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What you get

Short lessons with certificates issued in Switzerland.

Learn AI in five-minute lessons, earn a verifiable certificate for each, and build from beginner foundations all the way to your profession.

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Five-minute lessons

Every lesson runs five to six minutes with one clear outcome, so you finish it between meetings or on the move.

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A certificate that proves it

Each lesson you complete earns a certificate you can share, recorded so anyone can verify it.

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Taught by specialists

Foundations for everyone, plus profession-specific tracks built by experts in each field.

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A path or a question

Follow a guided journey, or ask the Swissi assistant to assemble lessons around your own question.

7 modules

Modules for Beginners

Beginner

Start from zero and get confident with AI in everyday life and work. Every module is made of short lessons, so you learn one small piece at a time and pick up where you left off.

Show all modules about:Understanding AIWorking with AICreating with AIResponsible UseRegulation & StandardsData Protection & ProvenanceTaxAudit & AssuranceEmployment LawCompany Law & TransactionsBuilding & Deploying AI

Beginner

AI, Explained from Zero

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6 lessons · 7 certificates

Learning Points: 96

Understand what AI, machine learning, and generative AI really are, in plain language and with no technical background.

  • Defining Artificial Intelligence
  • What Generative AI Is
  • Common Myths About AI
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Beginner

How Language Models Work

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 66

See what happens inside a chat assistant: how tokens, prediction, and training combine to make it sound so fluent.

  • How Models Read Text as Tokens
  • How Next-Token Prediction Builds Sentences
  • The Context Window
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Beginner

Your First AI Assistant

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 50

Run a productive first session with an assistant and learn to write clear prompts that get you the result you want.

  • Running an Assistant Session
  • The Four Parts of a Prompt
  • Reading a Reply Critically
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Beginner

Spot When AI Is Wrong

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 45

Recognise fabricated answers and invented sources, and build the everyday habit of checking before you trust a reply.

  • What a Hallucination Is
  • Fabricated Sources and Citations
  • The Verification Mindset
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Beginner

Create with AI

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 51

Draft text, generate your first image, and refine both to a professional standard with AI tools you can start today.

  • Editing for Clarity and Concision
  • Your First Generated Image
  • Writing an Image Prompt
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Beginner

AI for Everyday Work

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 66

Apply AI to your correspondence, routine tasks, and the everyday tools you already use to get real work done faster.

  • Drafting Business Correspondence
  • Breaking a Task into Model-Sized Steps
  • Combining AI with Everyday Tools
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Beginner

Use AI Responsibly

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 88

Understand the ethics and privacy limits of AI, and learn to recognise synthetic media so you can use it responsibly.

  • What AI Ethics Covers
  • Privacy by Design for AI Use
  • Recognising Synthetic Media
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7 modules

Modules for Practitioners

Advanced

Go deeper: how models work under the hood, and how to build with them. You already know what AI can do, so these modules stay hands-on: the architecture, the tooling, and the trade-offs that decide whether what you build holds up in use.

Show all modules about:Building & Deploying AIPrompting & ContextAgents & Tool UseRetrieval & RAGModel Training & TuningEvaluation & TestingDeployment & OperationsMonitoring & DriftData, Systems & CloudStatistics & Data AnalysisSecurity & Cryptography

Advanced

Prompt Engineering in Depth

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 73

Master reasoning prompts, worked examples, and reusable templates that turn a capable model into reliable output.

  • Prompting for Step-by-Step Reasoning
  • Few-Shot Prompting with Examples
  • Prompt Templates and Variables
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Advanced

Inside the Model

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 84

Understand transformers, how text generation actually happens, and the kinds of learning that shape a model.

  • Why Transformers Replaced Earlier Models
  • How a Model Generates Text
  • Supervised Learning
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Advanced

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 101

Ground a model in your own sources with retrieval, and learn exactly where a RAG pipeline breaks and how to fix it.

  • Retrieving Relevant Chunks
  • Evaluating a RAG System
  • Bringing a Document into a Session
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Advanced

Build with AI APIs

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 91

Call a model API, handle keys and streaming, and integrate a language model cleanly into a real application of your own.

  • Making a Model API Call
  • Keeping API Keys and Secrets Safe
  • Streaming Responses from an API
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Advanced

AI Agents and Tool Use

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 92

Design agents, give them tools to act with, and set the guardrails for the points where autonomy tends to break down.

