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Meridian turns scattered tasks, threads and spreadsheets into one living plan. Move a date and everything that waits on it moves too — so the next two weeks are never a surprise to anyone on the team.

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Billing migration moved +2 wks2 dependents followed · 6 people told
Decision logged · 14 Aug Backfill historic invoices now, not in Q4 DWMBAgreed by product and engineering
Workload · week 33 Rita34h Jonas28h Sade31h

Planning the quarter at 11,400 teams — from twelve-person studios to platform groups of four hundred

One source of truth

The plan, the work and the record — kept in one place, shown three ways

Most teams keep a board for the work, a document for the plan and a chat thread for the reasons. Meridian keeps one record and draws it as a timeline, a workload and a log, so there is nothing to reconcile on Monday.

Timeline

Move one date and the plan follows it

Dependencies are declared once. After that a slipped milestone pushes everything waiting on it, and the critical path redraws itself.

Design review Review
Build API + client
Launch GA

+1 wkReview ran long, so Build and Launch moved with it — nobody had to redo the dates.

Workload

Over-commitment, seen while it is cheap to fix

Hours against a stated week, with time off read from the calendar.

Load Over Away
Move “Invoice parity” to Ines? Rita drops to 30h in week 33. Ines has 9h free.
Team capacity, week 33142h of 160h

Decisions

Why it changed, kept where it changed

  1. Billing slips two weeks14 Aug · R. Adeyemi
  2. Onboarding pulled forward9 Aug · D. Whitfield
  3. Synonyms cut from Q32 Aug · J. Park

Baselines

Slip, measured rather than remembered

Billing+2
Search+1
Roles0
Onboard−1

Weeks against the 1 July baseline

Weekly update

The Friday report writes itself from the plan

Q3 Platform · week 33Drafted 08:00

On trackPermissions, onboarding, audit export

MovedBilling +2 wks — backfill agreed on the 14th

NextParity checks start Monday

Guests

Bring the whole room in. Viewers are free.

Finance, legal, the client and the board can read the live plan and leave review comments without taking a seat — on every plan, in any number.

FinanceLegalTwo clientsThe board
Hana Lindgren Owen Achebe Priya Ramaswamy Ama Owusu +10

14reviewers on this plan

$0added to the bill

What happens when a date moves

One slip, followed all the way down

In most teams a slipped date travels by rumour. In Meridian it travels along the dependencies, in under a second, to exactly the people it touches.

  1. 14:02:07
    Billing +2 wks

    A date moves

    Rita drags the billing migration two weeks right and writes one line about why.

  2. 14:02:07.4

    The plan recomputes

    Parity checks and the search cutover move with it. Permissions does not depend on billing, so it stays put.

  3. 14:03
    IDJPSOMB 6

    The right people hear

    Six owners of affected work get one message each. The other forty people in the workspace get nothing.

  4. Fri 08:00

    The update writes itself

    Friday's report already says what moved, by how much, and the reason Rita gave on Thursday.

11,400

Teams planning in Meridian

2.3m

Milestones tracked to date

38%

Fewer status meetings, on average

99.98%

Uptime across the last four quarters

Reporting

Nobody assembles a deck to say what the timeline already shows

Every Friday at eight, Meridian drafts the weekly update from the plan itself: what moved, why, what is next and whether the quarter still fits. Leads edit a sentence or two and send it. Stakeholders who want more open the live plan instead of asking for a meeting.

  • Burn-up against the baseline, not against a guess
  • Every moved date quotes the decision that moved it
  • Sent to a channel, an inbox or nowhere — your call
How the update is written →
Weekly update · Q3 PlatformDrafted by Meridian · Friday 15 August, 08:00
1 at risk
Scope done, against the baseline61%
1 JulToday30 Sep

MovedBilling migration +2 weeks. “Backfilling historic invoices now costs two weeks; doing it in Q4 costs a quarter.” — R. Adeyemi

AheadOnboarding v2 started a week early after permissions reached staging on the 8th.

NextParity checks begin Monday. The quarter still fits, with four days of float left.

Fits what you run

Connected to the tools the work already lives in

Meridian reads status from where the work happens and writes dates back, so nobody updates two systems.

</>Code hostBranches and merged changes
#Issue trackerTwo-way status sync
@Team chatSlip and risk alerts
◇Design filesFrames linked to milestones
Meridian One plan of record
31CalendarsTime off and holidays
Docs wikiSpecs beside their dates
▦Sprint boardsEpics mapped to workstreams
{ }Webhooks and APIAnything else you run

In their words

Fewer meetings about the plan. Better ones.

Leads, engineers and the stakeholders who used to chase them — on what changed when the timeline became the thing everyone reads.

We cancelled two status meetings a week. The timeline answers the question those meetings existed to ask.
Hana Lindgren

Hana Lindgren

Head of Product, Copperline

The first week was uncomfortable. The plan was suddenly honest about how much we had committed to.
Owen Achebe

Owen Achebe

Engineering Director, Northglass

When a client asks why a date moved, I paste the decision. It has a date, a name and the trade we made.
Priya Ramaswamy

Priya Ramaswamy

Delivery Lead, Arcade Labs

4h → 45m

Weekly reporting at Fieldnote, once the update started drafting itself

Firmware and the app finally sat on one plan. We found a six-week collision a whole quarter early.
Anders Vik

Anders Vik

Programme Manager, Northglass

I stopped writing the Sunday-night update. That alone paid for every seat we have.
Leo Marchetti

Leo Marchetti

Founder, Fieldnote

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