The ByteExit-able · Swiss AI infrastructure, kept honest

Your AI, on your hardware, in Switzerland. Kept honest.

ChatGPT, Copilot and API calls that leave the country — replaced by a gateway and models running on infrastructure you own. Fixed price, published below. You keep the keys.

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Runs on: your own hardwareExoscaleInfomaniakcloudscale · Models: ApertusLlamaQwen

Three triggers, one method

Which of these landed on your desk?

Same method, same price ladder, same person. Pick the one that hurts.

AI Exit

The trigger
Staff are pasting client data into ChatGPT or Copilot and nobody can prove where it goes.
What I do
A gateway on your server: a Swiss-only lane for sensitive work, frontier models on your own keys for the rest, every request logged in Switzerland.

Sovereign inference

The trigger
Some data may never leave the building — HR, legal, client files — and the team still wants AI on it.
What I do
Open-weight models — Apertus, Llama, Qwen — on a GPU server you own, in your rack or at a Swiss provider. Wired into the gateway.

AI workflows

The trigger
You want automation with AI, and every vendor wants your data in their cloud first.
What I do
Agents and workflows with guardrails — intake, drafting, review — built on that gateway, running where your data already is.

How it works

Four steps. Every one has a price before it starts.

  1. STEP 1

    Exit Check

    CHF 4'500 fixed · 2 weeks

    Which AI tools your people actually use, what data flows where, what must stay in Switzerland, what can run on your own hardware — and what I would leave as it is. If the answer is "you're fine", that's the answer, and it's still worth the number.

  2. STEP 2

    Move

    CHF 9'000–15'000 fixed · 4–6 weeks

    The AI Gateway on your server: CHF 9'000. Gateway plus a sovereign inference server with open-weight models: CHF 12'000–15'000. Runs on your real data. Your team trained. Documented so you are not dependent on me.

  3. STEP 3

    Care

    CHF 1'200 per month · cancel monthly

    Patches, model updates, a monthly usage and spend report, business-hours escalation. Your IT holds first line; I'm second and third.

  4. STEP 4

    Sign-off

    Included in Care · or CHF 4'000 / year

    One signed page a quarter: which requests stayed in Switzerland, which left and under which contract, what ran on your own hardware. The document your KI-Weisung and your auditor both promise and nobody produces.

Pricing

Published, fixed, in francs.

No hourly rates. Every number is agreed before I start and does not move.

WhatPriceIncludesTerms
Exit Check CHF 4'500fixed
  • Inventory of the AI tools in use
  • Data-flow map: what leaves Switzerland today
  • nFADP / CLOUD Act exposure
  • Written recommendation, incl. "leave it"
 Two weeks. About four hours of one person's time on your side.
Move CHF 9'000–15'000fixed, quoted after the Check
  • AI Gateway on your server, Swiss-only lane, your own keys, logging — CHF 9'000
  • With a sovereign inference server and open-weight models — CHF 12'000–15'000
  • Team training session
  • Documentation, repo in your name
 Four to six weeks. Hardware is yours to buy; I spec it, I take no margin on it.
Care CHF 1'200per month
  • Patches and model updates
  • Monthly usage and spend report
  • Business-hours escalation, second and third line
  • Quarterly Sign-off
 Cancel with one month's notice. No 24/7 pager — a runbook your people can follow at 02:00 instead.
Quarterly Sign-off CHF 4'000per year, standalone
  • Quarterly signed report
  • What stayed in Switzerland, what left, under which contract
  • What ran on your hardware
  • Patch and model level recorded
 For AI systems you run yourself and want kept honest.

Prices exclude VAT. Invoiced by GlobalWerk GmbH, Switzerland.

Not sure which door? Start with the Check — it tells you whether to move at all.Request a 30-minute call

What stays yours

Everything.

  • The repo, the keys, the box. One docker compose, one git repository, in your name.
  • Your hardware, your accounts. The GPU server sits in your rack or under your name at a Swiss provider; the API keys are yours. I never sit between you and a vendor.
  • Your people, trained. The session is for the person who runs it, not for management.
  • A written map of what may go where under Swiss data protection — it survives whoever builds the next thing.

What I don't do

Three things, on purpose.

  • 24/7 on-call. Business hours, honest response times, and a runbook for the middle of the night.
  • Sell hardware. I spec the GPU server; you buy it. I take no margin on iron.
  • Bill by the hour. Every number on this page is fixed before I start.
Exit-able by design. The whole point of buying an exit from someone is that you can leave them too. Fire me and it keeps running.

Also

Training for the team that has to run it

CHF 2'000 half-day workshop, up to 15 people

Running AI infrastructure with Docker and GPUs, Claude Code in a real workflow, or building agents with their own role and guardrails. Hands-on, on your stack, recorded.

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5'338
engineers taught on Udemy
4.55
average rating from 923 reviews

Track record

Ten years of running the thing, not just recommending it.

10+
years in production infrastructure — Docker, cloud, on-prem
2020
sold the Swiss DevOps consultancy I co-founded (56k.cloud)
5'338
students in a top-rated infrastructure course
Zug
based; working across Switzerland in German and English
Docker Captain, first cohort Traefik Ambassador Conference speaker — DockerCon, universities AI and infrastructure lead inside a regulated Swiss company
Brian Christner speaking at a conference
Brian Christner

Who I am

I run AI and infrastructure inside a regulated Swiss company — dozens of automated workflows and agents in production, under real compliance rules, with people who did not ask for them. Before that I co-founded and sold a Swiss DevOps consultancy, and spent a decade teaching containers publicly as one of the first Docker Captains.

I mention the regulated part deliberately. Standing up a model is easy. Running AI so that the auditor, the messy data and the sceptical sysadmin all sign off is the part I've already done.

Based in Zug. I work with companies across Switzerland who want AI that is theirs, compliant, and boring in the best sense.

Next step

A 30-minute call.

If your situation isn't a fit, I'll say so on the call rather than sell you a Check you don't need.

No newsletter, no sharing. You get a reply from me, not a funnel.