Case Study: Trill, a Boston arts‑tech startup, achieves faster remote collaboration and streamlined data entry with Quip

How an Arts Tech Startup Uses Quip

Trill is a Boston‑based arts‑tech startup led by CEO Kathleen Stetson that builds a discovery engine for live shows. Faced with the challenge of populating its database via manual scraping and coordinating a distributed team of interns and engineers, Trill needed a collaboration tool that avoided conflicting edits, reduced email overload, and supported real‑time remote work — so the team adopted Quip.

Quip was implemented as the central collaboration platform: Quip docs were set up per intern with tables for hours and daily notes, in‑doc messaging and commenting, and mobile push notifications for immediate responses; the engineering team was later onboarded to share usability tests and priorities. Using Quip, Trill moved faster, cut back on email, made data entry far more efficient, and sustained remote coordination that helped them launch in Boston and prepare to expand to new cities.

Trill

Kathleen Stetson

Co-Founder and CEO