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How River works

An operating system, not an app.

River connects your business context with agentic AI.
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James Okafor · Q3 proposal readyEmail
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SubjectProposal for Q3 scope expansion
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01Fully Integrated

River sees your world.

Mail, calendar, Stripe, GitHub, Drive, Chrome clips, screen: every connected source streams in automatically. River is always listening, so context isn’t something you paste in. It’s already here.

  • 100+ integrations
  • Live event stream
  • Chrome + screen capture
02Data Layer

Everything connects.

When a deal closes, a client emails, or a meeting happens — River links it all together automatically. So when you need context on a client or project, it's all in one place. Not buried in folders. Not scattered across apps. One complete picture, always up to date.

  • Every client, deal & conversation linked
  • Find anything in seconds
  • Full history of every relationship
03River Workspace

An AI that gets it done.

In any Space, any doc, any context. River’s AI is right there with full knowledge of your work and the same tools you have. Makes you and your team more productive.

  • Full workspace context
  • Read · write · search · act
  • Always alongside you
04AI Automation

When you step away, it keeps going.

Schedules, triggers, event-driven wake-ups. The briefing is waiting. The inbox is sorted. The stalled deal got a follow-up. Let AI work for you while you sleep.

  • Cron + event triggers
  • Background jobs
  • Morning briefing waiting
New Powers

River makes you and your business
more productive.

  1. Your AI knows your entire Business

    It plugs into your live business data instead of a static training snapshot. Ask “who’s our most at-risk customer?” and River pulls from your email threads, payment data, support tickets, and task history, then gives you a real answer based on what’s actually happening in your company.

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  2. Work with the AI. Or set it loose.

    In any Space or doc, River’s AI sits next to you, reading what you’re reading, drafting alongside you, and executing tasks with the same tools you have. You can also hand it a job and walk away: agents run on schedules and wake up when things happen, finishing the work without you. The same AI works as a partner or runs on its own, depending on what you need.

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  3. Nothing falls through the cracks.

    The follow-up goes out, the weekly report files itself, the stalled deal gets flagged, and the contract you forgot about gets surfaced the moment a counterparty replies. River doesn’t forget what you asked it to do, and it doesn’t sleep.

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  4. A small team that operates like a big one.

    A 3-person team that operates like a 15-person team, without anyone working harder. The AI handles the execution layer (triage, drafting, reconciliation, reporting, follow-ups) while humans handle the judgment layer. Most teams reclaim 8 to 15 hours per person, per week.

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  5. Build any tool you need, in minutes.

    River isn’t locked into the apps it ships with. Need a dashboard for social performance, a tracker for your patient panel, or a custom approval workflow for your underwriting team? Ask the AI to build it from your data, and you have a working view that didn’t exist yesterday.

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  6. The longer it runs, the more it knows.

    River keeps a running record of what happens in your business: emails ingested, decisions logged, agent runs completed. The system gets more useful to you every week without any extra effort on your part. And it runs wherever you want it to: browser tab, desktop, self-hosted box, or dedicated GPU behind your firewall. You decide where your data lives.

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Make your business AI-native.

Save time, cut costs, and do more — without adding headcount.

How people use River

See how different people use River.

River runs anywhere from a pure cloud workspace to a dedicated GPU appliance behind your firewall. Here's how different teams actually deploy it, and what they get.

Series-A Startup

12-person SaaS team

Engineering-heavy team trying to scale GTM, support, and finance without hiring a back-office. River runs as their fractional ops team.

Key workflows
  • Investor updates auto-drafted from Stripe, GitHub, and Linear activity
  • Customer inbox triaged and replied in-brand by a Mail agent
  • Sales pipeline updated live from Gmail, Calendar, and Stripe events
  • Weekly P&L and runway model rebuilt from reconciled payouts
Deployment
Pure cloud

River cloud workspace with Anthropic / OpenAI keys. No infrastructure to run.

Replaced 6 SaaS subscriptions and deferred the first ops hire by a year. Weekly admin dropped from 12 hours to 90 minutes.

Restaurant Group

4 locations, 80 staff

Owner-operator running multiple locations needs one workspace for daily P&L, vendors, marketing, and HR. No more spreadsheet sprawl per store.

Key workflows
  • Per-location daily P&L reconciled from POS, Stripe, and bank deposits
  • Vendor invoices ingested, categorized, and approved before payment
  • Social calendar, menu photography, and reservations under one roof
  • Hiring pipeline, payroll prep, and tip distribution in one place
Deployment
Pure cloud

River cloud + Plaid bank sync + Toast / Square / Mailchimp integrations.

Closed books on day three of each month instead of week three. Found $4,800/mo of vendor leakage in the first audit.

Accounting Firm

24 partners and associates

Boutique CPA firm running tax, audit, and advisory work for 200+ clients with bookkeeping data scattered across QuickBooks files and shared drives.

