Architecture evaluation
Assess architecture context, risks, constraints, dependencies, and alignment with technical goals.
Meridian
Architecture governance for decisions that need to remain visible after the meeting ends.
Meridian helps technical leaders evaluate architecture context, identify consequential decisions, compare trade-offs, record accountable rationale, and govern implementation against the resulting architecture baseline.
Why Meridian exists
AI can generate code faster than organizations can govern architectural intent.
As AI accelerates code creation, the risk shifts from “can we produce code?” to “does the code still respect the architecture we intended?”
Architecture intent is often scattered across documents, diagrams, ADRs, tickets, meetings, chat threads, code, and individual memory. Meridian helps make that intent explicit, structured, and usable during future delivery.
Meridian assists with evaluation and governance, but customer leaders remain accountable for architecture decisions.
What Meridian supports
Architecture evaluation and governance in a repeatable product workflow.
Meridian is designed for technical leaders who need stronger architecture governance without building a large architecture organization or adding heavyweight process.
Current-state assessment
Clarify how systems, applications, integrations, data, and operational concerns fit together today.
Target-state thinking
Explore future architecture direction, transition options, and the implications of different paths.
Decision discovery
Identify architectural decisions that require stakeholder understanding, consensus, or ownership.
Trade-off analysis
Compare options across business, technical, delivery, operational, security, and organizational impact.
ADR capture
Record decisions with rationale, alternatives, assumptions, ownership, consequences, and consensus state.
Architecture baseline
Create a durable record of accepted architecture intent, constraints, decisions, and guardrails.
Implementation drift detection
Monitor future changes against accepted decisions and the architecture baseline.
Developer workflow integration
Bring architecture guidance closer to product and engineering workflows where change happens.
How it works
From architecture context to governed implementation.
Meridian assists technical leaders through a structured architecture evaluation and governance flow.
Capture context
Gather systems, goals, constraints, stakeholders, risks, and existing architecture decisions.
Evaluate architecture
Assess current-state architecture, risks, dependencies, alignment, and open questions.
Identify decisions
Separate stakeholder-impacting architecture decisions from supporting design details.
Record baseline
Capture decisions, rationale, trade-offs, ownership, assumptions, and consequences.
Govern implementation
Monitor future changes against accepted decisions and the architecture baseline.
Phase 1 services
Simple service pricing for architecture evaluation and decision support.
Meridian Phase 1 services are priced by outcome. Additional Meridian services and packages will become available in future versions.
Meridian uses product-style pricing because these services are repeatable, product-supported outcomes. Custom architecture consulting is scoped separately when direct senior judgment, organizational context, or recurring fractional support is needed. Consulting can stand alone, while Meridian is the preferred continuity layer when decisions need to be captured, governed, or revisited over time.
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Founding Design Partner Beta
Help verify Meridian with real architecture work.
Select Meridian services are available at beta pricing for a limited time while they remain in beta. Beta pricing applies to eligible beta services and is intended for customers willing to use the service on real or representative architecture work and provide feedback after completion.
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Beta participants provide feedback after completed services, participate in at least one feedback conversation, and allow Meridian to use anonymized usage signals and aggregated, non-identifying learnings to improve the product.
Meridian will not publish your company name, logo, confidential architecture content, source material, or identifiable project details without prior written approval.
Request beta accessWho Meridian is for
Architecture governance for teams that need clarity without heavy process.
Startups and technical founders
Evaluate architecture direction, clarify important decisions, and reduce avoidable technical risk while the product and team are still forming.
Growth-stage engineering teams
Preserve decision context, reduce architecture drift, and create repeatable guardrails as teams, codebases, and delivery workflows expand.
Mid-stage companies
Strengthen architecture governance, modernization planning, integration strategy, and technical alignment without adopting heavyweight enterprise architecture bureaucracy.
Architecture and platform teams
Maintain a clearer architecture baseline, make decision rationale easier to find, and connect architecture governance to the implementation work where drift usually appears.
Consulting plus product
Senior judgment when decisions are consequential. Product support when governance must repeat.
Resolving Architecture consulting and Meridian are complementary. Consulting helps teams resolve high-stakes architecture questions. Meridian helps preserve and govern the resulting decisions when those decisions need to remain visible after the consulting conversation, architecture review, or internal decision process.
Consulting can stand alone for focused senior judgment. Meridian is recommended when the work produces decision records, guardrails, architecture baselines, governance workflows, or follow-up implementation alignment.
Access
Meridian access is currently guided.
Meridian is intended for teams with real architecture evaluation or governance needs. Request access if you want to evaluate whether the product fits your architecture workflow.
Phase 1 services are available for Document, Evaluate / Review, and Evaluate Intermediate. Other Meridian services and packages will become available in future versions.
Founding Design Partner Beta access may be available for teams willing to use Meridian on real or representative architecture work and provide active feedback during the beta period.
Architecture context can be sensitive. Share only what is appropriate for an initial inquiry; confidentiality can be discussed before reviewing detailed system, security, data, or delivery materials.
Request Meridian accessDecision ownership
Meridian assists. Customer leaders decide.
Meridian can help identify decisions, explain options, expose trade-offs, and preserve architecture context. It does not replace the customer’s CTO, architect, principal engineer, or accountable technical leader.
Customer leaders remain accountable for architecture decisions. Meridian records and governs decisions that teams choose to preserve against an accepted architecture baseline.
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