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Drop a spreadsheet
CSV or Excel from finance, ops, or the warehouse. Profiling runs in the browser — row-level data never has to sit in a warehouse you do not control.
For operators who cannot wait on a hire
The AI data analyst you hire in minutes.
Upload a spreadsheet. Confirm the grain. Get a cited briefing — risks, charts, and next actions — before the next meeting.
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harbor-and-co-q1-orders.csv
Line-item grain
Harbor & Co — Q1 orders
This file is not orders. It is line items — about 2.4 rows per invoice. Customer names are not keys: Acme Supplies maps to three IDs. Treat concentration by customer_id, not by name.
Orders
118
AOV
$1.9k
Top account
22%
Recommendation
Publish order counts from the invoice grain. Keep the line file for mix. Do not rank the book by customer name until finance and CRM agree on the key.
Minutes
to a signed briefing, not a two-week queue.
Grain-first
Line items are never silently treated as orders.
No row store
Raw records are not kept. Insights are.
How it works
A hire’s workflow, compressed.
02
Confirm grain, then write
You lock order vs line and ID vs name before a sentence is written. Period, mix/price/volume, and silent accounts are computed — not guessed.
03
A briefing you can send
One-pager with findings, charts, risks, and next actions — print or save as PDF before the meeting.
Why this is not another chart toy
Most tools plot whatever you throw at them. Meridian reads the grain first.
Companies do not stall because they lack a bar chart. They stall because someone treated customer names as keys, mixed line items with orders, or averaged a snapshot as if it were a year. That is the work an analyst is paid for — and the work Meridian does on every file.
- Order grain vs line grain, computed, not guessed
- ID vs name mismatches called out before ranking
- Revenue concentration by the real customer key
- Date coverage and ship lag before anyone says “trend”
- Questions a hire would still need to ask
- Recommendations with a next physical step
Versus hiring
What you buy instead of a queue.
WorkA hireMeridian
Time to first useful report3–8 weeksMinutes
Notices line items vs ordersIf they are carefulAlways
Charts + narrative togetherSlide deck laterSame briefing
Ask follow-up questionsSlack, waitOn the dataset
Annual cost (typical)$90k–$140kFrom $79 / month
Keep the hire when you need institutional knowledge. Use Meridian when the question is on a file and the meeting is this afternoon.
Put a file in. Take a briefing out.
Start with the Harbor & Co sample, or drop last quarter’s export. Team plans from $249 / month when you are ready to run this as the company’s analyst of record.