A technical partner for serious software · est. 2021

We build the rare software that ships, scales, and runs itself.

A senior-only studio for founders and operators. MVPs in weeks. ERPs that don’t rot. AI workflows that save real hours — not demo minutes.

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By the numbers
47
Shipped
4.8w
Median
9
Seniors
How we work
01

Senior only. No juniors billed at senior rates. The people who scoped it are the people shipping it.

02

Weekly cadence. Working software every Friday. Not a status slide — a running build you can open.

03

Own the on-call. We keep the pager for the first 30 days after launch. If it breaks, we hear it first.

04

Walk away if wrong. If a week in, we can’t make the math work — we refund and recommend someone else.

Our process, at scroll speed

From brief
to production,
visibly.

Scroll down. Each step is a real artefact we produce — not a metaphor. You’ll see the same arc in every project we take on.

01Week 0
Diagnose
Chaos, in writing.
02Week 1
Specify
A one-page contract.
03Week 2
Architect
The shape of the system.
04Weeks 3–4
Build
Senior engineers, weekly demos.
05Week 5+
Ship
Live. Yours. Supported.
"Ops team is drowning in spreadsheets"
replace 3 legacy systems in Q2
needs Claude integration? + human-in-loop review
# GENERAL
deadline May 15 board expects a demo
we've tried 2 agencies nothing to show
mobile? desktop? both?
$X budget, flexible if we trust you
INBOX
from: cfo@ subject: urgent
THE BRIEF COLLECTED
“Can you help?”
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Technical Brief — v1.0
Prepared by TechDex · Week 1
I. Problem

Three legacy ops systems create daily spreadsheet reconciliation for the ops team. Dispatch, customs, and inventory data cannot be trusted in the same hour.

II. Scope

One consolidated operator pane. Role-aware views. A Claude-assisted review loop for exceptions.

III. Constraints

22 working days to full cutover. No downtime. Historical data ETL without data loss.

IV. Proof of done

Week-three demo with three real operators. Week-five live cutover.

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TEST SUITEvitest · watch
meridian-ops.internal
MERIDIAN
Dispatch
Customs
Inventory
Review
50products shipped. And counting.
FIG. 01 · DIAGNOSE
000 / 100
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Capabilities

Four disciplines.
One operating standard.

We only take work where senior engineers build end-to-end. No handoffs, no offshoring, no template factories.

01 / 04

SaaS & MVP

Production-grade MVPs in 3–6 weeks. Not a prototype that needs rebuilding — a foundation that scales to Series A and beyond.

Next.js · tRPC · Postgres
Auth, billing, admin
Analytics + experimentation
Design system baked in
3.2w
avg. to first paying user
Scope a project
02 / 04

ERP

Bespoke operational software for companies that have outgrown spreadsheets and off-the-shelf rigidity.

Inventory · orders · finance
Role-based access
Audit trails & reporting
ETL from legacy systems
62%
ops hours reclaimed
Scope a project
03 / 04

API & Backend

Typed, tested, documented. The kind of backend your future engineers will thank you for.

OpenAPI + SDK generation
Event-driven architecture
Observability by default
Load-tested to 10k RPS
99.98%
median uptime
Scope a project
04 / 04

AI & Automation

Claude-powered agents, n8n and Make workflows that eliminate repetitive work — measured in hours returned, not demo screenshots.

Claude agents (tools + memory)
n8n + Make orchestration
Human-in-the-loop review
Cost + latency monitoring
140h/mo
typical hours saved
Scope a project
Case dossier

Three out of forty-seven.

Most of what we ship is under NDA. These three let us talk in public. Expand any file for the short-form account.

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Client / DisciplineOutcomeHero metric
IProblem

A lead biologist was losing samples in spreadsheets. Existing LIMS tools required six-month implementations and six-figure licences before a single test tube was scanned.

IIApproach

We built a narrow, opinionated LIMS around barcode scanning, freezer-location mapping, and Claude-powered protocol summarisation. Shipped weekly to three pilot labs in parallel.

IIIOutcome

Zero-to-revenue in 12 weeks. Closed $9M Series A three months after launch with this product as the primary asset.

$9M
Series A
320%
YoY retention
140
active users
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System sketchfig. 01
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Architecture simplified for illustration
IProblem

Dispatch, customs, and inventory each lived in a different vendor system. Operators spent their mornings reconciling spreadsheets between them instead of moving freight.

IIApproach

Modelled the real operational workflow first, then the schema. Built a single ERP with role-aware views and audit trails. ETL'd ten years of historical data without downtime.

IIIOutcome

Operators gave up their old tools voluntarily by week three. Ops hours reclaimed now fund a second customer-success hire.

22
days to cutover
4.9 / 5
operator NPS
3 → 1
systems consolidated
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System sketchfig. 02
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Architecture simplified for illustration
IProblem

Junior associates were the bottleneck for contract review at a 200-lawyer firm — slow, expensive, and inconsistent. LLM pilots had hallucinated their way out of trust.

IIApproach

Agent pipeline with retrieval over clause libraries, deterministic cite-back, and human-in-the-loop review. Every output links to the exact span it came from. No invented citations, ever.

IIIOutcome

Now reviews 60% of inbound contracts before a human ever opens the document. Reviewer agreement with the agent clocks in at 92%.

92%
reviewer agreement
$42
avg. cost per doc
11s
p50 latency
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System sketchfig. 03
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Architecture simplified for illustration
What clients say

Hire senior. Once.

Stack

Opinionated. On purpose.

We pick tools we'd bet a weekend on. From Claude and n8n at the core to the supporting cast of infrastructure — every piece earns its place under real load.

28
Tools in rotation
6
Core defaults
0
Sacred cows

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Now booking · Q3 2026

Tell us what
you’re really trying
to build.

Thirty minutes with a founder. We’ll listen, push back, and either send you a written plan within a week — or a referral to someone better suited.

LOCATIONRemote · London + Austin
RESPONSEWithin 24 hours · always a human