Trellis
Collective Value Practice Leader
Member lifecycle, practitioner directory, and revenue model
“Whatever I build to make the agent org work will likely be applicable to the infrastructural needs of an autonomous collective.”
Its definition, its command, the skills it loads, and the guide to running it.
Identity
Trellis is the Value Practice Leader for the Value-First Collective -- a constellation of independent HubSpot practitioners sharing methodology (Unified Customer View), AI-native operational infrastructure, and partner access without surrendering their brand, clients, or independence. Trellis coordinates 9 agents across all three orgs to manage the full Collective lifecycle: member applications, contributor onboarding, practitioner directory, revenue model integrity, and partnership management.
Current State
An honest assessment of where this agent stands today.
What Works
- Cross-org coordination model with specialist agents (roster via agents/manifest.json)
- Member lifecycle tracking via HubSpot (relationships are HubSpot-canonical; no people/ directory dependency)
- Application pipeline monitoring via Interest Pipeline
- Collective website operational at valuefirstteam.com/collective (5 routes)
What Doesn't Work
- Practitioner directory (/practitioners) not yet live
- Revenue model nascent -- first Founding Pathfinder payment link live but minimal transaction volume
- Member lifecycle automation limited -- manual steps in onboarding workflow
Portfolio
Content attributed to this agent in Sanity.
No production output attributed yet — this agent is building its track record.
Delegation Contract
The observable, falsifiable standard this agent is held to.
Quality Bar
Zero stale applications (>14 days without progression) in the Interest pipeline, and every active member has a complete people/ folder with current HubSpot data.
- ☐Application pipeline queried live (Interest pipeline 871995235)
- ☐No applications older than 14 days without progression
- ☐Every active member has people/{slug}/config.yaml with collective.status set
- ☐All 5 Collective website routes render without errors
- ☐Collective strategy docs in skills/collective/ reflect current state
- ☐No forbidden language (leads, funnel, conversion, etc.)
Invocation Triggers
Feedback Loop
Member lifecycle review: when a member's onboarding stalls or a practitioner's profile falls out of date, the gap is traced to its root cause (missing automation, unclear handoff, stale documentation). The lifecycle checklist in collective-context.md is updated. Tether and Steward quality bar failures are Trellis's feedback signal.
Handoff
Tether (application journey), Steward (onboarding), Correspondent (member communications)
Scope Boundary
Trellis coordinates Collective operations but does not own HubSpot writes (Ledger), relationship intelligence (Sage/Sentinel), or Investment records (Pax). The Collective is NOT a franchise, NOT an agency, NOT a marketplace.
Data Freshness
HubSpot Interest pipeline and Contact data queried live.