Know which projects will slip, before they do.
An honest view of every project. AI reads the real signals across your portfolio and flags a slip weeks early, while you can still act.
Running many projects at once? Your reports read green until the month they turn red.
- Slips flagged weeks early
- Every forecast traced to evidence
- NZ-owned, your data stays yours
Your reports say green. The evidence says otherwise.
Steering packs, RAG status, the risk register: all of it is self-reported, and the safe thing to report is green. RIVER reads the evidence underneath and tells you what it actually says, weeks before a milestone forces it into the open.
Your reporting today
With RIVER
A project is green because reporting it amber invites the hard conversation.
The signal is read from the evidence, so the colour cannot be talked up.
You find out a milestone will slip at the milestone.
You see it forming weeks earlier, while there is still room to act.
Risk lives in a register nobody has updated since the last review.
Risk updates itself from what is actually happening across the work.
Every signal traces to the record behind it - the change, the date, the number - so it holds up in a review.
The portfolio's real exposure is invisible until one project blows up.
One honest view of every project, ranked by where delivery is heading.
Confidence is a feeling in the room, argued each month.
Confidence is a forecast you can point to, and defend.
The assurance stays. The blind spot goes.
Read the signals. Forecast the delivery.
Your project data stays where it is. We connect to it, read the signals your reports gloss over, and turn them into an early warning you can act on and defend.
See the portfolio, honestly
It starts with one honest view. We read every project from its own evidence and rank it by where delivery is really heading - not by the colour someone felt safe reporting.
18 projects · confidence recalculated this morning
Forecast where it's heading
On that foundation, the platform forecasts each project's likely finish against its baseline - and answers a portfolio lead's questions in plain language, sourced to the evidence.
What is moving the date
You don't start from scratch. We tailor what's proven to your portfolio.
RIVER is over 100 prebuilt modules, so delivery confidence stands up on your projects in weeks - not a build cycle of its own - and it is built to pass the assurance and procurement review that comes next.
Everything a procurement or assurance team needs is in our Trust Centre
- 100% New Zealand built, Māori and Pacific owned, under New Zealand law.
- Built to augment assurance, not replace it: it sits alongside your Gateway reviews and PMO, and every signal traces to the evidence behind it - so it holds up in a review.
- You own your data, your models and your IP - always, and it is never used to train someone else's model.
We 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 · 2024Start with one programme, then the whole portfolio.
Connect
Weeks 1-2
We point it at your project data - schedule, cost, change log, risk register, reporting - and agree what a reliable early warning looks like for you.
Baseline
Weeks 3-6
Your first projects go live on the board, forecasts calibrated against your own delivery history, and signals tuned to the thresholds your assurance process uses.
Run
Weeks 7-12
The whole portfolio on one honest view, early warnings landing in your reporting rhythm - and it sharpens as it learns your projects.
The investment
One programme or team's projects, live on the board.
Or start on the Retainer from $5,000 a month. If something isn’t delivered, that month is free.
Every engagement includes
- A connection to your project data - the systems you already run
- Forecasts calibrated to your own delivery history, not a generic model
- Early warnings tuned to your assurance thresholds
- Every signal traceable to the evidence behind it
- Plain-language questions over your own portfolio
- The security documentation assurance and procurement ask for
- Hosted in your cloud or NZ-hosted, and yours to keep
The questions people ask when they’re ready to move.
No. It reads the evidence, not the self-report. RAG goes green because reporting amber invites a hard conversation - that is the whole problem. This works the other way.
- It reads the leading signals - slipping sub-tasks, rising change requests, stale risks, dependency drift - across all your projects.
- It forecasts the likely finish against baseline, and shows what is moving the date.
- Every signal is sourced to the record it came from, so the forecast is something you can defend.
What you already have. It reads from the systems you run - it does not need a new way of working.
- Schedule and milestones from your planning tool (MS Project, P6, Jira, Asana and the like).
- Cost and change from your finance and change logs.
- Risk and reporting from your risk register and status packs.
Where a source is unusual, we scope it and tell you what it takes before anything starts. The forecast is only as honest as the data, so we agree what is in and what is missing up front.
No - it makes both sharper. Your PMO and your Gateway reviews stay exactly where they are.
- Gateway reviews are point-in-time. This runs continuously between them, so a slip forming in month two does not wait for the next review to surface.
- The PMO still owns the call. It flags and evidences; your people decide what to do and what to report.
- It gives assurance better inputs - an evidence-based confidence rating that stands up to challenge.
Wherever suits you - your cloud, or hosted for you. Either way it stays yours, in the region you choose, and it is never used to train a model.
- Your cloud, if you have one. Azure, AWS or GCP, in your own tenancy.
- Or NZ-hosted for you, managed and monitored, so you don’t have to.
- Yours, and audit-ready. The security documentation an assurance or procurement review asks for is on request.
The Trust Centre carries the detail your review will ask for.
It is built for it. The traceability an assurance reviewer wants is the point of the design, not an add-on.
- Every signal is evidenced - the change, the date, the number behind each forecast.
- New Zealand owned and NZ law, with sovereign hosting available.
- Documentation on request for the security, privacy and data questions a review asks.
Easy to start. Fast to prove. Built to scale.
Tell us about your portfolio, and we’ll take it from there. Prefer to look first? Ask Moana, or take the free Readiness Check.
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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