RivendelStart your business

We think anyone should be able to own something.

Owned by
  • The name
  • The web address
  • The customers
  • The money
Type your name

When AI arrived, I thought the big companies would use it to build things that genuinely improve people’s lives. Most of them are still building tools that help you work faster or more efficiently. But AI can do much more than that. It can build whole solutions. That’s why I’m building Rivendel.

For most of history, ownership belonged to a few, and everyone else worked for them. Owning a business took investment. It took a team, or learning a dozen skills yourself: websites, photography, social media, marketing, search, bookkeeping, and now prompting. More than any of that, it took your time. Most of it went on chasing things, from invoices to customer service.

For the first time in history, anyone can own a business, and working for someone else is no longer the only option.

When anyone with an idea can become an owner, the world fills up with small businesses owned by the people who run them. People work less, have more time for their lives, and own things that matter to them.

We’re making that possible. We’re giving people ownership.

Rishi SivaFounder, Rivendel

Rented, or owned.

The thing we’re against isn’t work, or bosses. It’s spending your life building something and walking away owning none of it.

The rented lifePayslip
  1. You trade hours for a salary that barely moves.
  2. You build someone else’s company.
  3. It ends with two weeks’ notice, and nothing to keep.
Yours to keepNothing
The owned lifeOwner’s statement
  1. You spend years on something, and at the end you have it.
  2. It pays you when you stop showing up.
  3. You can sell it, or hand it down.
Yours to keepAll of it

Who does the work.

Software does the everyday work. People look after every business, and fix things when something goes wrong.

What software does
  • Writes the pages and the posts
  • Answers routine email
  • Confirms orders and bookingsBookings stopped coming through
  • Reads the numbers
  • Sends your daily note
Looked after by people

A team with 15 years in web design, marketing and search.

  • Is it doing well?
  • Is everything working as it should?
  • Is the website working well?
  • Where can more customers come from?
When something goes wrongA person checks it and fixes it.

Most owners never see this part.

Say hello.

A person on our team reads every message.

team@rivendelapp.com