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.
Procurement, certification, and buyer decisions are measured in years. Missing a regulatory signal early costs months you cannot recover.
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.
Regulatory constraints appear earlier and hit harder. A commercial pathway and a regulatory pathway are not the same thing.
A wrong pivot or a poorly timed raise in aerospace can cost two years and a company. Sharper intelligence earlier changes the outcome.
You cannot hire for every function at pre-seed. But every function is running simultaneously — market, regulatory, investor — whether you monitor it or not.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Surveillance, reconnaissance, and sensor fusion technologies are in active demand across European defence. The Synthetic Regulatory Watcher monitors relevant procurement and classification developments.
Energy-independent platforms are a strategic priority. Your clean propulsion technology may have a dual-use angle worth tracking continuously.
Technologies relevant to command, control, and situational awareness represent a growing procurement priority. The synthetic positions monitor this landscape specifically.
Human amplified
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.
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.
CHF 15,000per raise
End-to-end fundraising support for founders raising CHF 1M+. Investor targeting built from accumulated synthetic intelligence, narrative refinement, outreach sequencing, and relationship guidance through to term sheet.
CHF 12,000per engagement
Structured market entry for aerospace ventures moving into dual-use or defence markets. Regulatory pathway, procurement targeting, prime contractor mapping, and positioning for defence buyers.
How it works
No ambiguity. No retainer theatre.
Choose the specialist functions your venture is missing. Deploy one or combine multiple — each position runs independently and compounds with others.
Each synthetic position is configured with your technology domain, target market, and current stage. No generic output.
Every position delivers a structured brief each week, cleared to our quality standard before it reaches you. Anomalies flagged immediately.
Intelligence compounds. Positions running in parallel connect across domains. Everything carries forward into your raise package automatically.
Expected results
The output depends on stage, but most engagements are designed to improve one or more of these outcomes.
Who runs SAV
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
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.
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.
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.
One month. Cancel anytime after that. No notice period.
When your venture reaches the moments that require judgment and relationships rather than intelligence — a raise, a defence contract, a strategic pivot. The human tier steps in fully briefed by your synthetic team. No onboarding. No wasted time.
Yes. SAV is built in Switzerland and works internationally where the fit is strong.
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Deploy your first position
Start with the specialist function your venture needs most. Add more as you grow. Cancel anytime.