Built for the AI era

The commerce network AI can understand.

Rivet connects the relationship, transaction, documents, conversations, approvals, workflow, systems, and money into one permissioned business context — so AI can understand the transaction itself, not reconstruct it from fragments.

The AI-era problem

Most AI is layered over software designed for humans.

The model gets an invoice from one system, a PO from another, an email thread somewhere else, a payment state from a bank, an ERP record — and then we ask it what is happening with the transaction. It has to reconstruct reality from fragments. That is the same problem people have today.

Invoice in one systemPO in anotherEmail thread somewherePayment state at a bankERP recordInternal messages
The question
“What is happening with this transaction?”
Answered by inference, reconstructed from fragments.

Rivet changes the information structure underneath.

Connected context

The AI starts with a connected business event.

Around the transaction
RelationshipDocumentsConversationsApprovalsWorkflowMoney
One shared transaction
Permissioned
INV-4417connected · direction-aware · each side keeps its own systems
Connected Ledger— the story behind it: who did what, when, with what evidence
Three pillars

Understand today. Act next. Trust throughout.

Understand

Ask why an invoice has not been paid, what changed on a purchase order, what you are owed and overdue — and get answers from connected, permissioned records. Gio, the companion in Messages, answers with the numbers.

Act

Intelligence that prepares work: drafting counterparty communication, routing approvals, reconciling transactions, surfacing exceptions, recommending next actions — with explicit human authorization.

Trust

Every fact carries its origin — entered by a user, synced from a connected system, customer confirmed, Rivet observed, payment provider reported, or an AI summary marked as derived. AI reasons over the record without becoming the source of truth.

Why structure matters

Not a blank browser. Structured business objects.

Rivet gives intelligence workflow states, permissions, counterparties, and explicit actions — an inherently better environment than screen-scraping five applications. The connection itself establishes identity, membership, per-side system ownership, and transaction context.

The architecture was built for shared work between companies. That is exactly what the AI era needs.

What intelligence sees
transaction: INV-4417 · state: approved
relationship: Meridian ↔ Kestrel
permissions: your side, as you
evidence: 12 linked records
next action: awaiting your approval
Where this goes

Built for people today. Built for intelligent commerce tomorrow.

NOW
People coordinate
The transaction is shared and structured. Gio explains, answers with real numbers, and walks verified history.
NEXTComing
Intelligence prepares
Drafts, routing, reconciliation, exceptions, recommended next actions — people authorize.
LATERComing
Agents participate
Permitted workflow steps executed inside the same identity and permissions, with people in control.
HORIZONVision
Agents coordinate
Organizations' agents working around shared commercial events — with identity, permission, evidence, and settlement.

Agents need what people need: identity, permission, commercial relationships, shared objects, workflow rules, evidence, and settlement. That is the architecture Rivet is assembling.

The network

Every relationship makes Rivet more useful.

More relationships
more transactions
richer connected history
better context
more useful intelligence
more automation
more value
and the loop compounds

Not because Rivet owns anyone's private data — each organization keeps its own systems and boundaries. Because Rivet is where the permissioned, shared history of commerce lives.

Gio's mark: thirteen linked rings around a coin with the Rivet mark at the center, after the reverse of the 1787 Fugio cent.
Meet Gio — the companion in Messages.

Ask how anything works, what needs your attention, or what the numbers say — and get answers from your own verified records.

Meet Gio →

The AI era doesn't just need smarter models. It needs better business context.

Rivet is building it.

Built for the AI Era — The Commerce Network AI Can Understand