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October 2026
Highlights

05.11.2026

Today’s speakers

Eugene Yukechev
Maria Karaselnikova
Rashed Kaddoura
Méridien team
Méridien team
Méridien team
Méridien team
Méridien team
Méridien team
Méridien team
Méridien team
Méridien team
Méridien team
Méridien team

Team composition

01–02 · Eugene YukechevKontinuität: the release and the Frankfurt event. Design automation: Méridien kit.

03–05 · Maria KaraselnikovaZain AR 2026. Reporter: the landing, lead magnets, quarterly reports. Immersive update. Social media.

06–07 · Rashed KaddouraSales: funnel, presales, outreach. Business development.

October 2026 · Highlights

1

Kontinuität

The release and the Frankfurt event

The Deutsche Bank towers behind the carved stone, Frankfurt
The hall of the Lunch Lecture, the screen with the feature
The flat eight on the screen during the talk
The lecture opens in front of the feature
The print of the feature handed over at the lecture
Guests with the print of the feature after the talk
Reinhard Frost at the lectern: Ulmer Hocker, Max Bill, 1954
The guests at the granite Kontinuität, the Deutsche Bank towers behind
The team at the granite Kontinuität after the lecture

What grew out of one evening

Next steps

Next

1

Carrara, 14 November

2

Art & Culture, 2029

3

Digital collections

A talk at Palazzo Binelli

The Deutsche Bank jubilee

Mercedes‑Benz, Commerzbank and more

October 2026 · Highlights

2

Design
automation

Méridien kit: our experience, written for Claude

Elis

Thanks to Elis!
For streamlining our design process and taking it to the next level

FGIC Union Atlas · Mirqab, the cover and contents Investcorp Capital 2026, the cover and contents Mezzan Annual Report 2026, the cover and contents DAN Digital ESG Report 2026, the cover and contents

02 · Design automation

Méridien proposal automation

A skill that lays out a client proposal as an A4 PDF in our design, now in Altyn

Digital report automation

The layout of this deck: all the slides in a sheet

02 · Design automation

This deck, automated

We also made a skill, so that Masha could build this presentation without the designers’ help
(not as cool, of course!! but be merciful)

October 2026 · Highlights

3

Zain Annual Report 2026

Kick-off, covers, automation

03 · Zain

The first tender we won

Kick-off with the client, 27 Oct · delivery by 27 February

Zain AR 2026, cover concept 2, variant 1 Zain AR 2026, cover concept 2, variant 2 Zain AR 2026, cover concept 2, variant 3 Zain AR 2026, cover concept 2, variant 4 Zain AR 2026, concept 2, Strategic review contents Zain AR 2026, concept 2, Strategic review opener Zain AR 2026, concept 2, Corporate governance contents Zain AR 2026, concept 2, Corporate governance opener

03 · Zain

Reporting automation

Reports built from components, feedback through our own CMS made for the client

01

PDF parser

AR 2025 parsed into 43 components

02

Components

The Zain design system v0.1

03

CMS

Editing for Zain and for us

04

Pipeline

AR 2026 on components, the base for the next reports

Vovan
Vladimir

Heads up to Vovan and Vladimir

October 2026 · Highlights

4

Reporter updates

The landing, lead magnets, quarterly reports

04 · Reporter

Feature roadmap in work

Ask anything, the report answers

For people

Read, hands free or video, ask anything: the report answers

A report your own AI can read, built on the approved knowledge base

For machines

A machine edition any model can read, drop it into an assistant or connect via MCP

Know your reader, decide with evidence: Reporter Studio

Studio

The admin for the IR team: who reads, what they ask, how AI understands it

04 · Reporter

Lead magnets

Site

Wow-corporate reporting landing

Lead-magnet series

Teaser post → landing page → full report for an e-mail

Learnt

Cold e-mail doesn’t work

A · One to many

  • AI-Readability Index
  • Interactive reporting
  • Top-20 interactive reports

B · One to few

  • Stock exchanges
  • Insurance
  • Banks

C · One to one

  • Top-30 companies, quarterly

1 to 1 for quarterly reports, automated

October 2026 · Highlights

5

Immersive update

Real estate and deicer

Real estate demo, Opera Tower with the AI concierge

05 · Immersive

Real estate demo

An off-plan project as a live 3D scene with an AI guide, in any browser

The district map with the places around Opera Tower

05 · Immersive

What is around

Schools, shopping, transport and the sights within a walk

Real estate immersive, the cover 70 % of Dubai home deals are off-plan Not a picture, walk in Ask the building anything From your renders to a live twin Priced on what you already have

05 · Immersive

The sales pitch

Teller: a deck for developers and brokerages, with the pilot priced

The PM-Vulkan de-icing truck at the Elemet plant, the shoot

05 · Immersive

Deicer: the shoot

PM-Vulkan at the Elemet plant, shot for the 3DGS scene

October 2026 · Highlights

6

Social

LinkedIn, Instagram, awards

06 · Social

LinkedIn

+250

followers in October

59,516

reach of the posts

235

likes

11

posts,
four on Max Bill

The most popular post: the S&P 500 calculator

06 · Social

Social presence

13,300

likes and 108 comments on the Ramesses reel

421

followers from zero

1,275

shares of one reel

@mrdn.world

Sasha Derivanov

Thanks to Sasha Derivanov for the experiments and a great result

06 · Social

Three works in the race for the awards

The Webby Awards

Webby

The internet’s main award, New York, since 1996 · Ramesses, the Bull and Bill submitted, results next year

iF Design Award

iF Design Award

The German design prize, Hanover, since 1953 · applied

Communication Arts

Comm Arts: shortlist

The US design magazine’s Interactive Annual · Ramesses and Pilgrim App shortlisted, results on 6 November

October 2026 · Highlights

7

Business development
and outreach

The funnel, presales, qualification, MEIRA, November

Annual reports in evaluation

2.5M

dollars, about half of the funnel

07 · Business development

Annual reports lead the funnel

5.5M

dollars in the funnel

25

clients now, 30 by 1 December

07 · Business development

Presales in October

01QSEMeeting with Foresight · Evaluation · $130K
02CRADemo · Proposing · $55K
03MezzanProposal sent · Proposing · $60K
04ManateqRFP · Proposing · $100K
05FGIC MirqabMeeting this Friday · Proposing · $150K
06LSE MarketplaceQualification

Stage and budget: Altyn CRM, 04.11.2026

Méridien Talks

07 · Business development

Qualification tripled in October

84

deals in qualification

020406080 accountsvalue nowQualification84$1.4m8 Oct5 NovDiscovery23$1.9mEvaluation39$2.56mProposal13$1.2m

2

RFPs submitted

25

client meetings since the last Talks

Méridien Talks

MEIRA chapter meeting at Bahrain Bourse

MEIRA Bahrain · 29 October · Bahrain Bourse

What we did
Met Bahrain’s IR community, followed up with Alba, set up a meeting with Bahrain Bourse

What we learnt
AI visibility is now part of IR: websites must work for AI tools, not only investors

07 · Business development

November priorities

01Q3 results outreach
02Customer workshops
03Qualification follow-ups
04Zain delivery preparation
05MEIRA activity

Méridien Talks

Thnx!