Swiss AI Adoption 2026

Full-time equivalents (FTE) in Switzerland, including owners; a rough band is enough. Bands follow BFS/EU SME thresholds.

• 1 (sole proprietor / self-employed)
• 2–9
• 10–49
• 50–249
• 250–999
• 1000+

• Manufacturing / industry
• Construction / real-estate development
• Finance / insurance
• Healthcare / life sciences
• Retail / trade / hospitality / tourism
• Transport / logistics
• Legal / fiduciary / audit
• Consulting / agencies
• ICT / software
• Public administration / education
• Other

Based on HQ or the main operating site in Switzerland.

• German-speaking Switzerland
• French-speaking Switzerland
• Ticino / Italian-speaking Switzerland
• Multilingual / multiple regions

• Not using AI yet
• Employees use tools on their own, no company policy
• Company-approved or licensed tools
• Building or piloting custom use cases
• AI embedded in core processes or products

Select all that apply. “None” excludes other options.

• ChatGPT (OpenAI)
• Microsoft Copilot (M365 Copilot or Copilot Chat)
• AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor)
• Google Gemini
• Claude (Anthropic)
• Mistral
• DeepL
• Azure OpenAI
• AWS Bedrock
• Google Vertex AI
• Swiss-hosted AI service (e.g. Swisscom, Infomaniak)
• Apertus (Swiss public LLM)
• AI built into existing software (e.g. Bexio, Abacus, Notion, Adobe, Salesforce)
• Self-hosted open-source models
• Other
• None

Up to three options. “None yet” excludes other options.

• Everyday productivity (email, summaries, meeting notes)
• Document processing (invoices, contracts, forms)
• Content / writing / marketing
• Translation / multilingual work
• Software development / coding
• Customer support
• Data analysis
• Internal knowledge / search
• Process automation
• Sales / CRM
• Other
• None yet

A rough estimate is enough — include personal tools used for work.

• Nobody
• 1–10%
• 11–25%
• 26–50%
• 51–75%
• 76–100%
• Don't know

Licenses, API, and cloud costs for AI only — exclude staff time. Divide annual plans by 12. Rule of thumb: one business seat (e.g. ChatGPT, M365 Copilot) costs about CHF 25–30 per month.

• CHF 0
• CHF 1–250
• CHF 251–1,000
• CHF 1,001–5,000
• CHF 5,001–25,000
• CHF 25,001–100,000
• More than CHF 100,000
• Don't know
• Prefer not to say

• Decrease
• Stay about the same
• Increase by up to 50%
• Increase by more than 50%
• Don't know

Formal requirement (policy, contract, regulator) — not merely preference.

• Own infrastructure / on-premises only
• Switzerland only
• Switzerland or EU/EEA
• Depends on the data (e.g. sensitive in CH only, rest anywhere)
• No geographic constraint
• Not yet decided

Select all that apply. “None” excludes other options.

• AI usage policy
• Designated AI owner or committee
• Rules for human review of AI outputs
• Staff AI-literacy training
• Inventory of AI tools in use
• Data protection impact assessment (DPIA/DSFA) for AI uses
• Business accounts with a data processing agreement (DPA)
• None

Relevant to possible EU AI Act applicability for Swiss providers and deployers. If both apply, choose “provider”.

• We offer AI systems or AI products on the EU market (provider)
• We deploy AI for EU customers or users (deployer)
• No material EU exposure
• Unsure

Up to three options. “No major blockers” excludes other options.

• Cost
• Data protection / compliance
• Data quality / data not ready
• Accuracy / reliability of outputs
• Skills gap
• Unclear ROI / benefit
• Regulatory uncertainty
• Integration with existing IT
• Lack of management buy-in
• Vendor lock-in
• No major blockers
• Other

Up to three options — even if you are not choosing a vendor right now.

• Price
• Hosting region (CH/EU)
• DPA / contract terms
• Certifications (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC 2)
• Model quality (incl. DE/FR/IT)
• Support / contracts in national languages
• Swiss legal entity / local support
• Fits existing IT / software suite
• No training on our data
• Open models / portability (no lock-in)