Process automation & custom software for Swiss SMEs — Zurich area

We automate the work your team shouldn't be doing by hand.

Appligent AI builds practical automation and custom software — including mobile apps — for Swiss SMEs. No buzzwords: working systems inside the tools you already use, measured per process, before and after.

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2–6weeks for a typical first project

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Concrete cases

Five processes we automate — from app production to the back office.

Each case: the pain, three steps, what changes. Numbers only where a Swiss source measured them — or where we measured them ourselves.

Belege → BuchhaltungReceipts collected, extracted, booked An agent team builds your appIdea → spec → design → code → store → monitoring Supplier invoices & paymentsQR-Rechnung in, one payment run out MahnwesenReceivables chased without the phone round MWST preparationQuarterly return without the end-of-quarter scramble

Case 01 · Buchhaltung

Every Beleg lands in the books — and open questions become a list, not a pile.

Receipts arrive by email, photo, post and portal. By law they must be kept for ten years, on paper or electronically — and the Treuhand sector still handles 46 % of its mandates on paper. Source: OR Art. 958f ↗ Source: EXPERTsuisse / OBT 2023 ↗

Collect One mailbox, one photo share and one Drive folder feed a single inbox. Nothing is retyped. E-Mail · Foto · Drive
Extract & check Date, supplier, amount, MWST and account are read out and matched to your chart of accounts. Anything unclear is flagged, not guessed. OCR + Regeln
Book & follow up Clean items are booked in bexio or Abacus with the original attached. Problem items go into a queue: contact → waiting → answered. bexio · Abacus

Problem itemsStatus

Receipt 14.09., CHF 312.40 — no MWST number · Treuhand

Contacted

Müller AG — same invoice twice? · Supplier

Waiting for reply

Hotel receipt — private or business? · Owner

Answered

What changes

Belege are in the system within a day of arriving, original attached — the ten-year archive builds itself.
Your Treuhänder gets complete months, not a shoebox in January.
Every open question has an owner and a status. Nothing waits silently.

Works with

bexioAbacusBananaOutlook / GmailDropbox / Drive

Case 02 · App production

A team of specialised agents takes an app from idea to the store. You approve twice.

An app normally passes through a strategist, a designer, developers, testers and a release manager — and waits at every handover. We replaced the waiting with a team of agents that hand over through state files. We found no Swiss statistic on stalled SME app projects that we would trust, so we print none; the numbers below were measured in our own pipeline, not in a vendor's benchmark.

Validate & specify Idea validation checks demand, competition and store rules. A product spec follows — scope, screens, data, success criteria. Each stage writes its own state file, so the next role starts from facts, not memory. Idee → Spezifikation
Design & build Design system and Figma handoff, then native code for iOS, Android or web — in parallel where the platforms allow. Code review and automated tests run on every change. Your first approval: the build. Figma → Xcode · Android Studio
Ship & improve Release build, then submission to the App Store and Google Play — your second approval. After launch the team monitors crashes, reviews and ratings and feeds them into the next iteration. TestFlight · Play Console

The team — roles in working orderYour approval

Idea validatorValidation
Product managerProduct spec
DesignerDesign system · Figma handoff
in parallel iOS engineerSwift Android engineerKotlin Web engineerWeb
Code reviewerReview
QA engineerAutomated tests
Your OKRelease managerRelease build
Your OKStore publisherApp Store · Google Play
MonitorCrashes · reviews · next iteration

13: specialised agents
5: skill packs
1 day: from idea validation to a signed product spec and a full design system with 17 screen mockups (1 Oct 2026)
Same evening: first native iOS build with a working video player installed on a device

Measured in our own pipeline, Oct 2026

What changes

One brief, one team — no waiting between strategist, designer, developer and tester.
You decide twice: before the build and before the store submission. Everything else runs.
Every stage leaves a state file. What was decided and why is readable later — not remembered.

Works with

FigmaXcodeAndroid StudioGitHubTestFlightPlay Console

What we do

Four ways we take manual work off your desk.

Every engagement starts with one process and the tools you already run. Nothing to migrate, nothing to replace.

AI Automation

Workflows, agents, and integrations that remove manual steps end to end.

Workflows AI agents Chatbots

Mobile Development

Internal and customer-facing iOS and Android apps for your business — from first prototype to launch.

iOS Android Native

AI Strategy

An honest assessment of where AI pays off in your business — and where it doesn't.

Assessment Roadmap Quick wins

Custom Integration

We connect AI models to your CRM, ERP, and internal tools — securely.

APIs LLM pipelines RAG

How we work

How a project runs

01

Discover

A free 30-minute call plus a look at your workflows. You get a written assessment either way.

02

Design

A fixed-scope proposal: what we build, what it costs, and what it should save.

03

Build

Weekly demos of working software — not status slides. You steer as we go.

04

Support

Training for your team, monitoring, and ongoing improvements after launch.

More use cases

Where the same approach applies

Illustrative scenarios — the kind of system we build and the target we design toward. These are not client references; those we publish only with the client's name and consent.

Financial services

Client onboarding in hours, not days

Document checks, data entry, and compliance verification can run automatically, so staff handle exceptions only.

hours instead of days

Retail & e-commerce

A product advisor that answers at 2 a.m.

A conversational assistant helps customers pick the right product straight from the catalogue.

fewer routine tickets

Healthcare

A patient app patients actually open

An iOS app for scheduling, reminders, and secure messaging with care teams.

higher engagement

Why Appligent

Built in the Zurich area. Running inside your business. Supported after launch.

AIn the Zurich area

Face-to-face meetings, your data in your own systems, and contracts under Swiss law.

BSized for SMEs

Fixed scopes sized for your team and budget — no open-ended consulting engagements.

CBuilders, not advisors

We deploy and support working software. You get systems, not strategy decks.

FAQ

Questions we hear from every skeptical owner

Is our data safe?+

Your data stays in your systems — bexio, Abacus, your mailbox, your Drive. Where an AI model reads documents, we name the provider and the processing location before we start, and use Swiss or EU processing where you require it. An NDA is signed before we see anything.

Do we need technical staff?+

No. We build, host, and maintain the system — your team only needs to use it. We train them until it sticks.

What does a first project cost?+

Most automation pilots are fixed-price and scoped in the first call. You know the number before anything starts — no surprises mid-project.

What if it doesn't work for us?+

We start with a small pilot against a measurable target. If it doesn't hit the target, you don't scale it — and you've lost weeks, not a year.

We automate the work your team shouldn't be doing by hand.

Five processes we automate — from app production to the back office.

Every Beleg lands in the books — and open questions become a list, not a pile.

What changes

Works with

A team of specialised agents takes an app from idea to the store. You approve twice.

What changes

Works with

Supplier invoices arrive three ways. They leave as one approved payment run.

What changes

Works with

Late payers get a polite, punctual Mahnung — and you see who still owes what.

What changes

Works with

The MWST return is ready for review on day one of the 60-day window.

What changes

Works with

Four ways we take manual work off your desk.

AI Automation

Mobile Development

AI Strategy

Custom Integration

How a project runs

Discover

Design

Build

Support

Where the same approach applies

Client onboarding in hours, not days

A product advisor that answers at 2 a.m.

A patient app patients actually open

AIn the Zurich area

BSized for SMEs

CBuilders, not advisors

Questions we hear from every skeptical owner

Tell us what eats your team's time.