What Artificialy does

Artificialy is a Swiss AI services and product company founded in 2020 by Prof. Luca Maria Gambardella and Prof. Marco Zaffalon, headquartered in Lugano with a second office in Zurich opened in 2024. As of October 2025 the firm employs approximately 40 engineers, physicists, and mathematicians and reports 31 clients across financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, public sector, and technology/telecom, including UBS, Abacus, Casale, Philip Morris, Sony, Swisscom, BancaStato, and Aktiia. The company's core technology covers classical machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, generative AI (including LLM fine-tuning on open-source models such as Apertus and Mixtral), natural and spoken language processing, and combinatorial optimization, deployed both at the edge (custom YOLO models pruned to 4M parameters within 8MB memory footprints) and on server or on-premise infrastructure for data sovereignty.

The product portfolio is anchored by PrivateAI Suite, an end-to-end enterprise AI platform with an integrated agent, workflow automation, document translation, business intelligence, and on-premise deployment. It is complemented by named co-developed products including AbaClik (voice-driven back-office assistant with Abacus, integrated with 21.AbaNinja), AiPipe (piping design optimization with Casale), and DeepLegal (an agentic RAG platform with DeepCloud built on 800,000+ Swiss legal documents), plus proprietary assets such as the patented Generative Differential Privacy technology (WO2025051375A1) and a first-of-its-kind Ticinese dialect translation model. Service offerings - AI Journey consulting, the long-term AI Innovation Partner embedded-team model, AI Academy training, and third-party AI integration - wrap around the products to drive a consultative, account-based GTM motion targeting regulated Swiss enterprises and public-sector buyers.

Artificialy generates revenue through three primary streams: custom AI consulting and development projects (AI Journey), multi-year managed AI Innovation Partner engagements with embedded teams, and product sales of the PrivateAI Suite on a quote-based, demo-led model with on-premise licensing options. All pricing is quote-based; no public rates are disclosed. The company is privately held, received an undisclosed strategic investment from UBS in March 2026 (UBS is simultaneously a shareholder and a flagship client), and had Abacus Research formally enter its shareholding structure in mid-2025. Leadership transitioned in 2025 with co-founder Luca Maria Gambardella appointed CEO and Alberto DeLorenzi named Executive Chairman, signaling a move from academic-founder-led operations toward an executive structure designed to support scale-up.

Name

Artificialy

Legal name

Artificialy SA

Website

https://artificialy.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Artificialy is a Swiss AI services and product company delivering end-to-end custom AI solutions for enterprises and public-sector clients through its PrivateAI Suite platform, AI Journey consulting, and long-term AI Innovation Partner engagements, with proprietary products including GenDP, DeepLegal, and AbaClik.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise AI Platform & AI Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Software Publishers (51321)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Integration & Orchestration Platforms (Connectors, Workflow, iPaaS for AI) (HDAEANAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Agents & Autonomous Workflows (Tool Use, Planning, Multi-Agent) (HDAAACAF), AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting) (HDAAAKAL), End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

Keywords

• Enterprise AI platform
• Custom AI solutions
• AI consulting services
• Machine learning development
• Generative AI deployment

Headquarters

HQ city

Lugano

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Custom AI Consulting & Development Projects (AI Journey): Engagement-based revenue from end-to-end AI projects covering Discovery Workshops, AI Assessment, Prototyping, Industrialization, Maintenance, and Continuous Development. Custom solutions delivered for named enterprise clients (UBS, Abacus, Casale, etc.). Typically multi-month to multi-year projects.
2. AI Innovation Partner Engagements: Long-term partnership revenue where dedicated Artificialy teams are embedded within client organizations, co-developing AI capabilities over time. Functions as recurring, multi-year managed/collaborative engagement.
3. PrivateAI Suite Product Sales: Product revenue from the PrivateAI Suite end-to-end AI platform, with options for on-premise deployment to meet data security and privacy requirements. Book-a-demo sales model indicates enterprise-grade licensing.
4. AI Academy Training Programs: Tailored AI training programs for client organizations (executive education and hands-on learning). Service-fee based revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Artificialy delivers end-to-end enterprise AI solutions through three intertwined offerings: (1) the PrivateAI Suite, an on-premise enterprise AI platform with integrated AI agent, private knowledge bases, workflow automation, document translation, and business intelligence; (2) the AI Journey consulting service guiding enterprises from discovery workshops through prototyping, industrialization, maintenance, and continuous development; and (3) AI Innovation Partner long-term co-development engagements with dedicated embedded teams. Combined with patented technology such as Generative Differential Privacy (WO2025051375A1) and proprietary domain models, the company serves regulated Swiss industries including finance, manufacturing, healthcare, public sector, and technology.

