Meridian applies advanced technology — AI, open-source intelligence, and disciplined analytical frameworks — to reduce the frequency, severity, and human cost of global risk, one problem, one instrument, one measurable outcome at a time.
The world's most consequential problems — pandemic, conflict, institutional collapse, food insecurity, democratic backsliding — are not unsolvable. They are inadequately resourced, inadequately coordinated, and inadequately informed. Advanced technology changes each of those conditions.
AI can model an outbreak before it crosses a border. Open-source intelligence can detect a humanitarian crisis in its earliest signal. Structured risk frameworks can tell a policy maker where the next decade's instability is concentrating, and why. These are not hypothetical applications. They are engineering problems waiting for organizational will.
Meridian provides that will — and where possible, the tools themselves. We operate at the intersection of rigorous research, applied technology, and open methodology, guided by one principle: advanced technology should serve the human condition first.
Systematic reviews, empirical analyses, theoretical frameworks, and policy-facing assessments anchored to peer-reviewed evidentiary standards. Research programs are designed to generate findings that are honest, methodologically documented, and directionally defensible.
We build and deploy operational tools that measure, monitor, and mitigate global risks directly. Advanced AI, open-source intelligence aggregation, and structured analytical frameworks applied with discipline to reduce the frequency, severity, and human cost of systemic failure.
Long-form analysis, policy argument, and original commentary on the systemic risks that define the current era. Publications are written to be read by serious people who are not specialists — the policymaker, the senior officer, the institutional investor, the informed citizen.
Meridian Institute houses standing programs that produce primary research, methodology, and analytical frameworks. These are the research outputs that inform the technologies and the publications — and that, in some cases, stand on their own as institutional contributions.
Meridian works at the intersection of advanced technology and global risk. That work is not meaningfully separable from questions about the legitimate use of force, the role of deterrence, and the institutional oversight of advanced capability. A short doctrinal statement sets out where Meridian stands.
Read the Doctrine →Meridian is the independent research and applied-technology project of Mark Greenhalgh. Views, analysis, and materials published under the Meridian name are his own and do not represent the position of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, or any U.S. government agency or component. Meridian operates independently of his official duties.