Your leadership team has to decide. On AI.
A half day on your strategy, not a lecture on AI. Your leadership team works through the real calls and leaves with a decision and a one-page brief for the board.
Sounds like you if AI is on every leadership agenda, and nobody wants to admit they don't quite get it.
- Half a day, your leadership team
- On your strategy, not an AI 101
- Ends in a decision and a board brief
Everyone's nodding. Nobody's deciding.
AI is on every agenda and off every decision. The room is bright and the discussion is good, but the hard calls keep getting deferred. This is the session where they get made - on your strategy, in plain language, at a pace that suits the whole team.
In the boardroom now
After the session
AI on the agenda for a year, and no decision made.
The call made, in the room, together.
Good discussion that never lands on a decision.
A shared, plain-language grasp of what matters.
No jargon, and no one left behind.
Vendors pitching, and no way to weigh them.
Your own criteria for what's worth doing, and what isn't.
Nothing the board can act on.
A one-page brief, ready to take upstairs.
You leave having decided. Not just discussed.
Half a day, and a decision at the end.
We spend the session on your strategic challenges, not on AI theory. Your leadership team leaves aligned, with a decision made and a brief they can take to the board.
On your strategy
The session runs on the calls in front of your business, not a generic AI curriculum:
- Your strategic challenges, framed for a decision
- Where AI moves the needle here, and where it doesn't
- The risks and the guardrails, in plain terms
Everyone in the room
It's built so the whole team can engage, whatever their starting point:
- Plain language, no jargon, pitched to the whole team
- Straightforward answers to the questions people hesitate to ask
- A shared grasp your team can act on together
A decision, and a brief
You don't leave with homework - you leave with the call made:
- The decision, agreed by your leadership team
- Your own criteria for what to back next
- A one-page brief written for your board
A working session, not a keynote.
It moves because it's about your business, run by people who build and deliver AI, so the guidance is grounded in what actually ships - and the fee comes off whatever you decide to do next.
Everything a procurement or legal team needs is in our Trust Centre
- 100% New Zealand built, Māori and Pacific owned, vendor-neutral.
- Run by people who deliver AI, so the advice is grounded in what ships.
- We'll name where AI isn't the answer, including where you shouldn't spend.
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 · 2024One session, one clear decision.
Tell us the calls your leadership team is weighing. We shape the half day around them, run it with your team, and follow up to make sure the decision holds.
- A short pre-read from us, so no one arrives cold
- Half a day with your leadership team, on site or online
- A follow-up to check the decision has stuck
The investment
Half a day, your leadership team, plus a follow-up.
Credited in full toward a larger engagement booked within 30 days.
Or bring a senior AI leader into the room for good, on the Retainer.
Every session includes
- A short pre-read so no one arrives cold
- A half day shaped around your strategic challenges
- Your own criteria for what's worth backing
- A decision, agreed by your leadership team
- A one-page brief written for your board
- A follow-up to check the decision has held
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Ideas from the field.
Guides and research from a team that ships it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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