Key workflows
  • Per-client dataspace with engagement letters, source documents, and workpapers
  • Tax-return drafts assembled from prior year and uploaded source docs
  • Auto-categorized transactions and reconciliations for monthly close
  • Audit trail of every AI suggestion approved or overridden by the team
Deployment
Local rig — privacy-first

River self-hosted on a workstation-class server. Client data never leaves the firm’s network.

Doubled active client capacity per associate. Eliminated four legacy SaaS subscriptions while satisfying every client confidentiality clause.

Science Lab

University research group

Computational lab needs to run experiments, draft papers, manage grants, and keep institutional knowledge as students rotate in and out.

Key workflows
  • Lab notebook entries linked to raw data, code, and figures as entities
  • Grant proposal drafts assembled from past awards and current results
  • Paper writing with citation lookup, figure generation, and references
  • Weekly auto-summarized progress reports for the PI before group meeting
Deployment
Local rig — workstation class

Lab workstation with 2× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell. Local LLMs, embeddings, and small training jobs.

Onboarding new students dropped from a month to a week. Every published paper has a reproducible trail back to source data.

Private Medical Practice

Solo to 6-physician clinic

Concierge or specialty practice that needs HIPAA-safe AI for scribing, intake, billing, and front-office work, without sending PHI to a public cloud.

Key workflows
  • Ambient scribe drafts SOAP notes during visits, on-prem only
  • Patient inbox triage with priority routing and on-brand replies
  • Insurance claim follow-ups, coding hints, and denials worked overnight
  • Referral letters and care summaries drafted directly from the chart
Deployment
Dedicated GPU — HIPAA

On-prem server with L40S GPUs. Zero PHI leaves the network. Full audit trail.

Physicians reclaimed two hours per day from charting. Front office handles 3× the inbound without adding staff.

Family Office

Multi-generational, $80M+ AUM

Family office coordinating investments, tax, estate planning, philanthropy, and household operations across multiple entities, advisors, and generations.

Key workflows
  • Per-entity workspaces with trust documents, holdings, and meeting minutes
  • Quarterly performance roll-up across managers, accounts, and asset classes
  • Tax estimate prep using K-1s, capital activity, and prior returns
  • Philanthropy grant pipeline, due diligence, and reporting in one place
Deployment
Dedicated GPU — privacy-first

On-prem appliance running H100 inference. Sensitive documents never touch a public cloud.

Quarterly reporting cycle compressed from six weeks to ten days. Single source of truth across legal, CPA, and investment teams.

Design Agency

40-person creative studio

Agency producing brand, motion, web, and campaign work for a roster of clients, with image and video generation now part of every brief.

Key workflows
  • Per-client dataspace with briefs, references, decks, and final outputs
  • Image Studio for Flux + brand LoRAs; Video Studio for restyles and gen
  • Brief analysis, deck drafts, and review notes drafted by studio agents
  • Auto-versioned reference libraries with prompts and seeds preserved
Deployment
Dedicated GPU — creative

2× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell running vLLM + ComfyUI. Cloud for overflow only.

Designers prototype 10× more variants per concept. Cloud AI spend down 70% with repeatable brand styles across every project.

Real Estate Investor Group

Development & deal team

Investor group sourcing, underwriting, and managing real estate deals across multiple LPs, properties, and joint ventures.

Key workflows
  • Per-deal workspace with diligence docs, models, and approval threads
  • Pro-forma drafting from OMs and comps the workspace has already seen
  • Quarterly LP updates drafted from property-level financials
  • Lease and contract abstracting with key terms auto-extracted
Deployment
Hybrid — cloud + dedicated GPU

River cloud for the team; dedicated H100 inference for confidential underwriting and large doc batches.

Underwrote 2× the deal flow with the same analyst headcount. LP updates went from artisanal to industrial.

Don't see your team?

Our service

We deploy River with you.

Software alone doesn't change how you work. For teams that want River set up the right way, with the right models, integrations, workflows, and people trained on it, we engage hands-on, founder-led, start to finish.

Discovery & Architecture

We map your workflows, data boundaries, hardware, and the first three use cases worth automating. Output: a deployment plan you can sign off on.

Deployment & Setup

River installed where it should live: cloud, on-prem workstation, or dedicated GPU server. Models tuned, integrations wired, permissions set.

Workflow & Agent Design

Build the dataspaces, templates, and agents that match how your team actually works. Auditable, reviewable, and owned by you.

Enablement & Tuning

Hands-on training for the team, prompt and model tuning from real usage, and a direct line to the product team while it stabilizes.

Boutique attention, enterprise rigor.Founder-led implementation with experience deploying local AI inside Fortune 100 environments. Pricing scales with scope, not seats.
Templates & automations

Pre-built workspaces for your first day.

Start from a Space that already knows how to handle your inbox, close your books, or run your launch.

Browse the full template library
FAQ

Questions, answered.

Yes — mail, docs, sheets, presentations, dashboards, automations, and AI agents live in one workspace. You stop paying for (and re-explaining context to) ten different SaaS tools. See all apps →
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