Atlanta · Venture Studio · Est. 2024Meridian

Built from
the centerline.

Meridian is an AI-native venture studio. We build commercial software products, maintain a shared infrastructure platform that powers all of them, and take on a small number of pro bono builds each year for organizations doing work worth doing.

Meridian

Commercial products

Each venture has its own brand, market, and pricing. All held to the same standard.

The engine behind the portfolio

Shared infrastructure that runs every venture. Named for pioneers whose work shaped how we build and run things.

Emmett
Venture Engine · COO

Autonomous venture engine. Measures portfolio health, orchestrates builds, runs daily briefings. Named for Everett’s great-grandfather.

Beacon
Growth · Marketing

Autonomous growth and marketing brain. Executes low-stakes actions, queues high-stakes for approval. Daily digest at 7 AM.

Relay
Customer Support

AI customer support platform. Every venture runs on it. Sold externally to VC-backed companies at $99–$699/month.

ForgeAI
AI Plan Engine

AI plan generation engine. Trained on operator philosophy. Generates personalized plans in under 60 seconds.

Gladys
CTO · Infrastructure

CI/CD executor and infrastructure layer. Owns engineering standards and cross-repo tooling. Named for Gladys West.

Bruce
CFO Analysis

CFO analysis layer. P&L, runway, unit economics, MRR projections, venture go/no-go. Named for Bruce Greenwald.

Work with us

Three engagements. Each built for a specific stage. The right one depends on what you’re trying to solve right now.

Every venture clears the same bar.

The filter applies to every product in the portfolio, every engagement, and every builder aligned with Meridian.

Meridian is run by Everett Steele, a veteran and operator who has founded, built, and exited multiple companies across logistics technology, staffing, and digital product. The studio operates from Atlanta, Georgia.

Everett Steele