Business Development & AI Automation in Lugano and Ticino

Elevate is a business development consultancy based in Lugano. We help companies grow through strategy, branding, sales, operations and innovation — turning complexity into clear, actionable direction across Ticino and Switzerland.

It's hands-on support to grow a business: analysing the market, sharpening strategy and positioning, improving operations, and building the partnerships, products and processes that create sustainable revenue.

We're based in Lugano and work with businesses across Ticino, the Vaud region (Lausanne) and all of Switzerland, both on-site and remotely.

Founders, SMEs and organisations — from early-stage projects and new launches to established companies looking to scale or reposition.

Pricing is flexible: hourly, fixed-price, sales-based, revenue-based or share-based, matched to your project's size, resources and goals. See our Pricing page for details.

Italian, English and French.

Book a discovery call through the contact form. You'll get a reply within 24 hours and a tailored proposal — never a generic template.

Yes — we design and build custom software and management tools tailored to your business, from internal dashboards to full management apps, to improve efficiency and control.

Yes — we set up clear, organized accounting and financial-tracking systems aligned with Swiss SME standards, so you always have visibility over your numbers.

Yes — we identify repetitive manual work and automate it, from internal workflows to customer communication, freeing your team to focus on growth.

Yes — we design and build custom websites, tailored to your brand and optimized for search from day one.

Yes. Elevate designs and builds AI systems, custom AI agents and automations for companies in Lugano, Ticino and across Switzerland — from assistants that read your documents to systems that handle invoices, reporting and internal workflows automatically.

It can read and file invoices and orders, keep the CRM updated, prepare recurring reports, answer internal and customer questions, move data between systems, and flag anomalies — removing manual data entry and giving your team hours back each week.

A first project typically runs 2 to 8 weeks, from the initial audit to a working system in production. We start with the process that pays for itself fastest, then extend from there.

No. Small teams often gain the most, because the same few people carry all the manual work. We regularly automate a single process for an SME in Ticino where that one automation saves several hours a week.

It depends on scope. We work hourly, fixed price, revenue-based or share-based, and we always start with a free discovery call and a written map of where automation would pay off, before you commit to anything.

We design every system with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP) in mind, choose tools and hosting that fit your requirements, and keep you in control of where your data is stored and which providers can access it.

A mix of event direction, e-commerce launches, digital tooling, B2B partnerships and data-driven strategy — including directing a major branded hospitality venue at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival and building and scaling a Swiss e-commerce brand from launch.

Yes — from launching online stores on Shopify to building custom management tools and go-to-market strategies for digital businesses.

Events and live experiences, sports and retail e-commerce, hospitality and food, and culture — applying the same rigorous method to each.

Yes. From first analysis and strategy through execution, launch and scaling — we can lead the whole journey or plug into your team where you need us most.