Meerv

Physical AI is making decisions in a world it cannot see.

Today's AI acts on the physical world through inference — through reports, scans, logs, and estimates that arrive at the system long after the moment they describe.

The result is a widening gap between what AI believes and what is actually true. As Physical AI moves into food, medicine, infrastructure, and autonomous systems, that gap stops being an inconvenience and becomes a liability.

What Meerv is

Meerv gives every thing a verifiable presence.

Meerv is a new class of radiofrequency identity — printed, sustainable, and designed to scale to every object, package, component, and product in the physical world. Each Meerv tag is the point where a physical thing becomes addressable, readable, and accountable. It is the moment a thing speaks for itself.

Printed

Manufactured at a fraction of the cost and footprint of conventional RFID, on substrates that don't end up as e-waste.

Sustainable

Designed for end-of-life behavior that matches the products it identifies — recyclable, biodegradable where appropriate, and free of rare-earth dependencies.

At item-level scale

Engineered to identify not categories, not pallets, not shipments — but every individual thing.

The architecture

The moment of truth, and the memory that holds it.

Meerv is the moment of truth — the instant a physical object's identity is captured, verified, and made real. QDat.io is its memory — the engine that turns every Meerv moment into a permanent, queryable, accountable record. Together, they form the only end-to-end evidence chain built for Physical AI: from sustainable identity on every thing, to ground truth at planetary scale.

Moment

Meerv

Sustainable printed identity on every thing — the point where a physical object becomes real to software.

Memory

QDat.io

The spatiotemporal record of every Meerv moment — permanent, queryable, and accountable for Physical AI.

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Application surfaces

Truth where it matters most.

Meerv is built for the domains where the cost of unverified identity is highest, and where Physical AI is moving fastest.

Agri-food traceability

From field to shelf, every product carries a verifiable identity — so claims about origin, freshness, and handling can be tested against the physical record, not the paper trail.

Retail and supply chain

Item-level identity at the scale of every SKU, every unit, every shipment — so Physical AI can manage inventory, prevent loss, and verify provenance without inferring what happened.

Regulated industries

Pharmaceuticals, medical devices, critical components — where the cost of a missing or falsified identity is measured in lives and recalls, not just margins.

Sustainability and circular systems

Identity that persists through the full lifecycle of a product — enabling return, repair, recycling, and end-of-life accountability that the linear economy could never measure.

Already where it matters

Not a vision. An active deployment.

Meerv is in active programs with retail, supply chain, and frontline automation industry leaders — building the substrate for Physical AI on real product, in real operations.

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Recognition

MaRS Discovery District

Selected as one of the 9 catalytic changers in the Food & Ag cohort focused on commercialization and supply chain resiliency.

Foodtech Frontier 25

Recognized among the Top 6 Rising Stars in Quebec and Top 25 in Canada for catalytic foodtech impact.

Quantino

Part of Quantino's deeptech incubator cohort, gaining access to specialized equipment, mentorship, and advanced technology infrastructure.

Team

A founding team with demonstrated expertise across deeptech, electronics, software, and engineering.

Meerv is a team with unique capabilities, united by a clear mission: combining deeptech material science and software to make sustainable traceability at scale a reality, fast.

Francois Menard
Founder and CTO

Francois Menard

Leads company direction across deeptech product strategy, systems architecture, and commercialization.

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Christian Plante
CEO

Christian Plante

Leads company strategy, partnerships, and commercialization as Meerv scales its sustainable traceability platform.

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Joel Vandal
Co-Founder & Head of Software

Joel Vandal

Leads the software systems and pilot workflows that operate today under the QDat.io brand.

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Jonathan Briere
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering

Jonathan Briere

Leads engineering execution across hardware integration, deployment reliability, and field-ready systems.

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Certified expertise

Turnkey deployment credibility.

Meerv maintains the two Zebra certifications, reinforcing the company's ability to deliver operational systems with qualified deployment partners.

Zebra ISV certification

Zebra Independent Software Vendor

Software credibility for enterprise scanning and traceability environments.

Zebra Registered Reseller certification

Zebra Registered Reseller with Fixed RFID Reader Certification

Deployment qualification for fixed-reader infrastructure and turnkey RFID execution.

Truth worth remembering.

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Learn more about Sustainable Printed Electronics for Item-Level Identity

Meerv builds printed-electronics RFID and sensor tags that give every physical item a verifiable identity — without the metal and plastics of conventional RFIDs. Tell us about your products, volumes, and traceability needs, and we'll show how sustainable item-level identity can be built into your supply chain at scale.

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