Trellis
Ottawa, CA · Founded 2019 · 59 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
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Trellis is an AI-driven platform that automates advertising, pricing, and profitability optimization for eCommerce sellers on marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, and Shopify. It combines machine learning automation with human decision-making to maximize profit margins and return on advertising spend across online sales channels.
Also known as Trellis Corporation
Founders & leadership
Trellis was founded in 2019 by Denis Leclair and Fahim Sheikh.


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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Trellis operates a profit optimization platform for eCommerce sellers and brands selling on marketplaces including Amazon, Walmart and Shopify. The platform combines automated, algorithmic decision-making with seller-defined inputs, positioning itself around a combination of "AI precision" and human judgment. Core capabilities span advertising automation, dynamic pricing, product content optimization, product promotions, Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) audience work, demand-side platform (DSP) activation, and market intelligence dashboards. A free Amazon Chrome extension is also offered for competitor evaluation, listing audits and profit analysis.
The product workflow is described as collecting and analyzing data across a seller's marketplaces, surfacing insights and recommendations, and then monitoring performance over time to adapt advertising, pricing, listing and promotion strategies. Trellis also markets Qore, a codified-workflow layer described as a "transparent AI operator" that converts a team's standards, priorities and decision logic into workflows. Alongside software, the company publishes educational resources such as guides, free tools including an Amazon pricing elasticity calculator, and blog content on Amazon seller topics.
Business model
Trellis sells access to its optimization software across several service tiers: self-service software for brands running their own operations, an offering for agencies managing profitability across multiple client brands, and a Strategic Management tier that adds support plus product and sales training. Prospects are directed to request a quote or schedule a demo rather than to public self-checkout pricing. Company content criticizes percent-of-spend billing for ad management as misaligning incentives.
Traction
The company reports approximately $1,000,000 in advertising spend managed per day, more than $2 billion in managed annual GMV, and over 1,500,000 daily pricing decisions. Marketed customer outcomes include a 41% increase in profit per session, a 14% increase in conversion rate, and a 54% increase in return on advertising spend. A published customer testimonial comes from Tobi Odunaiya, CEO of Luxe Weavers.
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Market position
Trellis positions itself as a profit optimization platform spanning advertising, pricing, content and promotions for marketplace sellers, rather than a single-function ad tool, and describes Qore as the first transparent AI operator in its category.
Technology
The platform applies machine learning and algorithmic automation to eCommerce data, including advertising bid and campaign automation, dynamic repricing, and algorithmic generation of SEO-oriented product content. Qore is presented as a codified-workflow layer that encodes a customer team's standards, priorities and decision logic into transparent, auditable workflows. The platform ingests data across a seller's marketplace channels and integrates with Amazon Marketing Cloud and Amazon's demand-side platform.
Go-to-market
Direct sales motion driven by demo requests and quote inquiries from the website, supported by inbound content marketing (guides, blog articles on Amazon selling topics, seller community roundups), free tools such as a pricing elasticity calculator, a free Amazon Chrome extension as a top-of-funnel product, and an agency channel.
eCommerce sellers and brands on Amazon, Walmart and Shopify, ranging from businesses using self-service software to agencies managing portfolios of client brands and companies wanting managed strategic support.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Trellis do?
- Trellis is an AI-driven profit optimization platform for advertising, pricing and content on Amazon, Walmart and Shopify.
- Who founded Trellis?
- Trellis was founded by Denis Leclair, Fahim Sheikh in 2019.
- Who are Trellis's investors?
- Trellis's investors include Okapi Venture Capital, Sentiero Ventures, AMR Action Fund, Craft Ventures, Easton Capital, New Science Ventures, Stout Street Capital.
- Where is Trellis headquartered?
- Trellis is headquartered in Ottawa, CA.





