// Who We Are
Here to help your team realise
what it's capable of
Meridian School of AI was founded on a simple premise. AI is the most impactful and far-reaching technology in history, yet the gap between buying the tools and getting real value from them keeps widening. Conventional corporate training can't close it, because by the time a course is written and approved, the landscape has already moved on.
We watched capable teams pour budget into powerful tools and see almost none of the productivity gains. Not because the tools fell short, but because nobody had shown their people how to actually wield them. That gap, between access and impact, is exactly where businesses stall.
So we don't do generic AI-101 or meaningless certificates. We build bespoke training around the specific challenges your team is solving, led by practitioners who hold accredited qualifications from the major labs and work with AI for a living. The outcome is people who can confidently build, automate and champion the use of AI across your business.
When we first unlocked what AI could do in our own work, we felt the rush of doing something we thought we never could. Above all, it is our mission to bring that same confidence and momentum to every team we work with, from our bases in Athens and London.
// The founders
Daniel Botha
Daniel is a product designer with 20 years experience across startups, enterprise teams and world-leading tech infrastructure.
His AI journey began when he identified an opportunity to solve a costly product data problem for enterprise retail teams. In a year, he went from a largely non-technical designer, to building a robust, cost effective AI platform for intelligent product data generation and management. That product was purchased by one of Africa's largest retail chains.
Now, Daniel works on building and talking about infrastructure for Agents and AI workloads at the world's most innovative public cloud, and helps teams wield the full power of AI in their work at Meridian.
Jacky Lovato
Jackyl is a content strategist and organic growth specialist with over a decade of experience working with some of the UK's most recognisable brands.
Their career has been defined by one constant: change. They built their expertise in SEO at a time when ranking on Google meant everything, and watched, and adapted, as that discipline evolved into GEO, AI search, and an entirely new way of thinking about how content gets found.
When AI started reshaping search, Jackyl didn't step back. They jumped the f*ck in.
Outside of work they're a gamer, a vegan and animal rights advocate, and a proud member of the queer community, all of which inform how they think about technology, ethics and who AI is actually built for.
At Meridian, Jackyl helps teams cut through the noise and actually use the tools reshaping their industries.
// Why we built this
We stopped waiting
for the right course.
We're using AI every day. At work, at home, to accomplish things we never thought possible. We also know that it evolves faster than any curriculum can keep pace with.
So we stopped looking for the right course and built something different.
// Meridian instructors
Practitioners.
Not lecturers.
Meridian connects your team with practitioners who are using AI in their jobs right now. Not to lecture them. To show them exactly what they do and how they do it.
The person teaching your people to build an agentic workflow built one last week. The person walking them through deploying a site did it for a client yesterday.
Not just for nerds:
You don't need a team of engineers to get value from AI. We design training that meets every person where they are, so even the least technical people on your team can redefine what they think they're capable of.
Skip the fluff:
Every engagement is scoped around real outcomes, leaving your people with functional, usable skills, not theory they'll have forgotten by Monday.
Informed by experience:
Your instructor works with the technology daily, they didn't just read a book about it.
// The standard
Real people.
Real work. Right now.
No slide decks written six months ago. No theory dressed up as practice. Real people sharing what works, right now.
That's the only kind of AI education that makes sense.