AI built for Construction.
Your site teams are drowning in paperwork, not short on work. RIVER builds the AI layer that structures the safety observations, classifies the incidents and produces the reports - so your people spend their hours on the site, not the forms.
Sounds like you if your supervisors lose hours a week to paperwork while the workforce shortfall makes every hour harder to replace.
- NZ-hosted, built around HSWA 2015 and PCBU duties
- Every safety and incident output reviewed by your team
- Live in weeks, alongside Procore, Aconex and HammerTech
The workforce won't grow. The paperwork keeps growing.
MBIE projects a shortfall of roughly 118,500 construction workers against a $267.7 billion infrastructure pipeline, and senior staff are retiring or heading to Australia for higher pay. Safety documentation, incident write-ups and monthly reporting eat hours your site teams don’t have, on margins the BDO sector report found shrinking for 41% of NZ construction leaders. RIVER builds that layer for you.
Your sites today
With RIVER
Safety observations get written on paper, filed days after the walk.
Observations captured on the phone during the walk, hazard-classified before you're back in the site office.
An incident gets written up hours later, from memory.
Incident narratives structured with root cause and severity, WorkSafe notifiable events flagged the moment they're entered.
Your safety team confirms every classification - the platform never notifies WorkSafe on its own.
Meeting minutes and monthly reports are built by hand from three different systems.
Minutes with action items, and monthly reports assembled from your programme, cost and safety data.
Every reviewer scores a tender submission a little differently.
Subcontractor and supplier submissions scored against your weighted criteria, the same way every time.
The knowledge that keeps a site safe is in one supervisor's head, and they're the one leaving.
Procedures, hazards and site history answered in plain language, sourced to the document.
Your team keeps the judgement. The platform takes the paperwork.
What AI actually does here. Grounded in the work, not the hype.
Safety observations structured on site, incidents classified against WorkSafe thresholds, documentation and tender scoring produced from the data you already hold - the platform does the paperwork and leaves the call to your team.
Take the safety and the incident
The two biggest sources of field paperwork first: safety observations captured the moment they happen, and incidents structured with root cause before the report is due.
Recent activity
- T. Faleolo logged a hazard observation - Site 4, scaffold edge12m ago
- Pattern 3rd edge-protection observation this month, Site 440m ago
- Toolbox talk structured and filed - Site 21h ago
- Corrective action closed out - barrier reinstatedtoday
Then the documentation and the tender
On that foundation, the paperwork that eats project admin time runs off data you already hold - and every submission gets scored the same way.
Draft this month's report for Site 4.
Drafted from programme, cost and safety data across the last four weeks. Two items are flagged for your input before it goes out.
Nothing goes to the client until a PM signs off.
You don't start from scratch. We tailor what's proven to your sites.
RIVER is over 100 prebuilt modules, tailored to your project systems in weeks - built to sit alongside Procore, Aconex and HammerTech, not replace them.
Everything a procurement or SiteWise review asks for is in our Trust Centre
- Incident classification matched against WorkSafe notifiable-event thresholds, for your safety team to confirm.
- SiteWise pre-qualification data referenced in tender scoring and subcontractor evaluation.
- NZ-hosted, in your cloud or ours, and never used to train a model.
Our 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 · 2024Start with one module. Prove it, then grow.
One outcome live in weeks - the safety observations, or the incident reporting - then add the next when it's earning its place.
The investment
One module live - the knowledge base and site safety intelligence.
Or run it on the Retainer from $5,000 a month. If something isn’t delivered in a month, that month is free.
Every construction engagement includes
- A discovery that agrees your first safety or documentation win
- Human review built into every safety and incident workflow
- NZ-hosted, built around HSWA 2015 and PCBU duties
- Connection to Procore, Aconex or HammerTech, wherever you run today
- The security documentation a procurement or SiteWise 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 sites, 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.
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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