News, in context.
Short takes on the developments shaping enterprise AI, compliance and Swiss institutions — and what they mean for the systems you can actually deploy.
Field noteThe match-3 move: a brand game Switzerland actually plays
Engagement, not information, is the hard part of loyalty. We took a candy-crush-style match-3 mechanic, wrapped a Swiss retailer’s brand around it — and people played, daily.
Field noteSpecDex: turning the phone into a nature scanner
Species literacy is falling — kids know more logos than local birds. SpecDex turns any smartphone into a nature scanner: scan a real species, collect the card, duel a friend.
News reactionWhen Regulation Follows AI, "Compliant by Design" Is the Only Head Start
Banking Dive argues AI is reshaping finance and regulation will catch up — the institutions that win are the ones already audit-ready.
Field noteHeat & Drought Radar: a climate heatmap for any Swiss town
Type any Swiss municipality and get its live heat-and-drought picture — anomaly vs the 1991–2020 norm, heat days, water balance and warming stripes — from official open data.
PositionYour pension members will never read another PDF. They might speak to one.
AI has pushed every institution into an age of dialogue. The question is no longer whether your members will talk to an AI — it’s whose AI, and who owns the conversation.
Field noteRanger Radar: seeing crowd pressure before it hits
Social posts are a leading indicator; visitor counters only measure after the fact. Ranger Radar fuses public social signals with a live heat & drought lens.
ExplainerThe EU AI Act is live for high-risk systems — here's what Swiss financial institutions actually have to do
The Act reaches Swiss firms whose AI output is used in the EU — and 'high-risk' covers more finance use cases than most boards realise. A plain-English checklist.
Field noteAsk the Ranger: an AI ranger on the visitor’s phone
A multilingual AI ranger on the visitor’s own phone — grounded in live Swiss weather, transport and protected-zone data, pairing every rule with its why.
Field noteAn AI accountant that never leaves Switzerland
How we built a 24/7 AI accountant for a Swiss trust company — on sovereign infrastructure, with self-hosted open-weight models, without a single data point crossing into a foreign jurisdiction.
Field noteLiPo WM Cup: turning football fever into first-party leads
A free-to-play World Cup prediction game that turns six weeks of football fever into verified, high-intent newsletter opt-ins — compliance-first, no gambling licence.
Field noteVinea: AI importer outreach for a wine estate
A Swiss estate makes medal-worthy wine but can't reach foreign shelves. We built a 5-agent AI pipeline to find, vet and reach the right importers.
Field noteAdopt a tree in Zambezi — and watch it from space
Choose one real tree in Namibia's Zambezi Region, name it, and follow its health from orbit — a Phase-0 prototype for per-tree satellite dMRV.
Field noteAsk Your Forest: satellite AI in plain language
Switzerland sits on world-class open forest data — locked in expert GIS silos. We built an AI agent that answers a plain-language question with a real map and a 3D fly-over.
Field noteA live hazard map for Pakistan — in one conversation
Floods, smog, heat and quakes move fast; Pakistan’s open data is thin and scattered. We built a chat-and-map engine that stitches trustworthy public sources into one grounded view.
Field noteAn AI agent pipeline that hunts grant funding
Signal monitoring → opportunity scoring → contact discovery → drafted applications, all behind a human approval gate. How we built a multi-agent funding pipeline for a non-profit.
Field noteGrading a collectible card from a photo — and pricing the flip
A capability demo: computer vision grades a collectible card’s condition from listing photos, then a market model prices the resale flip — profit, ROI and risk, per listing.
Field noteClimateRisk Monitor: the world’s catastrophes, priced in real time
Climate catastrophes are constant; the economic signal is fragmented and weeks late. We built a live dashboard that turns global weather disasters into the numbers leaders actually decide on.