RESEARCH
We do not cite research to support our conclusions. We build on research to reach them.
The evidence base behind every MEAIOW industry analysis, every Agentecture recommendation and every CONTINUUM engagement strategy originates in the same place: the primary sources that actually govern each industry — its regulators, its professional bodies, its national statistics offices, and the international agencies that set the standard its practitioners are measured against.
HOW MEAIOW BUILDS ITS RESEARCH BASE
A British standard of evidence, applied globally.
MEAIOW is a British AI company. We hold our own work to the standard of evidence the British professions expect: named sources, traceable methodology, and a refusal to present a market estimate as if it carries the same authority as a regulator’s own survey of its regulated firms.
The research is built continuously, as part of the same work we do designing AI workforce solutions in each industry. What we learn in a legal engagement changes what we know about document governance in healthcare. The research base is cumulative because the discipline is cumulative.
No consultancy market estimate is used as the primary evidence anchor for any claim on this site. Where a primary regulatory or statistical source exists, it is that source — and only that source — that carries the number.
—Shakil Siddiqui, Founder & CEO of MEAIOW
THE PRINCIPLES
Four commitments behind every number.
Primary sources are not a preference. They are the architecture of credibility.
A statistic that cannot be traced to the body that collected it is not a statistic. It is an estimate of an estimate. MEAIOW does not publish estimates of estimates.
Our research is a product of doing the work, not a prerequisite for starting it.
The evidence base MEAIOW maintains across fifteen industries exists because we built Agentecture in fifteen industries — not because we researched them in preparation for selling into them. That difference is the difference between knowledge and intelligence.
We are global by operation and British by standard.
MEAIOW maintains offices in London and Dubai and works with clients across five global markets. The rigour we apply is the rigour the British professions have spent centuries building: named sources, traceable methodology, and explicit acknowledgment of what we do not know.
Cross-industry research is not a feature of MEAIOW’s methodology. It is the methodology.
That governance architecture in financial services maps structurally onto healthcare, or that supply-chain agent orchestration transfers into facilities management, is not an observation available to a vendor building one product for one industry. It is what a practice built on a single transferable discipline produces at scale.
THE SOURCE STANDARD MEAIOW APPLIES
The bodies that govern, survey and regulate each market we serve.
UK regulatory bodies
Bank of England · FCA · Prudential Regulation Authority · Solicitors Regulation Authority · Care Quality Commission · Ofgem · Ofcom · NHS England · Skills for Health
UK statistical & government
Office for National Statistics · DSIT · HM Treasury · UK Health Security Agency · GOV.UK official publications
UK professional bodies
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors · Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management · Nuffield Trust · Law Society · British Medical Association
US regulatory bodies
US Food and Drug Administration · Federal Reserve · Securities and Exchange Commission · National Association of Insurance Commissioners
US professional associations
American Bankers Association · American Bar Association · American Medical Association · National Retail Federation · National Association of Manufacturers · CSCMP
UAE & Gulf
Dubai International Financial Centre · Dubai Financial Services Authority · Dubai Health Authority · UAE Ministry of Economy · Abu Dhabi Global Market
Japan & Singapore
Financial Services Agency Japan · Monetary Authority of Singapore · METI Japan · Economic Development Board Singapore
International agencies
International Energy Agency · OECD · World Economic Forum · World Bank · IMF · GSMA · International Labour Organization · UNCTAD
Academic & research
University of Oxford · University of Cambridge · King’s College London · LSE · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Harvard University
FLAGSHIP REPORT · QUARTERLY
The AI Workforce Report: Q2 2026
Why 85% of AI projects fail — and what the 15% did differently. Sector-specific findings, drawn from governing-body research. One case study per quarter.
PERSPECTIVES · MONTHLY
Opinion from the people who run MEAIOW.
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May 2026
OPINION
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OPINION
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Shakil
March 2026
EXPLAINERS · LEARN
Answers to the questions enterprise buyers search for.
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