AI consulting for Swiss SMEs that lands in the daily work.

schnellstart.ai is an AI practice based in Frauenfeld, Thurgau. We advise Swiss SMEs and build the solution in the same motion: from a free 15-minute plain-talk call through assessment and workshop to ongoing delivery.

Based in Frauenfeld, ThurgauBuilt for firms of 2 to 200 peopleFixed prices, agreed upfront
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Florian Witschi, co-founder of schnellstart.aiDmitri Kortchminski, project management lead at schnellstart.aiLukas Huber, co-founder of schnellstart.ai
Lukas HuberStrategy · Processes · Consulting
Dmitri KortchminskiProject management · Processes · Delivery
Florian WitschiTechnology · Security · Rollout guidance
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Short and direct

What you get here, in four lines.

A Swiss SME starts with a free 15-minute plain-talk call. That turns into either a fixed-price assessment, a team workshop from CHF 2,200 for half a day, or straight into delivery. We work with Swiss data hosting, name the price before we start, and ship in days to weeks rather than months. Led by Lukas Huber, 16 years in Swiss finance and Treuhand, and Florian Witschi, CTO with a computer science degree from ZHAW.

Free

15-minute plain-talk call to start

CHF 2,200

Team workshop, half day

CHF 3,800

Team workshop, full day

Days to weeks

To the first visible result

The path

Four steps, each bookable on its own.

You do not have to take the whole package. Every step stands alone and carries its own price. Most people start with the free call and decide afterwards.

01

Plain-talk call

02

Assessment

03

Team workshop

04

Delivery and sparring

01

Plain-talk call

Free15 minutes, online

You bring a real task from your working day. We tell you whether and where AI saves you time, and what the sensible first step would be. No sales pressure.

Pick a slot
02

Assessment

Fixed price, set after the callA few days

The stocktake before anything gets built: where your business stands, which processes are worth doing first, what data exists, what is realistic. The output is a prioritised order, not a slide deck.

See the assessment
03

Team workshop

CHF 2,200 half day, CHF 3,800 full dayHalf a day or a full day

Your team works on its own tasks, not textbook examples. By the end of the day every person can do something they will use the next morning.

See the workshop
04

Delivery and sparring

By scope, monthly possibleOngoing

Automated processes, integration with the systems you already run, custom software where it pays off. Then regular sparring so the whole thing does not quietly stall after three months.

All services

References

Four Swiss businesses, four numbers.

Named, with the result the business itself reports. The full case studies are public.

30%

more client capacity

Automated receipt processing. Receipts get captured, checked and sorted without anyone retyping them.

Plaschy Treuhand

Treuhand, Valais

10 to 15 h

saved per week

One central document pipeline instead of scattered folders. Manual effort halved.

Hähni Bürodienst

Office services

15 h

saved per week

Lead qualification cut from 48 hours to 12, finance preparation automated.

Alventis

Financial services

40%

fewer no-shows

Automated booking and reminders, plus rank 1 on Google in Frauenfeld and over 2 hours saved per day.

Gentlemen's Barbershop

Local trade, Frauenfeld

See all success stories

Industries

Where we know the ground best.

Sixteen years in Swiss finance and Treuhand shape which industries we understand without a running-in period. Each one has its own page with concrete use cases.

Treuhand and finance

Receipt processing, client communication, year-end preparation.

Trades and construction

Quotes, scheduling, site reports and post-costing.

Medical practices

Scheduling, correspondence, documentation with clean data handling.

Law firms

Research, document drafting, deadlines and case files.

Retail and online shops

Product copy, customer enquiries, order and returns flows.

Manufacturing

Planning, quality documentation, order throughput.

Region

Thurgau, Eastern Switzerland and beyond.

We sit in Frauenfeld. On-site meetings are straightforward across Thurgau and wider Eastern Switzerland, and by arrangement elsewhere in German-speaking Switzerland. Much of the work runs online anyway.

Frauenfeld and Thurgau

Our base. Short distances, meetings in person.

St. Gallen and Eastern Switzerland

On site regularly, same company sizes, same questions.

Winterthur

Half an hour away, a frequent point of contact.

Zurich

For Zurich SMEs that want one person to talk to rather than a large vendor.

Cost

What AI consulting costs here.

The prices are on this page so you do not have to call to find them out. Where a flat number is not honest, we say that too.

