Keeps the record
Every principle, material and method the firm uses, and every record of your project, kept current and connected, so the Principal has them at hand.
MAI
The firm's own AI. It keeps what the firm knows in order, so the Principal's attention stays on your home.
What is MAI?
MAI is the artificial intelligence at the centre of the Meridian Engine, Meridian Atelier's knowledge of designing and building a home.
It drafts and checks the firm's written work under the Principal's direction and says plainly it is an AI. It never makes a design decision: the Principal does.
What does MAI do?
Choose one to see where in the engine it works.
Reads your Diagnostic
Drafts a written reading of your Diagnostic, which measures each person's five personality traits and records how your household lives, for the Principal to study and present to you himself.
Drafts the reasons
Drafts the written reasons for each of the Principal's design choices: which of your traits it answers and which principle it follows, for him to edit and approve.
Checks the rules
Checks its drafts against the firm's written rules, from its design principles to its building checks, before the Principal reads them.
Answers to the Principal
The Principal directs MAI, edits what it drafts and approves its work. Nothing it prepares reaches you until he has.
What does MAI never do?
Every design, decision and published word of the firm is the Principal's own or carries his approval. MAI is a tool he directs.
Decide a design
Every design, and every choice in it, is the Principal's. MAI drafts and checks; he decides.
Speak for the Principal
Nothing MAI drafts reaches you until the Principal has read, edited and approved it.
Replace the Principal
He leads your project himself, from the first conversation to the finished house; MAI works behind him.
Pretend to be a person
Whenever MAI speaks, it says plainly that it is an AI.
How the firm uses AI, what it never asks of it, and how it marks what AI makes.
Read about our AI Transparency
Questions about MAI
What visitors ask about the firm's AI.
You speak with the Principal. MAI works behind him: nothing it drafts reaches you without his approval, and wherever MAI speaks for itself, it says plainly that it is an AI.
Yes. It works with your project's records, your Diagnostic among them, to prepare the Principal's drafts. Model training is turned off on the AI services it runs on, so your information is not used to train their models. How your information is kept, and when it is shared, is set out in the Privacy Policy.
Because you should always know when you are dealing with a machine. Europe's AI Act requires it of AI built to talk with people (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 50), and the firm holds MAI to that rule wherever it speaks.
Because it has a defined place in the firm, with a role and limits, and a name makes it easy to say plainly where it works. MAI is that name.
Intellectual property of Meridian Atelier
- The Firm
The Meridian Engine
MAI
Definition: MAI is the Meridian Engine's AI, directed by the Principal: it keeps the firm's knowledge in order, drafts and checks the firm's written work, and never makes a design decision.
