Connected Ledger

Every transaction has a story. Rivet keeps it connected.

Rivet connects the documents, conversations, approvals, workflow states, payments, and system records behind a business transaction — giving the right people on both sides a shared history they can understand and act on.

From the first document to final settlement, keep the evidence with the transaction.

PO-8842
Purchase order
M
Meridian Auto Group
Customer
K
Kestrel Parts Supply
Vendor
PO-8842 · v02
Revision 02 · quantity 425 → 500
Conversation
Change requested
Approval
Jordan Kim · 2:14 PM
The transaction
Invoice #1842$48,620.00
Payment
$48,620.00 · remittance attached
Exception · resolved
Receipt quantity mismatch
Accounting sync
Each side, its own books
Settlement complete
Linked to Invoice #1842
Invoice #1842Counterparty issued
Amount$48,620.00
Issued byKestrel Parts Supply · v3 current
Approved againstPO-8842 Revision 02

Hover or tap any node to see its evidence. An editorial illustration of connected transaction history — not a product screenshot.

The entry is the ending

A ledger can tell you what posted. Rivet can show you what led to it.

An accounting system is designed to record financial truth inside one company. But the reason a number changed usually lives somewhere else — in an order revision, an approval, a customer conversation, a shipment event, or a payment instruction. Rivet connects those events around the commercial transaction.

The financial entry
Invoice#1842
Amount$48,620.00
StatusPaid
PostedAug 12, 2026

Correct, and silent about how it became true.

The connected transaction
RelationshipSource order · PO-8842Document versionsApproval historyConversationExceptionResolutionPaymentSettlementAccounting syncAudit timeline

The record is not just the result. It is the evidence behind the result.

One transaction, all of it

Keep the work attached to the transaction.

Rivet treats business objects as living parts of a relationship, not files detached from the work around them. Orders, invoices, approvals, messages, payments, and system events can remain connected through the life of the transaction.

Documents
The source document, current version, revisions, and related artifacts, together.
Conversations
Questions and decisions stay with the order, invoice, approval, or exception they affect.
Workflow
What happened, what is waiting, who owns the next action, and which state changed.
Approvals
Who approved which version or action, and when.
Money
Payment requests, payment status, settlement, and reconciliation, connected to the commercial event.
Systems
Relevant state synchronized to each company's own platform, with boundaries preserved.
Identity and audit
The actor, organization, source, timestamp, and history behind critical changes.
Shared truth, separate systems

Both sides share the transaction — not their internal systems.

A shared record should not require two companies to merge their systems or expose private data. Each organization connects Rivet to its own accounting or operating system and keeps control over its internal records, identifiers, permissions, and processes. Rivet coordinates the transaction context both sides are allowed to see.

M
Buyer
Private budget discussion · internal approvals · banking configuration · vendor IDs
Stays private
Shared transaction context
Approved versionWorkflow stateExceptionSettlement complete

Shared state is permissioned alignment, not unrestricted transparency.

K
Vendor
Costs and margin · internal notes · payout accounts · customer IDs
Stays private
Keep your system of record. Your ERP or accounting platform stays your internal system of record. Rivet becomes the shared system of action and connected history between counterparties — one side on QuickBooks, the other on its own platform. View connectors →
Trace the outcome

Move from “what happened?” to “why did it happen?”

When the transaction history stays connected, teams can move backward from an outcome to the evidence that produced it.

Which version of the purchase order was approved?
Who authorized the change, and what did the customer acknowledge?
Why did the invoice amount change?
What is blocking payment right now?
Which document supports this payout?
When did the accounting system last synchronize?

Follow the outcome back to the decision — and the decision back to the evidence.

Reading the history backward
Settlement complete
Aug 12 · payment provider reported
Invoice #1842 paid
$48,620.00 · remittance attached
Invoice approved after quantity correction
Jordan Kim · Meridian AP
PO Revision 02 acknowledged
Quantity 425 → 500 · customer confirmed
Change requested in the conversation
4 replies · attached to PO-8842
Original PO created
Aug 2 · imported from QuickBooks
Verified states, visible source

Know where a state came from.

