The software your business runs on.
Custom apps, portals and platforms that automate the work across your business, AI-first and built around how you actually work.
Best first step if you're stitching a dozen disconnected systems together by hand.
- Live in weeks
- Your data, workflows and IP
- Sovereign, hosted in Aotearoa
You've bought the systems. You're still the integration.
Every system holds part of the answer and none of them agree. The enterprise fix costs a fortune and still doesn't fit how you work. This is the other way.
A dozen systems
One command centre
Numbers that never quite agree
One version of the truth, from live data
A rip-and-replace programme, years and a fortune
Live in weeks, on the systems you already run
Rented SaaS you will never own
Your instance, your data and your IP, yours to keep
The same manual work, week after week
Automated once, then it runs itself
The business stops living in twelve tabs. It runs from one.
Your own platform, and the team behind it.
- Your own platform instance, built around your workflows, your language and your people
- Workflows and agents that run the repetitive work unattended on RIVER AI, with usage included in your retainer
- Integrations across the tools your team already uses
- Sovereign hosting in Aotearoa, so your data stays onshore
- A named team who know your business
Start with a sprint, one scoped build with a clear definition of done, or start on the Retainer and grow the platform month by month. A build is delivered work, never a setup fee, and either way the team keeps building after go-live.
One named build, then the platform grows around it.
Start on the RIVER Retainer, or with one of our platform solutions:
Apps & Data
From $15,000
Bring us the brief or the RFP. Custom apps, portals, data and integrations, scoped to what it asks for.
Workflows & Automation
From $7,500
The repetitive work automated, in n8n, ChatGPT, Claude or your own RIVER platform. The judgement calls stay yours.
AI-First Command Centre
From $15,000
One place your business runs from. It replaces the SaaS sprawl, connects your data, and runs on RIVER AI - built around you and truly yours.
ERP Rescues & Integration
From $15,000
Your ERP runs the business and was not built for any of this. We make it intelligent rather than replacing it.
The questions people ask when they’re ready to move.
There is no single price for the service - you engage it the way that fits, and the bands are published on this page.
- A sprint, one scoped build priced up front.
- The Retainer, a monthly fee where you start with nothing built and grow the platform month by month.
- Every published figure is a floor; scope moves the number. Prices exclude GST.
You're not starting from a blank page, and you're not locked in.
- You start on 100+ working modules, not an empty system, so you're live in weeks rather than years.
- It's built around how you actually work, on the systems you already run. AI-first, not an AI bolt-on.
- You own your data, your workflows and your IP. Your instance is yours to inspect, extend and keep.
Sovereign hosting in Aotearoa, or your own environment.
- Hosted in New Zealand by default, so the data stays onshore.
- Where the data cannot leave the building, we can deploy your own models on your own hardware (Sovereign AI, sold with the platform).
- Either way the data is yours, and nothing is trained into a shared model.
The risk is ours, not yours. Miss the agreed go-live date and the retainer is free until we hit it. That's the guarantee on every platform build, in writing.
Easy to start. Fast to prove. Built to scale.
Tell us what you're working on 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