Product overview

Artificialy's offering is a platform-plus-modules architecture anchored by the PrivateAI Suite, the flagship end-to-end enterprise AI platform designed for on-premise deployment and Swiss-grade data residency. The PrivateAI Suite integrates an AI agent with private knowledge bases, workflow automation, document translation, and business intelligence, and is complemented by named products such as AbaClik (voice-driven back-office assistant co-developed with Abacus), AiPipe (piping design automation co-developed with Casale), DeepLegal (Agentic RAG legal research platform co-developed with DeepCloud), the Ticinese Translation Model, the Apertus 8B Translation System deployed for the Canton of Ticino, and the patented Generative Differential Privacy (GenDP) synthetic data technology. Service offerings — AI Journey, AI Innovation Partner, AI Academy, and Third Party AI Products Integration — wrap around the products to support consulting, co-development, training, and integration across the customer lifecycle.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PrivateAI Suite: A comprehensive end-to-end AI platform launched in 2022 that offers a secure, flexible, and customizable AI assistant with workflow automation, sensitive document translation, business intelligence, and on-premise deployment capabilities for enterprise use.

Products and services

• PrivateAI Suite End-to-end, fully customizable enterprise AI platform with an integrated AI agent, workflow automation, sensitive document translation, business intelligence, and private knowledge base integration. Designed for on-premise deployment with Swiss-grade security and data residency.
• AbaClik Voice-driven AI assistant for back-office operations developed with Abacus. Combines spoken input with agentic AI to automatically extract, interpret, categorize, validate, and post data into accounting platforms such as 21.AbaNinja, automating expense tracking, time recording, and accounting entries.
• AiPipe AI-driven design automation tool for 3D piping layouts in chemical plants, co-developed with Casale. Combines Artificialy's AI expertise with Casale's process engineering domain knowledge to substantially reduce design cycle time and engineering effort.
• DeepLegal Agentic RAG platform for legal research built on a knowledge base of 800,000+ official Swiss legal documents with 10M+ structured metadata entries. Uses parallel multi-agent pipeline (query expansion, legislation/case law retrieval, citation validation, synthesis) with on-premises deployment.
• Generative Differential Privacy (GenDP) Patented synthetic dataset generation technique (WO2025051375A1) that extends classical Differential Privacy with a generative layer. Produces fully private databases preserving original correlations and statistical distributions, supporting unlimited query budgets, ML training, exploratory analysis, and test data generation.
• Ticinese Translation Model First-of-its-kind AI translation model for the Ticinese dialect built on the Mixtral mixture-of-experts architecture. Combines proprietary OCR for dialect-specific graphemes with tens of thousands of curated Italian-Ticinese word pairs; methodology replicable to other minority languages.
• Apertus 8B Translation System (Canton of Ticino) Secure AI translation system for the Canton of Ticino public administration, based on a fine-tuned Apertus 8B open-source LLM. Hosted on Cantonal Information Systems Center (CSI) infrastructure, supporting translation into German, French, Romanian, and Ukrainian.
• AI Journey End-to-end enterprise AI consulting service structured in six stages: Discovery AI Workshop, AI Assessment, AI Prototyping, AI Industrialization, AI Maintenance, and Continuous AI Development. Guides organizations from opportunity identification through production deployment and ongoing evolution.
• AI Innovation Partner Long-term co-development service providing dedicated, integrated AI teams that work alongside client internal resources to co-develop advanced AI solutions. Positions Artificialy as a strategic collaborator rather than a vendor, evolving from project-based work into ongoing partnership.
• AI Academy Tailored AI training programs designed to build AI capabilities at every level of an organization, from executive education to hands-on technical learning, supporting informed and responsible AI adoption.
• Third Party AI Products Integration Advisory and integration service that helps organizations identify, evaluate, and integrate third-party AI tools and platforms into their business processes, including technical due diligence, roadmapping, and structured AI transformation initiatives.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% reduction in manual workload (legal judgment anonymization)
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers33 records

