Trellis

Competitive Intelligence & Product Roadmap

AI agents that run short-term rental operations.

Company Overview

Trellis is an agentic operations platform that coordinates STR workflows across PMS, inbox, tasks, workforce, meetings, and finance tools. Serving short-term rental property managers and operators with 10 to 100+ listings.

Latest Intel

Zeitgeist tracks private signals to determine where the company is heading strategically.

New Intel: Trellis is building agents that act across PMS, inbox, workforce, meetings, and finance context. That puts Breezeway, Guesty, Hostaway, and Turno closer to infrastructure than the primary operator interface.

What They're Building

The company's public product roadmap & what they're committed to building.

Agent action controls

Trellis is adding permissions, review mode, workflow restrictions, and action timelines so operators can inspect and limit what agents do.

Operations intelligence

The product is adding Insights for messaging, agent performance, workforce, and reviews, making agent output part of the management system.

Workforce execution

Recent releases added mobile task flows, visit tracking, calendar drag and drop, shift updates, supplies, and field work coordination.

Meeting memory

Trellis now supports AI meeting workspaces, transcripts, recap emails, and calendar auto-join across common video tools.

Finance context

Ramp connection and spend attribution bring card activity into the same operational context as reservations, tasks, and guest issues.

Founder and Key Execs

Lodovico Benvenuti

Co-Founder (scaled STR operations to over $2M annual revenue and previously worked on AI STR workflows at Conduit)

Jan Sahagun

Co-Founder (built STR Tech Report and led early sales across AI tools for property managers)

Founder Force Multiplier

Benvenuti brings operator and AI workflow depth from STR operations and Conduit. Sahagun brings category distribution through STR Tech Report, industry events, and early sales into property managers.

Funding History

2026 | Founded
2026 | Joined YC P26, with Entrepreneurs First also listed as a backer

Competitors

Breezeway:

Breezeway is centered on property care and field operations, while Trellis is trying to coordinate the wider STR stack through agents.

Guesty:

Guesty is a PMS for vacation rental managers, while Trellis connects to PMS data and acts across surrounding workflows.

Hostaway:

Hostaway is a vacation rental PMS and channel manager, while Trellis positions itself as the agentic operating layer above existing systems.

Turno:

Turno focuses on cleaning and turnover coordination, while Trellis spans guest, workforce, task, finance, and owner workflows.

PriceLabs:

PriceLabs focuses on pricing and revenue management, while Trellis is aimed at operational execution after bookings are created.

Trellis

's Moat:

Workflow switching costs are the likely path: Trellis can become the action log, SOP store, and automation graph across an STR operator’s fragmented stack.

How They're Leveraging AI

Guest Issue Resolution Agent

Trellis uses agents to answer guest messages and take follow-up actions across short-term rental operations. The agent can use reservation data, property context, knowledge base content, time of day, and conversation history before drafting or sending replies.

Workspace-Specific STR Knowledge Retrieval

Trellis appears to build a retrieval layer over each operator’s properties, reservations, SOPs, conversations, tasks, and connected accounts. That lets the agent answer and act based on local operating context rather than generic hospitality scripts.

Meeting And Voice Operations Capture

Trellis uses AI to turn meetings and voice interactions into operational memory for short-term rental teams. It supports meeting workspaces, transcripts, recap emails, calendar auto-join, and voice-related AI providers.

AI Use Overview:

Trellis appears to use multi-model LLM agents with retrieval, permissions, and tool calling over workspace data, making the operating context the main edge.

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