Zürich · Aerospace · Defence
Build faster with synthetics
The digital workforce for your aerospace venture: market analysts, regulatory watchers, investor scouts. Running continuously from day one.
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The reality
Aerospace is hard enough.
Your workforce gap makes it harder.
No aerospace founder at pre-seed can afford a market analyst, a regulatory expert, and an investor researcher simultaneously. The gap between what you need and what you can hire for is where ventures lose time, capital, and direction.
Longer cycles
Procurement, certification, and buyer decisions are measured in years. Missing a regulatory signal early costs months you cannot recover.
Fewer buyers
The market for most aerospace technologies is structurally small. Identifying the right buyer early and reaching them credibly is often the single most important decision.
More regulation
Regulatory constraints appear earlier and hit harder. A commercial pathway and a regulatory pathway are not the same thing.
Costly mistakes
A wrong pivot or a poorly timed raise in aerospace can cost two years and a company. Sharper intelligence earlier changes the outcome.
Specialist gaps
You cannot hire for every function at pre-seed. But every function is running simultaneously, market, regulatory, investor, whether you monitor it or not.
Generic tools fail
A general AI tool does not know the difference between an EASA rulemaking and an FAA advisory circular. Domain specificity is the difference between intelligence and noise.
Who this is for
Swiss Aerospace Ventures works with
Technical founders
You have a real technology and need to know whether there is a real market, a real buyer, and a company worth building around it. You need specialist intelligence without specialist headcount.
Early-stage teams
You are moving from concept, prototype, or research into company formation. Your team is small. Every function that runs without a hire is a month of runway preserved.
Dual-use ventures
You are building something that may matter to defence, resilience, or critical infrastructure. The regulatory and investor landscape is different. A synthetic position built for that domain tracks it properly.
Seed-stage companies
You have capital but not headcount. Your milestone window is 18 months. Every week of slow intelligence is a week closer to a down round. Synthetic positions accelerate without adding burn.
Synthetic positions
Deploy the specialists your venture is missing
Pre-seed · Seed
Synthetic Market Analyst
CHF 900/month
Monitors
Competitive landscape, new entrants, funding announcements, strategic moves by incumbents in your domain.
Delivers
A weekly competitive brief specific to your venture. Anomaly flags sent immediately.
Replaces: Junior market research hire · CHF 80–100K/year
Pre-seed · Seed
Synthetic Regulatory Watcher
CHF 900/month
Monitors
EASA rulemaking, FAA updates, EU dual-use classifications, NATO procurement signals, national defence budget cycles relevant to your technology.
Delivers
A weekly regulatory brief and immediate flags before changes become common knowledge.
Replaces: Regulatory consultant · CHF 300–400/hour
Pre-seed · Seed
Synthetic Investor Scout
CHF 900/month
Monitors
Investor activity in your domain, fund closes, portfolio additions, partner moves, thesis signals.
Delivers
A weekly investor brief. Surfaces who is actively writing cheques in your space before you start your raise.
Replaces: Manual research before every fundraise
Pre-seed · Seed
Synthetic Supplier Intelligence
CHF 1,100/month
Monitors
The qualified aerospace supplier landscape across your subsystems, structures, avionics, thermal, mechanisms, dispensers, with flight heritage, lead times, and capacity signals.
Delivers
A weekly supplier brief ranking candidate suppliers for each subsystem by fit, heritage, and accessibility, with real-time alerts on qualification milestones and capacity shifts.
Replaces: Supply chain analyst or hardware procurement consultant · CHF 120–160K/year
Pre-seed · Seed
Synthetic Qualification Tracker
CHF 1,100/month
Monitors
The qualification and testing landscape for your hardware class, applicable standards, required test sequences, European test facility availability, and launch provider requirements.
Delivers
A weekly qualification brief mapping your full test campaign, flagging facility availability and cancellations, and alerting on launch provider requirement changes.
Replaces: Qualification engineer or test program manager · CHF 130–180K/year
Pre-seed · Seed
Synthetic Mission Architecture Scout
CHF 1,100/month
Monitors
Reference missions and architectural choices across your orbit class and payload size, bus, propulsion, power, comms, launch vehicle, rideshare vs. dedicated, backed by public filings.
