Rhumb
A route between two sources that can be sailed without rewriting the coast.
A living atlas for research
Plot the work.
Keep the helm.
Meridian draws your sources as routes, harbors, and weather. The plate is honest about disagreement. The signature on the cartouche stays yours.
Harbor
A port of agreement. Named. Dated. Allowed to silt.
Sounding
Depth of certainty. Shallow numbers are not a failure; they are the work.
Weather
What changed since the last plate. Fog is drawn, not deleted.
Instruments on the plate
The chart has a grammar. Learn it once.
02°
Rhumbs
A rhumb is a constant bearing between two fragments. Meridian will not invent a coastline to make the line prettier. If the sources disagree, the plate shows two coasts.
14°
Harbors
A harbor is where a team is willing to land. It needs a name, a date, and a keeper. Consensus is a port, not a fog bank.
28°
Soundings
Every claim carries a depth. Twelve fathoms of evidence is drawn differently from two. The lead line stays on the table.
How a plate is drawn
Four stations. No fifth for “the model decides.”
I
Dump the fragments
Notes, transcripts, PDFs, half-true Slack threads. The plate accepts a mess. It will not pretend the mess is a coastline.
II
Take bearings
You mark which sources you trust enough to sail by. Meridian plots rhumbs between them and leaves the rest as fog.
III
Name the harbors
Where the team can land, you write a harbor: a decision, a date, a keeper. Unsigned ports do not appear on the issued plate.
IV
Issue the cartouche
The title block carries a name. That is the whole product. A chart without a helm is a decoration.
The bench
Analog instruments. Digital plate.
Meridian is not a dashboard pretending to be a map. The work still looks like a chart: dividers for distance, a lead for depth, a cartouche for the name you are willing to sign. The software holds the plate still while you decide.
If a tool cannot be named in the language of the bench, it does not ship.
What the plate will not do
A chart that lies is worse than no chart.
No unsigned coasts
Meridian will not smooth two contradictory sources into one pretty shoreline. You pick a bearing, or the plate shows both.
No silent weather
If a source moved, the weather glass records it. Confidence is drawn, not implied by a green badge.
No helm for hire
The cartouche needs a human name. The model does not issue plates. It sharpens pencils.
Who lands here
Harbors, not personas.
Newsrooms
A desk that plots claims as rhumbs and refuses a single coast when two desks disagree.
Labs
A plate for a paper that is still underway. Soundings instead of a fake “done.”
Policy shops
Harbors with keepers. Briefs that remember who signed, and what the weather was.
Passage
Three waters. Same grammar.
Coastal
$0/mo
One plate, one keeper. Enough to learn the grammar.
- — One living chart
- — Thirty sources
- — Pilot issues
- — Almanac
Offshore
$48/mo
A desk for a research crew. Harbors can be named.
- — Five plates
- — Shared harbors
- — Sounding history
- — Export to PDF plate
Blue water
Letter
A chartroom. Several crews, one atlas, a keeper of the log.
- — Unlimited plates
- — SAML later — not in this template
- — On-prem talk
- — A named cartographer
Notices to mariners
Questions from the next watch
Does Meridian replace the researcher?Open
No. It holds the plate. You take bearings, name harbors, and sign the cartouche. The model is a pencil.
Will it invent a coastline if my sources disagree?Open
It will not. Disagreement is drawn as two coasts, or as fog, until a keeper names a harbor.
Is this a dashboard?Open
No. There is no ops wall, no night desk, no glowing board. The product is a chart you can issue.
Can I export a plate?Open
Offshore and Blue water issue a dated PDF with the cartouche, scale, and soundings. Coastal keeps the plate on the table.
Do login and register create an account?Open
In this template they do not. They are furniture. Submit the form and you will be told so, then pointed home.
Issue a plate