The same call every time, with the evidence attached.
Every application, claim or proposal scored against your own criteria, with the reasons shown. Live in weeks, and your people make every call.
Best first step if the same decision goes a different way depending on who is at their desk that day.
- Evidence behind every recommendation
- Your people make every call
- Live in weeks, on your criteria
The data exists. The analysis doesn't.
Harvard Business Review found 61% of executives think their organisation is bad at decision-making - and it's rarely a data problem. Loan approvals, grant assessments, tender scoring, claims - the information is scattered across systems and nobody has time to pull it together, so experienced people make judgement calls and junior people guess. RIVER builds the layer that does the pulling together.
Your process today
With RIVER
Every assessor scores the same kind of application differently, depending on who picked it up.
Every application scored against the same criteria, every time, with the weighting you set.
The reasoning behind a decision lives in someone's head, and can't be produced later.
Every recommendation comes with structured reasoning your team can interrogate before they sign off.
Nothing is actioned automatically - the platform recommends, your team decides.
Cross-referencing an application against policy or history is done by hand, if it's done at all.
Applications cross-referenced against policy, precedent and history at the volume you actually receive them.
A pattern across cases - a fraud ring, a recurring risk - only surfaces once someone notices by chance.
Trends, anomalies and correlations surfaced across your caseload, before they escalate.
An auditor or regulator asks how a decision was reached, and it takes days to reconstruct.
Every analysis, source and recommendation logged and traceable, on demand.
Your team keeps the decision. The platform takes the analysis.
What AI actually does here. Grounded in the work, not the hype.
Applications scored, briefs drafted with the evidence attached, patterns surfaced across your caseload - the platform does the analysis and leaves the decision to your team.
Score it, and show the working
The two things every high-volume decision needs first: a consistent score, and the evidence behind it - both ready for a human to check before it counts.
Ranked in the top decile against this round's criteria - recommended for approval.
Then the cross-referencing and the pattern
On that foundation, the platform reads everything against everything else - policy against application, case against history - and surfaces what a single reviewer never would.
This week's caseload
You don't start from scratch. We tailor what's proven to your criteria.
RIVER is over 100 prebuilt modules, tailored to your rules and your systems in weeks - built to sit alongside the case management or workflow tool you already run, not replace it.
Everything an audit or procurement review asks for is in our Trust Centre
- Every recommendation shows its reasoning - not a black-box score.
- Your team decides; the platform recommends and logs the rationale.
- Consistent weighting applied to every case, on the criteria you set.
- NZ-hosted, on your systems, never used to train a model.
Our business runs on what RIVER built. They have been central to our technology and our growth, and it keeps driving results.
Mark BramwellDirector, Commercial Realty · 2024Solutions that do this job. Scoped, priced, and live in weeks.
Finance Integration & Reporting
Xero or MYOB and your bank feeds joined to your platform in one live view. Month-end in hours, and AI that answers where you are against budget.
Running the business off last month's numbers? The accountant has them, the spreadsheet has a version, and the answer to how you are tracking is always a week away.
From $15,000
AI for Executives
Your leadership team, on your strategic challenges, ending in a decision.
AI on every agenda, and nobody quite gets it? Your leadership team needs one answer.
From $7,500
The questions people ask when they’re ready to move.
No. The platform recommends; your team decides. Every case is scored and briefed with the evidence attached, and nothing is approved, declined or actioned automatically.
- A recommendation is prepared for review, not applied on its own.
- Every score shows the criteria it was measured against.
- Every decision your team makes is logged against the recommendation.
A spreadsheet doesn't read the application for you. It scores what someone already typed in; the platform reads the source documents, applies your criteria consistently, and drafts the reasoning - at the volume you actually receive cases.
It also doesn't drift the way a matrix does when criteria change or an edge case appears - the rules live in one place and apply everywhere at once.
Any decision you make 50+ times a week against fairly consistent criteria - loan assessments, grant reviews, claims, tender scoring, RFP evaluation, resource allocation.
It's not the right fit for decisions that are genuinely one-off and creative - AI adds structure and consistency, not creativity.
Your data stays in Aotearoa, and every analysis is logged. The platform runs in your cloud or NZ-hosted for you, with a full audit trail - every source, every criterion, every recommendation traceable for an auditor or regulator.
The Trust Centre carries the detail a procurement or audit review will ask for.
Weeks, not quarters. A first caseload goes live in weeks including discovery, build and testing, scored against the criteria you already use; a fuller rollout with system integration takes a little longer.
Easy to start. Fast to prove. Built to scale.
Tell us about your decisions, and we’ll take it from there. Prefer to look first? Ask Moana, or take the free Readiness Check.
Ideas from the field.
Guides and research from a team that ships it.
TakeHighlight
Five frontier models in three days. The only thing that survives is your eval set
Anthropic, Google, Meta, Alibaba and OpenAI all shipped a frontier model in the first three days of September. The teams that switched in a day had one thing in common: 30 to 50 real examples from their own work, scored the same way every time. How to build yours this afternoon.
PerspectiveHighlight
Your AI vendor's pricing has a balance sheet under it
The five biggest US cloud companies are spending close to US$700 billion this year, most of it on AI, and the gap between that and what they earn is borrowed. Prices and terms can move for reasons that have nothing to do with you. Four questions to put to every AI vendor at renewal.
TakeHighlight
Developers felt faster. They were slower
A controlled trial found experienced developers were 19% slower with AI while believing it sped them up. A year later the same developers were faster. The gain was never in adoption. It was in aiming AI at the right work.
Teams like yours, in their own words.
A decade of work, across health, sport, finance and the public good.
RIVER learnt our business inside out, and found growth we hadn't seen ourselves. That is what changed our ability to scale.
Jay HarrisonFounder, Edison Health · 2022We crunch through complex data to generate insights, and RIVER made it simple to work through, while keeping everyone aligned on our core value proposition.
Alex OsbornCTO, trev · 2024Our business runs on what RIVER built. They have been central to our technology and our growth, and it keeps driving results.
Mark BramwellDirector, Commercial Realty · 2024RIVER listens, understands what we actually need, and gives us our time back. That is what a good partnership looks like.
Tony NaiduDevelopment Manager, Auckland Badminton Association · 2025RIVER helped us validate our market and launch our platform, and they haven't stopped since. They've been with us every step.
Mike CollinsFounder, iMatch Sport · 2025RIVER has been a trusted partner from the start, and they exceeded what we expected. We're already seeing the difference their work is making.
Ellen LekkaProgramme Specialist, UNESCO & SVSG · 2025The team at RIVER has been an incredible partner from day one. Their ongoing support helped make our success possible.
Scott TownshendFounder, trev · 2022RIVER approached every detail with care. Every decision was made with consideration and purpose.
Daemon CoyleGM, Mental Health Foundation · 2021Our new brand is bold and effective, and customers love it. The website has driven a real increase in leads.
Marcus SinGM, Cleanly · 2020We have always been ambitious about what our site should do, and RIVER take on the hardest parts of it. They make it happen, no matter how complex.
Chris HartFounder, Real Groovy · 2021RIVER are responsive and always ready to adapt. We have never had to chase them, and their support has been critical as our needs changed.
Supriya Kulkarni-PadhyeM&E Coordinator, Oceania Football Confederation · 2020We love our new brand. It reflects who we are as a team and resonates with our customers. Thank you for bringing our vision to life.
Tracy BergeGM, Greentree Advisers · 2021