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Meridian is where you, your team and your AI agents think clearly about what you're building, in a collaborative documentation knowledge base designed for coders and product teams. Meridian lives with your code and never quietly goes stale. BYO AI with no vendor lock-in, and it works across any IDE and agentic application. Get started in seconds.

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Core features

Effortlessly build and collaborate engineering docs that never stale

/plan /design /share /ideate Enhance your existing workflow in /meridians content-rich format. Never worry about docs going stale, share with your team to build with clarity.

Markdown is dying

And the people killing it built Claude Code. Working in md has become default practice for engineers in the AI era but AI and humans prefers HTML and that's why Claude and Meridian is built on top of it.

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Stickies

Create To-do lists, execute Github commands, run your dev env, run workflows and spin up terminals all from Stickies.

Save Tokens

Without a doc, engineers pay an agent to re-explain the system every time they ask. It re-reads the repo, works out what someone already worked out, and charges for it again next week. With Meridian the doc is already there to read.

Asking an agent how the system works

The answer10%Re-reading the repo to derive it90%

The same question, a week later

Reused from last time5%Derived from scratch, again95%

The same question, with Meridian

Never spent80%Still spent20%

Meridian Compares

Meridian

IDE-native docs

Notion

Workspace wiki

Cursor Canvas

AI IDE canvas

Obsidian

Local vault

Claude Desktop

Desktop agent

Answers

quick, reliable, accurate

90Meridian · Answers · 90Docs live beside your code and show who verified them and when, so people and agents can trust the answer.

84Notion · Answers · 84Workspace-wide search and question answering across every function, not just engineering.

42Cursor Canvas · Answers · 42Answers are repository-scoped. There is no company-wide knowledge surface.

20Obsidian · Answers · 20A personal vault on one machine. No shared index for the company.

82Claude Desktop · Answers · 82Strong cross-tool question answering through more than thirty-eight MCP connectors.

Collaborate

projects, decisions, ideas

92Meridian · Collaborate · 92Live docs, comments, verification and an inbox for engineers and product, right inside the editor.

92Notion · Collaborate · 92Category leader for inclusive multiplayer editing, page and space permissions, and everyone in the company on one surface.

28Cursor Canvas · Collaborate · 28Canvas shipped single-player and IDE-bound. Excellent for engineers, excludes non-technical staff by construction.

25Obsidian · Collaborate · 25Single-player by default. Collaboration is plugin-only through Relay or Peerdraft, not native, despite frequent reports otherwise.

38Claude Desktop · Collaborate · 38Chat sessions and artifacts. No real-time multiplayer co-editing.

AI + workflow

fits how you already work

98Meridian · AI + workflow · 98Your agents publish straight to Meridian with /meridian, so you keep working exactly as you do now.

64Notion · AI + workflow · 64AI sits on top of the workspace rather than inside the workflow engineers already use.

95Cursor Canvas · AI + workflow · 95Zero-friction AI in the editor with durable agent artifacts. A strong fit to an engineer's existing workflow.

40Obsidian · AI + workflow · 40Plugin-mediated AI, with no first-class agent interface.

90Claude Desktop · AI + workflow · 90MCP-native, so agents reach the systems the work already lives in.

Won't rot

what you write stays true

98Meridian · Won't rot · 98Every doc is re-checked against the code it was written from, so drift shows up on the doc before it misleads anyone.

58Notion · Won't rot · 58The only incumbent with a purpose-built mechanism: page verification with expiry, owners and re-verification prompts. Manual and social, not code-aware.

30Cursor Canvas · Won't rot · 30No native staleness detection. Content is a by-product of the session that produced it.

18Obsidian · Won't rot · 18No staleness detection of any kind. Freshness depends entirely on the author.

24Claude Desktop · Won't rot · 24Artifacts are chat outputs, not a maintained knowledge base that anyone keeps current.

Secure

your data is safe

80Meridian · Secure · 80No access to your code or repositories, only paths, hashes and verdicts behind row-level security.

80Notion · Secure · 80Mature enterprise controls, permissions and certifications.

74Cursor Canvas · Secure · 74Enterprise controls in place, offset by the new attack surface that agentic features introduce.

68Obsidian · Secure · 68Local-first data sovereignty: files stay on disk, with no vendor cloud by default.

82Claude Desktop · Secure · 82The strongest security and certification stack in the set.

Methodology: public survey scored 0-100 against core expectations of SMB and enterprise engineering teams. Gold marks the leading product on each expectation.

Testimonials

I write a runbook, hit cmd+enter, and the command runs in the terminal beside it. It changed what 'documentation' even means for our oncall rotation.

Anderson

Full-stack engineer, Stripe

Code references alone justified the rollout to our team. A new hire clicks a symbol in an onboarding doc and they're inside the function.

Wesley

Senior Engineer, Okta

The 'docs are stale' excuse died the day we switched - every PR now updates the spec it touches, because the spec sits in the same repo.

Anne

Full-stack engineer, Stripe

The code references feature especially caught my eye. Keeping docs from going stale is such a real pain point.

Lia

Engineer, Datadog

Baking code and docs in the same context window makes working with AI so much better. Meridian gives AI the toolbox to represent plans, in a human-readable way.

Ben

CTO, Flagship

Stickies is my favourite. In the AI age, I run shell scripts and terminal workflows many times a day and now everything is easier. I love it.

Brandon

CTO, Crowded

I write a runbook, hit cmd+enter, and the command runs in the terminal beside it. It changed what 'documentation' even means for our oncall rotation.

Anderson

Full-stack engineer, Stripe

Baking code and docs in the same context window makes working with AI so much better. Meridian gives AI the toolbox to represent plans, in a human-readable way.

Ben

CTO, Flagship

The code references feature especially caught my eye. Keeping docs from going stale is such a real pain point.

Lia

Engineer, Datadog

The 'docs are stale' excuse died the day we switched - every PR now updates the spec it touches, because the spec sits in the same repo.

Anne

Full-stack engineer, Stripe

Code references alone justified the rollout to our team. A new hire clicks a symbol in an onboarding doc and they're inside the function.

Wesley

Senior Engineer, Okta

Stickies is my favourite. In the AI age, I run shell scripts and terminal workflows many times a day and now everything is easier. I love it.

Brandon

CTO, Crowded

Pricing

Build

1-10 developers

$60/month

For the first year. First month free. USD.

+Docs, stickies and code references that stay fresh
+MCP for Claude, Codex and Cursor
+Billed per GitHub organization
+Cancel anytime

Start your free month

Grow

11-50 developers

$150/month

For the first year. First month free. USD.

+Docs, stickies and code references that stay fresh
+MCP for Claude, Codex and Cursor
+Billed per GitHub organization
+Cancel anytime

Start your free month

Scale

50+ developers

Custom

Enterprise pricing and support.

+Everything in Grow
+Volume pricing for large orgs
+A direct line to the team

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Installing Meridian is free. A subscription covers your GitHub organization: connect your organization in the app, then subscribe from its Billing settings. A card is required to start the free month; the first charge is at the end of it.

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