Trellis

Trellis (Trellis Research, Inc.) is an AI-powered state and federal trial court research and litigation analytics platform founded by former litigator Nicole Clark. It makes the fragmented U.S. state trial court system — plus federal, appellate, supreme, and bankruptcy courts via PACER — searchable through a single interface, and exposes that data programmatically through the Trellis Trial Court Data API. Law firms, financial institutions, insurers, and researchers use Trellis for case research, judge and ruling analytics, docket monitoring with alerts, document retrieval, business development, lead generation, and due diligence. API access (V2, adding federal + PACER on top of V1 state coverage) is provisioned through a sales-gated free trial.

Trellis publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Legal, Legal Analytics, Court Data, and Litigation.

The Trellis catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Trellis’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, authentication, changelog, and 7 more developer resources.

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26.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs
CompanyLegalLegal AnalyticsCourt DataLitigationLegal TechJudicial AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 26.2/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 5.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Trellis Trial Court Data API

Programmatic access to Trellis's state and federal trial court dataset: Smart Search over rulings, dockets and documents; docket/case data (parties, attorneys, documents, events...

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Trellis Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Trellis Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Trellis Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Webhooks
Webhooks
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: trellis
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/trellis.png
name: Trellis
description: Trellis (Trellis Research, Inc.) is an AI-powered state and federal trial court research and litigation analytics
  platform founded by former litigator Nicole Clark. It makes the fragmented U.S. state trial court system — plus federal,
  appellate, supreme, and bankruptcy courts via PACER — searchable through a single interface, and exposes that data programmatically
  through the Trellis Trial Court Data API. Law firms, financial institutions, insurers, and researchers use Trellis for case
  research, judge and ruling analytics, docket monitoring with alerts, document retrieval, business development, lead generation,
  and due diligence. API access (V2, adding federal + PACER on top of V1 state coverage) is provisioned through a sales-gated
  free trial.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/trellis/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- craft-ventures
x-identity-note: The originating VC-portfolio stub also listed general-catalyst and qed-investors as backers; those belong
  to a DIFFERENT company named Trellis (the insurtech at trellisconnect.com, Series A led by QED). Only Craft Ventures is
  a verified investor in this company, Trellis Research / trellis.law (seed + Series A).
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Legal
- Legal Analytics
- Court Data
- Litigation
- Legal Tech
- Judicial Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
apis:
- name: Trellis Trial Court Data API
  description: 'Programmatic access to Trellis''s state and federal trial court dataset: Smart Search over rulings, dockets
    and documents; docket/case data (parties, attorneys, documents, events); docket refresh; rulings; documents; judge analytics;
    alerts; usage; and webhooks. V2 (May 2024) adds federal court and PACER integration.'
  humanURL: https://trellis.law/legal-data-api
  baseURL: https://api.trellis.law
  tags:
  - Legal
  - Court Data
  - Litigation
  - Judicial Analytics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.trellis.law/trellis-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trellis.law/feature/trellis-trial-court-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/trellis-authentication.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/trellis-webhooks.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://trellis.law
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://support.trellis.law/trellis-api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.trellis.law/trellis-api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://trellis.law/feature/trellis-trial-court-api
- type: Support
  url: https://support.trellis.law
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.trellis.law
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trellis-law
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/trellis-authentication.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/trellis-webhooks.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/trellis-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/trellis-changelog.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/trellis-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/trellis-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1