Demo: Meridian Systems

Lattice ships with a fully populated simulated company to demonstrate the fractal structure at every tier.

Company: Meridian Systems, Inc. Industry: Enterprise Software (workflow automation) Size: 19 employees ARR: $32M Customers: 127 enterprise accounts

Organizational Hierarchy

Meridian Systems (company)
├── Products Division
│   ├── Engineering Department
│   │   ├── Platform Team (4 people)
│   │   │   ├── Chen Wei — VP of Engineering
│   │   │   ├── Priya Sharma — Senior Platform Engineer
│   │   │   ├── Marcus Johnson — Platform Engineer
│   │   │   └── Sarah Kim — Platform Engineer
│   │   └── Applications Team (3 people)
│   │       ├── James Okafor — Engineering Manager
│   │       ├── Aisha Patel — Senior Frontend Engineer
│   │       └── Tomas Eriksson — Full Stack Engineer
│   └── Product Department
│       └── Product Management Team (2 people)
│           ├── Rachel Torres — Director of Product
│           └── David Nakamura — Senior Product Manager
├── Operations Division
│   ├── IT Department
│   │   └── Infrastructure Team (3 people)
│   │       ├── Omar Hassan — VP of Operations
│   │       ├── Elena Volkov — Senior Infrastructure Engineer
│   │       └── Kenji Tanaka — Site Reliability Engineer
│   └── Security Department
│       └── Security Operations Team (2 people)
│           ├── Fatima Al-Rashid — Head of Security
│           └── Alex Petrov — Security Engineer
└── Commercial Division
    ├── Sales Department
    │   └── Enterprise Sales Team (3 people)
    │       ├── Nina Bergstrom — VP of Commercial
    │       ├── Carlos Mendez — Senior Account Executive
    │       └── Jessica Liu — Account Executive
    └── Marketing Department
        └── Growth Team (2 people)
            ├── Lucas Andersen — Head of Marketing
            └── Mina Abadi — Growth Marketing Manager

Seed Data Summary

The seed generator (src/seed/generate.ts) populates:

Data Type	Count	Scope
Entities	29	1 company, 3 divisions, 6 departments, 7 teams, 19 people
Goals	40+	Company through individual level, with parent-child goal chains
Challenges	9	Company and department level
Strategies	6	Company and division level
Metrics	30+	Company through team level
Work Items	18	Across all 7 teams
Budget Items	16	Company through department level
Team Memberships	19	All people assigned to their teams
Skills (JSON)	57	3 skills per person
Narratives (JSON)	1	Company-level overview

Every tier has populated Telos state: the company has problems, mission, goals, challenges, strategies, metrics, and budget. Each division cascades those into its own context. Departments add operational detail. Teams carry work items. Individuals carry skills. The fractal self-similarity is visible at every level.