// Who We Are
Here to help you realise
what you are capable of
Meridian School of AI was founded on the premise that AI is both the most impactful and far-reaching technology in history and that existing approaches to technical educational cannot equip students with functional, up-to-date AI skills.
We want our students to have the kind of AI training that we wish we had when we were learning the ropes, and not have to take a week off work to get it.
We will never offer another meaningless certificate. Instead, we provide clear pathways for even least technical person to reach a point where they can build their own portfolio of AI-driven solutions, automations and projects. These are things that actually secure jobs and help people to champion the use of AI in their teams.
When we began to unlock the potential of AI tooling in our work, we experienced the unique excitement and sense of empowerment that comes from doing something you thought you never could. Above all, it is our mission to bring this experience to our students.
// 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 students to wield the full power of AI in their lives and careers 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 people who use the internet every day understand how to use the tools reshaping it.
// 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 you with practitioners who are using AI in their jobs right now. Not to lecture you. To show you exactly what they do and how they do it.
The person teaching you to build an agentic workflow built one last week. The person walking you through deploying a site did it for a client yesterday.
Not just for nerds.
You don't need to be a "tech person" to learn AI. Our Foundation level courses are designed to help even the most tech-challenged students to redefine their limitations.
Skip the fluff:
Every session is scoped to leave you with a functional skill or understanding of a concept in less than 120 mins.
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.
