A venture studio for the trades

Software for the businesses that show up at your door.

Trellisk builds mobile-first software for solo operators and small crews in onsite residential services — cleaning, HVAC, landscaping, gutters, and beyond. One job at a time, one address at a time.

Tuesday route 4 stops · 6h 40m
Ramirez residence
Deep clean · 2 br / 2 ba
8:00 – 10:00
18 min drive
Oakview Apartments · Unit 4C
Move-out clean
10:18 – 12:00
9 min drive
Chen residence
Recurring biweekly · Spanish preferred
12:09 – 13:30
26 min drive · lunch window
Whitfield residence
Standard clean
14:15 – 16:00
The problem

Enterprise tools were never built for a crew of one.

Most scheduling software was designed for dispatchers running a fleet, not for the person who cleans the house, fixes the unit, and answers the phone. It ignores drive time, assumes English-only customers, and charges enterprise prices for a one-person operation.

73%

of U.S. home service businesses operate with five employees or fewer, yet are sold the same software as national franchises.

1 in 4

residential service jobs in growing metro markets are booked by a Spanish-speaking owner or operator — mostly on tools with no translation support.

Verticals

One playbook, built trade by trade.

We start deep in a single trade, ship something operators actually use, then carry what we learn — the scheduling core, the bilingual layer, the travel-time engine — into the next one.

Domestic cleaning

Recurring visit scheduling, checklists per property, and bilingual client messaging.

In active build

HVAC repair

Emergency slotting, parts-on-hand tracking, and route-aware dispatch for one-truck operators.

On the roadmap

Gutter cleaning

Seasonal batch scheduling by neighborhood, with weather-aware rebooking.

On the roadmap

Landscaping

Property-based crews, recurring mow routes, and travel-optimized daily runs.

On the roadmap

Dog grooming

Breed-specific service timing, pet notes per client, and mobile-van route scheduling.

On the roadmap

Academic tutoring

Session scheduling across multiple households, recurring subjects, and bilingual parent updates.

On the roadmap
What makes it different

Two problems everyone else treats as an afterthought.

01

Travel time is part of the schedule, not a surprise after it.

Every booking accounts for real drive time between the last stop and the next one — not a flat buffer. Operators see the true shape of their day before they confirm a job, and customers get windows that actually hold.

02

Bilingual by default, not by plugin.

Every message between a provider and a customer passes through the built-in chat translator — each person writes in the language they're comfortable in, and reads the reply in their own, without ever leaving the appointment thread.

Chat translator Same thread, two languages
Provider · types in Spanish
Voy en camino, llego en 10 minutos.
Perfecto, la puerta lateral está abierta.
auto-translated
Customer · reads in English
On my way, arriving in 10 minutes.
Great, the side door is open.
How we operate

A studio, not a single product.

Trellisk is built to launch and operate a portfolio of focused, vertical tools — each one shaped around a specific trade, sharing the same underlying scheduling and communication core.

Discover

Talk to the operators first

We study how a trade actually runs its week — the routing habits, the language customers use, the tools it has already outgrown — before writing a line of product spec.

Build

Ship narrow, ship real

Each product starts with the smallest version that removes a genuine daily friction, built mobile-first for someone working from a truck or a doorstep, not a desk.

Compound

Carry the core forward

Scheduling, routing, and bilingual messaging are built once and reused, so each new vertical launches faster than the one before it.

Get in touch

Running a service business, or building tools for one?

We're always talking to operators in the trades and to people who understand this space. Reach out.

[email protected]