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Published by ark.swiss sàrl, a Swiss company founded in 2019 by Matthieu Schmid and Corentin Morel.

ark.swiss sàrl · 2019

Matthieu Schmid, co-founder ark.swiss
Matthieu Schmidco-founder ark.swiss

From the founder

Why ark.flow exists

ark.flow, piece 3.

At ark.swiss, we build business software. ark.plan runs our company internally and replaces Odoo. ark.stock has been used internally for several years and serves the Crans-Montana Alpine Ski World Cup (inventory and event management). ark.flow is the third piece: Compta comes with a 7-day trial without a card, then costs CHF 39 per month; Fiduciaire is an annual subscription from CHF 999.

The origin.

ark.flow Compta came out of my own bookkeeping. A week per semester catching up on Crésus — re-entering transactions, hunting for attachments, redoing the same reconciliations. I coded the tool I wanted to use at the next closing — with native Crésus export, because my fiduciary works on it and I wasn't going to break his chain.

I showed him the V1. His reaction:

What we actually need in the firm is a tool that automatically compares the tax returns we file with the assessments we receive, and classifies files on its own. No vendor does it.

ark.flow Fiduciaire was born from that conversation.

An ecosystem that talks to itself.

The apps are hosted in Europe, with production in the European Union and continuity in Switzerland. They talk to each other once you enable a connection: a supplier invoice read in Compta can suggest an item in ark.stock, an ark.stock project is invoiced through ark.plan, and the issued invoice reaches Compta as a document to reconcile. The connections in service are listed on the suite page; more are added release by release.

Working with ark.flow now means direct access to the founder.

On ark.flow, I run the show — I write the code, I answer support, I set the roadmap. Your feedback does not land in a ticket that rots for three quarters: it lands on my screen. A need that comes up across several firms becomes a module for everyone. A very specific need, I can handle with custom dev within the scope of the suite.

— Matthieu Schmid

co-founder ark.swiss With Corentin Morel (partner, ark.stock)

Who we are

Based in Saint-Légier in the canton of Vaud, ark.swiss sàrl builds and maintains business software for Swiss SMEs and independent professionals. ark.flow brings together two distinct applications: Compta for businesses and Fiduciaire for accounting firms.

Engineering principles

  • One instance per customer — every customer gets their own application containers and database, separate from other customers, on a shared server. This separation reduces the risk of cross-customer data exposure.
  • Hosted exclusively in Europe — ark.flow Compta in production in the European Union (Vienna), with a hot standby site in Geneva; ark.flow Fiduciaire in production in Geneva; independent backups in Switzerland.
  • Controlled AI — ark.swiss does not use its customers' data to train models. AI providers are used under their API terms, which in principle exclude training on the data sent; depending on the chosen provider, processing may take place in the United States.
  • Native Crésus — our accounting export is compatible with the reference platform in French-speaking Switzerland. It is not an approximation or a rough mapping, but the actual format that fiduciaries expect to receive.
  • Longevity — we write the code we still want to be maintaining ten years from now, rather than chasing the framework of the season.

Contact

For a commercial enquiry, a partnership, or simply to exchange a few messages, write to us at info@arkflow.ch. Our postal address is: Chemin de la Duchesne 13, 1806 St-Légier, canton de Vaud, Suisse.