The AI Scribe for
Child-Centred Meetings

Trellis is a digital tool that helps teachers and school staff to take notes during meetings about how to support learners with additional support needs (ASN). These meetings are often called “Team Around the Child” or something similar.

With permission from everyone in the room, Trellis records the meeting. It then helps create the paperwork that comes after, like Child’s Plans and meeting minutes.

Don’t be mistaken: we are not just "another AI slop company" churning out generic summaries. We know that in Special Educational Needs, a vague document is a useless document – and potentially dangerous, too. That’s why Trellis is built on domain-specific expertise. Our quality is overseen by a former SEND administrator who ensures our AI understands the nuances of education. By combining expert-led tuning with your final "Human-in-Command" review, we ensure every draft is precise, professional, and truly fit for purpose.

It means that while Trellis does the heavy lifting of drafting, the teacher is always the decision-maker. We view AI as a "talented intern": it is excellent at organising notes and creating first drafts, but it lacks your professional intuition and lived knowledge of the child. We have designed Trellis so that no document is ever "final" until a human reviews, edits, and approves it. This principle is baked into our software interface, our training modules, and our ethics, ensuring that technology supports your expertise, but never replaces your voice.

The security of your data is a huge priority for us. Trellis has ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials accreditations. All our data is stored on Microsoft Azure, in the UK South region. We’ve been mentored by the Information Commissioner’s Office and had regular reviews with a senior architect at Scottish Government Learning Directorate.

To get more technical:

Trellis operates on a "zero-trust" model. This means your data is tucked away in a private virtual network that has no direct connection to the public internet. Access is only possible through a secure Web Application Firewall (WAF) that monitors and blocks malicious traffic.

Trellis ensures data from different schools or Local Authorities never mixes. We use Row-Level Security (RLS) in our database and separate storage "silos" so that users can only ever see the information relevant to their specific organisation.

Your data is encrypted while it’s moving (in transit) and while it’s stored (at rest). Even our internal services talk to each other using encrypted channels.