Built by Operators,
for Operators
We spent years running marketing campaigns, building client technology, and managing operations for businesses at every scale. Trellios is the platform we needed but couldn't find.
A team built at the intersection of agency and technology
We come from the side of the business where the AI tools actually get used, and where the damage happens when they're not governed properly.
Years of running high-volume, brand-critical work for clients across industries. We know what governance failure looks like when AI gets it wrong in public. We've had to clean it up.
Deep experience building production systems that have to be reliable, scalable, and secure. We ship infrastructure that organizations depend on. We don't demo things we can't maintain.
Experience with the systems large organizations run on: data platforms, compliance tooling, and identity and access management. We understand what 'production-grade' actually means.
The people behind Trellios
Operators, engineers, and marketers who lived the governance problem before they built the fix.
Technology entrepreneur with 20+ years building and scaling digital businesses; a founder and CEO who has built and led SaaS and audience-engagement platforms, with a Johns Hopkins computer-science background.
Entrepreneur and e-commerce strategist with 30+ years launching and scaling brands; a four-time exit founder who has built companies across food, beauty, fashion, and direct-to-consumer.
CTO with over 15 years of experience leading platform engineering teams, architecting scalable systems and shipping SaaS products from the ground up.
Technology executive with two decades leading software architecture, infrastructure, and technical strategy in senior CTO and CIO roles.
Operations leader with two decades turning creative chaos into structured momentum, keeping projects moving from strategy to execution.
Business-development leader with 15+ years helping small and mid-sized companies streamline outreach and turn engagement into revenue.
Marketing and creative executive with 20+ years leading brand transformation; his initiatives have driven $400M+ in economic investment in Detroit, with top marketing roles at Crain Communications and Unitask Software.
Digital-marketing strategist with 15+ years in paid media and full-funnel performance, building attribution frameworks that turn marketing into a growth engine.
Journalist and digital strategist with 30+ years across The Detroit News and Crain Communications, pairing editorial depth with audience-development and automation expertise.
Sales and marketing executive with 25+ years scaling revenue operations; authored How to Measure Social Media, an early guide to tying social engagement to ROI.
"The AI tools are everywhere. The guardrails are not."
The problem we kept running into
Working on the agency side, we watched marketing teams adopt AI faster than their organizations could manage it. Content went out unchecked. Brand standards got skipped. Nobody could answer the question: what did our AI actually do last week?
We started building Trellios because we were in that gap ourselves, running AI-assisted workflows for clients without the infrastructure to govern them properly. The tools existed. The operating layer did not.
We needed a platform that gave AI teams the speed they were looking for without removing the accountability that organizations require. That's what we built.
The principles behind every decision we make
Speed without accountability is just chaos at scale. Every capability in Trellios is built with governance as a first-class concern, not retrofitted.
AI agents should augment human judgment, not replace it. The platform is designed to keep people in the loop at the moments that matter, not just as a rubber stamp after the fact.
We're building infrastructure, not a product sprint. That means designing for reliability, auditability, and long-term trust. Not demos that impress once.