OIA responses on time, grants already scored.
Draft OIA responses in hours, with the policy already cross-referenced. Staff review every output, inside the EDRMS you already run.
Chasing a 20-working-day OIA deadline with grants still unscored? Headcount keeps shrinking and the deadlines do not.
- NZ-hosted, NZISM aligned
- Staff review every output
- Live in weeks, in your EDRMS
The headcount is falling. The deadlines aren't.
Public service headcount is down and Budget savings targets keep cutting deeper, while OIA requests, grant rounds and GETS tenders keep arriving on the same statutory clock. The 2025 cross-agency AI survey found 272 use cases across 70 agencies - up 151% on the year before. This is no longer experimental. RIVER builds the production layer underneath it.
Your agency today
With RIVER
An OIA request means searching TRIM, Objective and SharePoint by hand before anyone can even start drafting.
Relevant documents found across your EDRMS in minutes, with a draft response ready for legal review.
Grant and licence applications are scored inconsistently - 30-50% variation between assessors on the same file.
Every application scored against the same weighted criteria, with a structured rationale attached.
A regulatory impact analysis takes 3-5 days of manually cross-checking legislation and prior Cabinet papers.
Proposed policy cross-referenced against legislation and precedent in minutes, conflicts and gaps flagged.
On your data, hosted in Aotearoa, and never used to train a model.
GETS tender submissions are scored by hand against published criteria, submission by submission.
Supplier submissions scored against your criteria, producing an auditable comparison brief for the panel.
A senior analyst leaves, and years of institutional knowledge - precedent, process, what's been tried - leave with them.
Policy, precedent and procedure answered in plain language, sourced to the document, for every team member.
Your staff keep the decision. The platform takes the search, the scoring and the draft.
What AI actually does here. Grounded in the work, not the hype.
OIA responses drafted, applications scored, policy cross-referenced against legislation - the platform does the search and the first pass, and staff make the call.
Take the OIA queue and the applications
The two workloads with a hard clock: an OIA request against its 20-working-day deadline, and a grant round against its assessment panel. Both drafted for staff to check.
Find everything relevant to OIA-2026-0412 and draft a response.
Found 14 documents across Content Manager and SharePoint. Drafted a response with 2 redactions flagged for legal review.
Nothing is sent until legal review and Ministerial sign-off are complete.
Then the procurement and the policy
On that foundation, the panel work and the analyst work run off the documents you already hold - and the precedent stops leaving when someone does.
RFT-2026-0091 · comparison brief
You don't start from scratch. We tailor what's proven to your agency.
RIVER is over 100 prebuilt modules, tailored to your EDRMS and your workload in weeks - built to sit alongside Content Manager, Objective and GETS, not replace them.
Everything a security or procurement review asks for is in our Trust Centre
- Built to the 20-working-day OIA statutory deadline, with a full audit trail for every decision.
- Sits alongside Content Manager, Objective ECM and GETS - connected, never ripped out.
- Every draft, score and brief is reviewed by staff before it becomes a decision.
- NZ-hosted, aligned to the NZ Information Security Manual (NZISM) and Protective Security Requirements.
RIVER 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 · 2025Start with one module. Prove it, then grow.
One outcome live in weeks - the OIA queue, or the grant round - then add the next when it's earning its place.
The investment
One module live - the knowledge base and application review.
Or run it on the Retainer from $5,000 a month. If something isn’t delivered in a month, that month is free.
Every government engagement includes
- A discovery that agrees your first workload to automate
- Staff review built into every workflow
- NZ-hosted, aligned to the NZ Information Security Manual (NZISM)
- Connection to the EDRMS and systems you already run
- The security documentation a procurement review asks for
- Your data, your IP, yours to keep
The questions people ask when they’re ready to move.
It sits alongside them, through their APIs - nothing is replaced. Your EDRMS stays the system of record; the platform searches it and drafts from it, and only writes back what staff approve.
- OpenText Content Manager (TRIM), Objective ECM and SharePoint are the ones we connect to most.
- GETS and AusTender for procurement, and your grant management system for applications.
- Most integrations land in weeks, not a replacement project.
Your data stays in Aotearoa, and it never trains a model. The platform runs NZ-hosted, aligned to the NZ Information Security Manual (NZISM) and the Protective Security Requirements (PSR).
The Trust Centre carries the detail your security or procurement review will ask for.
No. Every AI output goes through staff before it counts. The platform searches, drafts and scores; your team reviews and decides - in line with the Public Service AI Framework's human-oversight principle.
- An application score is a rationale for review, not an automatic decision.
- An OIA response is drafted, and nothing is sent until legal sign-off.
- Every action is logged and sourced to the document it came from.
Weeks, not quarters. The Starter module goes live in weeks including discovery, build and testing; a fuller rollout with an EDRMS integration takes a little longer.
Yes - the same workload, at a smaller scale. LGOIMA requests, resource consent applications and procurement panels run on the same clock as central government's. RIVER scales down to a single council team as readily as it scales to a department.
Easy to start. Fast to prove. Built to scale.
Tell us about your agency, 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