Delivers
A weekly architecture brief mapping what has flown in your class, flagging success patterns, and alerting on emerging standardized platforms that may reduce development risk.
Replaces: Systems engineer or mission architect consultant · CHF 150–200K/year
Dual-use & Defence
Some ventures also need a dual-use assessment
Not every aerospace startup should pursue defence markets. But for the right technologies, dual-use can materially change customer logic, urgency, partnership paths, and funding options. The Synthetic Regulatory Watcher is configured for dual-use domains by default.
Autonomous and unmanned systems
Your UAV or autonomous platform technology may be directly relevant to defence and resilience markets. A synthetic position tracks procurement signals specific to your domain.
ISR and aerial intelligence
Surveillance, reconnaissance, and sensor fusion technologies are in active demand across European defence. The Synthetic Regulatory Watcher monitors relevant procurement and classification developments.
Human amplified
When judgment and relationships matter more than intelligence
When your venture reaches the moments that require human judgment, a raise, a defence contract, a strategic pivot, SAV steps in fully briefed by your synthetic team. No onboarding. No wasted time. The human layer arrives with months of context already accumulated.
Strategic Advisory
CHF 8,000per engagement
A focused single-session engagement for founders at a critical inflection point, fundraising strategy, pivot decisions, defence market entry, partnership structuring. SAV arrives fully briefed by your synthetic team. No onboarding. No wasted time.
- ·Pre-session briefing synthesised from your synthetic team
- ·Structured working session on the decision at hand
- ·Clear recommendation with defensible reasoning
- ·Written follow-up with next actions
How it works
No ambiguity. No retainer theatre.
01
Select your positions
Choose the specialist functions your venture is missing. Deploy one or combine multiple, each position runs independently and compounds with others.
02
Briefed on your venture
Each synthetic position is configured with your technology domain, target market, and current stage. No generic output.
03
Weekly intelligence delivered
Every position delivers a structured brief each week, cleared to our quality standard before it reaches you. Anomalies flagged immediately.
04
Accumulates over time
Intelligence compounds. Positions running in parallel connect across domains. Everything carries forward into your raise package automatically.
Expected results
What good work should lead to
The output depends on stage, but most engagements are designed to improve one or more of these outcomes.
- ✓Clearer market focus
- ✓Better understanding of the real buyer
- ✓Stronger customer and commercial evidence
- ✓Stronger investor narrative
- ✓Faster movement toward commercial traction
- ✓Fewer wasted cycles on weak directions
- ✓Better decisions on what not to pursue
- ✓Stronger fundraising readiness
Who runs SAV
Built by a venture builder with cross-domain pattern recognition
Swiss Aerospace Ventures is led by Julian Walder. The synthetic workforce is built on real domain knowledge, not a generic AI layer applied to aerospace. Every source, every quality gate, every relevance signal has been calibrated against what aerospace founders actually need to know. The human amplified tier draws on Julian's background in venture building, commercialisation, and founder support across complex categories. The judgment layer is specific. The intelligence layer is synthetic. The combination is what makes it work.
About Swiss Aerospace Ventures
Julian Walder
Founder, Swiss Aerospace Ventures
Venture builder · Commercialization · Market validation · Technical-to-commercial translation
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is a synthetic position?
A synthetic position performs the continuous monitoring and analysis function of a human specialist, market research, regulatory tracking, investor scouting, without a hire. It runs on your venture specifically, not a generic brief.
How is this different from a generic AI tool?
The output is aerospace-specific. The source set, relevance logic, and quality gate are built for aerospace and defence domains. A generic tool produces plausible generalities. A synthetic position produces specific claims about specific regulations, specific investors, specific competitors. Specificity is what makes it useful.
Can I deploy more than one position?
Yes. Positions compound, the more that run simultaneously, the more intelligence connects across domains. A Synthetic Intelligence Officer is available to synthesise output across all active positions into a single weekly strategic brief.
What is the minimum commitment?
Start here
Deploy your first position
Start with the specialist function your venture needs most. Add more as you grow. Cancel anytime.