// The Solo Business Readiness Check
Two weeks alongside five others going solo — and you leave with the whole thing decided: who you serve, what you charge, and a 90‑day roadmap.
Free · takes ~5 minutes · completing it submits your application.
First group starts Mon, August 3 · Applications close Wed, July 29
The real problem
You're not lazy. You've read more about business than plenty of business owners.
But every source hands you a different step one. So you research instead of choosing — and it feels like progress.
What's missing isn't information. It's order. What to decide first, what can wait, what to ignore.
The advice was never bad. It just arrives in no particular order — and a business gets built in a very particular order.
The 5-minute check
The Check shows where you stand today. In the cohort, we build all six parts — sorted, specific, yours.
Your real hours, your real numbers — a business that profits, not just stays busy.
What you sell, what it costs, and the math that proves it's worth your time.
Why the right customer picks you — not the loudest voice in the feed.
Exactly who you're for — so your marketing finally talks to someone.
How the right people find you before you ever have to sell.
The simple structure that keeps it running — the business supports your life, not the reverse.
Regularly $997 · zero upfront for the first 6 — pay what it's worth at the end.
First group starts Mon, August 3 · Applications close Wed, July 29
How it works
Right now the business is a hundred open loops — what to charge, who it's for, what comes first. More advice won't close them. Order will.
Niche, offer, pricing — each decision made in sequence, with the math behind it.
The few moves that actually bring customers, planned for the hours you really have.
Not a vision board. Not theory. A plan you built, understand completely, and can run the day it's done.
You bring your craft; I guide the sequence.
✳ A small group of six, this launch month only.
Behind Trellis
Fifteen years in marketing, online sales, and digital products — building exactly these plans for companies of every size. Trellis brings that same work to people building a business of one: the thinking most people pay a consultant for, built with you, in your language.
Before you ask
A complete business plan: who you serve, your offer, your price with the math behind it, how customers find you, and a 90-day roadmap. Every decision made, written down, yours — not templates to fill in someday.
That's where we start. Ten hours a week around a job is a different plan than forty all-in — the pace flexes, the decisions don't get skipped. Still employed? That's most of the group.
No. You need a craft, a service, or a product you'd stand behind — the business thinking is the part I bring. Never priced anything or picked a niche? That's not a gap in you; it's the work we do together.
Especially then. A few sales prove people want the work; they don't tell you what to charge, who to focus on, or what to do next month. The plan turns “it sort of works” into something you can steer.
The first six seats carry zero upfront cost. At the end of the sprint, you pay what the plan is worth to you. After the launch cohorts, Trellis is $997.
Built by a consultant, a plan like this runs well past $997. By the end you won't have to take my word for it — you'll be holding it. That's the point of paying then, not now.
Founding members are taking a chance on something unproven, and I'd rather earn the price than assert it. It also keeps me honest — the sprint has to be worth paying for, every day of it.
You see your results immediately — your strongest area and the one that needs you most. If a founding seat looks like a fit, I reply personally within a couple of days. No drip sequence, no “quick call to see if you qualify.” An answer.
One clear next step
This is the part all that advice never put in order.
Your Check is your application for one of 6 founding seats.
First group starts Mon, August 3 · Applications close Wed, July 29