Trellis: Revenue, team and how it was built

Solo founder · 25 months after launch, revenue growing

Tradespeople already use WhatsApp all day on the job site, and many write quotes by hand or in a spreadsheet. Tutti puts the office work into that chat, so the customer has nothing new to install or learn. It sends messages through Meta's official WhatsApp Business Platform, which lets one founder run the service without a phone app as the main product.

Started small, grew after funding · 38 months after launch, revenue growing

It sold to large companies from the first months, together with a network of human mentors. An investor reported that it made €30,000 a month within a few months of launch. The founders then turned the mentoring business into a platform built on skills data and raised a €5.8 million Series A in 2025. The managing director of Techstars Torino reported €3.6M in annual recurring revenue in February 2026.

Started small, grew after funding · 9 months after launch

Large companies run many HR systems that do not share data. So a single case, such as a new hire, passes through several of them by hand. Ahron does not replace those systems; it connects to them, measures where cases wait, and places agents there. The founders had sold an earlier HR software company. The product is built on Celonis, a Munich process-mining company. Its partnership, the founder says, brings in requests from around the world.

Started small, grew after funding · 12 months after launch

The founders came from a company that did outsourced purchasing for other firms. So they knew which purchasing tasks were still done by hand in email and spreadsheets. Soource turned those tasks into agent workflows for large companies. One article from the South Summit Madrid 2026 conference reported 800K in annual recurring revenue and 58 enterprise customers. It gave no currency and did not say who gave the figure.

Started small, grew after funding · 36 months after launch, revenue growing

French renovation quotes depend on subsidy and tax rules that change every few months. The small firm that installs the equipment bears the risk of a wrong file. Argile puts those rules and the building calculation methods into the software. So a salesperson can give a detailed quote within an hour of a visit instead of weeks later.

Team of 2 to 10 · 10 months after launch, revenue growing

Food distributors still take many orders by email, text message and phone and type them into old ERP systems by hand. The two founders worked inside a Boston seafood distributor for months to map that work before they built the product. Then they sold it themselves to large distributors. An a16z speedrun newsletter of January 2026 says one enterprise deal with a publicly traded distributor took their booked revenue past US$500,000.

Team of 2 to 10 · 8 months after launch

The founders say that planners in waste depots drag jobs onto trucks by hand every morning. They also say that the plan is wrong within hours. They say that companies cannot hire planners fast enough. They had sold an ERP to waste operators since 2022. They learned that large operators would not replace their ERP. So the new product sits on top of the ERP instead of replacing it. In the April 2026 launch post the founders said that annual recurring revenue was US$496K.

Team of 2 to 10 · 13 months after launch

A slitting plan decides how each wide coil is cut into strips of smaller width for many orders at once. The company's own pages say most planners still build it by hand in a spreadsheet. A co-founder came from several years of work in a service center. So the product was built around the rules of that floor. Those rules include grades, gauges, knife setups, and coil inner and outer diameters. It was built that way instead of on a general factory model. The company charges a share of the savings it measures, so a buyer pays only when scrap goes down.

Team of 2 to 10 · 3 months after launch

Two founders who had run a car rental side business saw that fleet companies kept their planning, tracking and invoicing in separate tools. Fleet companies lost money in the gaps between them. They sold one control center that joins operational and financial data. In May 2025 they wrote that revenue had reached US$200,000 a year, all from word of mouth.

Team of 2 to 10 · 11 months after launch, revenue falling

It took a narrower job than the general AI design tools, mobile apps only, for people who build apps without design skills. The three founders reused what they had learned from four earlier design tools and built it in three weeks. They showed finished designs on X before the launch. Each new Gemini model gave them a better result and a new demo to post.

Team of 2 to 10 · 45 months after launch, revenue falling

Said US$19K a monthRecords US$9.6K in JulyDid not hold

It appeared in January 2023 inside Google Slides, a program where people already work. At that time writing slides from one sentence was new, and users showed it to each other without paid advertising. A blog about presentation topics then brought about 80% of new users from Google search, by the founder's account. Both channels weakened: search traffic fell, and Google added the same function to Slides. The verified total is real, and so is the fall: monthly revenue fell by half between February and July 2026.

Solo founder · 7 months after launch, revenue growing

It went where the users already were. It became an app in ChatGPT's app store and a plugin in Claude's directory and in Claude Code, with setups for Cursor and Codex. It did this in the months when these directories were new. It charges per tool call instead of a share of ad spend, so a small advertiser starts at US$49 a month. And it applied to the platforms' own API programs. The company says Google approved it in June 2026 and Amazon admitted it to its partner network.

Started small, grew after funding · 15 months after launch, revenue growing

Three founders who met in an Antler cohort in Berlin launched it in February 2025. The category, as The Next Web wrote in May 2026, "barely existed 18 months ago". With self-serve plans and unlimited users it signed 1,300 brands and agencies in about nine months, the company said. Two funding rounds within ten months paid for a large sales and engineering team in Berlin and New York.

Started small, grew after funding · sold 11 months after launch

Its founders wrote some of the methods that the industry already used to run models cheaply, such as AWQ for 4-bit weights. They turned that research into a paid serving API. They proved the speed on a public benchmark and partnered with a cloud company that needed exactly that speed. Eleven months after its first public post, the partner agreed to buy it.

Solo founder · 33 months after launch, revenue falling

The app costs almost nothing to run: the owner reports a profit margin of 99%. The App Store page shows no new version since July 2025. A small, steady flow of downloads, about 2,500 in 28 days in October 2026, keeps about 150 paid subscriptions alive. The owner is an experienced app marketer who already sells more than a dozen other apps from the same developer account.

Solo founder · 4 months after launch, revenue falling

The founder turned the go-to-market frameworks she uses as an advisor into a product with one job and one price. It is a small, early business. Stripe data shows US$500 of revenue in its first four months and two active subscriptions in November 2026. The founder has listed it for sale.

Team of 2 to 10 · 11 months after launch, revenue flat

The site ties a cruise chat product to a creator with a social audience. It says the tool is led by her experience of living, working and travelling at sea. The first verified payment came in January 2026, the month after the start date on TrustMRR.