Kaimahi back with whānau, reports already written.
Every funder report drafted from one record of the mahi. Whānau coordinated across services, on infrastructure your organisation governs.
For the organisation whose kaimahi carry hauora, housing and governance, and compile a different report for every funder.
- Aligned to Te Mana Raraunga
- Your people review every recommendation
- One record, every funder report
The kaupapa keeps growing. The team doesn't.
Māori collective assets have grown to $41 billion, and 86+ Treaty settlements now carry Crown-mandated governance obligations - full accountability, transparent decision-making, dispute resolution - on top of the hauora and whānau services your organisation already delivers. Meanwhile Te Puni Kōkiri, Whānau Ora and MSD each want a different report, compiled by hand, every month. RIVER builds that layer for you, on your terms.
Your organisation today
With RIVER
Whānau needs are captured in notebooks, spreadsheets and someone's memory of the hui.
Whānau needs captured from hui and referrals, then matched across hauora, housing, education and employment.
Each funder wants a different report, compiled by hand every month.
Te Puni Kōkiri, Whānau Ora and MSD reports generated from the service data you already hold.
On your data, hosted in Aotearoa, governed by Te Mana Raraunga, never used to train a model.
Hui minutes are written up days later, and action items go nowhere.
Rūnanga hui minutes structured with decisions, owners and actions, tracked to follow-up.
Settlement asset risk sits in spreadsheets, one entity at a time.
Risk and compliance visible across iwi, hapū and trust entities, in one place.
Institutional knowledge leaves with a kaumātua or a long-serving kaimahi.
Policies, settlement deeds and tikanga references answered in plain language, sourced to the document.
Your people keep the rangatiratanga. The platform takes the paperwork.
What AI actually does here. Grounded in the work, not the hype.
Whānau coordinated across services, funder reports produced, hui minutes structured - the platform does the routine work and leaves the judgement, and the relationships, to your people.
Take the coordination and the reporting
The two biggest drains first: keeping whānau connected across services, and compiling what every funder wants separately. Both drafted for your team to check.
Matched across two service areas - routed for kaimahi follow-up.
Then the governance and the assets
On that foundation, the compliance work a PSGE carries runs off the record you already hold - and the settlement estate is finally visible in one place.
Draft the minutes from today's rūnanga hui.
Drafted from your recording and the agenda. Three action items assigned, one decision flagged for board sign-off.
Nothing is final until your governance team approves it.
You don't start from scratch. We tailor what's proven to your kaupapa.
RIVER is over 100 prebuilt modules, tailored to your entity structure and your funders in weeks - configured to how your organisation already works, not a template you have to fit.
Everything a governance board or funder review asks for is in our Trust Centre
- Aligned to Te Mana Raraunga and Māori data sovereignty principles - your data, governed by you.
- Reports to Whānau Ora, Te Puni Kōkiri and MSD formats, mapped to the outcomes framework each one asks for.
- Every assessment, report and recommendation goes through your own people before it counts.
RIVER took the time to understand our vision and ran with it. The rebrand has given our whole team a sense of pride.
Terangi BrownFounder, Greentree Advisers · 2020Start with one module. Prove it, then grow.
One outcome live in weeks - the funder reporting, or the whānau coordination - then add the next when it's earning its place.
The investment
One module live - the knowledge base and grant reporting.
Or run it on the Retainer from $5,000 a month. If something isn’t delivered in a month, that month is free.
Every iwi and hauora engagement includes
- A discovery that agrees your first win, on your terms
- Human review built into every workflow
- NZ-hosted, aligned to Te Mana Raraunga
- Configured to your entity structure - iwi, hapū, trust
- The governance documentation a board or funder review asks for
- Your data, your IP, yours to keep
The questions people ask when they’re ready to move.
Your data stays in Aotearoa, governed by you, and it never trains a model. The platform runs NZ-hosted, aligned to Te Mana Raraunga, and your organisation retains full governance over how your data is collected, stored and shared.
The Trust Centre carries the detail your board or funder review will ask for.
Yes. The platform supports multi-entity configurations, so iwi, hapū, trusts and subsidiary organisations can share one platform with separate access controls and data governance per entity.
- Each entity sees only its own data.
- Shared modules, like the knowledge base, can serve the whole group where you choose.
- We configure this during discovery, around your organisational structure.
No. Every assessment, report and recommendation goes through your team before it counts. The platform structures, drafts and matches; your people hold the relationships and the judgement.
- A whānau match is prepared for review, not actioned automatically.
- Hui minutes are drafted, and nothing is final until your governance team signs off.
- Every output is logged and sourced to the record it came from.
Weeks, not quarters. The Starter module goes live in weeks including discovery, build and testing; a fuller rollout across multiple entities takes a little longer.
It's built for exactly that stretch. The organisations that feel this most are the 10 to 50 person teams carrying governance obligations, multiple funding contracts and whānau services at once, with no room to hire more people. That's the gap RIVER fills.
Easy to start. Fast to prove. Built to scale.
Tell us about your organisation, 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.
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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