Segments11 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability17 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Canton of Ticino (Cantonal Information Systems Center - CSI)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 March 2026The Canton of Ticino adopted Apertus (Swiss open-source LLM developed by ETH Zurich, EPFL and CSCS) for in-house AI translation. The solution was developed by Artificialy and implemented by CSI on cantonal data centers, marking the first operational use of Apertus by a Swiss public authority. Supports German, French, Romanian, and Ukrainian translation.
• Abacus ResearchcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2025Abacus Research entered Artificialy's shareholding structure as part of a strategic partnership for secure, "sovereign" AI. Together they developed AbaClik, an AI-powered voice assistant for back-office operations (expense tracking, time recording, accounting entries) with agentic capabilities.
• DeepCloudcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArtificialy supported DeepCloud in developing DeepLegal, an Agentic RAG platform for legal research querying 800,000+ Swiss legal documents with verifiable citations and on-premises deployment. Co-developed go-to-market for the legal sector.
• CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)flagshipTechnology or IntegrationArtificialy works with CSCS (alongside ETH Zurich and EPFL) on the Apertus project, deploying Switzerland's first open, transparent, and multilingual AI model. CSCS hosts the underlying infrastructure for the model and the cantonal deployment.
• ETH Zurich and EPFLcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-developers of the Apertus open-source large language model within the Swiss AI Initiative. Artificialy operationalizes Apertus for enterprise and public-sector use cases.
• Centro di dialettologia di Bellinzona (CdDB)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerProvided official variants and declensions of the Ticinese dialect for the language standardization layer of Artificialy's Ticinese dialect translation model.
• Casale SAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-developed AiPipe, an AI-driven design automation tool for 3D piping layouts in chemical plants, combining Artificialy's AI expertise with Casale's process engineer domain knowledge.
• AktiiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint development of AI algorithms for continuous non-invasive blood pressure estimation from pulse signals on wearable devices, leveraging Artificialy's expertise in AI and signal interpretation.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• IBM watsonx: IBM's enterprise AI platform spanning foundation models, MLOps, and consulting services, widely deployed in regulated industries including Swiss banking, insurance, and government. Competes on the same data-sovereignty and on-premise deployment value proposition.
• Accenture: Global professional services firm with a large AI and data practice, including extensive work with Swiss and European banks, manufacturers, and public sector. Accenture is even listed as an Artificialy customer logo, illustrating the overlap as both partner and competitor for the same enterprise AI budgets.
• Deloitte AI: Big Four advisory and consulting firm with a substantial AI, data, and analytics practice serving banks, insurers, manufacturers, and public sector globally. Competes for the same enterprise AI transformation mandates as Artificialy but with vastly greater scale and geographic reach.

Emerging players

• Helsing: European AI company applying machine learning to defense and national security applications, with a focus on European sovereignty. Comparable on the 'European sovereign AI' positioning and willingness to work with public-sector customers on sensitive workloads.
• DataRobot: Enterprise AI platform providing ML, generative AI, and MLOps tooling, with strong adoption in regulated industries. Comparable in targeting enterprises that require on-premise and sovereign deployment of predictive and generative AI.
• Aleph Alpha: Heidelberg-based European AI company focused on sovereign, explainable AI and large language models for regulated European enterprises and public sector. Comparable positioning on European data sovereignty and on-premise AI deployment, though at a larger scale and with a foundation-model focus.

Direct peers

• ti&m: Swiss digital services and AI consulting firm headquartered in Zurich, offering end-to-end AI, software engineering, and platform services to Swiss enterprises and public administration. Closely comparable in geography, customer base (Swiss banks, insurers, government), and integrated services-plus-product model.
• Netlight: European technology and AI consultancy with offices across Switzerland, Germany, and the Nordics, serving large enterprises on data and AI initiatives. Similar in serving regulated industries with embedded teams and bespoke AI solutions.
• Eraneos: European management and technology consultancy with strong Swiss presence, offering data, AI, and digital transformation services. Comparable in offering end-to-end enterprise AI consulting plus managed services to regulated European clients.

Others

• Cosaic (formerly Duco): Swiss-headquartered enterprise data and AI firm serving global financial institutions. Comparable as a Switzerland-based data/AI specialist targeting banks and other regulated buyers, and indicative of the broader Zurich/Lugano fintech-AI ecosystem in which Artificialy competes and partners.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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