  • What an Agent Is
  • Giving a Model Tools to Act
  • Guardrails for Agents
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Advanced

Run Models Locally

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 88

Choose open-weight models, set up local inference, and weigh the trade-offs between your own hardware and the cloud.

  • Why Run a Model Locally
  • Hardware for Local Inference
  • Trade-Offs of Running Models Locally
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Advanced

Fine-Tune and Evaluate

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 117

Decide between prompting, retrieval, and fine-tuning for your task, then measure with evaluations whether it worked.

  • Fine-Tuning a Base Model
  • Designing a Task-Specific Evaluation
  • Human Evaluation of AI Output
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7 modules

Modules for Professionals

Expert

AI applied to a profession, taught by specialists in the field. Each module starts from the rules and duties you already work under, then shows where AI carries weight in that setting and where your professional judgement decides. Written by auditors, lawyers, tax advisers and finance specialists who practise in the field.

Show all modules about:Audit & AssuranceTaxCompliance & Financial CrimeRegulation & StandardsData Protection & ProvenanceCompany Law & TransactionsEmployment LawLegal OperationsCorporate Finance & Capital MarketsAccounting & ReportingModel Risk & Supervision

Expert

AI for Auditors

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 134

AI applied to Wirtschaftsprüfung: gathering evidence, sampling, and testing at full-population scale without losing rigour.

  • The Purpose of Journal Entry Testing
  • Statistical Versus Judgemental Sampling
  • Assuring AI-Generated Sustainability Disclosures
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Expert

AI for Tax Advisors

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 118

AI applied to Steuerrecht: subsumption, VAT on mass transactions, and catching invented citations before they reach a file.

  • Reading a Tax Statute with AI Support
  • Detecting a Fabricated Tax Citation
  • German VAT Fundamentals for AI Workflows
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Expert

AI in the Boardroom

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 119

AI for directors: board-level oversight of AI systems and the governance that holds up under scrutiny and accountability.

  • Board-Level Oversight of AI Systems
  • Governance Codes and Comply-or-Explain
  • Reading AI-Generated Board Reports Critically
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Expert

AI and the AI Act

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 102

Classify risk under the EU AI Act, apply the deployer duties it imposes, and design human oversight that holds up.

  • The Four AI Risk Tiers
  • Deployer Duties for High-Risk AI
  • What Meaningful Human Oversight Requires
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Expert

AI for Legal Practice

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 117

Analyse contracts, ground your research in real legal authority, and reliably reject fabricated case law before you cite it.

  • What AI Contract Analysis Can and Cannot Do
  • Detecting Fabricated Case Law
  • An AI-Assisted Legal Research Workflow
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Expert

AI for Corporate Finance

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 147

Valuation and modelling with AI, including how to value the intangible assets that AI itself increasingly helps to create.

  • Building a DCF from Scratch
  • Why Intangibles Escape the Balance Sheet
  • Reconciling Multiples with a DCF
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Expert

AI for Creators

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3 lessons · 4 certificates

Learning Points: 62

AI for content work: short-form video, personal branding, and scripts that still sound like you rather than a generic model.

  • The First-Second Hook in Video
  • Talking-Head Scripts That Sound Like You
  • Adapting One Script to Three Platforms
Start

18 creator profiles

By Creator

Explore AI programmes, modules and workshops through the people who build them.

Dr.Walter KurzMBA, M.Sc.

Walter Kurz teaches how enterprise AI systems are designed to hold up under regulatory review, from multi-agent architecture to distributed ledgers. He is an AI...

4 Programmes · 12 Modules45 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
125k
Connections
18k
Students
35k
Average Difficulty88/100
Satisfaction index96/100

Prof. Dr.Stefan Marx

Stefan Marx teaches how an internal control system is built so it survives an audit, drawing on nineteen years of audit work at KPMG and a chair in auditing and...

3 Programmes · 10 Modules38 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
98k
Connections
16k
Students
31k
Average Difficulty54/100
Satisfaction index93/100

Prof. Dr.Frank Reinhardt

Frank Reinhardt teaches tax law, banking regulation and corporate governance, as a practising Steuerberater and professor of tax law at HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen. He...

3 Programmes · 9 Modules34 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
87k
Connections
15k
Students
29k
Average Difficulty72/100
Satisfaction index92/100

Prof. Dr.Jörg Westphal

Jörg Westphal teaches how sales organisations adopt AI: where trust in a system is earned, where it breaks, and how governance keeps the two aligned. He held the chair...

