Your team ships fast. We keep it safe to run.
Your team keeps building its own apps and dashboards with AI, and what they build is safe to run in production. You get the speed without the stability cost.
Sounds like you if your team already builds with AI, and it needs to be production-safe.
- Tools ship the week they're needed, not stuck in a dev queue
- Guardrails and reviews that catch unsafe code before it ships
- Roughly twice the speed of traditional dev, at about half the cost
Speed was never the risk. Unreviewed code is.
Your team is already building with AI, fast. The fear is what shipped to production without anyone catching it. Keep the speed, make it safe.
Vibe coding alone
Managed by RIVER
Fast builds, unknown risk in production
Every build reviewed and hardened first
A dev backlog the team waits on
The team ships its own tools, the week they're needed
No one owns what the AI shipped
A named team accountable for every release
A breach you'd find out about after
Security and an audit trail, built in before ship
Speed you can trust. All the way to production.
They build. It ships production-ready.
- We train and support your team to build their own apps and dashboards with AI
- We review and harden what they build into production-safe software, with the guardrails and fixes that go with it
- A standing review lane, so builds ship without waiting in a queue
- Full security, so velocity never costs you stability
This is ongoing work, so it runs on the RIVER Retainer, from $5,000 a month, rather than at a price of its own. Your team keeps building; we keep the guardrails and reviews in place every month, dialled up or down as your pace changes.
The questions people ask when they’re ready to move.
Easy to start. Fast to prove. Built to scale.
Most people start with the Readiness Check: free, ten minutes, and it tells you where to start. Or ask Moana.
Ideas from the field.
Guides and research from a team that ships it.
Guide
AI Incidents Rose 55% Last Year. Grounding Is the Engineering Answer.
Documented AI failures jumped to 362 in 2025 while deployment accelerated. Most production failures trace to the same root cause, and it has a known fix.
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A year after 'Investing with Confidence' launched, what has the national AI strategy actually delivered, and what should NZ businesses do with the settings we've got?
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Australia Just Walked Away From Mandatory AI Guardrails. That Doesn't Mean What You Think.
Canberra shelved AI-specific legislation in favour of existing law, a safety institute, and adoption guidance. The compliance burden didn't disappear. It moved.
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