Use cases

What we’ve put into production.

Real client work across AI, GeoAI, loyalty and conservation — each built to pass the institution’s own compliance and audit bar. A selection; more to follow.

Heat & Drought Radar climate dashboard
Climate · Heat & drought

Heat & Drought Radar — a climate heatmap for any Swiss town.

Type any Swiss municipality and get its live heat-and-drought picture: temperature anomaly vs the 1991–2020 norm, heat days, water balance, a drought quadrant and #ShowYourStripes warming stripes — all from official ERA5, swisstopo, BAFU and MeteoSwiss data.

Any Swiss municipalityERA5 · swisstopo · BAFUWarming stripes 1940–2025
Migros match-3 brand game
Retail · Loyalty & gamification

A match-3 game a whole country plays — for a retailer’s brand.

A candy-crush-style match-3 game for the Swiss retailer Migros: the brand woven into a mechanic people already love — reaching ~5% of Switzerland, played ~4× a day in 14-minute sessions, with Tell-a-Friend, leaderboards, loyalty points, serialised QR codes and consented first-party data.

~5% of Switzerland reached≈4 plays/day · 14-min sessionsConsented first-party data
Satellite forest-analysis map with canopy-height layer
Forestry · GeoAI

Ask Your Forest — satellite AI in plain language.

An AI agent that turns open Swiss satellite and LiDAR data into plain-language answers about any forest — ask a question, get a real map and a 3D terrain fly-over. No GIS required.

Open Swiss satellite + LiDARPlain-language querying3D terrain fly-over
Adopt-a-tree platform landing page
Conservation · dMRV

Adopt a tree in Zambezi — and watch it from space.

A donor-facing platform that detects individual trees in Namibia’s Zambezi region from satellite data, lets you adopt and name one, and follow its health for years — with an auditable, source-disclosed digital MRV trail.

Per-tree satellite dMRVOpen-source · live pilotDonor certificates
Ask the Ranger captive-portal demo on a phone
Nature tourism · AI assistant

Ask the Ranger — an AI ranger on the visitor’s phone.

A multilingual AI ranger for a protected Swiss moor landscape, grounded in live weather, transport, terrain and protected-zone data — answering safety and rule questions in the visitor’s own language, on their own phone.

20+ languages5 live Swiss data toolsSource-grounded answers
Dry, cracked earth during a heatwave
Public sector · Situational awareness

Ranger Radar — seeing pressure before it hits.

An early-warning cockpit for ranger services that fuses public social-media signals with a live heat-and-drought climate lens over the same protected area — so crowding and risk are visible before they arrive.

Social signals + climateBAFU / swisstopo overlaysConfigurable alerts
SpecDex biodiversity game — hunt, scan, conquer
Education · Biodiversity

SpecDex — turning the phone into a nature scanner.

A browser-based biodiversity game built for a Swiss conservation foundation: scan a real plant or animal, AI turns it into an ecology-true collectible card, and friends duel with real food-web mechanics. Privacy-by-design for minors.

AI species identification4 languages · zero-install PWAPrivacy-by-design for minors
Friends watching football together
Retail · Loyalty & lead-gen

LiPo WM Cup — football fever into first-party leads.

A free-to-play football-World-Cup prediction game for a Swiss retailer: a six-week engagement arc that turns fans into double-opt-in newsletter subscribers, with a marketing dashboard and CSV export to CRM. DSG-compliant by design.

104-match prediction gameDouble-opt-in first-party dataCompliance-first, no licence
Vineyard rows on a hillside
Wine · AI outreach + GeoAI

Vinea — AI importer outreach for a wine estate.

A five-agent AI pipeline that finds and ranks the right wine importers in any export market and drafts personalised outreach — paired with satellite vineyard microsites generated from public NDVI and terroir data.

5-agent AI pipelineSatellite vineyard micrositesMultilingual outreach
ClimateRisk Monitor dashboard
Climate risk · Intelligence

ClimateRisk Monitor — the world’s catastrophes, priced live.

A real-time dashboard that tracks weather catastrophes worldwide and turns them into the numbers leaders act on — total damage, insured losses and the protection gap — by region and peril, with a news feed and an auto-generated audio briefing.

Real-time global trackingProtection-gap lensNews feed + audio briefing
Aerial view of a flooded riverside settlement
Geo-intelligence · Pakistan

A live hazard map for Pakistan, in one conversation.

A chat-and-map geo-engine that stitches live satellite and open data — floods, smog, heat and quakes — into one grounded view for a private client, with a zero-key-first architecture and deliberate neutrality on disputed borders.

Live open-data connectorsZero-key-firstGrounded map assistant
A pile of protected collectible trading cards
Collectibles · Computer vision

Grading a collectible card from a photo — and pricing the flip.

A capability demo: a vision LLM grades a collectible card’s condition from listing photos against a four-pillar rubric, then a market model computes resale profit, ROI and risk — with confidence carried all the way through.

Vision-LLM condition gradingMulti-source market compsProfit / ROI / risk model
Abstract network of connected nodes
Fundraising · AI agents

An AI agent pipeline that hunts grant funding.

For a non-profit: a chain of agents — signal monitoring, opportunity scoring, contact discovery and bilingual drafted applications — all behind a mandatory human approval gate. Lead generation as an architecture.

Multi-agent pipelineHuman-in-the-loop gateBilingual DE/EN drafting
Servers in a data centre
Trust & accounting · Sovereign AI

An AI accountant that never leaves Switzerland.

For a Swiss trust company we built a 24/7 AI accountant on sovereign infrastructure with self-hosted open-weight models — every layer, from data to compute to model, in one jurisdiction. Not a single byte of accounting data leaves Swiss legal territory.

100% Swiss jurisdictionCloud parity · open-weight24/7 sourced self-service

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