MW Nexus

How the platform works

MW Nexus is organized in layers. Each layer has one job, and every division and project carries one of three status labels.

The layers

  1. Merrill Withholdings

    Owns and governs

    The privately held holding company. It owns the platform, sets direction and makes the final decisions.

    merrillwithholdings.com

  2. MW Nexus

    Operates

    The operating platform. It organizes the divisions and projects and runs this website.

    Active

  3. Core

    Coordinates

    The hub. It holds the standards and shared services every division uses.

    In developmentAbout Core

  4. Divisions

    Specialize

    Each division has one area of responsibility and belongs to a group: Technology & Intelligence, Entertainment & Creation, Capital & Operations, or Communications & Impact.

    All divisions

  5. Projects

    Ship

    Projects are the work itself. Each one has its own status and a home: a division, or Merrill Withholdings directly.

    All projects

Status labels

Every division and project on this site carries exactly one of these labels.

Active
Running today: released, live or on sale.
In development
Being built. Not released or offered yet.
Planned
Defined on paper. Work has not started.

A page on this site does not make a division active. A label changes when the work does.

Principles

  • Build one working thing at a time.

    Get one thing working before adding the next. A planned division stays planned until there is real work for it.

  • Protect before publish.

    Secure ideas, code and unreleased work before showing them. Public pages say what something is, not how it works.

  • Local and private where it matters.

    Keep work that involves private data or unreleased material on hardware Merrill Withholdings controls, rather than on outside services, wherever that is practical.