On Friday, 25 September, I spoke at the AI Open House in Basel, part of the Swiss AI Weeks, the largest open AI movement in Switzerland. My session was called: documents, finally intelligent.
Why documents
Most documents in Swiss companies are unused data. Invoices, contracts, forms. We treat them as paper that has to be filed, while they carry exactly the information we later search for by hand. That gap between what a document contains and what a company can actually do with it is where I have been building for the past years, most visibly with DOCUVISIO.What I showed
No slides doing the heavy lifting. I showed live, on prepared example documents, how AI turns documents into structured data: extraction, validation, and what happens downstream once a system truly understands what it reads. One of the examples touches the revised Swiss anti-money-laundering rules, because a system that understands documents is already prepared when the rules of tomorrow change. That is the real point: not automation for its own sake, but readiness.The day itself
The AI Open House is a day where AI becomes something you can touch. Open to everyone, from the curious to the professional, at the FHNW campus in Dreispitz, Basel, from 11:00 to 18:00, with an apéro to close. People came by, asked questions and brought their own cases. That is exactly what a day like this is for.If documents, compliance and practical AI are your world, the thinking behind the session keeps finding its way into these pages. The next stage after Basel was a seminar room in St. Gallen: that story is in two skills, thirty students.