Précis AI’s Willard brings federally trained, fact-checked AI to Washington. Available by invitation only.
WASHINGTON (June 11, 2026) – Précis AI today announced the launch of Willard, an AI platform built for lobbying, public affairs and legislative work. Willard is trained on the world’s largest AI-accessible database of federal documents for legislative, regulatory and public affairs work in a secure, cloud-based enterprise platform.
“Lobbying and legislative work moves fast with no room for inaccuracy and mistakes,” said David Fuscus, CEO of Précis AI. “Policy teams need an AI that understands Congress and the federal government, grounds its work in federal records and protects confidential information from AI training. Willard locks your data in the Précis AI DataVault™ and has multi-AI fact checking.”
Policy teams often face hard AI choices. Generalist AIs like ChatGPT or Claude move fast but has growing real accuracy and hallucination problems. Legacy lobbying software platforms are locked into old style keyword databases and lack the analysis and comprehensive view of AI. Willard was built to close that gap by giving policy pros a platform trained on millions of federal and Congressional documents that is custom built for lobbying and policy work.
Willard is made for daily lobbying and public affairs work. It has features like an Amendment Impact Analyzer, Bill Comparison Engine, Political Analysis Engine and even has PR tools for when the public needs to know. The technology even has an AI Hearing Monitor that uses AI to analysis and research Congressional hearings, not just
A key innovation is Willard’s Highlight & Click Fact Checker that uses multiple AI models to check each other’s work, test claims, find conflicts and ground results in verified data. Willard’s agentic architecture uses multiple AI models with an agentic architecture that let’s them work as a team, with each doing what it does best.
Security sits at the center of the product. Willard protects user information through the Précis DataVault™ security system, no training, end-to-end encryption, 100% U.S. data residency and is SOC II security certified.
“In Washington, being wrong and being slow are the same thing,” Fuscus said. “Willard turbocharges policy teams and checks the facts to turn out trusted work.”
Willard is only available by limited time invitation to qualified lobbying, legislative, regulatory and public affairs professionals. Invitations can be applied for at: Get Willard.
About Précis AI
Précis AI builds secure, industry-specific generative AI platforms for public relations and government affairs. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Précis powers products including Précis Public Relations and Willard AI, with DataVault™ security and multi-model fact-checking designed to protect user data and improve accuracy. Précis PR has users in 14 countries.
Artificial intelligence is transforming public relations. According to Muck Rack’s 2026 State of AI in PR report, 93% of PR professionals say AI helps them work faster, and 82% report measurable improvements in content quality. Yet the difference between mediocre AI content outputs and exceptional results lies in one thing: setup. The most successful PR teams aren’t just using generic AI tools like ChatGPT—they’re leveraging purpose-built solutions to strategically train their AI to understand their unique brand voice, access their institutional knowledge, and produce content that requires minimal editing.
The secret? Two best practices that unlock strategic, brand-aligned content at scale.
Best Practice 1: Customize Content with Context Documents
When we talk about “training” AI for PR work, we’re referring to a process called grounding—providing the AI with specific context that shapes its understanding and outputs. Unlike machine learning training that requires massive datasets and computational resources, grounding is immediate and accessible. It involves feeding your AI relevant documents that establish parameters for tone, messaging, and brand positioning.
This grounding process works by giving AI concrete examples of your organization’s voice in action. When you upload brand guidelines, messaging frameworks, and campaign briefs, you’re creating a reference library that the AI consults before generating content. Instead of relying on generic prompts that produce generic results, these documents provide guardrails that ensure AI outputs match your unique voice and positioning.
Result: Significant editing time savings while maintaining consistent brand voice across all communications. You’re working with AI that already understands your brand’s DNA.
Best Practice 2: Leverage Your Document Repository
Consider this scenario: Your tech company launched a cybersecurity awareness campaign six months ago. You have a comprehensive document repository containing the original press release, survey findings, executive talking points, media coverage, and social media content. Now you’re tasked with writing an op-ed for your CEO about emerging cyber threats—a related but distinct initiative.
Instead of starting from scratch, a properly configured AI can access your campaign repository and pull relevant insights: statistics from your original survey, previously established messaging about cyber threat trends, your CEO’s established voice from past talking points, and successful angle approaches from media coverage. The AI weaves these elements into a new op-ed that feels consistent with your brand while addressing the fresh topic.
This approach transforms static archives into dynamic knowledge bases. When AI accesses your structured document library, it pulls contextually relevant insights, quotes, and data points to craft higher-quality content while creating a “single source of truth” for all external communications.
Security: The Non-Negotiable Foundation
Public relations work involves some of the most sensitive information in any organization. PR professionals regularly handle unreleased financial data, confidential strategic plans, crisis communication protocols, client proprietary information, and embargoed announcements. A security breach in PR doesn’t just compromise data—it can derail IPOs, damage client relationships, violate NDAs, and expose organizations to significant legal and reputational risks.