2 Programmes · 8 Modules31 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
76k
Connections
14k
Students
25k
Average Difficulty41/100
Satisfaction index91/100

Prof. Dr.Velimir Dedić

Velimir Dedić teaches how AI systems are built to be secure, and how the data behind them holds up to analysis. He is a full professor and heads the IT and Computer...

3 Programmes · 7 Modules29 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
69k
Connections
13k
Students
22k
Average Difficulty83/100
Satisfaction index90/100

Dr.Florian Kollberg

Florian Kollberg teaches how AI is governed inside regulated finance: model risk, process risk, and the evidence a supervisor expects to see. He holds a doctorate and...

2 Programmes · 6 Modules24 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
58k
Connections
12k
Students
20k
Average Difficulty62/100
Satisfaction index94/100

Dr.Ralf Kittelberger

He teaches employment law, compliance management systems and corporate governance, and holds specialist-lawyer status in both employment law and company law. He holds a...

2 Programmes · 5 Modules22 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
52k
Connections
11k
Students
18k
Average Difficulty47/100
Satisfaction index89/100

Wojtek StrickerM.Sc. (DBA in AI, Cand.)

Wojtek Stricker teaches how AI components are priced into company valuations, KPI systems and investment cases, on about 15 years of corporate finance practice. He...

2 Programmes · 7 Modules28 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
47k
Connections
10k
Students
15k
Average Difficulty76/100
Satisfaction index88/100

Mag.Stephan NeisserMBA

Stephan Neisser teaches how a company gets financed: IPO preparation, equity story, venture funding and buy-and-build, from a practice he has run since 2007. He...

1 Programme · 5 Modules19 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
41k
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9k
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13k
Average Difficulty94/100
Satisfaction index87/100

Dipl.-Kfm.Stephan Mauer

Stephan Mauer teaches how internal control, risk and compliance systems are built so that they hold up when an auditor tests them. He is a Wirtschaftsprüfer and...

1 Programme · 4 Modules17 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
36k
Connections
8k
Students
12k
Average Difficulty35/100
Satisfaction index86/100

Michel MalaraMBA (PhD in AI, Cand.)

Michel Malara teaches how an organisation governs AI in practice: who decides, who carries the accountability, and how that is written into leadership routines. His...

2 Programmes · 6 Modules23 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
31k
Connections
7k
Students
10k
Average Difficulty68/100
Satisfaction index90/100

Elias Beer

Elias Beer builds the communication side of an AI education platform: its social media, its digital presence, and the onboarding a new learner first meets. He runs the...

1 Programme · 3 Modules14 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
28k
Connections
6k
Students
8k
Average Difficulty57/100
Satisfaction index85/100

Prof. Dr.Nenad Dedić

He teaches how to build AI systems that survive a security review: cryptography, cloud and data security, and software supply-chain risk. His doctorate in computer...

4 Programmes · 12 Modules45 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
25k
Connections
5k
Students
7k
Average Difficulty80/100
Satisfaction index91/100

Prof. Dr.Ivica Stankovic

He teaches quantitative risk modelling and model risk governance, built on more than twenty years of risk analytics inside banks and financial institutions. As a...

3 Programmes · 10 Modules38 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
22k
Connections
5k
Students
6k
Average Difficulty44/100
Satisfaction index89/100

Prof. Dr.Šemsudin Plojović

Šemsudin Plojović teaches applied statistics and management information systems, and holds two earned doctorates in exactly those two fields. He is a Full Professor at...

3 Programmes · 9 Modules34 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
19k
Connections
4k
Students
5k
Average Difficulty65/100
Satisfaction index88/100

Prof. Dr.Enes Sukic

Enes Sukic teaches how information systems are built and how research is written, reviewed and published to a standard that holds up. He holds a PhD in computer science...

2 Programmes · 8 Modules31 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

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17k
Connections
3k
Students
4k
Average Difficulty51/100
Satisfaction index87/100

Prof. Dr.Svetlana Andjelic

Svetlana Andjelic teaches computer adaptive testing and the database engineering underneath it, after more than twenty years of university teaching. She is Associate...

3 Programmes · 7 Modules29 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
14k
Connections
2k
Students
3k
Average Difficulty73/100
Satisfaction index86/100

Prof. Dr.José Machado

José Machado teaches how automation, robotics and control reach the factory floor, and how industrial systems are modelled and simulated before they run. He holds a...

2 Programmes · 6 Modules24 Lessons · With Swissi: Jul 2026

Followers
12k
Connections
2k
Students
3k
Average Difficulty38/100
Satisfaction index85/100