Why does this exist?
Because your data is scattered, and the tools that promise to fix that keep asking you to move in with them.
The problem
Your data does not live in one place. It lives in a warehouse somebody set up years ago, four spreadsheets named final_v2, and an app one team cannot live without.
Every product that offers to pull it together starts the same way: move everything into us. Then pay for each person who wants to look at it.
The other road
Riosoma leaves your data where it is. It reads from the systems you have, joins what belongs together, lets you correct a value without touching the source, and gives everyone a fast place to build on top.
It runs on your servers, on a PostgreSQL database you control. If you ever leave, your data is already home.
Why it is free
Riosoma was made to be used and enjoyed by nice people. That is the license talking, more or less.
It is free to use, and free to change for your own work. You cannot sell it, rent it out, or host it for other people. And you cannot use it to be awful to anyone. The full license ships with the first release.
The name
Riosoma is Scottish Gaelic for rhizome: a root that spreads underground and connects everything growing above it. Rio, the assistant who lives in the corner, is a small rhizome with a face.
This is the kind of thing we find funny.
