I'm Thomas Kawas, founder of Meridian. I build production AI systems and ship them end to end. Right now that means building Meridian solo: a production, agentic GraphRAG platform, live on Vercel and Supabase.
Under the hood, Meridian is a lot of moving parts working as one: an agentic AI pipeline, knowledge-graph retrieval, an agent memory and context layer served through a custom MCP server, and an evaluation harness that validates the system before anything ships. For five years alongside this work I've been in customer-facing technical roles, currently leading Customer Success across a portfolio that runs from small teams to government, so I'm as comfortable explaining a complex system in plain language as I am building it. I'm also ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity.
I've gone deep on the underlying science: plant nutrition, physiology, disease, and cultivation. I understand the plant side and the engineering side, and Meridian is built where the two meet.
The way I work is first-principles and relentless. I find a real problem, build the solution myself, and refine it until it's genuinely right, not just "done." Meridian's agent context system went through that loop more times than I can count. I build to understand every layer of what I ship, which is how one person runs a system this complex in production. What drives me is the hard, unsolved edges: I'd rather sit with a genuinely difficult problem and find my own way through it than reach for a template. I build because I love the craft, and going deep on a problem until it clicks is the part I'd do whether or not anyone paid me for it.
And I build for the long game. Every decision is made to still hold years from now, at scale, because what I'm building isn't a tool, it's the plant atlas: a system that understands plants the way nothing before it has. I can see exactly where it goes, and I'm building like it's already inevitable.