Documents that collect
themselves.
Document collection & workflow automation · Built in Zug, Switzerland
A two-founder studio.
Hands-on by both.
SwissFlow was founded in 2026 in Zug, on the lake in Kanton Zug. It started with a simple question:
Why are Swiss businesses still chasing the same PDF through three email threads?
The answer was boring: because no one had built the system that does it for them. Not in Switzerland. Not with the precision local firms expect. So we did.
We design, deploy, and maintain document-collection systems for small businesses everywhere — accounting firms, engineering studios, construction GUs, small clinics, law offices, hotels, agencies. Built in Switzerland, run on infrastructure you control, in any country you operate. Our systems integrate n8n, Google Workspace, and tailored AI models into something that feels less like software and more like a diligent colleague who never forgets, never escalates too early, and never lets a deadline slip.
The work is quiet. The work is precise.
The work is Swiss.
Five opportunities
in the document economy.
These are the gaps we watch closely — and the reasons SwissFlow exists. Pick your industry below to see how each one applies to you. The work is built and hosted in Switzerland — but every word here applies wherever your business runs.
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I 4–6 h
The follow-up tax.
Small businesses spend an estimated four to six hours per employee per week chasing paperwork — quarterly reports, contracts, safety certificates, referrals, intake forms. That is real money in salary spent on reminders, not work. The market has accepted this as the price of business. We have not.
Accounting firms lose four to six hours per employee per week chasing clients for VAT receipts, payroll forms, year-end packages, and expense records. The whole tax-season period is one long chase. That is hundreds of thousands in partner time spent on reminders instead of fees.
Construction firms lose hours every week chasing subcontractors for insurance certificates, safety-training records, social-insurance registrations, and work permits. A missed certificate means a halted site. Project managers are reminding by hand instead of running the build.
Law firms lose three to four hours per lawyer per week chasing clients for engagement letters, ID copies, contract signatures, and court documents. Time that could be billed at full rate is spent in inboxes — and missing one filing deadline undoes a whole week's work.
Practice managers spend hours every week chasing patients for referrals, lab results, insurance forms, and prior-treatment records. Pre-consult prep that should take fifteen minutes stretches across days — and consults run late because half the file is missing.
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II CH only
Data sovereignty.
FileInvite, Content Snare, Clustdoc, TaxDome — the leading document platforms are hosted on US infrastructure. For regulated industries (accounting, legal, medical) and for any firm that values where its data sleeps at night, that is a structural problem. We deploy on infrastructure you choose — your own cloud, ours in Switzerland, or a hybrid. Your data lives where you say it lives.
FileInvite, TaxDome, Karbon — the document tools your peers use sit on US servers. For mandates that touch regulated entities, or for partners who answer to clients about where their books live, that is a structural problem. We deploy on infrastructure you control — Swiss-hosted, your own cloud, or wherever your jurisdiction requires.
Most document platforms ship project files through US clouds. For owners who write data-residency into the contract, or for audits that ask where records live, that is a structural problem. We deploy on infrastructure you control — Swiss-hosted by default, or wherever your project demands.
FileInvite, Clio, MyCase — the legal-doc platforms are foreign-hosted. Attorney-client privilege sits awkwardly with US-jurisdiction servers. We deploy on infrastructure you control — Swiss-hosted by default — so privilege never crosses a border without your approval.
Most patient-document platforms route through foreign clouds. For data-protection regulations and the implicit duty to keep patient data under your jurisdiction, that is a structural problem. We deploy on infrastructure you control — Swiss-hosted by default, or in your country's cloud of choice.
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III 2026
The AI follow-up shift.
Large language models crossed a quiet threshold in 2025. Escalating a reminder — gently, firmly, urgently — is a task modern LLMs now perform with more tact than a rushed junior employee, in any language you need. Firms that deploy this layer first compound a small weekly advantage into a structural one by year-end.
Reminding a client about a missing receipt, gently early in the season, firmly mid-season, urgently before the deadline — modern LLMs do this with more tact than a rushed junior employee, in your client's language. Firms that deploy this first compound a weekly advantage into a structural one by year-end.
Reminding a subcontractor about an expiring certificate, gently 30 days out, firmly at 7, urgently at 0 — modern LLMs do this with more precision than a stressed project manager. The first contractors to automate this turn time saved into a real bidding advantage.
Reminding a client about a deadline or a missing document, in tonally appropriate language for the matter at hand — modern LLMs now do this with more precision than a rushed paralegal. The first firms to deploy this gain a structural edge on capacity.
Reminding a patient about a pre-consult form, in clear language with clinical care — modern LLMs do this with more empathy than a tired practice manager at 17:30. Practices that adopt this first see their consult throughput rise without hiring.
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IV +71%
Zero-friction workflows.
Replacing logins and accounts with magic upload links lifts document-return rates substantially — FileInvite's 2024 benchmark report shows 50–71% improvements depending on the vertical. The future of B2B software is increasingly no software at all: a link, a drag, a drop.