Traditional AI tools often lack the security infrastructure needed for this environment. Many general-purpose platforms train on user inputs which can potentially expose sensitive information or store data in ways that don’t meet enterprise compliance requirements.
Advanced platforms are developing specialized security approaches—such as Précis’s proprietary AI Data Vault™ technology—that creates isolated, customer-specific environments where each organization’s documents, prompts, and outputs remain completely separate and accessible only to authorized users. Unlike traditional cloud storage or generic AI platforms, the Data Vault™ never trains on customer data, ensuring that your sensitive information cannot inadvertently influence outputs for other users or be exposed through model responses.
Key features include end-to-end encryption, role-based access controls, and data residency controls that keep information within specified geographic boundaries. This architecture enables secure collaboration while maintaining the strict confidentiality requirements essential to PR work.
Beyond Productivity: Unleashing Strategic Thinking
The true value of setting up AI correctly extends far beyond time savings. When routine content creation becomes efficient and reliable, PR professionals can redirect their energy toward strategic thinking, creative storytelling, and relationship building—the high-value activities that define exceptional communications work.
This shift is already happening. Teams using properly configured AI report not just faster work, but better work. They’re spending less time on repetitive drafting and more time on campaign strategy, media relationship building, and creative problem-solving. The result is PR that’s both more efficient and more impactful.
Be part of the future of PR
The future of PR content creation is here – and it’s powered by AI. But success isn’t about generic tools or quick fixes. It’s about thoughtful integration, strategic workflows, and technology built specifically for the way PR teams work.
The Précis AI ‘AI in PR Best Practices’ guide provides detailed guidance on setup strategies, practical use cases, as well as workflow integration recommendations and workplace adoption suggestions. Ready to learn more on how to optimize your team’s content creation with AI?
Download our free AI in PR Best Practices guide here.
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March 4, 2025
NVIDIA Selects Précis AI for Elite Technology Program
Précis Gains Access to NVIDIA’s Advanced Technology Resources
Washington, DC, March 4, 2025 – Précis AI, a pioneer in developing industry-specific generative AI platforms, today announced its acceptance into NVIDIA’s prestigious Inception program. This milestone positions Précis AI to accelerate the development of its transformative technology solutions, including its flagship product, Précis Public Relations, the leading AI in communications.
The NVIDIA Inception program, designed to nurture cutting-edge startups, provides Précis AI with access to NVIDIA’s advanced technology resources to help technology companies accelerate innovation and growth. This collaboration will enhance Précis AI’s ability to develop and scale its specialized AI platforms across multiple industries.
“Joining NVIDIA Inception represents a significant advancement in our mission to create industry-specific AI solutions that deliver extraordinary value to professionals,” said David Fuscus, CEO of Précis AI. “This collaboration will accelerate our ability to develop and deploy powerful, secure AI platforms that transform how industries work.”
Through this program, Précis AI gains access to NVIDIA’s enterprise-grade technology stack, engineering expertise, and global network of venture capital firms. These resources will support the continued evolution of Précis Public Relations and the development of new industry-specific platforms in addition to AI PR.
“The future of AI lies in specialized solutions that deeply understand and address industry-specific challenges,” Fuscus said. “With NVIDIA’s support, we’re positioned to expand our technology’s capabilities and bring transformative AI solutions to more industries.”
Précis AI’s current platform, Précis Public Relations, has demonstrated remarkable success with AI in PR, with users reporting average time savings of 61.3% per task and 8.5 hours saved per week. The company’s proprietary AI Data Vaults™ technology ensures enterprise-grade security and privacy, making it a trusted solution for agencies and corporate communications departments worldwide.
The acceptance into NVIDIA Inception comes as Précis AI continues its expansion into new markets, with its technology already serving users across 28 countries. The company’s next product, Précis Public Policy, is scheduled for release in Q3 2025.
Précis AI builds secure, industry-specific Generative AI platforms that are trained and customized to meet the unique needs of individual industries. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with operations in the United States, Canada, and Europe, Précis AI is transforming how industries work through specialized AI solutions.
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October 22, 2023
PR-Specific AI Launches at Public Relation Global Network Conference
Précis Public Relations Platform Custom Built for PR Pros
San Francisco, CA – Précis AI launched Précis Public Relations at the semi-annual meeting of the Public Relations Global Network in San Francisco. Précis builds secure AI platforms that are trained and customized to the unique needs of individual companies and industries. The meeting was attended by PR agency heads from the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and New Zealand.
“The attendees at the PRGN meeting were awestruck at the potential of Précis Public Relations,” said Dwayne Alexander, Director of New Zealand’s Alexander PR. “The potential of this innovative AI platform is to scale up bespoke high-quality content benchmarked to a firm’s own business. More importantly, it allows a firm to spend more valuable time on the strategy work clients find most valuable.”
