Jamie and Kelly founded Trellis Tools with the believe that there has to be a better way for post startup founders to build teams and get to scalability.
With over 38 years of experience working in and with small business owners, we’ve mastered the art of managerial-leadership in phase-2. Trust us to bring tried, tested, and trusted solutions to your business.
Built by Experts
Passion. Skill. Expertise.
Our partnership blends years of hands-on experience with cutting-edge expertise to deliver develop and implement our solutions.
Jamie Birch Day
Co-Founder &
Development Director
Jamie is a software engineer with over 13 years of experience. She has spent much of her career working at companies in the B2B SaaS and/or startup space, ranging from seed stage companies with a dev team of 3 to mature startups with over 100 engineers. She has experience working across the full stack, including devops, and specializes in building complex web applications.
Jamie is passionate about process improvement, developer experience, and building software that is easy to maintain and extend. In addition to her work on Trellis Tools, Jamie is a Senior Software Engineer at Fieldwire where she spearheads broad-reaching technical initiatives and improvements as part of the Web Task Force.
When she’s not building software, Jamie enjoys exploring museums, discovering new restaurants, and playing in local queer sports leagues.
Kelly Schaefbauer
Co-Founder & Lead Analyst
Kelly is the lead Business Analyst and co-founder of Aligned Applications, where he works with founders navigating Phase 2. He is fascinated by what it takes for a founder to successfully navigate this stage of growth. Phase 2 is where complexity begins to outgrow hard work.
With more than 32 years of experience working with small businesses across technology, managerial leadership, accounting, and human resources, Kelly brings a broad organizational perspective to the challenges founders face. His work focuses on helping founders make their work visible, understand what their growing organization requires, identify what is holding it back, and develop the managerial-leadership practices and management team needed to move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
At the center of Kelly’s work is a simple objective: help founders build well-run businesses that do not depend on the founder personally managing everything—and ultimately give the founder greater choice in how they spend their time.
An advocate for lifelong learning, Kelly frequently mentors emerging leaders and volunteers his time with local startups. Outside of work, he enjoys tennis and exploring wine and food from around the world.