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Know where you stand before you invest

Compass establishes the baseline, assesses AI and data readiness, ranks opportunities, and gives you the evidence to make the next investment decision.

Compass is the first stage of Meridian.

It's for leaders who have AI ambitions, maybe a backlog of ideas, and want to know which ones are worth pursuing and what it will really take.

What Compass looks at

Compass looks at AI readiness from every angle that determines whether a use case can succeed in production:

  • Business priorities and value pools: where AI could meaningfully move service, cost, cash, or growth.
  • Data readiness: quality, availability, definitions, ownership, and access for the data each opportunity needs.
  • Technology and architecture readiness.
  • Governance and risk: the controls and oversight each use case would require.
  • Organizational readiness: skills, ownership, and appetite for change.

What you walk away with

Compass gives leadership a clear, evidence-backed view of where the organization stands and where AI can create real value. That includes a ranked set of opportunities, a register of the data gaps that need fixing and for which use cases, an initial governance model, and value hypotheses written in operational terms your teams recognize. In short, everything you need to decide what to do next.

What happens next

Compass ends with a clear decision: proceed to Blueprint on specific opportunities, fix foundational gaps first, reshape the plan, or stop. No one is pushed into a build that isn't ready.

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Questions, answered

What leaders ask about Meridian Compass

Practical answers to the questions that often shape the first conversation.

What evidence should determine whether an AI use case is ready to move into delivery?+

Assess the business decision and owner, data access and quality, integration and security constraints, model suitability, governance, human review, operating support, and a measurable outcome. Compass uses those findings to expose delivery dependencies and prioritize use cases by value and feasibility.

Who should be involved in a Compass assessment?+

Business leaders who own the target decisions, plus IT, data, security, and risk stakeholders, so the readiness view reflects every perspective that matters in production.

What happens after Compass?+

Each Compass engagement ends with a clear decision: move specific opportunities into Blueprint, fix foundational gaps first, reshape the plan, or stop.