About
Meridian AI
Autonomous deal-execution infrastructure for cross-border Gulf-US transactions. Built by a deal-side founder, not a generalist platform team.
Mission
Cross-border deals fail on data, not on talent. A Gulf-US transaction requires fluency in CFIUS, ITAR, MISA licensing, OFAC sanctions, Tadawul listing rules, ADGM regulations, and dozens of similar frameworks — data sets that are split across English and Arabic, scattered across government registries, and rarely available through any single commercial provider.
Meridian centralizes that work behind a unified deal-room interface so principals can spend time on the deals that matter instead of on the cross-jurisdictional plumbing that surrounds them.
Why the Gulf-US corridor first
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates alone produced more than $190B in cross-border M&A and FDI flows with the United States in 2025. The Public Investment Fund's mandate to deploy $40B annually through 2030 makes Saudi sovereign-wealth deal flow the single largest origination opportunity in the global market.
Meridian commits to deep specialization in this corridor before expanding elsewhere. The 90-day execution plan focuses on Saudi Arabia and the UAE as the primary deal-flow generators, with Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman supported through aggregator sources rather than dedicated infrastructure.
This is intentional. Generalist platforms that try to serve every market end up with shallow coverage in every market. Meridian is the opposite of that.
The team
Leon Lamle
Founder & CEO
Leon has spent the last decade on the deal side of cross-border infrastructure and energy transactions across the US and Gulf jurisdictions. He is concurrently CTO and a 5% Class B holder at Power Expectations LLC, the awardee of a contested 800 MW emergency power contract in Puerto Rico.
Meridian is the platform Leon needed himself when running Gulf-corridor diligence on power and infrastructure deals. The product is built solo with Claude Code as the primary engineering collaborator — a deliberate constraint to keep the engineering taste and product taste in one head until first revenue.
How we build
Test-driven from day one
3,972 vitest cases for the application; 38 pytest cases for the Gulf harvester sidecar including five live-fixture regression tests against captured production data. CI runs the LLM-as-judge eval harness on every PR against 30 hand-written golden cases across 7 task types — builds fail on score regressions.
Real data, never demoware
Every data source described in the platform overview is wired to the live API. The Gulf harvester pulls real Etimad tenders, real Saudi Press Agency announcements, real MISA license filings, and real WAM Emirates news. The eval cases exercise that data, not fictional fixtures.
Security as a first commit
Multi-tenancy, organization-scoped queries, hash-chain audit, soft-delete consistency, and per-org AI cost caps were in the schema before the first agent shipped. The Trust Center publishes the full posture; the Status page publishes the real operational health.
Company facts
- Legal entity
- Meridian AI LLC
- Jurisdiction
- Wilmington, Delaware, United States
- Founded
- 2025
- Operating model
- Solo founder + Claude Code engineering
- Funding stage
- Bootstrapped pre-pilot. Not actively fundraising.
- Hiring
- Not yet — first hire planned post-Series Seed.
- Primary office
- Remote-first, with travel to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi for in-region work.
- Press contact
- press@meridianai.fyi
- Sales contact
- sales@meridianai.fyi
- Security contact
- security@meridianai.fyi
Want to evaluate the platform?
Start with the Free tier — no credit card — or book a 30-minute corridor-fit call to walk through your specific compliance regime and active deals.