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What is Meridian?
Meridian is the Autonomous Product OS for pre-seed founders and early product teams. It runs one closed loop from idea to revenue — validate what pays first, then build it feature-by-feature in gates within runway — guided by Astra, an autonomous AI product agent. You can build anything; Meridian tells you what people will actually pay for, with a number instead of an opinion.
Who is Meridian for?
It's built for the people closest to the value: pre-seed and early-stage founders, solo builders, and the first product managers on a team. If you can build but need to know what pays before you commit runway to it, Meridian is for you. Teams can run in builder or enterprise mode with role-based access for owners, managers, and individual contributors.
What is a Revenue Viability Date?
The Revenue Viability Date is the point at which a product or feature becomes financially viable, given its validated demand, expected commercial value, and the cost to build it. It turns the vague question "should we build this?" into a date you can plan a runway around.
How does Meridian validate features before I build them?
The Synchronizer builds a synthetic market kept in sync with your real users, so you can test signals and demand against a living sample instead of a guess. The Synthesizer then scores each candidate feature by Expected Commercial Value — ARR at stake against the cost to build — and returns a BUILD, DEFER, or KILL verdict. You validate first, then commit code only to what pays.
What is Astra?
Astra is the autonomous AI product agent at the center of Meridian — one per initiative. It runs the whole loop on your behalf: onboard, position, gather market signals, validate them, synthesize features, simulate the build, execute, and release. It keeps working between your sessions, but holds product decisions for your sign-off rather than building blindly.
Do I need to write code?
No. Meridian helps you decide what to build and plan how to build it, and the Vibe Builder can build tracks of validated features for you. If you're a technical founder, you can connect your repository so Meridian indexes your real codebase; if you're not, you can still validate, plan, and ship without writing code yourself.
Is there a free tier, and how do credits work?
You can start an initiative for free, and new accounts receive a grant of starter credits. Credits meter the AI work Meridian does for you — market validation, feature synthesis, simulation, and builds — and are consumed based on the underlying compute each action uses. You top up as you scale; you're never billed for work you didn't run. For current pricing, start an initiative or contact us.
How is this different from a roadmap tool like Productboard?
Roadmap tools help you organize and prioritize ideas you already have — they assume you know what to build. Meridian decides what is worth building: it validates demand against a synthetic-but-synced market, scores features by Expected Commercial Value, simulates the project plan, and then helps you build it in gates. It's a decision and execution engine, not a backlog organizer.
Can I import existing work?
Yes. You can connect a GitHub repository so Meridian indexes your real code into the feature graph, and you can pull existing boards in from Jira so prior planning becomes part of your initiative. Integrations are managed per organization.
Is my data private?
Your initiative data, repositories, and customer signals belong to you and are scoped to your organization. We use them to run Meridian for you, not to train shared models. We use PostHog for product analytics to understand and improve the experience. See our Privacy Policy for the full detail on what's collected, how it's used, and your rights.
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