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Dashboard Certification

A score, not a second opinion.

Upload your dashboard screenshots. Meridian scores business alignment and design quality against a structured rubric and tells you exactly what to fix. Results in about two minutes.

The Problem

“Looks good to me” is not a quality standard.

Your team finishes a dashboard. Someone senior glances at it and says it looks fine. It ships. Three months later nobody uses it, and nobody can explain why, because nobody assessed whether it actually answered the original question.

Peer review is inconsistent. What one reviewer flags, another ignores. The standard shifts between people and between Tuesdays. You end up with dashboards that pass the eye test but fail the use test.

How It Works

Upload, assess, improve

01

Upload screenshots

Capture your dashboard: main view, filter panels, detail pages. Up to 6 screenshots to start, plus any evidence the mentor asks for. Drag, drop, done.

02

AI scores every element

Alignment is scored against your original question and success criteria from Step 1. Your dashboard is also scored category by category against one universal design rubric, judged against what it is evidently built to do.

03

Get your certification

A percentage score, a certification status, category-level breakdowns, and the specific fixes to make, tied to the criteria they move.

Two Gates

Business alignment and design quality

Most review processes check one or the other. Meridian checks both, because a beautifully designed dashboard that does not answer the question it was built to answer is still a failed project.

Business alignment

Primary gate

Your business case from Step 1 becomes the benchmark. The AI evaluates how well your dashboard serves the specific question, audience, and success criteria you defined upfront. Not a generic review: a review against your brief.

Design quality

Scored against a structured rubric: visual clarity, navigation, storytelling, usability, and governance. The same standard every time, regardless of who reviews.

Outputs

Artefacts you can act on

Category-level breakdown

Not just a single number. See exactly which categories are strong and which are dragging the score down, with specific findings tied to what the AI observed in your screenshots.

Specific improvements

Each improvement is tied to the criterion it moves and tells you what to change and why it matters.

Certification Report

A professional report with cover page, score breakdown, findings, and improvement roadmap. Share it with your steering committee by revocable link, or print it to PDF.

Assessment history

Re-assess after improvements and track your score over time. See whether changes moved the needle and where to focus next.

Scoring Rubric

Structured categories, consistent standard

One universal rubric, six categories, judged relative to what the dashboard is evidently built to do. A dense control-room monitor and a one-glance executive summary are held to the same standard, each assessed against the job it says it does. The same standard every time, whatever the dashboard.

Integrity & Honesty

The dashboard tells the truth: no contradictions, titles that match the charts, consistent labels.

Clarity & Visual Design

Layout hierarchy, colour use, typography, decluttering.

Structure & Navigation

Header/footer compliance, information flow, spacing.

Storytelling & Insight

Descriptive titles, narrative over raw data, emphasis.

Interaction & Usability

Filter design, tooltips, chart type appropriateness.

Governance & Accessibility

Metadata, contrast, text size, no colour-only encoding.

Certification Levels

Four outcomes, clear thresholds

No ambiguity. Your dashboard either meets the standard or it does not, and you know exactly how far you are from the next level.

Certified90–100%Ship it. Share with stakeholders confidently.
Refine75–89%Solid foundation. Address flagged items when capacity allows.
Revise60–74%Fix the priority items before sharing with stakeholders.
Rework0–59%Fundamental gaps. Use the improvement list as a rebuild guide.

Scores are consistent across runs. See the benchmark data →

Your next dashboard deserves a score

Define the business case, build the dashboard, then certify it against the question you started with. From business case to certification. Less time than a single review meeting.

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