Independent Software Studio · Est. 2025
Small, exact tools — held to a fixed line.
Stratford Meridian Labs builds a handful of focused products, each measured against one standard: it must tell the truth about what it does with your work — on your device where it can, with its sources and its edits shown, never faked.
The Catalogue · Four Products in Service
Each one does a single job, and shows its work while doing it.
FreshStartr
A tailored résumé for every job you apply to — built from any posting in about thirty seconds. Every fact from your original is verified as kept; anything the role wants that you don't actually have is flagged for you, never invented. It shows the receipts.
Quiet Pilot
Voice notes that never leave your phone. Live transcription and an on-device AI shape rambling speech into a clean, keepable note — no account, no cloud, nothing collected. The App Store privacy label reads, literally, "Data Not Collected."
NewTake
An AI video editor that finds your scenes, transcribes the audio, and assembles a finished cut. Edit the video by editing its transcript — click a word to jump there — then export with subtitles baked in. Rough footage to shareable take, fast.
LifeSciChat
Research answers for the life sciences, synthesised from the academic literature with citations you can follow back to the source. Neural search finds the concepts, not just the keywords, and the answer streams as it's written.
The Standard · What the Line Measures
Different products, one way of building.
The meridian is a reference line — the fixed mark everything else is measured against. Ours is a short list, and nothing ships that misses it.
Shows its work
If software touches your words, it proves what it changed. Receipts, citations, flagged gaps — the claim is checkable, not asserted.
On-device where it can be
Where a product can run its AI on your own device, it does — nothing leaves. Where a job needs the cloud, it keeps only what that job requires, and your work is never sold or mined for ads. Privacy by architecture, not by press release.
One loop, done well
Each product is a single job — capture, tailor, cut, answer — pursued until it's fast and quiet. No feature sprawl, no upsell nags.
Built at the edge
Rendered close to you and priced to run lean, so a small studio can keep the lights on without turning you into the product.
Legible to everyone
Every screen meets WCAG AA — real contrast, keyboard paths, reduced-motion fallbacks. Access is designed in from the start, not toggled on at the end.
Your work leaves with you
What a tool makes — a résumé, a cut, a note, a cited answer — is an artifact you export and keep. Yours to take elsewhere, never locked inside the app.
The Studio
A one-bench workshop, not a factory.
Stratford Meridian Labs LLC is an independent studio that designs, builds, and ships its own software end to end — the interface, the model plumbing, the edge infrastructure, and the words on the page.
Working small is the point. It's what lets every product be held to the same line instead of the market's: truthful about what it does, private where it counts, and finished enough to be worth keeping. If one of these tools fits a problem you have, we'd like to hear how it went.
- Studio
- Stratford Meridian Labs LLC
- Founded
- 2025
- Products
- 4 in service
- Enquiries
- hello@stratfordmeridianlabs.com