Locations · Zurich, ZRH
From Vancouver we build and run digital products for banks, insurers, life science firms and technology teams across Zurich Canton: web platforms, native apps, AI features and the marketing that brings people to them.
Remote from Vancouver, on-site when useful Weekly working demos Reply within one business day
Illustrative product interface — not client data.
Yes, OlDevs takes on Zurich projects from the Vancouver studio, delivering remotely, with video calls held late in the Swiss working day and travel to Zurich when a workshop or a launch is better done in person.The city is nine hours ahead of us, which puts the overlap at the end of your afternoon. Services span web development, web apps, iOS and Android, full-stack engineering, AI development and performance marketing.
Key facts
Services
Seven services from one accountable team — delivered remotely in your working hours.
Built for Zurich Canton
The local rules and realities we design for from the first call.
Zurich products are designed around the revised Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, with the EU GDPR also applying when EU residents are served. We document what each feature collects, build consent and deletion paths in, and keep the data model easy to explain.
The European Accessibility Act has covered many consumer digital services since June 2025, WCAG 2.2 AA is the working standard, and Swiss public sector work follows national accessibility guidance. We test against that standard every week of the build.
German is the working language in Zurich and English is widely used in business, so we plan for both. Copy decks are written per language, layouts allow for longer German words, and forms, errors and emails are translated with the interface.
Production data can be placed in Swiss or European hosting regions depending on what your policies require, with backups, logging and analytics configured to stay in the same place. Accounts and infrastructure are registered in your name from day one.
Sectors
Client portals, advisor tools and reporting screens have to be precise and calm under scrutiny. We build interfaces that make numbers legible, wire them to existing core systems, and keep every access path documented.
Quotes, claims and policy servicing live or die on form design. We rebuild long processes as short, saveable steps, add clear document handling, and give staff an admin view that matches what the customer sees.
Research and health organisations need controlled content, careful language and audit friendly records. We build sites and internal tools with review workflows, versioned content and permissions that reflect how your teams actually sign off.
Product teams and institutes come to us for the parts they cannot staff: a web app, a mobile client, an AI feature or a data pipeline. We work in your repositories and ship in weekly increments beside your own engineers.
Process
Discover
A short series of calls at the end of your Zurich afternoon covers objectives, constraints and the systems already in place, ending in a written scope you approve.
Design
We prototype the key journeys in German and English, share the files for comment in your own hours, and settle the interface before production code is written.
Build
Engineering proceeds in one week cycles. Each cycle closes with a demo build and release notes, so nobody in Zurich waits a month to see progress.
Launch
Release day is planned around your business hours. We migrate content, verify accessibility and tracking, transfer every account, and monitor the first days closely.
Grow
We then iterate: measuring what users do, tuning search and campaigns, and queueing improvements that you can reprioritise at any point.
FAQ
No, and we would rather say so plainly. OlDevs works from one studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Zurich clients are looked after remotely by that same team. We fly to Switzerland when a project needs it, for example a discovery workshop, stakeholder interviews or a launch, and handle the rest through video calls and shared tools.
The overlap is real but narrow, so we treat it as valuable. Live conversations sit at the end of your afternoon, decisions are written down the same day, and questions raised while we sleep are answered first thing in our morning. Weekly demo builds mean your review never depends on being in a call together.
Yes. Depending on what your policies require, production data can sit in Swiss hosting or in European regions, and we configure databases, object storage, backups and logs to match. Analytics can be set up the same way. Because the accounts belong to you, an auditor can inspect the arrangement without going through us.
Yes. German and English versions are planned together, with translated interface text, error messages, transactional email and metadata, not only body content. Copy is written to fit the layout rather than squeezed into it afterwards, and your reviewers get a pass per language before anything ships.
Most engagements start with web development or a web application, then extend into iOS and Android, full-stack work behind the interface, AI development such as document understanding or automation, and performance marketing across search, paid social, email and analytics. You can take one service or the whole set.
You do, throughout, rather than receiving them as a parting favour. Repositories, design files, hosting, analytics and advertising accounts are created in your organisation's name, and you keep the code, the designs and the intellectual property. If you later move to an in-house team, nothing has to be untangled first.
Let’s connect
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