Meridian is a two-person founding team that built and launched a fintech API in four months. For a team that small, every hour matters — there's no room for tooling that slows you down.
They used Axon from day one, primarily for autocomplete and PR review. With no senior engineers to review each other's code, Axon became their de facto code reviewer — catching issues, enforcing patterns, and suggesting improvements.
"It's embarrassing how much Axon knows about our codebase," James laughed. "Better than either of us, honestly." They raised their seed round three weeks after launch.