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The AI Signal Gauge as a panel inside a host platform. The host’s own rating card stays where it is; ours sits beneath it in the same right rail, and the ticker rail and the strip under the price chart carry our rating alongside the host’s data. Click a ticker.
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Signal Symbol Price % chg
MRDN Meridian Workflow Software 41.18 -1.4% QTRL Quantrell Analytics 214.77 +0.8% PLMR Palmera Health AI 18.63 -3.2% HLCX Helix Compute Partners 128.40 +2.1% NRTH Northline Data Centers 76.02 +0.3% VNTG Vantage Retail Group 52.90 +0.1% Meridian Workflow Software (MRDN) Application cohort · AI Signal Gauge: Talking $41.18 -1.4% Illustrative price path
3M 6M YTD 1Y 2Y
Q4 24 Q1 25 Q2 25 Q3 25 Q4 25 Q1 26 Q2 26 Q3 26 35 40 45 Strip: quarterly AI Signal Gauge
Host rating card Unchanged. The host’s own rating, checklist and rating history render here exactly as today.
AI Signal Gauge for MRDN Application Talking
Application cohort · quarterly · as of 10-Q filed 7 Aug 2026
Claim–reality divergence · Severe AI named 41 times in the latest earnings release, up from 9 two years ago, with specificity falling. Over the same eight quarters, index-adjusted gross margin fell 4 points against a cohort that rose 6.
Factor checklist next input: 10-K, Feb 2027 Gross margin vs cohort index-adjusted trajectory
58% · cohort 55% · 8q trend −4 pts vs cohort +6 ▼ worsening What would change this: Two consecutive quarters of index-adjusted margin expansion. First test: 10-Q, Nov 2026.
✕ Against
Inference Efficiency Ratio AI revenue ÷ inference cost
Neither AI revenue nor inference cost is broken out What would change this: A segment or cost-of-revenue breakout in the FY26 10-K.
○ Not disclosed
Workflow position Item 1, published rubric
Assistive · summarisation and drafting features → flat What would change this: Item 1 describing AI in an execution or decision path. Next read: 10-K, Feb 2027.
✕ Against
Claim–reality divergence claims vs. financial movement
Severe · high, rising, unspecific claims against falling relative margin ▼ worsening What would change this: Claim intensity falling or margin recovering for two quarters.
✕ Against
Propagation risk Item 1A, partial
Boilerplate · low discrimination What would change this: Partial factor. Shown, lightly weighted.
– Neutral
Hidden reasoning activity not observable from disclosure
Not measured
Enterprise ROI not disclosed at company level
Not measured
Ranked within the Application cohort only · greyed rows are unmeasurable by design Method →