Requirements live in DOORS. Designs live in CAD. Simulations live in Ansys. Tests live in a lab system. And the answer to the most important question in engineering is someone opening three tabs and making a judgment call. Meridian eliminates the judgment call.
When the link between a requirement and its verification evidence is a judgment call, failures are inevitable.
Requirements live in one system. Designs live in another. Tests live in a third. And the question "does this design satisfy the requirement?" is answered by someone opening three tabs and making a judgment call. When the system has 128 requirements, 342 subsystem specs, and 891 component specifications — each linked to design artifacts, simulation results, and test procedures — the judgment call becomes a liability. Meridian replaces judgment with data.
Meridian integrates requirements management directly into the Axiom product knowledge graph. Each requirement is a node — linked to the design artifacts that implement it, the simulation results that validate it, and the test procedures that verify it. When a requirement changes, Meridian shows every design artifact, simulation, and test that must be re-evaluated. When a design changes, Meridian shows every requirement whose satisfaction may be affected. This is not a document management system with traceability columns. It is a graph-native requirements intelligence engine that makes the V-model executable, the coverage measurable, and the gaps impossible to hide.
From stakeholder need to verified test result — Meridian governs every requirement, every allocation, every verification, and every gap.
"Our traceability matrix was a fiction. Everyone knew it. The chief engineer knew it. The program manager knew it. The customer knew it. It was a 47-page Excel spreadsheet that was perpetually six weeks out of date. Meridian replaced the fiction with truth. We have 2,400 requirements across mechanical, electrical, and software — and every single one is traced forward to its implementation and backward to its justification. When the CDR board asked for verification status, we showed them a live dashboard instead of a stale PDF. That changed the entire dynamic."
"The FDA auditor asked me to show her the traceability from design input number 247 to its verification evidence. In our old system, that would have taken 40 minutes of searching through SharePoint folders. In Meridian, I clicked on the requirement and the complete trace appeared: design input → design output → verification method → test procedure → test result → evaluation → approval. The auditor paused, looked at me, and said 'this is how it should work everywhere.' Zero findings."
Import your requirements baseline. Watch Meridian build the traceability graph, detect gaps, score coverage, and render your V-model verification status — in minutes.