Plain-talk call, 15 minutesFreeNon-binding, directly with one of the founders.
AssessmentFixed priceSet after the plain-talk call, once the scope is clear.
Team workshop, half dayCHF 2,200On site or online, content tailored to your business.
Team workshop, full dayCHF 3,800More room for your own use cases and building in the session.
Talk or keynoteCHF 2,200With client-specific preparation.
Delivery and sparringBy scopeMonthly possible, the frame is agreed upfront.

For comparison: big consultancies in Switzerland typically charge CHF 2,000 to 5,000 per day, specialised providers CHF 1,000 to 2,500. For an SME, one clearly scoped first step at a fixed price usually beats an open-ended mandate.

Provider types in an honest comparison

Data

Where your data sits.

This question comes up in every first conversation, so the answer lives here and not in the small print.

  • Swiss data hosting as the default, our automations run on Swiss infrastructure at Infomaniak.
  • We work under revised Swiss data protection law (revDSG) and, where EU customers are involved, under GDPR.
  • Which tools see which data is put in writing per project before anything goes live.
  • Your company data is never passed to third parties for training purposes.

Who

You talk to us directly.

Lukas Huber runs the conversations and the projects: 16 years in Swiss finance and Treuhand, sold his own startup in 2021. Florian Witschi is CTO, BSc in computer science from ZHAW, background in software security. We are a practice rather than an agency, so you speak with the people who do the work. We also run our own product, the finance platform bukd.ch, so we build with AI rather than only talking about it.

Common questions about AI consulting in Switzerland.

What does AI consulting cost for an SME in Switzerland?
At schnellstart.ai the first 15-minute plain-talk call is free, a team workshop costs CHF 2,200 for half a day and CHF 3,800 for a full day, and the assessment runs at a fixed price set after the first conversation. For comparison, big consultancies in Switzerland charge CHF 2,000 to 5,000 per day and specialised providers CHF 1,000 to 2,500.
How should a Swiss SME start with AI?
With a real task from the working day, not with a tool selection. The sensible route is a short first conversation, then an assessment that ranks processes by effort and payoff, then one clearly scoped first step that produces a visible result in days to weeks. The tool question comes after that.
What is an AI readiness check and do we need one?
An AI readiness check, which we call an assessment, tests four things before any build: which processes are actually worth it, what data exists and in what quality, which legal and organisational constraints apply, and what the team can already do. The output is a prioritised order rather than a wish list.
What does a 90-day AI roadmap look like in an SME?
In practice: the first weeks for the assessment and one productive use case, then team enablement in a workshop, then expansion to two or three further processes with ongoing measurement. The decisive part is that something working exists in the first weeks, otherwise the effort loses traction inside the business.
Is the work compliant with Swiss data protection law?
Yes. We work under the revised Swiss Data Protection Act and use Swiss data hosting as the default, with our automations running on Swiss infrastructure at Infomaniak. Where EU customers are involved, GDPR applies in addition. Which tools see which data is documented per project.
Are there references and case studies from Swiss SMEs?
Yes, named and with numbers. Plaschy Treuhand increased client capacity by 30 percent, Hähni Bürodienst saves 10 to 15 hours per week, Alventis cut lead qualification from 48 to 12 hours, Gentlemen's Barbershop has 40 percent fewer no-shows. The full case studies are public.
How should you choose an AI consultancy in Switzerland?
Useful tests: does the provider show something working rather than only slides? Do they say clearly where your data sits? Do they know your industry and company size? Do you get advice and delivery from one source? Is a price fixed before you start? And can you speak to a real reference your size?
Do you work on site in Thurgau and Eastern Switzerland?
Yes, that is our home region. schnellstart.ai is based in Frauenfeld in Thurgau, on-site meetings across Eastern Switzerland are straightforward, and elsewhere in German-speaking Switzerland by arrangement. St. Gallen, Winterthur and Zurich have their own pages.
Do you also do process automation with n8n?
Yes. We automate processes with n8n on Swiss infrastructure, for example receipt processing, quoting and invoicing flows, scheduling, and integration with existing systems such as Bexio. But the tool question comes after the question of which process is worth automating at all.
What company size is this built for?
Swiss SMEs of roughly 2 to 200 people. For a group-wide rollout with full governance, one of the big consultancies is the better address, and we say so in the first conversation.

Bring one real task.

15 minutes, plain talk, free. By the end you know which first step is worth taking for your business, even if that means taking it yourself.

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