TRESTLE

What Trestle is

A multi-domain strategic advisor that routes every question to the right specialist — and runs several in parallel when the problem spans domains.

The problem we built it for

The best strategic advice in the world costs $500/hour and takes days to schedule. An MBA runs $200K+ and two years of your life. Generic AI gives you surface-level answers that wouldn't survive a board meeting — confident, articulate, and wrong on the parts that actually matter.

Trestle exists because the quality of strategic thinking you can access should be determined by the quality of your questions, not the size of your network or the school on your diploma.

How the 26-specialist architecture works

When you ask Trestle a question, a routing layer classifies it across 26 specialist domains in under 200ms. The right specialist activates — Financial Analyst for valuation, Strategy Advisor for competitive positioning, Law — Securities for a Reg D placement question. When the question spans domains, multiple specialists run concurrently and their analyses synthesize into a single coherent answer rather than four disconnected ones.

Each specialist is configured with the frameworks, vocabulary, and analytical posture of its domain. A Financial Analyst applies DCF, WACC, and accretion/dilution as native primitives. A Strategy Advisor reasons in Porter's Five Forces, Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers, and Blue Ocean. A Law — Contracts persona thinks about indemnification caps, IP ownership, and limitation-of-liability language by default. These aren't prompts grafted onto a generalist — they are the model's working vocabulary.

What it is built on

The intellectual base is 210+ courses from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School and 450+ professional analytical frameworks — the canon a senior strategy partner, a CFO, or a litigation associate uses every day. Frameworks aren't decoration. Trestle applies them to your specific situation; it does not just recite them.

What Trestle is not

  • Not a generic chatbot. Queries route to specialists; answers are produced by domain-specific personas, not a single generalist trying to be everything.
  • Not professional advice. Trestle is for analysis and decision support. It does not create an attorney-client, fiduciary, or advisor relationship.
  • Not a search engine. It synthesizes structured analysis from frameworks, not retrieval of generic web text.
  • Not a replacement for counsel. For matters where you have real legal exposure, the legal bench helps you frame the issue and ask better questions of a licensed attorney.

Who it's for

Founders mid-fundraise. Operators deciding whether to enter a new market. Executives writing a board memo. Product leaders shipping their first AI feature. VCs reviewing a deal at 11pm. Mid-career managers who've been handed a problem one rung above their training. Anyone who has the question and needs the analytical bench to answer it well.

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