Good morning, Maya
Here's what needs your attention today.
Cover drops below 7 days on Oct 4. Lead time is 6 days, so ordering today keeps both cafés stocked without an emergency top-up.
Draft polite chase emails? I will personalize each one with the invoice number, amount, and a friendly nudge — nothing sends without your review.
Consider a 25¢ nudge on oat-milk drinks? At current volume that more than offsets the increase while keeping the price gap to dairy small.
Operations
Live picture across both cafés and the online store.
Business model
How Ember & Oak fits together — click any entity to inspect it.
Tip: Suppliers is selected by default — it is where today's critical reorder lives.
Suppliers
12 partners · focus: Highland Importers
Alerts & approvals
Everything Meridian is watching, with a recommended next step.
Decision log
No decisions yet this session. Approve or dismiss an alert and it will appear here.
Product plan — Meridian for SMEs
Muse-style personal agent + Palantir-style ontology, sized for a 10–100 person business. The prototype above uses fictional Ember & Oak data to show the loop in action.
How the pieces fit
A lightweight business graph: Customers, Orders, Products, Suppliers, Invoices, Employees, Locations, and Cash Accounts — linked the way the business actually runs. Entities carry owners, freshness timestamps, and risk flags (for example, “Single source for Yirgacheffe”). The agent reasons over this graph instead of raw tables, so “what breaks if this supplier slips?” is a graph question, not a spreadsheet hunt.
A named assistant that knows the owner, the business, and what changed overnight. It writes the Morning Brief, drafts emails and POs, watches thresholds, and asks in plain language. Every consequential action arrives as an approval card with the why, the cost, and the undo path.
KPIs, trends, sales mix, and anomalies — pre-filtered to what moved. No vanity charts: each visual answers “is this normal, and should I act?”
Owner approves spend and outbound messages. Managers can dismiss or snooze low-severity alerts. Finance sees invoice actions. Every approval writes to the Decision Log with timestamp and rationale.
Phased roadmap
Start read-only; write-back only behind an explicit approval and a per-connector permission screen.
North star: hours of owner admin saved per week, measured by approvals completed and briefs acted on — not logins.
Watch-outs: connector data quality (mitigate with freshness labels), alert fatigue (severity budgets + snooze learning), single-source risks surfaced early, and clear “demo vs live” labelling so owners never mistake sample data for their own.
Pricing sketch: per-location subscription with a solo-owner tier; accountants get a free partner seat because they champion retention.