Précis Public Relations was rolled out in a keynote speech by CEO David Fuscus which concentrated heavily on the roadblocks like data security which are preventing the wholesale adoption and business integration of generative AI across PR agencies and corporate communications. According to recent polling of PR professionals conducted by Xenophon Analytics, 89% of respondents believe in the potential for AI to transform the PR profession, yet only 8% are using it on a daily basis with 58% reporting occasional use and 34% never use AI.
“For the first time, there is an AI platform custom designed and built for PR professionals,” said Fuscus. “And Précis’s functionality and security are so good that AI can be fully integrated across an organization’s business systems and structure. Both PR practitioners and management love it.”
“Précis is like a master tailor for AI, rejecting off-the-rack and meticulously crafting AI platforms for the specific fit, style and needs of different industries and companies,” continued Fuscus. “And with Précis Public Relations, we’ve built a suite of AI PR tools that are custom fitted to the needs and work of PR professionals.”
Précis Public Relations has enterprise-grade end-to-end encrypted security built around a proprietary system of AI Data Vaults™. Uploaded documents and generation are available for the AI to use but are not retained for training. “After all,” said Bo Hrytsak, technology lead for Précis . “Every project has a set of working documents such as meeting notes, client information, articles and the like. If you can’t safely upload your docs, AI becomes a fad instead of a vital collaboration tool.”
In a recent poll of public relations practitioners, Xenophon Analytics found that an “astounding” 98.32% of survey respondents had concerns or deep concerns about the security and privacy of Chat GPT. 87% were “highly concerned” that other ChatGPT users would have access to sensitive data if documents were uploaded or pasted in. Précis solves this problem by using locked AI Data Vaults™ to make uploading documents safe and secure. “You can’t collaborate with an AI if you can’t give it access to your information,” said Fuscus. “The Précis system turns generative AI into a true collaboration tool.”
Précis builds secure AI platforms that are trained and customized to the unique needs of individual companies and industries. The firm’s first product will enter worldwide beta testing in early 2024 and is expected to be launched into the market in June. Précis AI is headquartered in Washington, DC with operations in Canada and Europe.
Further information is available at Précis AI or by emailing info@PrecisAI.com.
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April 1, 2024
Précis Public Relations Beta Test Spans 28 Countries
Précis AI Technology Sets a New Bar for Engagement and International Reach
Washington, D.C. – In a landmark generative AI beta test, Précis AI has rolled out its Précis Public Relations platform to exceptional global adoption and user interaction. As a beta launch, it’s winning praise with a stellar Daily Active User rate nearing 50% and average sessions spanning an immersive 52 minutes. The “stickiness” of the platform—a metric signifying users’ consistent return rates—stands above 60%, highlighting the tool’s essential integration into the professional routines of public relations practitioners worldwide.
“The global footprint of the Précis beta test for a technology start-up is unprecedented,” said John Wilson of the management consulting Full Potential Associates. “The extent of this beta test is impressive. I’ve never seen out-of-the-box global reach like this for a technology company.”
Précis Public Relations’ innovative platform has opened new frontiers in PR user engagement and set the stage for a highly anticipated market launch in June 2024. Already, hundreds of beta testers from across 28 countries, spanning the North & South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, New Zealand and Australia are utilizing the platform’s cutting-edge capabilities. These regions exhibit a strong embrace of the Précis Public Relations technology to transform the pace and precision of their public relations activities.
“We are seeing enormous productivity gains from professionals using Précis Public Relations,” said Précis AI CEO David Fuscus. “It reduces the time to produce quality deliverables by fifty to seventy percent. That’s a lot of saved labor time and cost.”
Experts in the industry note that the advanced algorithms and industry-specific customization available with Précis Public Relations offers a tailored experience that responds to the diverse, specific needs of the PR sector. Précis also has end-to-end enterprise grade security protocols and sophisticated administrative tools to ensure that professionals can enhance efficiency without compromising client confidentiality or losing control over valuable proprietary data.
The technology is built upon a foundation of state-of-the-art generative AI which is designed to meet the nuanced dynamics of PR, including culture, context, and rich narrative fabric – Précis Public Relations is spearheading a revolution where AI is not a mere utility but a full-fledged partner for professionals working in all areas of public communications.
Fuscus also commented that “the PR industry must brace for an evolution fueled by AI-driven changes. The success of Précis Public Relations’ beta signals not only a seismic shift in day-to-day work for PR professionals but the birth a new strategic role for PR professionals, a role made possible by creative human insight enhanced by AI’s analytical might.”
The market launch for Précis Public Relations is June 2024, but the Wait List for demos is open and communications professionals can sign up at: Précis PR Wait List. Demos begin in mid-May.
Précis AI is headquartered in Washington, DC with operations in the U.S., Canada and Europe. The company builds industry specific generative AI platforms. Please visit Précis AI for further information. For sales, please email info@PrecisAI.com.