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Bespoke software
Systems designed around the client's operation rather than bent to fit a template — architecture, build, and handover documentation.
- Requirements & architecture
- Full-stack development
- Data & integrations
SWANDEX, Switzerland - Technology Network
Attention, returned to what matters.
SWANDEX is a technology network with international presence. Based in Switzerland, its management and engineering build things worth keeping — software, mobile applications, electronics — and keep them running for years. Its own products put one idea into practice: technology should move attention back to the essential, not away from it.
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iOS, Android, web, backend, embedded
Disciplines
Software, electronics, robotics, IP
Engagement
Build, then maintain for the long run
01 — The network
A network, a position, a long horizon.
The starting observation is plain. Screens are built to be held; attention is the raw material of most of what runs on them, and the addictions that follow have become an ordinary part of daily life. SWANDEX builds in the opposite direction: technology that marks time instead of consuming it, that restores the body instead of wearing it down, and that returns attention to what matters.
Two products carry that position. Carillon Repetition Minute is a quarter-hour logbook that keeps the day on record without anything leaving the device, and it comes with the free chime of a minute repeater, a sound that raises awareness of the hour. The robotic bed in development adapts its surface to the sleeper's posture and load: a contribution to wellbeing where it matters most, at rest.
SWANDEX is a network rather than a single firm: management and engineering in Switzerland, members and partners wherever the work calls for them, and a wider circle of people who follow and take part. The network sets the standards and curates every engagement; the same discipline is open to clients — bespoke software, mobile applications, electronics and the long-term maintenance that keeps them running.
Innovation, reliability and excellence in every layer — from the first sketch, whether of an architecture or a mechanism, to the tenth year of maintenance.
02 — Services
Five disciplines, one network.
Software, mobile, embedded electronics and the technology management around them. Nothing is handed to a subcontractor the client never meets.
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Mobile applications
Native-quality apps for Android and iOS: visually considered, robust under load, and built to scale as the audience grows.
- iOS & Android
- Store submission & review
- New builds or rescue work
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IT maintenance
Proactive care for what already runs: scheduled updates, security hardening and performance optimisation.
- Update & patch cycles
- Security review
- Performance tuning
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Robotics & electronics
Mechatronic products from concept to working prototype: mechanism, control boards, motor drives, sensing and embedded firmware.
- Mechanism & actuation
- Control electronics & firmware
- Prototype to pre-series
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Management of Technology
The layer above the build: technology choices, patent strategy, suppliers, cost per unit and the route to industrialisation.
- Patent & IP strategy
- Technology scouting
- Industrialisation roadmap
The network builds its own hardware as well as clients' software — which is why maintenance is never an afterthought. Updates, security hardening and performance work run on a schedule.
Discuss a project →03 — Method
How an engagement runs.
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Consultation
Objectives, audience and operational constraints are mapped before a single line is written.
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Options on the table
Two or three routes, each with its cost, its timeframe and its trade-offs stated plainly.
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Iterative build
Short cycles with frequent demos. Client feedback is documented and answered in the next iteration.
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Quality gates
Unit, integration and acceptance testing, automated checks and code review before anything ships.
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Long-term care
Scheduled maintenance, monitoring and a contact who still remembers why the system is built that way.
04 — Management of Technology
From an idea to a patent to a working machine.
Management of Technology is the discipline of carrying an invention across every boundary it has to cross: the physics, the patent, the electronics, the firmware, the supplier, the certification, the cost per unit. It is practised on the network's own product before being offered to anyone else.
The current programme is a robotic bed: a sleep surface carried by an array of independently actuated segments, each driven by its own motor and sensed in real time, so the support adapts continuously to posture and load instead of holding one fixed shape. The mechanical architecture is filed as a patent; the control electronics, motor drivers, sensing and embedded software are developed in-house, end to end.
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Patent
The mechanical architecture is protected — drawn, claimed and filed, with the prior art searched before a franc was spent on tooling.
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Electronics
Custom control boards: motor drives, position and load sensing, power management, and the safety logic that has to hold when software fails.
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Embedded software
Real-time firmware coordinating the actuator array, plus the companion application that configures and monitors it.
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Industrialisation
Supplier selection, cost per unit, certification path and the documentation a manufacturer actually needs.
Taking a physical product from concept to prototype follows the same programme — mechanism, electronics, firmware, IP and the plan to industrialise it — and it is open to clients.
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05 — Journaling app
Carillon Repetition Minute · iPhone · iPad · Android
Journaling with time, without checking the time
A logbook that teaches you as you write, gauges that show how to improve, an optional certificate of consistency. Every word stays on your phone. The chime is free.
Watch with sound
Watch how it works, then get it on your phone
Free to use, no expiry · optional one-time unlock · no subscription
06 — Articles
Notes on time, attention and the written record.
The thinking behind the app's quarter-hour logbook, first published on X — each article with its full references and a PDF.
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The Employee AI Cannot See
How time awareness, personal reflection and intrapreneurship can preserve human capital in the age of AI
07 — Contact
Say what should be built.
A message on X with a few words about the project, the timeframe and what success looks like reaches someone who will actually work on it.