M | Nano: Manage your business operating system
Meridium began with a different starting point for business software: build the system around the business itself and where it is going. Give it its own server and AI, with that intelligence integrated into the way the system works.
Our installation was built specifically for Whispering, including our approaches and workflows. Nano, Studio and Materials all grew out of that platform. Each has a different role in the same system.
Nano is the tablet-based console for managing the infrastructure underneath it. The goal is to make that work intuitive enough to handle without a computer or advanced computer-science expertise.
Give the infrastructure a usable interface
Owning the system means taking responsibility for the things that keep it running. Nano brings dashboards, IT status, security reports, performance tuning and AI training into one console.
Function-specific user apps can be built on top of Meridium and interact with the platform around the work they need to do. Nano provides the place to manage the internal infrastructure those apps depend on.
The distinction matters to the design. The console needs to make the underlying system understandable, so someone can see what is happening and manage it through a focused interface.
AI needs ongoing attention
We think about maintaining our own AI resources in a similar way to developing a new employee: the learning needs to continue as the work changes. Nano lets us update, modify and tune the training for our AI services.
That includes changing instructions and the knowledge available to the AI, as well as working on the underlying models. New models can be introduced from sources such as Hugging Face and modified or customized for the work.
For us, that is part of making AI an integrated component of the business system. The business needs a way to keep shaping the intelligence it uses as its own needs develop.
Materials gives that intelligence a reference library
The knowledge side of the platform is Materials: a large knowledge center that we give our AI access to. Nano provides access to managing those resources alongside the rest of the system.
Our reference libraries include downloaded collections such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Project Gutenberg, along with practical field guides. The accompanying photographs show those libraries in the working research setup.
Keeping our own copies gives us control over the reference material we make available to the AI. The aim is to maintain a body of knowledge we choose and manage ourselves, independently of changes made by commercial AI services.
The software is working; the next step is hardware
Today, we have the software working on research-level hardware. The current limitation is moving to hardware that is suitable for business use.
We are investigating whether a modern Mac mini could meet that need and are also looking at rack-based solutions. The next hardware phase depends on receiving the funding to proceed. The final hardware choice has not been made.
The project is at that transition: a working software system built for our own business, with the hardware work still needed before taking it into other businesses.
Build around the business, then put its name on it
Meridium is the foundation for a custom solution. For another business, we would follow our Solutions design and build process to understand what it needs, where it is going, and how the system should support it.
That solution would draw on the Meridium architecture and software design, shaped around the client's workflows and branded for them. Our installation demonstrates what that approach looks like when the business is Whispering.
Nano's place in that story is practical: give the people responsible for the system an approachable way to manage its infrastructure, its AI and the knowledge behind it.