A Premier Global AI Venture Studio
Trelais is the venture studio behind the AI Startup House and the building partner of Real AI Dynamics — creating, launching, and scaling AI-driven companies through a rapid 30-day generation model refined across 80+ businesses and 70 countries.
What We Do
The name Trelais evokes the treillage — the trellis that gives a growing vine its structure. The studio does the same for ventures: strategy, capital pathways, technology, and operations, so founders can climb faster.
Trelais is the consulting and launch engine of the AI Startup House — the immersive founder residency where entrepreneurs live, build, and launch together. We design the curriculum, guide the builds, and take ventures from idea to market inside 30 days.
The Startup House →Every venture personally launched by founder Nikky Kho is created, administered, and scaled under the Trelais umbrella — a portfolio spanning AI education, software, media, and philanthropy, run with shared systems and a single standard of excellence.
The Portfolio →When Real AI Dynamics consulting uncovers a venture worth building — an app, a platform, a new company — Trelais builds it. We are RAID's dedicated build partner, turning consulting insight into shipped product and operating businesses.
The Partnership →The Trelais Method
Ventures at Trelais begin with a dynamic founding team and a 30-day sprint from concept to launch. Then a specialized growth team takes over. The year-long arc follows five modules — the Five S's.
Assemble the team, validate the model, and launch within the first 30 days — the rapid generation sprint.
A dedicated growth team drives customers, revenue, and market position with AI-powered sales and marketing.
Operations, IT integration, people management, and financial strategy — the trellis that holds the growth.
Durable unit economics, leadership depth, and processes that outlast any single founder or market cycle.
An operating company with momentum — positioned for expansion, partnership, or exit on the founder's terms.
The AI Startup House
The AI Startup House is a 30-day founder immersion now hosted in multiple locations — Hawaiʻi, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Austin, and more. Founders live and build together, receive daily one-on-one training, apply AI across sales, marketing, product, and thought leadership, and leave with a launched venture.
The Ecosystem
Trelais sits at the center of an ecosystem built by Nikky Kho. Real AI Dynamics educates and consults; the AI Startup House immerses and launches; Trelais builds and administers it all.
The international gold standard in generative AI training — ~100 live programs a year, 10,000+ clients, 270 cities, 70 countries. Born from Trelais; Trelais builds the ventures its consulting uncovers.
The immersive founder residency hosted in Hawaiʻi, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Austin, and beyond. Trelais provides the consulting, curriculum, and launch infrastructure behind every cohort. AIStartupHouse.com →
Every venture personally launched by Nikky Kho — across AI, software, media, education, and philanthropy — is administered and scaled by Trelais.
The Founder
Nikky Kho is a renaissance entrepreneur with three decades across Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the global startup ecosystem — founder of 80+ businesses, Inc. 5000 CEO, and White House honoree for Entrepreneurial Achievement.
He has delivered more than 10,000 presentations across 270 cities in 70 countries, holds a JD, an MBA from USC, and an ALM from Harvard, and is a PhD candidate in AI. He has climbed Mount Everest, traveled 150+ countries — and brings the same relentlessness to every venture Trelais builds.
nikkykho.com →Start a Venture
Whether you're joining the AI Startup House, bringing a venture to the studio, or building on a Real AI Dynamics engagement — it starts with a conversation.