Strategy and AI in Jura, from Delémont
We work in the canton of Jura, in Delémont and the neighbouring valleys, with watchmaking subcontractors, machining workshops and industrial SMEs. We build your strategy, we deploy it, and we steer the results alongside your teams.
The local economy
The Jura economy rests on a dense industrial base: watchmaking subcontracting, precision machining, bar turning and microtechnology. Many companies are mid-sized and often family-owned, established across several generations and respected for their craft. A good number work for a small circle of principals, which exposes them to swings in volume, tight lead times and pressure on prices.
The questions we meet in this setting are practical: reliable product costing, workshop load planning, dependence on a few customers, diversification into other demanding markets, hiring technical profiles, and succession. AI can help in specific places, such as quoting, planning or quality control. Elsewhere, common sense and clear organization make the difference, and we say so openly.
The regulatory context
Companies in Jura operate under Swiss law and cantonal rules. For watchmaking, the Swiss made regulation sets a minimum share of production carried out in Switzerland, which shapes sourcing and subcontracting decisions. The revised data protection act applies to customer and employee data, and principals often add their own confidentiality and quality audit requirements. Switzerland has no single law on AI: existing law applies, and companies exporting to the European Union need to follow the requirements of their markets. We build these points into our missions from the start.
How we work here
We work on site in Delémont and across the canton, on the shop floor as well as in the boardroom, and continue remotely between working sessions. We run engagements in French, German or English, depending on who is at the table. For each mission we compose a senior team: a dedicated contact, the WALVIS core team (strategy, finance, operations, data, AI) and, where the subject calls for it, sector experts from our network, chosen for their profile, for example in industrialization or watchmaking. Work moves in stages: diagnosis, strategy, deployment, then steering of the results. We sell no software and we work with the tools you already use.