Two Swiss professions. One AI practice for SMEs.

Lukas Huber knows his clients' world first-hand. He spent 16 years inside it. Apprenticeship at the Wängi municipality in 2008. Junior accountant at Veritas Consulting in Zürich. Co-founder and later exit of Huber & Schmidt Treuhand in Frauenfeld (2015–2022). Then four years running his own Treuhand practice in Thurgau, 100% audit success rate, 95%+ client retention.

From 2022 onwards, in parallel, manager of accounts payable at Kanebo Cosmetics in Zürich. That's where things shifted: IT automation and process optimisation on accounting workflows he'd been running by hand for a decade. The same routines, VAT, reconciliation, payment runs, were still being done manually at his SME clients. In January 2025 he started schnellstart.ai to close that gap.

Today, Lukas is completing the Swiss federal certificate as AI Business Specialist (IPSO), one of the few recognised AI-consulting qualifications in Switzerland. He runs workshops for accounting teams, medical practices, and parish administrations. 15+ workshops delivered, 8+ partner companies, 50–70% time saved on automated workflows.

When you talk to Lukas, you talk to someone who has done your VAT return by hand. That's exactly why he knows which hours can be automated, and which ones should stay with people.

Florian Witschi builds systems where failure isn't an option. Four-year electronics apprenticeship at Baumer Group in Frauenfeld (2014–2018), Swiss precision industry, hardware foundation. Then technician at Abbott in Zürich and a pivot into software via a Software Engineering internship at Zürcher Kantonalbank and a role as Software Engineer at Adnovum (2023–2024), one of Switzerland's most established enterprise software houses.

Since January 2025, Florian has worked in System Monitoring & Control at Skyguide, the Swiss air-traffic-control authority. Infrastructure where mistakes aren't tolerated. He brings the same discipline to schnellstart.ai: architecture with audit logs, verifiable encryption, deployments that stay in Switzerland or the EU.

In parallel, he built a formal machine-learning foundation, Neural Networks, Hyperparameter Tuning, and ML Project Structuring through Andrew Ng's DeepLearning.AI series (2022), and a security track topped by the Junior Penetration Tester certification (TryHackMe, 2025). Anthropic's AI Fluency certificate in 2025; Yale's Financial Markets programme in 2026.

When you talk to Florian, you talk to the engineer who understands the full stack, from sensor to LLM, and who can attack the systems he builds. That's exactly why he can secure them.