Launching Meridian Intelligence Data

What this is

Meridian Intelligence Data is a daily research surface for licensed public datasets. Every weekday, a pipeline picks one dataset from a curated whitelist of open-data portals — data.gov.in, World Bank, Eurostat, OECD, IMF, WHO, and others — fetches it, cleans it, and publishes one restrained analysis post.

What makes it different

No scraped content. No paywalled data. No AI-generated slop with fabricated figures.

Every post carries:

• A verbatim attribution string taken from a whitelist entry that locks in the source’s license and terms. If the source is not on the whitelist, publish is blocked — not by a prompt, but by a deterministic code check.
• A claims array in the post’s frontmatter where every numerical claim in the body has a {value, source_row, source_url} triple. The values are validated against the source dataset before the post ships.
• A PII scan over the cleaned data frame and the final post text, using a deterministic detector (Microsoft Presidio). Any hit — name, email, phone, national ID, address — hard-blocks the run.
• A rate limit of one publish per day, hardcoded. A runaway feedback loop cannot flood the site overnight.

Cadence

The pipeline runs at 02:00 UTC daily. If any gate blocks, the run logs the block reason and the next day’s run picks a different dataset. If every gate passes, a new post appears here within a few minutes of the run.

What to expect next

The first real data post will cover the World Bank’s long-running GDP-per-capita series — a simple, well-understood dataset that lets us validate the pipeline end-to-end before moving to more specific country- or industry-level questions.

Over the first month you should see variety: macroeconomic indicators from the IMF and OECD; health metrics from the WHO GHO; Indian statistics from data.gov.in; food and agriculture data from FAOSTAT. The Scout picks across countries and topics to avoid repeating the same story twice.

A note on what we will not do

We will not write market-timing takes. We will not publish personal-data breakdowns, even when the source permits it. We will not accept sponsorship in exchange for dataset selection. The trust foundation of this site is that the pipeline’s behaviour is predictable, boring, and auditable — and we intend to keep it that way.

— The Meridian Intelligence team