the company
building blankcollar.
the blank collar is a swiss AI transformation company. we build blankcollar — AI woven into how your company works — and we run the programmes that install it. founder-led. embedded with our customers, not floating above them on a slide deck.
most companies are
running AI pilots.
almost none are compounding.
walk into any large company today and you'll find a long list of AI pilots: a chatbot here, a "copilot" there, a marketing copy tool, a code assistant. spend has gone up. impact, mostly, has not. across the industry, the overwhelming majority of generative-AI pilots never deliver measurable P&L — and this is happening on top of the most capable models humanity has ever built.
the easy explanation is that the technology isn't ready. it's the wrong explanation. the technology is fine. the bottleneck is whether your AI gets smarter the longer you use it — whether it remembers, codifies your way of working, and earns the right to act on your systems. tools that can't do that stay flat. companies that wire those things in compound.
we built blankcollar for the second kind of company. and we built it as a way of working — five layers (memory, skills, tools, agents, routines) installed inside your company, shaped by your DNA — because no off-the-shelf product can do the wiring for you. the wiring is the work.
five beliefs that
shape everything we ship.
four operating principles.
embedded.
not in a slide deck.
the data is unambiguous: companies that partner with a specialist outperform companies that build AI alone — by roughly 2:1. our model is the partnership done right. we sit inside your business, not above it.
we map the leverage.
before any code, we map your highest-leverage 2–3 workflows — the ones where AI compounds, not where it looks shiny. you sign a written scope before we install anything.
first value in week one.
memory layer ingesting on day one. first codified skills by week two. first agent acting under a human owner by week four. measured outcomes from day one — not "we'll know in six months".
we leave when you can run it.
the goal is not a permanent retainer. by the end of the engagement your team owns the platform, the skills, the agents. portable by design — your DNA, your data, your right to leave.
who's building this.
a team of operators, engineers, and domain specialists, distributed across switzerland and europe. hands-on depth in banking, insurance, law, and manufacturing.
kristian kabashi
kristian founded the blank collar in 2019 and leads product and go-to-market. he started the company after watching one too many AI pilots stall — the technology was fine, the layer around it was missing. today he works alongside the team to install that layer inside companies that can't afford enterprise overhead and won't tolerate enterprise speed.
work is for bots.
life is for humans.
the blank collar &
blankcollar.ai.
what is the blank collar?
the parent company. a swiss-based AI transformation firm operating across europe. we build blankcollar — AI woven into how your company works — and we run the programmes that install it inside companies that need to compound, not pilot.
how is blankcollar different from a chatbot or a "copilot"?
a chatbot answers questions. a copilot assists one person. blankcollar installs five layers inside your company — memory, skills, tools, agents, routines — that learn the way you work, act on your systems under accountable humans, and compound the longer you use them. it's not an app you bolt on; it's how the company runs.
why have most AI initiatives failed to date?
three reasons that compound. one — pilots are scattered across teams instead of focused on the highest-leverage 2–3 workflows. two — the AI doesn't retain feedback or codify the company's way of working, so it stays generic. three — companies build alone instead of partnering with specialists, and the success rate of internal-only builds is roughly half that of partnered builds. blankcollar fixes all three by design.
are you a software company or a services company?
both, on purpose. the platform is software you can run yourself. the programme is a partnership: embedded operators, codify sprints, transformation engagements. the data shows that platform + partnership outperforms either alone — so we sell both, and we let customers buy the depth they need.
what about the back office vs the front office?
most companies put their AI budget into sales and marketing. most of the measurable ROI shows up in operations, finance, support, and HR — back-office work that runs on documents, decisions and recurring tasks. we tell customers honestly where AI compounds first. usually it isn't where they were planning to start.
where are you based and where can you deploy?
switzerland-based. europe-focused. swiss hosted by default. on-prem and air-gapped deployments available for regulated customers. we operate where the regulation actually governs how companies run — FINMA, GDPR, DSG, HIPAA — not where it's most convenient to host.
can we use the platform without the programme?
yes. the self-serve startup plan is fully online — you install yourself in an afternoon. the business plan can be self-installed too, though most customers take the codify sprint to get more value faster. the enterprise programme is for companies that want to compress an operating-model change from years to months.
what if we leave?
your data is yours. your skills are yours. your agents are yours. the platform is portable by design — markdown source-of-truth, open standards, exportable in 24 hours. we are explicitly designed to be left behind, not locked into.
work with us.
90 minutes. a working prototype on your sources. a written scope within 48 hours. you decide if we're the team.