Meridian is an AI-powered dashboard assessment and certification platform. It scores your dashboards against design standards and evaluates whether they answer the original business question.

How does Meridian certify dashboards?

Upload dashboard screenshots and Meridian uses AI vision technology to score them against two dimensions: business question alignment and design quality. You receive a certification report with specific feedback.

What certification levels does Meridian offer?

Meridian provides four certification levels: Certified (90%+, meets all standards), Refine (75–89%, solid foundation with minor items to address), Revise (60–74%, fix priority items before sharing with stakeholders), and Rework (below 60%, fundamental gaps requiring a rebuild).

Can I track my dashboard improvements over time?

Yes. Every assessment is stored in your project history, so you can track your scores over time and see where your dashboards have improved.

What is the Decision Outcome Framework?

The Decision Outcome Framework is a five-step methodology for building trusted dashboards: Curate (define the question), Conform (align data), Clean (validate data), Connect (package data), and Certify (mark quality). Meridian builds all five. Curate and Certify are open to everyone on the free Starter tier; Conform, Clean and Connect are Pro² steps.

What pricing plans does Meridian offer?

Meridian offers a free Starter tier, with Plus and Pro² tiers opening at general availability.

SCORE. CERTIFY. SHIP.

Score your dashboard:the design
and the answer

Meridian is the only platform that scores both: how well your dashboard is designed, and whether it answers the question it’s meant to. Certify it before you ship.

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AI-scored certification

Business question alignment + design

Starter tier

See the output

This is what a Meridian certification looks like.

Every certification runs two gates. Business alignment first: whether the dashboard actually answers the question it’s meant to. Then design quality, scored criterion by criterion. You get a score for each, and the fixes that move them.

Business alignment, scored on how well it answers your question
Design quality, scored criterion by criterion against best practice
Specific fixes for both gates, tied to the criteria they move

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Meridian · Certification Report · Sample

Customer Retention Dashboard

Certification score

67%Revise

Score reflects this dashboard’s lower gate: Alignment at 67%.

Business alignmentRevise

67/ 100

Design qualityRefine

84/ 100

Why this scored 67

Gates certification

Two gates, and the lower one sets the score. Design scored 84, so the dashboard is designed well. It scores at 67 because the dashboard did not answer the question it was built to answer; great design can never close that gap.

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12 specific fixes across both gates in the full certification

The methodology

From the right question to a certified insight, in five iterative steps.

This is what Meridian scores against: the Decision Outcome Framework, five steps from the right question to an insight worth trusting, evolved from years of practice building data products. Curate sharpens the business question. Certify puts a formal mark of quality on the insight that ships. Meridian builds all five: those two are open to everyone, and the three in between run on Pro².

Curate

the question

Start with the right question, not the nearest dataset.

Scored Business Case Canvas

Mock-up

Canvas Brief

Included in Starter & Plus

Meridian Pro²Enterprise-grade data controls

Conform

the data

Shared definitions across every source and team.

Data model

Data dictionary

Blueprint export

Clean

the data

Quality rules that catch errors before the boardroom does.

Business rules

Data quality rules

Connect

the product

Package governed data into a live product, defined once and ready for any team to use with confidence.

Data-product contract

Machine-readable catalog export

Certify

the insight

A formal mark of quality on every insight you ship.

Business alignment assessment

Dashboard design assessment

Certification Report

Included in Starter & Plus

Curate and Certify are open to every Meridian account. The middle three steps, Conform, Clean, and Connect, are built and run on Meridian Pro². Read the full framework

What You Get

More than a score. The artefacts your team actually ships.

Business Case Canvas

An eight-section framework that captures the business case, audience, success criteria, and risks. So you build the right dashboard, not just a dashboard.

AI mentor that coaches you through all eight sections
Canvas scoring with dimensional feedback
Mock-up generated from your business case
Canvas Brief, shareable by link and revocable any time

Dashboard Certification

Upload screenshots and let Meridian’s vision AI score your dashboard against the original business question and design standards. The only platform that assesses both.

Up to 6 screenshots to start, plus any evidence the mentor asks for
Two gates: business question alignment + design quality
Four bands: Certified, Refine, Revise, Rework
Recertify as often as you like, at no cost to your quota
Assessment history across every run
Certification Report with a reference number, shareable by link

Why Meridian

Built for analytics leaders who set the standard for their team's dashboards.

Set The Bar

Stop reviewing work that isn’t ready.

Hand the first-pass quality check to Meridian. Your team gets specific, structured feedback; you get your time back for the conversations only you can have.

Certified Output

A score, not a second opinion.

Your certification report scores business alignment and design quality with specific, actionable feedback, not a vague thumbs-up from a colleague.

Continuous Improvement

Watch your dashboards get better.

Every assessment is stored. Track your scores over time, see where you’ve improved, and build a track record of quality that speaks for itself.

From The Field

It eliminates a whole heap of upfront rework. Someone brings me a board, I can’t extract anything useful from it quickly, and I have to send them back to fix it. With Meridian I can just say: get to a score of 75, then come and talk to me.

Beta tester·Analytics Lead

Plans

Starter is free. Plus and Pro² open at launch.

Starter is free: 5 projects, 5 certifications. Plus and Pro² are built and running; access opens at launch, and pricing is confirmed then.

Starter

Free

Everything you need to certify your first dashboards. Starter is free, permanently.

Business Case Canvas with mentor
Mock-up and Canvas Brief
Dashboard alignment + design assessment
Certification Report, shareable by link
5 projects certified (lifetime), recertify each as often as you like
Up to 5 active projects (10 lifetime)

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Plus

Coming at launch

Unlimited certifications, deeper AI, and control over the standard for analytics leaders.

Everything in Starter
Unlimited projects & certifications
Control over how your dashboards are scored
Fresh share links whenever you need them

Pro²

Coming at launch

Structured data governance from source to chart.

Everything in Plus
Conform: the semantic layer and data dictionary your answer needs
Strategic priorities scorecard across your dashboard portfolio
Clean: business rules that catch errors before the boardroom does
Connect: one data-product contract, downloadable for your catalogue

Agency

Certifying dashboards for clients?

Starter and Plus are licensed for use within a single organisation. Consultancies, agencies, and systems integrators certifying dashboards on behalf of external clients need an Agency licence under a separate Master Service Agreement, with multi-tenant certification, white-label rights, consolidated billing, and custom rubric extensions.

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Get certified

Your next dashboard deserves a score.

Define the business question, upload your dashboard, and get certified. Starter is free: 5 projects, 5 certifications.