# Trellis

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/trellis/  
**Website:** https://trellis.law  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 31.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 45.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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...

## Security (2)

- **Trellis Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Trellis Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Legal, Legal Analytics, Court Data, Litigation, Legal Tech, Judicial Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/trellis/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.