Zurich · Switzerland
Swiss-built systems for people, identity, and borders.
CBI Software plans, builds and operates secure software for migration, digital identity and government processes — and applies its engineering, AI and compliance expertise to public and private mandates in Switzerland, the EU and the UAE.
Expertise
Three disciplines, one subject: the movement and identity of people.
We are specialists, not generalists. Everything we build and advise on concerns how people cross borders, prove who they are, and settle — and how the institutions responsible for those processes stay compliant, auditable and fast.
Migration & case platforms
Application-management software for investment-migration advisories — running the full client lifecycle from onboarding and due diligence to government submission and naturalisation.
- Due-diligence & screening workflows
- Document legalisation chains
- Immutable, hash-chained audit trails
- White-label, multi-tenant by design
Government mandates & digital identity
Planning and delivery of public-sector systems for immigration, settlement and digital identity — engineered to the highest civil and government assurance levels.
- System design & feasibility studies
- Digital-identity & e-ID architectures
- People-logistics & settlement processes
- Delivery from Switzerland, on-site where mandated
Consulting & engineering
Software architecture, AI implementation and compliance-process engineering for regulated organisations — from first feasibility to delivered, operated system.
- AI applied to regulated workflows
- Compliance & due-diligence tooling
- Secure cloud & data-sovereignty architecture
- Senior specialists, augmented delivery
Public sector
Sovereign systems for authorities that cannot outsource their jurisdiction.
Switzerland decided that some data cannot sit inside a platform it can neither inspect nor operate without its vendor. We build the opposite: systems small enough to audit, Swiss enough to fall under Swiss law alone, and structured so the authority can keep running them without us.
Advisory & specification
Requirements, architecture and feasibility work before anything is procured — including evaluating what the market can actually deliver, and on what terms.
- Requirement and architecture definition
- Technology and supplier evaluation
- Sovereignty and deployment-model assessment
Border & migration data
The operator-facing layer around digital border processes — case handling, exception workflows, reconciliation and reporting across road, rail and air.
- Identity continuity across modes of travel
- Exception and manual-review workflows
- Reconciliation and management reporting
Evidence, retention & audit
The compliance layer around sensitive operational data — including material captured by sensors, cameras and aerial systems operated by public authorities.
- Tamper-evident, hash-chained records
- Purpose limitation and retention enforcement
- Who accessed what, when, under which legal basis
AI inside the compliance perimeter
Document understanding, entity resolution and anomaly detection applied to regulated casework — always as decision-support, never as the decision.
- OCR, MRZ and document classification
- Name matching, transliteration, screening
- Every AI-assisted step logged and reviewable
How we work. We advise, specify, build, integrate and operate — we do not manufacture. Equipment comes from established specialist manufacturers we bring in: biometric and fingerprint capture, self-service kiosks and e-gates, document and chip readers, flow sensors, and unmanned systems operated by civil authorities. They supply the hardware; the architecture, software, data model and compliance layer stay with us — and stay Swiss.
Standards
Engineered for the most demanding buyers we know: governments and banks.
Swiss data sovereignty
Sensitive data is processed and stored in Switzerland, end to end. No US-cloud dependency on the sensitive path — a verifiable architecture, not a marketing claim.
Security as a first principle
Field-level encryption for the most sensitive records, strict tenant isolation enforced in the database itself, and least-privilege access — designed in from the first line of code.
Everything auditable
Every mutation of record is written to an immutable, hash-chained audit log. What happened, who did it, and when — provable years later.
The human stays in charge
Our systems support and document decisions; they never replace the accountable professional. Flagged cases route to people, with rationale on record.
Built to be inspected
Reproducible infrastructure, documented architecture, clean IP boundaries — prepared for third-party security review and procurement due diligence.
AI with discipline
We apply AI where it measurably accelerates regulated work — always subordinate to auditability, data residency and the human decision-maker.
Flagship platform
An application-management system for investment migration — built in Switzerland, in production development with its first advisory.
Our flagship product runs the citizenship- and residency-by-investment client lifecycle end to end: sales quotation, gated onboarding, per-family-member documentation with full legalisation tracking, sanctions and adverse-media screening through swappable providers, and milestone-based case management through to naturalisation.
It encodes a principle we consider non-negotiable: no engagement proceeds until screening is clean — enforced by the system's state machine, not by convention. The platform is white-label and multi-tenant from its first line of code, and is being developed and hardened in daily use with its first advisory tenant.
- Hosting
- Switzerland
- Tenant isolation
- Database-enforced
- Audit trail
- Immutable, hash-chained
- Screening
- Provider-independent
- Engagement gating
- State-machine enforced
- Deployment
- Containerised, portable
Company
A Swiss firm, founder-led, built for the long term.
CBI Software has been registered in Zurich since 2020 as CBI Software GmbH (UID CHE-287.787.509). We are founder-owned and independent — no venture pressure, no conflicting interests, no incentive to steer a client's decision.
Our roots are in investment migration, one of the most compliance-intensive industries there is. Building software that regulators, banks and governments can trust taught us the standard we now apply to every mandate.
We deliver with a deliberately lean model: senior specialists, AI-augmented engineering, and contract experts drawn in per mandate. Clients work with the people who actually build — and for larger programmes we partner within established consortia.
We take on work selectively. If a mandate doesn't fall within our subject — people, identity, and the systems around them — we will say so, and where we can, point you to someone better placed.
Contact
Serious enquiries receive a serious answer.
Klosbachstrasse 37
8032 Zürich, Switzerland