AI research for human empowerment

Technology that grows with the people who use it.

Meristem is an AI research lab focused on building systems that amplify human capability — not replace it.

Research

What we're working on

We study how AI can be shaped by and for the people it serves — learning from real human context to become genuinely useful.

Principles

Every research decision starts with the question of whether it makes the people using these systems more capable and more in control.

We follow ideas far enough to understand them fully, rather than moving on once something works. The most useful insights live past the obvious ones.

We stay lean by design. Fewer people working on fewer problems — with more care — produces better research.

Team

Kelvin Guu

CEO

Former Google DeepMind Director / Principal Scientist

Kenton Lee

CTO

Former Google DeepMind Senior Staff Research Scientist