Bring us the decision or technical problem.

How an engagement begins

Email Leo a non-confidential outline: what you are doing, its current stage, the help needed and your timing. You can also reply in an existing conversation. Leo reviews whether we may be able to help and asks for any missing facts. The Founder Fit Check is optional.

You can start this conversation without a Chinese entity. We first look at the work and the resources it needs, then identify where a local entity becomes necessary.

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The initial screening and any discretionary first introduction help identify whether there is a useful next step. Ongoing research, additional matching, document preparation and coordination have a defined paid scope.

That work may include technical-brief preparation, counterpart-facing materials, technical review coordination, engineering or validation scope definition, execution-option comparison, project development and ongoing coordination. It begins only under a written scope identifying the commissioning party, our role, deliverables, payer, fees and any approved external outreach.

What the work does

We find relevant organisations, prepare the questions they need to answer, and check the practical terms: who can contract, what can be done, available dates, costs and ownership of the result. The brief compares the options and proposes a concrete next step.

We consider commercial suppliers, research institutions and shared testing or pilot-production facilities. Public programmes enter the comparison when they change cost, eligibility, access or timing.

For example, a robotics team may need a facility to reproduce a specific failure. The work is to establish whether that facility can run the test, what the team must supply and what it will cost.

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Recommendations and commercial structure

Technical and operating fit determines the recommended route. Execution economics then asks what the work costs, who pays and whether it remains practical. Receiving-side compensation does not make a location technically superior or turn a policy into evidence of access.

Meridian Flow LLC may be paid by the foreign organisation, a Chinese receiving-side organisation or another project participant for separately defined work. We disclose the existence and nature of a materially relevant receiving-side financial relationship before the client relies on the recommendation.

Clients may decline introductions, compare quotations and use their own providers.

Fees follow the written scope. The two technical briefs and Founder Landing Sprint cover different decisions; their scopes and starting prices are listed above. Multi-party execution and field-heavy work are priced against the agreed project requirements.

Protect confidential technical information.

Initial contact needs only enough information to define the problem. Do not send source code, full bills of materials, unpublished formulas, trade secrets, proprietary datasets, confidential customer lists, sensitive clinical information or export-controlled technical documentation.

If deeper review is needed, agree the scope, confidentiality framework and permitted recipients first, including an NDA where appropriate. External outreach or material sharing requires written authority covering the intended counterpart and information boundary.

Cross-border technical exchange remains subject to applicable export-control and technology-transfer restrictions.