Not every piece of information carries the same authority. Rivet's provenance model is designed to preserve the source behind important states — so when a document changes, a payment settles, or an AI answer appears, people can understand the evidence rather than treating every field as equally authoritative.

Entered by a user
Typed into Rivet by a named person.
Synced from QuickBooks
Imported from a connected system.
Customer confirmed
Acknowledged by the counterparty.
Rivet observed
A workflow event Rivet recorded directly.
Payment provider reported
Financial state reported by the provider.
AI summary — derived
Generated from the record, marked as derived.

AI-generated conclusions stay distinguishable from verified states and link back to the records that support them.

Enterprise value

A better record changes more than audit.

Account management
“Why did this invoice change?”
Answer from the transaction instead of asking billing, operations, and finance to reconstruct it.
Finance
“What does this payment settle?”
Move backward from the payment through invoices, approvals, and source documents.
Operations
“Why hasn't this order shipped?”
See the change, the exception, the dependency, and who owns the next action.
Audit and compliance
“Show me how this happened.”
Reconstruct history without hunting through inboxes, drives, private chat, and accounting notes.
Executive
“Why do these transactions take longer?”
See relationship-level history behind delays, disputes, and cash movement — operational context, not just financial output.
Risk and controls
“Who had the authority?”
Preserve the chain of authority behind approvals and consequential actions, inside organizational boundaries.
Intelligence with evidence

AI is more useful when it knows the history.

Instead of interpreting one invoice or one email, Rivet Intelligence can work from permissioned transaction context: the relationship, current document, prior versions, approvals, messages, exceptions, payment state, and connected-system history.

Grounded answers
Why hasn't this invoice been paid?
Traces to the unresolved approval or exception, with links to both.
What changed from the original PO?
Summarizes the revisions and links the approved version.
Draft an update for the customer.
Uses the latest permissioned state instead of three internal status requests.
Show me the evidence behind this payment.
Traces settlement back to the invoice, approval, and originating order.
One dispute, one history

An invoice question without the reconstruction.

The usual path
A customer questions an invoice.
The account manager searches email.
Billing checks the invoice; operations checks the order change.
Procurement looks for the revised PO.
Finance confirms payment status.
Someone forwards a screenshot; someone else replies with a newer version.

The company eventually reconstructs the truth.

With Rivet
The originating order
The approved PO revision
The conversation requesting the change
Who acknowledged it, and when
The invoice version in force
The exception and its resolution
The payment and settlement state
The last accounting sync

The answer was already there because the history never became disconnected.

The compounding value

Every connected transaction makes the record more useful.

One connected transaction improves visibility. A connected relationship creates institutional memory. A network of connected relationships shows how work and money actually move through the business.

More complete customer and vendor historyClearer exception patternsStronger reconciliation contextMore useful AIMore reliable operational analyticsLess knowledge trapped in inboxesA record that survives team turnover

The value is not more data. It is preserving the relationships between identity, intent, action, evidence, and settlement.

Common questions
Is the Connected Ledger an accounting ledger?

No. Accounting systems remain essential internal systems of record. The Connected Ledger describes the connected operational history around a transaction — the documents, conversations, workflow states, approvals, and payment events that explain how it progressed.

Does Rivet expose one company's internal systems to another?

No. The product model is built around controlled organizational boundaries. Each side connects its own systems, and only the appropriate shared transaction state appears in the relationship workspace.

Is this blockchain?

No. “Connected Ledger” describes the linked history of a transaction. Stablecoin settlement and future proof or identity capabilities are separate concepts.

Does Rivet replace our ERP or accounting platform?

It is complementary. Your existing systems stay your internal systems of record while Rivet coordinates the shared work and history between counterparties.

How does the connected record help AI?

It gives intelligence permissioned context to reason over — source documents, versions, approvals, conversations, workflow states, and payment history — rather than interpreting an isolated file.

Stop reconstructing the transaction after the fact.

Give your teams and counterparties a connected history from the first document to final settlement.

Where business works together — and the history stays with the work.

Connected Ledger — Every Transaction Has a Story