Your clients don't want a portal login. They want a link in an email, a drag, a drop, done — especially the 65-year-old founders who still print emails. Magic upload links recover document-return rates that traditional portals destroy.
Subcontractors will not log into a portal from a building site. They will tap a link from their phone, photo a certificate, done. Magic upload from mobile is the only workflow that survives contact with the construction reality.
Older clients refuse firm portals; younger clients forget the password. A magic link emailed at the right moment is the only document-collection UX that holds across an entire client base. Less inbox, more billable hours.
Patients won't create an account for a single referral. They will tap a link from their phone, photo the document, done. The same UX pattern that works for ride-sharing apps quietly fixes patient document collection.
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V n = 10+
Vertical specialisation.
Generic document tools force every industry into the same template. Accounting, construction, legal, medical, hotels, agencies — each has its own rhythm, deadlines, and compliance posture. There is room in the market for ten specialised SwissFlow variants, each fluent in the language of its vertical. We are building them.
Generic document tools treat an accounting mandate like an e-commerce ticket. Accounting has its own rhythm — quarterly cycles, year-end crush, VAT deadlines. SwissFlow speaks that rhythm fluently instead of forcing your firm into a generic template.
Generic document tools don't understand a building site. Construction has its own rhythm — certificate renewals, owner handovers, subcontractor changes mid-project. SwissFlow speaks that rhythm fluently instead of forcing your firm into a generic template.
Generic document tools don't understand a legal matter. Law has its own rhythm — deadline discipline, document chaos, client onboarding. SwissFlow speaks that rhythm fluently instead of forcing your firm into a horizontal tool's template.
Generic document tools don't understand a consultation. Medical practice has its own rhythm — pre-anamnesis, referral flow, data-protection pressure. SwissFlow speaks that rhythm fluently instead of forcing your practice into an EMR's template.
Five nodes.
One quiet machine.
This is a live simulation of a SwissFlow installation — data pulses flowing between a webhook, an AI agent, and three Google-native surfaces. Click any node to read what it does.
- N1 Webhook the entrypoint — a form, a CSV, a Softr click
- N2 AI Agent · Gemini reads context, writes the next message, sets the tone
- N3 Google Sheets the ledger — every worker, every deadline, every status
- N4 Gmail three tiers of reminder, personalised, calmly escalating
- N5 Google Drive the archive — versioned, organised, accessible
Built for your vertical.
Four production-grade workflows we deploy for small businesses — drawn from real installations for accounting, construction, legal and medical clients. Each one is dozens of nodes deep. Each one removes hours of weekly admin. Built in Switzerland, deployable wherever you operate.
View example workflows →What runs in Switzerland.
What doesn't. Why that's okay.
We're transparent about where every byte lives. Most clients run on the Standard tier. Regulated clients (clinics, law firms, FINMA-touched entities) run on the Regulated tier where no data ever leaves Switzerland. Pick the column that matches your risk profile.
The honest summary: on the Standard tier, AI prompts (with client identifiers stripped) are sent to Google's EU infrastructure. For most accounting and construction firms this is fine and explicitly contracted via Google's DPA. For clinics, law firms, and FINMA-touched entities the Regulated tier keeps every byte inside the Swiss perimeter — including the LLM call itself. Both tiers are revFADP-compliant; only the Regulated tier is Anwaltsgeheimnis-grade.
First five firms.
What we commit to.
We're early — SwissFlow launched commercially in 2026. Rather than fabricate testimonials we don't have, here's what we put in writing for every one of the next five firms we onboard:
- 5+ h Hours saved per FTE per week Measured by us, monthly. If we miss the target by month two, the next month is free.
- +25% Document-return rate improvement Baseline measured during the audit, re-measured every 30 days against the same client cohort.
- 7 d To first reminder fired From kickoff to the first AI-personalised reminder leaving your domain. Most pilots are live by day 5.
- 30 d Money-back window If we don't hit the numbers above by day 30, you get the setup fee back. No questions, no contract gymnastics.
Not slides.
Actual production workflow.
This is a real n8n workflow we built and run in production — 26 nodes, 3 triggers (manual / scheduled / weekly digest), AI Agent with Gemini sub-nodes and conversation memory, full reply-handling loop, escalation routing, and admin notifications. The website you're reading sits on top of an engine like this one.
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Things we've written.
For when you want the long version.
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Accounting
Automating quarterly document collection
The technical and human design behind a workflow that chases 200+ clients without sounding like a robot.
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Compliance
Data residency for clinics: what revFADP actually requires
The Swiss data-protection rules every practice manager should know before signing a US-hosted document tool.
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Migration
From FileInvite to self-hosted in two weeks
A practical migration playbook: data export, client communication, workflow rebuild, parallel running, cut-over.
We believe that precision is kindness —
that software should feel like a colleague, not a system —
that every business deserves precision tools —
and that the quiet work of not forgetting
is one of the last great frontiers of automation.