Centerline
Operations framework for operators. Centerline runs your weekly cadence — the meetings, the to-dos, the scorecard, the issues list — and keeps the work moving between them. Mounts in Merkava as a Drive; also runs standalone at centerlineos.com.
The operating cadence, running itself.
- Weekly meeting, structured. Agenda, headlines, scorecard review, bearing review, to-do review, issues list, conclude. The meeting runs the same every week; Centerline keeps time.
- Living to-do list. To-dos captured in meetings flow into the week with owners and due dates. Last week's open items are the first thing you see.
- Scorecard. The 5–15 numbers you review every week. Thresholds surface the ones off-track before anyone has to ask.
- Quarterly bearings. The 3–7 priorities that matter this quarter, tracked week over week. On-track / off-track / done — nothing else.
- Issues list. The thing you can't solve in the meeting doesn't get lost. It goes on the list, gets prioritized, and surfaces when it's ready to decide.
- Operating roster. Who owns what seat. Visible to everyone on the team. Changes when the business does.
Why not Ninety or Asana.
Three steps to a running cadence.
Set the team.
Seats on the operating roster. Meeting attendees. Owners. Centerline asks once; it stays consistent until you change it.
Define the cadence.
Weekly meeting time. The 5–15 scorecard numbers and their thresholds. This quarter's bearings. Centerline schedules the meeting and prefills the agenda from then on.
Run the meeting.
Agenda runs itself. Scorecard review flags misses. To-dos get owned. Issues get captured. Conclude — and next week starts from where you left off.
This week's meeting, scored live.
Composite of Centerline's weekly meeting surface. Actual UI ships with launch.
The cadence what the rest of Merkava feeds into.
The questions operators running cadence actually ask.
How is Centerline different from EOS / Traction or Ninety?
EOS / Traction is a methodology delivered by an "implementer" — a paid coach who trains the team in the EOS book's rituals. Ninety / Bloom Growth productize the EOS rituals as software. Centerline is the framework + the software in one place, designed for operators running multiple ventures in parallel. The Operations Coach (the Drive) runs the cadence — weekly review, quarterly priorities, end-of-quarter retro — without a fractional consultant.
What does the weekly review look like?
Tuesday 30-minute meeting (configurable). Centerline pulls metrics from Merkava (revenue, pipeline, OKR progress per Drive), surfaces what's red / yellow / green, asks the operator "what's blocking each venture" in a structured way, and writes up the meeting notes including action items routed to specific Crew members. Week-over-week trend is automatic.
How does Centerline track quarterly priorities (bearings)?
Each venture has 3-5 bearings per quarter. Centerline tracks status (on-track / at-risk / off-track) weekly, surfaces drift before quarter-end (operators tend to discover misses at the wrong time), and runs end-of-quarter retro automatically — what shipped, what slipped, what to keep / cut / start.
How does Centerline work with Crew, Gauge, and Atlas?
Crew owns who. Gauge runs 1:1s + reviews. Atlas owns documentation. Centerline runs the cadence on top of all three: pulls action items into Gauge 1:1 agendas, references playbooks from Atlas during review, attributes ownership to Crew records. The OPS executive ($299/mo) operates the four together as one system.
Can I run Centerline across multiple ventures?
Yes. Each venture has its own bearings, its own metrics, its own cadence. Merkava's Portfolio view rolls up cross-venture state (which ventures are on-track this quarter, which need attention) so you don't need to read seven dashboards every Monday.
What's the Centerline Framework book?
The methodology Centerline runs is documented in the Centerline book — published by the Meridian team. The Drive enforces the rituals; the book teaches the why. Think of it as the EOS Traction equivalent for operators in the AI era.
What does Centerline cost?
Centerline is part of the OPS executive bundle at $299/mo — COO + 7 specialists, Centerline included alongside Crew, Onramp, Cohort, Gauge, Ignition, and Relay. Or hire the whole C-Suite at $599/mo. Centerline also runs as a standalone SaaS at centerlineos.com (the operating-cadence product, $499/mo bundled into Merkava or $1,500/mo standalone for non-Merkava operators).
Run the cadence on every venture.
Centerline is live. External Drive · $499/mo bundled into Merkava (or $1,500/mo standalone at centerlineos.com). Bundled with the OPS exec hire at $299/mo. Mounts via the Platform Contract — same cadence surface, embedded in your Merkava workspace.