What your brief asks for, built in weeks.
Send us the brief or the RFP. We scope it on a call, fix the price, and build the apps, portals, data and integrations it names.
Sounds like you if you have a brief or an RFP in hand and need it built to what it says.
- Fixed price, from your brief
- Live in weeks, on a date
- Handed over and yours to keep
You wrote the brief. Nobody has built it yet.
The brief is the scope. RIVER reads it, prices it, and builds what it names on the systems you already run.
Where the brief is now
With RIVER
The brief is clear, and what comes back is a demo of something else.
The brief gets read, scoped on a call, and priced against what it actually asks for.
The quote comes with a rebuild of the systems you already run.
Your systems stay. The new app, portal or integration fits around them.
On your data, in your cloud, never used to train a model.
The scope moves, the invoice moves with it, and nobody can say when it lands.
Fixed scope, fixed price, and an agreed go-live date with a guarantee behind it.
Procurement asks for security documents and the build waits weeks for them.
The documentation is ready, and the Trust Centre carries the rest.
The brief gets built. On time, to scope, on your systems.
Read the brief. Build what it names.
Every brief names something different, so the work is scoped to the document rather than to a product. These are four things a brief commonly asks for, each built the same way: scoped, fixed, on the systems you run.
From brief to scope
It starts with the document. We read it line by line, close the gaps on a call, and hand back a scope and a price you sign off before anything is built.
Brief · Harbourline Freight · 14 requirements
Fourteen requirements read, three questions asked on the call, and one scope signed off with a price and a go-live date.
The data and the plumbing
Half of every brief is underneath the screen: the data cleaned and moved, and the systems you run made to talk. That work is scoped and priced the same way.
Migration · legacy CRM to new portal
A brief gets a build, to scope, on a date.
RIVER has 15 years of delivering to a scope, and a library of proven modules to build from, so the price is fixed, the date is agreed, and the procurement documents are ready before you ask.
Everything a procurement or legal team needs is in our Trust Centre
- 100% New Zealand built, Māori and Pacific owned, under New Zealand law.
- You own your data, your workflows and your IP - always, not at the end of a term.
- Procurement-ready: the security, privacy and insurance documents an RFP asks for, on request.
Isaac, Rai and everyone at RIVER were a pleasure to work with, and they delivered our platform on time and on budget. Their insights have kept coming ever since.
Peter KissFounder, Property Mogul · 2017Built for someone like you. The client, their numbers, and their sign-off.
UNESCO & SVSG
Survivor support digitised, with 75% less admin per case
Edison Health
One patient view, and an 8-hour report that takes 3 minutes
iMatch Sport
Digitising talent matching for 1,000+ players and clubs
Knode
A million sensor readings a day, turned into alerts and reports
Mental Health Foundation
Serving 2,000 pages to over one million users
trev
Farm reporting rebuilt for 100x user growth
Holinesian
Live like a Polynesian local, booked anywhere in the world
Auckland Badminton Association (ABA)
More than 200,000 court bookings, and lights that switch themselves on
Commercial Realty
Listings that publish themselves, and agents handling three times the work
Real Groovy
Integrating AI with 1 million products for 25x revenue growth
Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)
More than $20M in grants managed across 14 Pacific nations
Property Mogul
Property crowdfunding built and tested with investors before launch
United Flower Growers (UFG)
A member portal handling 10,000 auction bookings a month
Send the brief, get a scope back.
Scope
Week 1
We read the brief, ask the questions it left open, and scope it with you on a call. You get a fixed scope and a fixed price to sign off.
Build
Weeks 2-8
The build runs to the scope, in short cycles you see working as they land, on the systems you already run.
Handover
Go-live
We hand over the work and the documentation, with support included, and the Retainer there if you want it to keep growing.
The investment
One app, portal or integration, fixed scope from your brief
Or start on the Retainer from $5,000 a month. Miss the agreed go-live date and the retainer is free until we hit it.
Every build includes
- Your brief read line by line, and a scope you sign off before we start
- Whatever it names: a custom app, a portal, a dashboard, a data pipeline, an integration or a migration
- The systems you run stay, and the new work fits around them
- A fixed price against a fixed scope, so a change is a conversation and never a surprise
- The security and procurement documentation your process asks for
- Hosted in your cloud or NZ-hosted, and handed over with support
The questions people ask when they’re ready to move.
Yes. Send it over and we'll respond in your format, against your evaluation criteria, with a fixed scope and a fixed price.
- Our procurement documents are ready, including security, privacy and insurance, so the response is complete first time.
- We answer the questions the RFP asks, and flag the ones it should have asked.
- If the RFP is asking for something we wouldn't build, we say so in the response.
The Trust Centre holds the documentation a procurement team asks for, so you can check it before you send anything.
You can, but the better first step is a short piece of advice, so the brief you write is the right one.
- The AI Readiness Check is the quickest way to find where the work is.
- An AI Review goes deeper, and comes back with a prioritised roadmap you can brief from.
- Either credits toward the build that follows, so nothing is spent twice.
Arrive with a brief and we scope it. Arrive without one and we help you write it first.
No. Apps & Data builds what your brief names. The AI-First Command Centre is a named product, built around your whole business.
- Pick Apps & Data when you have a specific thing to build: a portal, a dashboard, an integration, a migration, a data pipeline.
- Pick the Command Centre when the problem is the whole stack, and you want RIVER AI over all of it.
Same team either way. If your brief reads like the second, we'll tell you on the scoping call.
From your brief, and against a scope you sign off before anything is built.
- A scoped build: one app, portal or integration, fixed scope.
- A programme: several pieces from one brief, delivered in sequence.
- "From" means the floor. The scoping call sets the real number, and it holds unless the scope changes.
A change of scope is a conversation with a price attached, never a surprise on the invoice.
The work is handed over with support, and it keeps working after we've gone.
- Support is included for the period we agree at scoping, and the documentation comes with it.
- The code and data are handed over so your team, or anyone you choose, can pick it up.
- Miss the agreed go-live date and the retainer is free until we hit it.
The build is fixed-scope. The Retainer is for what comes after, if you want it to keep growing.
- Many clients scope a build, launch it, then move to the Retainer to keep adding.
- Some start on the Retainer and run the build inside it, which suits a brief that is still changing.
- Either way the guarantee holds, and the choice is yours at handover.
Easy to start. Fast to prove. Built to scale.
Tell us about your Apps & Data, and we’ll take it from there. Prefer to look first? Ask Moana, or take the free Readiness Check.
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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.
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