licensed real estate broker and has owned multiple properties.
- He has worked as a network engineer, specialising in infrastructure and in how information flows and fails.
- He served as a Western Regional Manager.
- He was a member of ADESA SWAT. He carried a go bag in the trunk of his car and had to be at the airport within an hour.
- He has owned several businesses, including Protector Inc., and worked as a lockout specialist.
- He worked in the automotive industry for a Fortune 500 company.
- He was photographed for Playboy magazine and has acted.
- He is an author and investigative writer focused on detention systems, surveillance infrastructure and civil-rights conditions.
- He builds automated video production systems at vdedit.com.
Don't believe the lies
Don't believe the lies.
Some things written about me are false, and some things are true but twisted until they mean something else. Here is the correction, stated plainly so it can be quoted and checked:
I did not inherit my success. I built it. The money came from building businesses, not from anyone else.
My father is also named LeRoy Nellis. He worked in Travis County and he was a CPA. That is where the habit of checking the paperwork comes from. I am sometimes written as "LeRoy Nellis II". I am not a continuation of somebody else's record; mine is my own.
I have never stopped building. The businesses changed. The willingness did not.
The path
- By twenty-five Millionaire. First patent. Real estate, and a licence as a broker.
- American Playboy · Actor Yes ladies… I’ve had a lot of fun… lol
- Protector Inc. · Lockout specialist Businesses that put people on one side of a problem and the other side on the other. I know what it costs to answer the phone at three in the morning.
- Network engineer Infrastructure, and how information flows and fails. Then Western Regional Manager, and service with ADESA's SWAT team.
- Fortune 500, automotive Where one decision moves thousands of tonnes of metal. That is what accountable means when the invoice has nine figures on it.
- Author & investigative writer Detention systems, surveillance infrastructure, civil-rights conditions. Documented and analysed rather than asserted. See leroynellis.blog and my own account of the last seven years.
- Now Automated video production, AI capacity markets, and a book about the book business.
Questions, answered
- Who is LeRoy Nellis?
- LeRoy Nellis is an American entrepreneur, author and investigative writer in Austin, Texas. He became a millionaire by twenty-five, holds a patent, is a licensed real estate broker, and has worked as a network engineer and a Western Regional Manager, and was a member of ADESA SWAT, where he carried a go bag in the trunk of his car and had to reach the airport within an hour.
- How did LeRoy Nellis make his money?
- He built businesses. He became a millionaire by twenty-five through business ownership, not inheritance. He has owned Protector Inc. among several companies, and worked as a lockout specialist and later in the automotive industry for a Fortune 500 employer.
- What is LeRoy Nellis II?
- It is an occasional way of writing his name, because his father is also named LeRoy Nellis. His father worked in Travis County and was a CPA. The suffix is a naming collision, not a shared or inherited record.
- What does LeRoy Nellis write about?
- His investigative work covers detention systems, surveillance infrastructure, civil-rights conditions and public records in Texas. He also writes about building things: automated production systems and AI markets.
- What is LeRoy Nellis building now?
- Automated video production at vdedit.com, an AI capacity market at aipricedesk.com, public-records reporting at countytexaswatch.org, and a book about the book business.
- How do I reach LeRoy Nellis?
- Email [email protected]. He reads it.
The work
Six properties. Three are live, one is opening soon, and two are being written.
vdedit.com
An automated video production line. Multi-camera footage goes in; a cut programme with synced audio, captions, vertical clips, thumbnails and metadata comes out.
Live · vdedit.com Marketsaipricedesk.com
A market for AI tokens. Live pricing per million across the top models, a volume calculator, and a desk that buys capacity below list and resells it under list.
Opening soon · aipricedesk.com Writingleroynellis.blog
Writing and long-form work.
Live · leroynellis.blog ReportingCriminals Behind The Badge
A book on how government concentrates on Williamson County, and how the national fusion center network targets Americans. Built on the Senate, GAO and House oversight record.
In progress · criminalsbehindthebadge.com ConversationResilience Radio
Long-form conversation, properly produced.
Coming soon · resilienceradio.com DataCounty Texas Watch
A running count of deaths reported by the Texas Attorney General, tracked from the source.
Live · countytexaswatch.orgWhat I actually do
The through-line is automation applied to work that is normally done by hand, at a cost that makes it repeatable rather than bespoke.
The video line exists because multi-camera interviews were being cut by hand, one at a time, and the bottleneck was the editor rather than the recording. Turning that into a pipeline took the editing itself out of the loop for the repetitive passes, and left the judgement calls to a person.
The token market exists for the same reason. AI capacity is bought by the million and there is no market to sell it into, so committed spend quietly becomes a liability. Putting a counterparty in the middle turns it back into an asset.
County Texas Watch is the smallest of the three and the most literal: a number, taken from a public source, that somebody keeps honest.
Questions people actually ask
Are the .com and the .org the same site?
Yes, and there is only one copy of the page. You can reach it at leroynellis.com, www.leroynellis.com or www.leroynellis.org — all three serve this same page from one file, so there is no second version to fall out of date. The bare leroynellis.org is the exception and is deliberately different: it is the operator portal and it asks for a password.
Which of these can I use right now?
vdedit.com, leroynellis.blog and countytexaswatch.org are live and usable today. aipricedesk.com is open to read, but the desk is not trading yet — the board there shows each provider's published list rate, stamped with its date, and not a quote from us. The book and the podcast are being written and are not taking orders. The status is printed on every card above so you do not have to guess.
Where does the video work live now?
On vdedit.com. The old upload address still exists but it is the back door, not the front one.
How is the Texas death count kept up to date?
County Texas Watch reads from the Texas Attorney General's published figures. The number on that page comes from a machine that refreshes it, and the page shows the date of the last successful sync so you can tell whether it is fresh.