Bern, CH · AI systems engineering

AI builds software in minutes. We make sure it holds — and sells.

Halvic Labs is the Swiss software workshop of Nicolas Schmid, AI systems architect. We pair the speed of coding agents with 20 years of real software craft: production-grade AI and agent systems — Swiss-hosted and auditable.

FocusAI & agent engineering
MethodAgents + full SDLC
InfrastructureSwiss-hosted · auditable
Experience20 years of software craft
§ 01 — Principles

The speed of AI, the discipline of the craft.

01

The bridge

Agents write the code — faster than any human can. We bring the discipline that turns it into a product, not technical debt.

02

The lifecycle stays

Architecture, tests, code review — for AI-generated code too. Vibe-coding gets you to 80%. We ship the last 20%.

03

Built to sell

Hundreds of apps, no customers — that's not a code problem. We think engineering and market together.

04

Open protocols, not lock-in

Postgres, S3, MCP, open standards. If a standard exists, we use it. Your data leaves with you, in formats other tools can read.

05

Swiss-hosted & auditable

Swiss data centres, EU data residency, stated in every contract. No US hyperscaler in the critical path — verifiable in every deployment.

06

The team that builds operates

No handoffs to a support layer. The people who shipped the code answer your message. Same hand on the pen.

§ 02 — Products

A small portfolio, chosen on purpose.

Live

FotoboxApp

Operations software for photo-booth rental businesses. Bookings, prints, gallery delivery, and revenue — all from one dashboard.

Laravel 12 Livewire 3 PostgreSQL S3
Visit fotoboxapp.ch
Workshop active

AirConnect

Operations and logbook software for flight clubs and airfields. Bookings, fuel, maintenance, and pilot records — kept current in one place.

Laravel 12 PostgreSQL REST PWA
Visit air-connect.ch
Live

AudioEmpire.ai

AI-powered audiobook creation. From idea to published audiobook in 7 minutes.

AI · TTS SaaS Audio
Visit audioempire.ai
Live

MeineFotobox

Photo-booth rentals for events in Switzerland — online booking, packages, and gallery delivery.

Laravel PostgreSQL Stripe
Visit meinefotobox.ch
Open source

HelloDATA

Open-source enterprise data platform — dbt, Airflow, and Superset in one integrated suite.

dbt Airflow Superset OSS
Learn more
Live

Anvil

Tickets in. Software out. Anvil orchestrates 58+ specialised AI agents that turn Jira, GitHub, and Trello tickets into implemented, tested, reviewed, and deployed code.

Multi-LLM Agents Stack-agnostic
Visit anvil-coder.tech
§ 03 — Engagements

A handful of engagements per year.

§ 04 — Background

Halvic Labs is led by Nicolas Schmid — AI systems architect based between Bern and Basel. Background in cloud and data platform architecture, contributor to HelloDATA. Author of multiple audiobooks on AI engineering and creator of Anvil (anvil-coder.tech) — where tickets become shipped, tested, reviewed code.

FounderNicolas Schmid
StackLaravel · Livewire · Java · Spring · Angular · Postgres · MCP
DevOpsKubernetes · Docker · Terraform · Helm · Flux
SpecialtyAI & agent engineering · production-grade LLM systems · CH-hosted
Open sourceHelloDATA · MCP servers
LanguagesDeutsch · English · Français
Personalnicolasschmid.ch
§ Blog

Latest from the workshop.

Engineering discipline · 20. Oct 2026

How to Review AI-Generated Code: The 12-Point Checklist

200 lines in 20 seconds, and your reviewer reads them in 20 minutes? Then you're reviewing wrong. Twelve points that interrogate the diff instead of reading it.

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Agent engineering · 15. Sep 2026

Your documents, your cluster: deploying a full RAG stack with Docker and Helm

A RAG system that answers questions about internal documents shouldn't require sending those documents anywhere. Part 4 makes the offline stack one helm install away.

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Agent engineering · 8. Sep 2026

Wire RAG into Confluence, Teams and Slack — without turning it into a platform

A RAG system becomes useful where questions already happen: chat. Three connectors, each a thin adapter, each off by default, each verifying its signatures.

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§ 05 — Contact

Write to us.

General
hello@halvic.ch
Anything else.
Engagements
hire@halvic.ch
Architecture, data platform, custom builds.