External data collection automation for food commerce
Automating External Data Collection for the Food Supply Chain
Riv Inc. is building Cibus OS to automate external data collection, updates, cleansing, validation, and usable conversion of supplier and partner data across the food supply chain.
Cibus OS is the data foundry powering trusted supplier decisions across the food supply chain.
The problem
External supply chain data is still collected by hand.
Food companies depend on data that lives outside their own systems: supplier core systems, certification files, product specs, emails, spreadsheets, ERP exports, and partner-specific formats.
That data is critical, but it arrives fragmented, inconsistent, and difficult to use. Teams still spend too much time chasing information, reading files, re-keying fields, cleaning records, and checking whether data is complete enough for onboarding, compliance, traceability, and risk decisions.
Supplier onboarding depends on manual follow-ups and document collection.
Compliance data arrives in inconsistent formats and requires repeated checks.
Traceability information is trapped across documents, exports, and emails.
Retailers and buyers cannot turn outside supplier data into usable intelligence quickly.
Teams spend significant time extracting, cleaning, mapping, and updating data manually.
Supplier risk is difficult to monitor when external data is not normalized.
Data exchange still depends heavily on PDFs, spreadsheets, system exports, and emails.
The solution
Cibus OS automates the path from external data to usable data.
Cibus OS is designed to collect supplier and partner data from fragmented external sources, extract the required fields, map them into standardized structures, validate completeness, and keep the resulting data usable over time.
Instead of treating PDFs, spreadsheets, and emails as the final interface, Cibus OS turns them into inputs for an automated data operation layer.
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Company statement
We are building the automation layer that makes external food supply chain data usable.
Riv Inc. is building a future where the external information required for food transactions can be collected, structured, validated, and updated automatically.
Food safety, supplier reliability, product specifications, transaction history, traceability records, and compliance information should not remain trapped in static documents or scattered messages. They should become secure, usable, continuously updated data that supports better decisions across the food supply chain.
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