00 · COCompany

Many applications.
One legible instrument.

Merged is a vertically integrated stack for product development teams. We take the workflows that have fragmented across a hundred SaaS apps — billing, evidence, coordination — and collapse them onto one dial your operators can read at a glance.

The name is intentional. Many merged into one.

01 · PRPrinciples

What we believe before we
write a line of code.

These aren’t marketing words. They are the rules we use when we disagree about what to ship.

01

Vertical integration wins where workflows are intertwined.

Best-of-breed is brilliant when the seams are clean. Billing, evidence, and coordination are not clean seams — they are the same workflow seen from different rooms. So we build them as one.
02

AI exists to amplify the operator, never to replace the audit trail.

We use frontier models for what they are great at — clustering, retrieval, estimation across volumes a human cannot read. Every conclusion remains traceable. No hallucinated dashboards.
03

Interfaces should feel like instruments.

High contrast. Minimal noise. The next action obvious. We took our visual cue from the Bell & Ross BR03: a black dial, white markers, one signal accent. Legibility is a feature.
04

Money should move under audit, not under heroics.

Finance teams shouldn't reconcile manually because the platform is sloppy. Operators shouldn't be on call for every credit because the workflow has no shape. We build the rails so the people don't have to be the rails.
05

Surfaces beat scripts.

If a workflow lives in a Notion runbook, it lives in nobody's head. We turn the runbook into the surface — clickable, observable, owned by someone with a name.
06

Write the docs you wish existed.

We over-invest in writing — for customers, for ourselves, for the next person who picks up the file. Clear thinking is clear writing is clear product.
02 · OROrigin
2024

A short history.

Merged started as a frustration. Our founders had run product teams at companies large enough to feel the pain — twelve tools to ship a quote, four spreadsheets to close the books, a research function that lived inside a Notion that nobody read. The instrumentation was sophisticated; the dial was illegible.

We tried building atop the incumbents. We watched our integrations break every six weeks. We watched our billing diverge from our books quarter after quarter. We watched the smartest people on our teams spend their best hours on coordination work the platform should have done for them.

So we left and built it. Merged is the product we wanted when we were operators — opinionated about the spine that matters (billing, evidence, coordination) and pluralistic about the rest.

03 · TMThe team
01

9 operators

Founding team across engineering, design, GTM, and finance ops.

02

5 timezones

Remote-first from day one. Asynchronous by default.

03

1 product

We refuse to spread the team thin. One vertical, executed all the way.

04

$0 dilution

Capital efficient by design. Revenue funds the next ten people.

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We did not start Merged to build software. We started it because we couldn’t read the dial — and the dial was costing us money, time, and the people we cared about most.

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The founding team
Merged
04 · HRHiring

We hire operators
who can ship.

We want people who have run something — a team, a product line, a P&L — and who left wishing the platform had been better. If that is you, we should talk.

01 · ENG

Founding engineers

You have shipped production systems that move money. You write the design doc and the migration. You treat correctness as a feature.

02 · DES

Founding designer

You believe interfaces are instruments. You can argue for a hairline weight and you can ship a 30-screen flow. You have shipped editorial-grade product surfaces.

03 · GTM

Founding GTM

You have built motion at a scale where one founder, one quote tool, and a Notion is no longer enough. You are obsessed with the customer narrative.

04 · OPS

Operations & finance

You have closed the books and you have hated the process. You want to design a finance function that isn’t held together by spreadsheets and prayer.

05 · CTTalk to us

We’re building in public.
Come build with us.

Whether you want to use the product, sell into your org, or join the team — start a conversation. We read every note.