Use Cases
Built for the sectors Switzerland leads.
Alpyx is designed for Swiss SMEs with 50–500 employees in the sectors Switzerland specialises in: precision engineering, financial services, audit and certification, consulting, and software. Each has the same problem — and the same opportunity.
Precision Engineering
Watchmaking, medtech, aerospace — the SMEs Switzerland is known for.
Hundreds of Swiss SMEs produce precision components for watchmaking, medical devices, and aerospace. A senior engineer preparing a regulatory submission navigates CAD, PLM, simulation tools, and ERP — applying tacit judgment built over decades. When they retire, that workflow walks out the door. Alpyx captures and preserves it.
"Senior engineers carry 20 years of workflow knowledge. None of it is in the ERP."
What Alpyx captures
- Cross-software navigation between CAD, PLM, simulation, and ERP
- Engineering change request submission patterns
- Validation and tolerance-check sequences
- PCB design cycle in Altium + Gerber export workflows
- Hardware certification (CE/FCC) programme execution
What becomes possible
- Preserve senior engineer know-how before retirement
- Standardise design review and approval flow
- Detect where execution deviates from documented procedure
- Foundation for AI-assisted engineering workflows (Tier 3)
Financial Services
Geneva and Zurich back-offices — Europe's financial centres.
Financial systems record transactions and approvals, not the analytical process that produced them. KYC, reconciliation, credit, and reporting workflows are multi-system sequences where uncertainty, judgment, and cross-reference live. The intelligence is in how the team works, not in what they approve.
"The approval was logged. The analysis that preceded it was invisible."
What Alpyx captures
- KYC workflow sequences across compliance tools
- Credit decision sequences and hesitation patterns
- Reconciliation workflows across multiple data sources
- Reporting workflow execution and deviation indicators
- Cross-application analytical sequences (Excel + ERP + email)
What becomes possible
- Map the expert workflow of senior credit analysts
- Detect procedural deviation in regulated processes
- Surface bottlenecks that audit processes miss
- Foundation for AI-assisted financial analysis (Tier 3)
Audit & Certification
In a sector where SGS and Bureau Veritas CH set the bar.
Switzerland has an unusually strong certification and compliance sector. The methodologies are formal; the actual workflows are not. How a senior auditor navigates evidence, cross-references documents, and applies judgment is mentored and absorbed — until someone leaves. Alpyx captures the variance and turns it into a transferable baseline.
"Your best auditors work differently. Alpyx shows you how."
What Alpyx captures
- Expert review sequences across document management, ERP, Excel, email
- Time allocation by engagement phase and seniority
- Cross-reference behaviour during evidence review
- Variance between stated methodology and actual execution
What becomes possible
- Compare senior vs. junior workflow patterns
- Identify where junior staff diverge from expert patterns
- Build a workflow baseline that survives departures
- Accelerate onboarding via real workflow exposure
Consulting
Methodology that lives in the workflow, not the slides.
Consulting firms productise the methodologies of their best people. But the real methodology — how a senior consultant moves between client data, internal models, slide decks, and the partner-review cycle — lives in workflow patterns no manual captures. Alpyx records it, turns it into a measurable baseline, and makes it transferable to new hires and adjacent practices.
"The deck is the deliverable. The workflow behind it is the IP."
What Alpyx captures
- Multi-engagement workflow patterns by seniority and practice
- Cross-application sequences (Excel, PowerPoint, internal models)
- Time allocation across engagement phases
- Review and revision cycle patterns
- Deviation between standard methodology and actual delivery
What becomes possible
- Codify senior consultant methodology from observation, not interview
- Accelerate ramp-up for new hires and lateral practices
- Identify the workflow patterns associated with the highest-margin engagements
- Foundation for AI-assisted consulting workflows (Tier 3)
Software
Engineering and delivery — across more tools than any other function.
Software teams move between IDE, JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, Slack, email, monitoring, and deployment pipelines. The coordination overhead is substantial, invisible, and largely unmeasured. Engineering managers shape team structure and process with almost no behavioural data about how work actually flows.
"Engineering teams measure velocity. Alpyx measures what creates it."
What Alpyx captures
- Cross-tool navigation across IDE, JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, Slack, email
- Context-switching frequency and patterns
- Workflow duration from ticket to commit to review
- Coordination bottlenecks between team members
- Documentation workflow patterns and timing
What becomes possible
- Quantify context-switching cost on engineering velocity
- Identify toolchain friction that slows delivery
- Transfer the workflow patterns of senior engineers
- Evidence base for engineering process redesign
What Every Industry Has in Common
The invisible layer is industry-agnostic. The intelligence is not.
In every Swiss SME we have studied, the top 10–15% of performers execute measurably distinct workflow patterns. Those patterns are learnable. Today, they are not being transferred — they walk out with retirement.
In every industry, actual workflows deviate from documented processes. Sometimes deviation represents compliance risk. Sometimes it represents emergent best practice. Without Alpyx, you cannot tell which.
Coordination overhead between tools consumes 20–35% of operational time. KPMG estimates 60–70% of enterprise work activity is invisible to system logs. None of it is currently measured.