Straight answers about what Rivar does, what it costs during early access, and what adopting it actually involves.
Rivar keeps the judgment inside professional firms. It captures the reasoning behind important decisions — the thinking that produced the memo, the contract, the recommendation — and structures it so the firm can trust it and find it later, even after the people who made the decisions have moved on.
Firms are very good at storing documents and very bad at keeping the thinking that produced them. Decisions are made in meetings, emails, chats, and conversations, but the reasoning behind them is rarely written down anywhere. When people leave, teams change, or an old call is questioned, the firm often has the outcome but not the rationale. Rivar preserves that rationale.
They search what exists. Rivar creates what does not. An assistant retrieves content that was already written down — genuinely useful, and a different problem. The alternatives your team rejected, the trade-off someone weighed, the assumption nobody wrote down: none of that was ever typed anywhere, so no retrieval tool can surface it. Rivar detects where a decision was made and captures the reasoning behind it while the people involved still remember.
Rivar is in private early access, and we do not publish standard pricing yet. Every firm's scope, systems, and governance requirements differ, so cost is worked out through a short scoping process rather than a public price list. What we keep straightforward: no hidden seat fees, and no pressure to roll out firm-wide before the approach has been proven on a smaller, high-value set of work. See the pricing page for what drives cost.
Adoption is staged so value arrives early and safely. Week one is a security and governance review — permissions, data handling, integrations, and approval controls — before any real client work is involved. Then Rivar connects to the tools the firm already uses, and capture starts on decisions where the context is still fresh in people's heads. From there the firm reviews and expands at its own pace. Nothing is automatic, and nothing requires changing how teams already work.
Answer questions about decisions they have already made, in short sessions. Rivar identifies the decision first from the systems your firm already runs, so nobody is asked to document their thinking in advance, keep a system up to date, or adopt a new place to write things down. Answering is materially easier than authoring, and it is the only version of this that senior people sustain.
Those platforms are document repositories and knowledge bases. They store outputs. Rivar focuses on decisions. It identifies decision points, captures reasoning, tracks assumptions, records alternatives considered, and makes decision history retrievable years later.
Most AI systems generate answers. Rivar builds institutional memory. Instead of producing generic responses from public knowledge, Rivar retrieves the actual reasoning, context, assumptions, and decisions made within your organization.
No. AI-assisted extraction can surface candidate reasoning, but canonical reasoning records require human review and approval before they become part of the governed corpus.
Reasoning records are designed to preserve source evidence at the field level, so teams can inspect where a decision, rationale, assumption, or authority claim came from.
Rivar should show the gap rather than invent an answer. The retrieval experience is designed around attributed records and clear no-result states, not unsupported synthesis.
Rivar captures decisions, rationale, assumptions, alternatives considered, stakeholders involved, supporting evidence, approval chains, decision confidence, and conditions that would trigger a future review.
No. Rivar is designed to fit into existing workflows. Teams continue working in tools such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, Teams, Zoom, Notion, and internal systems while Rivar captures and structures decision intelligence behind the scenes.
Yes. Rivar is built with an integration-first architecture. Standard connectors are available for major collaboration and productivity platforms, and custom integrations can be built through APIs and event-driven workflows.
Rivar is designed for professional services firms where decisions carry long-term consequences and continuity is the work: law firms, consulting practices, and advisory organizations dealing with partner transitions, regulatory questions, and client continuity. It is not aimed at teams looking for a general note-taking or productivity tool.
Yes. Rivar creates a structured audit trail of how decisions were made, who participated, what evidence was considered, and why a particular path was chosen. This helps support governance, compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements.
Institutional memory stays behind. Instead of losing years of judgment and context, successors can access the reasoning, assumptions, and decision history that informed previous actions.
Security is foundational to the platform: human approval, field-level provenance, confidence labelling, audit logging, tenant isolation, role-based access control and sensitivity filtering. The security page sets out each control and where it currently stands — we would rather show an early-access partner the real position than present the set as finished.
No. Customer data remains customer data. Rivar does not use organizational content, decision records, documents, meetings, or communications to train shared AI models without explicit authorization.
You do. Organizations retain ownership of their decision records, documents, metadata, and institutional memory. Rivar acts as the custodian of that information, not the owner.
Your data can be exported in standard formats and migrated to your preferred destination. Organizations remain in control of their information throughout the relationship.
Rivar is currently working with a limited number of early-access organizations. Early customers work closely with the founding team and help shape product priorities while receiving hands-on onboarding and support.
Speak directly with the founding team.