Trellis

Spec sheet

Purpose

Trellis helps K–12 school leaders turn classroom walkthrough notes into personalized teacher feedback and coaching conversations.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Intended users

Trellis serves principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, district leaders, and teachers.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Integrations

Trellis has no live SIS or LMS sync today; staff can be invited by email and data can be moved in or out as CSV.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Security

Trellis says data is encrypted in transit with TLS and at rest with AES-256, and access is scoped to each school's workspace.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Compliance

Trellis is designed to support FERPA obligations and offers data processing agreements; it says its infrastructure vendors hold certifications, while Trellis itself has not completed a SOC 2 audit.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Support

Trellis says it will provide a written response to questions within one business day.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

AI assistant

Elli answers questions using a school's observations and feedback, and District plan leaders can query across their schools.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

AI providers

Trellis uses Anthropic and OpenAI commercial APIs, and says customer data is not used to train their models.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

AI review

AI drafts feedback, but an administrator reviews and chooses what to deliver; Trellis says it does not automatically rate teachers or send data to HR systems.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Data controls

Admins can export workspace data as CSV or JSON, and Trellis says it does not sell data or use it for advertising.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Frameworks

Trellis supports frameworks including Danielson, Marzano, CSTPs, UDL, state rubrics, and local walkthrough forms.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Hosting

Trellis is browser-based and hosted on Vercel with a PostgreSQL database managed on AWS via Supabase; it has no on-premise install.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Observation workflow

Observers can type or dictate notes, attach artifacts, generate framework-aligned drafts, review and edit them, and deliver feedback through teacher portals.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Voice notes

Voice notes are transcribed and the audio recording is deleted immediately; Trellis keeps the text transcript.Read 7 Oct 2026 · gettrellis.app

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Teacher Evaluation Software#13 of 277.4