Document Intelligence, whatever the industry.
Your team is the OCR, and that’s the problem. RIVER builds the AI layer that reads the invoice, the contract or the claim, pulls out the fields, and hands your team the exceptions instead of every page.
Sounds like you if someone on your team spends their afternoons re-keying invoices, contracts or applications into the system that's supposed to already know them.
- 96% extraction accuracy DRAFT 2026-08-30, human review on the rest
- Any format - PDFs, scans, spreadsheets, handwritten notes
- NZ-hosted, full audit trail on every field
Every document still needs a human. Even the ones that don't.
Invoices, contracts, applications, claims - 30-40% of admin time DRAFT 2026-08-30 goes to someone reading a document and typing what it says into another system. It’s slow, error-prone, and the worst use of your most capable people’s time. RIVER builds the layer that reads it first.
Your process today
With RIVER
An invoice arrives as a PDF, and someone re-keys every line into the GL.
Line items extracted and mapped to your GL codes automatically.
A contract gets read once, then its key dates live in someone's memory or a spreadsheet.
Clauses, dates and obligations extracted and matched to your risk categories.
A claim or application is read cover to cover before anyone can act on it.
Fields extracted and confidence-scored the moment it lands, for review on the low-confidence ones.
High-confidence fields flow straight through; nothing enters your systems unreviewed on the rest.
Month-end means days of manual entry across hundreds of documents.
Hundreds of documents processed in minutes, in a batch your team starts and walks away from.
Nobody can say which document a figure came from, or who touched it last.
Every extraction, override and export logged and traceable to the source document.
Your team keeps the judgement call. The platform takes the reading and the re-keying.
What AI actually does here. Grounded in the work, not the hype.
Documents read, fields extracted, exceptions flagged - the platform does the reading and the re-keying, and leaves the call on anything uncertain to your team.
Read it, and map it to your systems
The two things every document needs first: getting the data out, and putting it where your systems expect it.
One line item below the confidence threshold - flagged for a quick check.
Then trust the exceptions, and the scale
On that foundation, confidence scoring means your team reviews the fields worth reviewing, and the volume stops being the bottleneck.
Claim CL-9031 · field confidence
You don't start from scratch. We tailor what's proven to your documents.
RIVER is over 100 prebuilt modules, tailored to the documents you actually process in weeks - built to sit alongside the systems you already run, not replace them.
Everything a procurement or compliance review asks for is in our Trust Centre
- Your team reviews exceptions, not every document - high-confidence fields flow straight through.
- Every extraction, override and export logged and traceable to the source document.
- NZ-hosted, and your documents never train a model.
RIVER 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 · 2025Start with one document type. Prove it, then grow.
One document type live in weeks - the invoices, or the contracts - then add the next once it's earning its place.
The investment
One document type live - extraction and field mapping for a single workflow.
Or run it on the Retainer from $5,000 a month. If something isn’t delivered in a month, that month is free.
Every Document Intelligence engagement includes
- A discovery that agrees your first document type to automate
- Human review built into every exception path
- NZ-hosted, with a full audit trail on every field
- Field mapping to the 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.
Easy to start. Fast to prove. Built to scale.
Tell us about your your documents, and we’ll take it from there. Prefer to look first? Ask Moana, or take the free Readiness Check.
Ideas from the field.
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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