San Francisco · Los Angeles · Dubai
Transformation you can measure. Talent you can deploy.
Meridian 55 rebuilds the workflows, data platforms, and interfaces that run your business with AI and agents. And when you need hands on the work instead, we place the analysts, developers, and data engineers who have already done it.
APPLIED INTELLIGENCE · TRANSFORMATION, MEASURED
AI and data transformation for small and midsize companies across the US and the Gulf — delivered by us, or staffed by us. A small senior team — never an army of consultants. No 200-page decks. Working systems, measured results.
What we do
Two ways to move. One standard.
Some clients hand us the problem. Others have the plan and need the people. We are built to do either — and the same senior bench sits behind both.
01 · TRANSFORMATION
AI & Data Transformation
We take the workflow, the data platform, and the interface as one problem, and rebuild them with AI and agents. Scoped to a number you agreed to before we started.
See the deliverables02 · TALENT
Resources & Staffing
Reporting developers, Snowflake engineers, and business, systems, and data analysts — placed into your team, screened by partners who have done the work themselves.
See the skill areasPillar 01 — Three deliverables. One discipline.
CHART
AI Audits
We map where AI pays in your business — and where it doesn't. You get a prioritized roadmap tied to real metrics, in weeks, not quarters.
COURSE
AI Workflows
Working agents that automate the processes that run your business — with the interfaces around them rebuilt, so your people actually use what we ship.
NAVIGATE
Unified Dashboards
One instrument panel for the transformed business: the metrics we committed to, measured live, in a single view.
Pillar 02 — Resources & staffing
Senior people, matched to the work.
Not every programme needs an agency. Sometimes it needs one analyst who can read a P&L and write SQL, starting Monday. We place specialists into client teams for AI and data transformation work — screened by partners who have delivered it themselves, with depth in financial services and healthcare.
Reporting
Reporting & BI Development
Report and dashboard development against modern warehouses — specification through production, including the legacy migrations nobody wants to own.
Platform
Snowflake
Warehouse design, migration, and optimisation on Snowflake: data modelling, pipelines, performance tuning, and keeping the credit bill honest.
Business
Business Analysts
Requirements, process mapping, and the translation layer between what the business asked for and what actually gets built.
Systems
Systems Analysts
Integration and system-of-record work: interfaces, data flows, and the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether a programme lands.
Data
Data Analysts
Analysis and modelling against real operational data — people who can defend a number in front of a CFO, not just produce one.
Domain
Financial Services & Healthcare
Our bench is deepest where the rules are hardest. Consultants who have worked inside regulated finance and healthcare, and know what that costs.
How we engage
Contract
Named consultants
Your direction, your timeline. We stay accountable for the fit.
Contract to hire
Try before headcount
Prove the fit on live work before it becomes a permanent decision.
Embedded pod
A team with a lead
A small delivery unit accountable for a workstream, not a stack of CVs.
Where our people have worked
Consultants placed through Meridian 55 have delivered on engagements at these firms. Names are listed to describe our consultants' experience; no endorsement, partnership, or affiliation is implied.
Concept study · Automotive OEM · GCC
Four siloed functions. One instrument panel.
An automotive OEM operating across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar ran marketing, inventory, customer insights, and pricing as four separate reports. We designed the dashboard that makes them answer each other's questions: how stock availability moves conversion, how customer satisfaction drives referral leads, and when a competitor launch should trigger a pricing response.
Behind it: a live OEM-to-dealer integration that updates inventory within five minutes of any dealer transaction — replacing hourly batch exports — and an AI Decision Prompts Engine that recommends when to run a campaign, how many units to order, and how to respond to a new model year. Every recommendation is approved by a human before action.
Proof
Every engagement starts with a number.
Before we write a line of code, we agree on the metric that matters — hours saved, cycle time, cost per transaction, conversion. We baseline it, build against it, and report on it. If we can't measure it, we won't propose it.
Why us
Built differently, on purpose.
Outcomes, not pilots
Every engagement is scoped to a measurable result. No proof-of-concept graveyards.
Workflows and interfaces, together
Automation fails when the interface fights it. We rebuild both, as one system.
Senior partners do the work
Product design, enterprise analytics, and regional commercial leadership — on your engagement, not on a sales call.
Two markets, one firm
Silicon Valley innovation, on the ground in the Gulf. We work where AI ambition is policy.
Build it or staff it
Take the whole programme, or just the people. Same bench, same standard, either way.
Regulated-industry depth
Financial services and healthcare backgrounds, where the reporting has to survive an audit.
The UAE agenda
Aligned with the UAE's direction of travel.
The UAE has made AI a national project. We built the firm to serve the ground effort in local companies that underpins that vision.
We the UAE 2031
A forward economy
The national vision puts AI and digital services at the center of the economy. Small and midsize companies are where that economy gets built.
Dubai D33
Double by 2033
D33 aims to double Dubai's economy in a decade, with AED 100 billion a year targeted from digital transformation. SMB transformation is where those dirhams get earned.
Where we fit
On the ground
GCC headquarters in Dubai. Senior partners based in the Gulf, present where the client is.
About
Partner-led delivery.
The Founders are senior operators in product design, enterprise analytics, and GCC commercial strategy. Partners lead every engagement, from first conversation to final measurement, and partners screen every consultant we put forward.
Fifty years of combined experience now applied to ambitious mid-market firms in the US and the GCC. Between us: design and analytics leadership over a $3B, forty-product enterprise analytics portfolio, and regional commercial strategy across seventeen countries supporting $3B in top-line revenue.
Headquarters
San Francisco
1033 Shell Blvd, Ste 8
Foster City, CA 94404
Office
Los Angeles
4041 Via Marisol, Ste 309
Los Angeles, CA 90042
GCC Headquarters
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Ready to set your course?
Tell us the workflow that costs you the most, or the role you can't fill. We'll tell you what AI, agents, and the right people can do about it — and how we'd measure the result.
Start the conversation contact@Meridian55.com