Get started with Rischio

Your first model in Rischio: start from a template or describe it to the AI, change it to your case, calculate it and open its calculation report.

Rischio’s studio runs in the browser, at studio.rischio.io. A model is one calculation: a retaining wall, a footing, a pile or a pile group, or an open channel. This page takes one from a template to its calculation report, in a few minutes.

1. Create your account

Sign up with Google or Microsoft (a personal, work or school account), or with your email, at studio.rischio.io/sign_up. With an email, Rischio sends you a 6-digit code to verify it.

Every new account starts with 14 days of Professional, with no card. After that it moves to the free plan, which has every tool and every calculation and keeps up to 3 models. An academic email gets Rischio Education instead: Professional for 6 months, free. The plans are on Pricing.

2. Start a model

On the studio’s home page, under Start from a tool, pick a tool and then one of its templates. The model opens in the editor, named after the template.

Every model starts from something you then change to your case: a template, a sentence for the AI (Create a model with AI), a verified example opened with Open in the studio, or a copy of one of your models.

The studio's home page: the Create with AI box, the four tools to start from, and the recent models

3. Change it to your case

The editor has the model’s elements on the left, its drawing in the middle, and on the right the Properties of what you select.

Click the wall’s stem, on the drawing or in the list. Its handles appear: drag one to change a dimension, or type the value in Properties.
The + next to a group adds to it: a stratum, a water table, a surcharge.
Each change is saved as you make it, and ⌘Z (Ctrl+Z) undoes it.

The editor with a cantilever wall: its elements on the left, the stem selected on the drawing with its handles, and its properties on the right

The editor, piece by piece: The editor.

4. Calculate it

Press Calculate, or ⌘↵ (Ctrl+Enter). The Results tab opens with every check against its limit, and the drawing shows the diagram of the one closest to its limit. View details, on a check, shows its equation with every value in it.

The results of a cantilever wall: 4 of 4 checks pass, the overturning check open with its equation and values, and the earth pressure on the drawing

Change the model afterwards and its results are marked Out of date until you calculate again. How to read them: Results.

5. Open the report

Report opens the calculation report: the summary of the checks, the model’s data, and every step of the calculation with its figures. With Professional, and during the trial, you print it, save it as PDF or export it to Word. On the free plan it’s a preview. All about it: The calculation report.

The calculation report of a cantilever wall: its title block, the summary of the four checks and the drawing of the model

Where to go next

Verified examples: worked examples from recognized references, solved in Rischio, with their answer beside Rischio’s.
How each tool calculates: retaining walls, footings, piles and open channels.
Connect your agent, so Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor build and calculate your models.