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Koydo Meridian™ · Live 2026-04-17

One curriculum for every stage of study.

From first phonics through doctoral research — built on Koydo's own teaching and the best openly-licensed academic sources in the world.

Koydo's 814 in-house curriculum modules — medicine, law, MBA, computer science, engineering, humanities, K-12 — combined with 111+ openly-licensed academic sources (MIT OpenCourseWare, Open Yale, OpenStax, Khan Academy, PhET, NASA, Wikimedia, and more).

Meridian is the knowledge base — what there is to learn. Koydo Cortex is how it reaches you: personal learning paths, adaptive practice, an AI tutor that notices where you're stuck. Every Cortex-driven recommendation pulls from Meridian.

See the architecture→API documentation
104
gold concepts
14
domains
9
age bands (2–100)
118
CC-licensed sources registered
998
silver+gold content items
208
cross-source corroborations
879
pgvector embeddings
19
content modalities

Architecture

Meridian is built on four orthogonal axes. Every concept is placed at the intersection.

14 Domains

D1Mathematics & Logic
D2Physical Sciences
D3Life Sciences
D4Computer Science & AI
D5Engineering & Technology
D6Health & Medicine
D7Social Sciences
D8Economics & Business
D9Humanities
D10Law & Governance
D11Arts & Design
D12Communication & Media
D13Education & Learning Science
D14Languages & Cultures

8 Ways of Knowing

W1Quantitative Reasoning
W2Scientific Inquiry
W3Technological Fluency
W4Historical & Social Analysis
W5Ethical & Civic Reasoning
W6Aesthetic & Creative Expression
W7Communication & Language
W8Integration & Application

7 Learner Stages

Meridian is organized by learner stage, not age. A career-changer learning Python is at the same stage as an undergraduate taking their first CS course. Stages line up with the international classification used by world university rankings and partner institutions.

Foundation — Early
ISCED 0-1 · 44 concepts
Foundation — Broad
ISCED 2-3 · 395 concepts
Bridge
ISCED 3-4 · 191 concepts
Specialization
ISCED 6 · 17 concepts
Advanced
ISCED 7 · 135 concepts
Research
ISCED 8 · 0 concepts
Lifelong
continuing · 126 concepts

10 Major Fields of Study

Every concept belongs to one of these fields. We use the same classification as UNESCO and world university rankings, so partner institutions and accredited programs line up directly with Meridian data.

F01Education
F02Arts and Humanities
F03Social Sciences, Journalism, Information
F04Business, Administration, Law
F05Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics
F06Information and Communication Technologies
F07Engineering, Manufacturing, Construction
F08Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Veterinary
F09Health and Welfare
F10Services

6 Core Pillars Every Learner Starts With

The world's strongest universities share a common general-education core. Meridian requires the same six pillars of every learner, regardless of stage or field.

UFC1Critical Thinking & Epistemology
UFC2Quantitative & Computational Literacy
UFC3Scientific Literacy
UFC4Historical & Cultural Literacy
UFC5Communication & Digital Fluency
UFC6Sustainability & Global Citizenship

10 Real-World Challenges That Cross Every Field

Hard problems — climate, AI ethics, democracy, health — that can't be solved inside one discipline. We tag concepts across fields so learners can follow a challenge all the way through.

GC01AI, Computation, and Society
GC02Climate, Energy, and Planetary Futures
GC03Health, Longevity, and Bioengineering
GC04Cities, Infrastructure, and Mobility
GC05Democracy, Law, Governance, Public Reason
GC06Markets, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
GC07Culture, Language, Identity, Media
GC08Food, Water, Agriculture, Biodiversity
GC09Education, Human Development, Equity
GC10Security, Cyber, Peace, Humanitarian Response

Quality tiers

Meridian is promoted by a DB-side function that enforces every gate. Content never reaches the public surface without meeting both review and corroboration requirements.

Gold
Peer-reviewed by a human editor + corroborated by ≥2 independent sources + concept-linked
Public REST API · bulk S3 exports · free tier
Silver
Concept-linked + at least one approved peer review
Authenticated Koydo users
Bronze
Validated against JSON Schema at ingest
Internal editorial pipeline only
Retracted
Any tier can be retracted with audited reason (license change, factual error, bias complaint upheld)
Tombstoned with `replaced_by` pointer when a successor exists

Public API

Edge-cached read-through snapshots served by Cloudflare. Every response carries an ETag and aggressive Cache-Control. Designed for 10M DAU.

EndpointReturns
GET /v1/concept/{slug}Full concept bundle with prerequisites, unlocks, related, content_summary.
GET /v1/domain/{code}Domain overview (D1–D14) with top concepts.
GET /v1/age-band/{code}Age-band rollup (early-years through senior) grouped by domain.
GET /v1/search?q=…Semantic + full-text search via pgvector HNSW. Sub-second on 10K+ concepts.
GET /v1/indexGlobal slug → canonical_uri map for client-side routing.
GET /v1/contracts/{ver}/{kind}JSON Schema for each content kind — clients validate before POST /ingest.
GET /v1/healthLiveness probe + stats (concept count, snapshot freshness, active sources).

MCP Server

An MCP server exposes the same read surface as 7 tools for AI agents (Claude, Cursor, custom). One-line registration in ~/.claude/mcp.json. Tools include concept.get, concept.search, content.list, domain.overview, age_band.overview, health, contract.get.

Bulk Exports

Weekly gzipped JSONL dumps of every gold-tier concept, content item, edge, and source registered. Licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0 with attribution preserved down to the per-source row. Published at s3://koydo-meridian-public/.

Openly-licensed sources

Every source in the Meridian registry is CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC0, or public-domain. We do not ingest proprietary frameworks (IB, Core Knowledge, Cambridge, Pearson). We build our own taxonomy and cite upstream on every page.

MIT OpenCourseWareOpen Yale CoursesOpenStaxKhan AcademyPhET SimulationsWikipediaWikibooksWikiversityWikidataSimple English WikipediaStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyNASANIH NLMNOAAUSGSCDCLibrary of CongressarXivPubMed Central OADOAJOpenAlexEurope PMCProject GutenbergOpen LibraryPerseus Digital LibraryOur World in DataWorld Bank Open DataOECD DataGeoNamesOpenStreetMapMDN Web DocsPython DocsSoftware CarpentryData CarpentryThe Met CollectionRijksmuseumSmithsonian Open AccessIMSLPPratham StoryWeaverAfrican StorybookGlobal Digital LibraryBloom LibraryNPTELSciELOTe AraChinese Text ProjectGRETILSADiLaR+ 64 more planned

Learn anything. At any age. From the best sources on earth.

Meridian powers the full Koydo learning stack — from early-years flashcards to graduate research prompts — and is openly accessible to partners, researchers, and AI agents.

Try Koydo — 1,275,703+ items→Source on GitHub