**The River Group**

Agentic AI will make most companies faster at the work they already have. A smaller number will use it to change what the work is. The distance between those two is where competitive position gets decided, and what moves a company from the first to the second is a set of decisions that are not technology decisions. The River Group works those decisions with the executives who run the business.

**What is on this site**

- The Method, `/method/`: how the firm works a position on agentic AI, set out in full, with the questions it asks published rather than held back.
- The River, `/the-river/`: a standing instrument on the constraints that bound how far agents can go inside an organization, re-read each month, with every past reading still published.
- The Briefing, `/briefings/`: the monthly archive, an issue at a time, of what moved in agentic AI and what it changed.
- The Books, `/books/`: the firm's books, the published one and the one still to come, each with a page of its own.
- Work with us, `/work-with-us/`: what an engagement produces, who it is for, and the forms it takes.
- About, `/about/`: the firm, its principals, how it runs itself, and why this site is built to be read by agents.

**Where to start:** The Method at `/method/`, then the current reading of The River, then the latest issue of The Briefing.

**Current as of this build:** The River, reading 01, September 2026. The Briefing, issue 04, August 2026.

**Everything here is also plain text.** Every page has a Markdown version at its own address with `index.md` on the end. The full text of The Method, the current reading and the latest issue is at `/llms-full.txt`. The River's data is at `/board/rows.md` and `/board/readings/reading-NN.md`. There is a feed at `/feed.xml`. `robots.txt` allows all of it explicitly and names it.

**Attribution.** Anything here may be quoted and reused with attribution to The River Group and a link to the page it came from. That is a request rather than a license condition, and it is the only thing asked in return.