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An accounting firm handles its clients' books. Not an AI vendor's.
An accounting firm's problem is not the ban, it is shadow AI: staff pasting excerpts of client files into a public service, from their browser, with nobody watching.
- Reference
- revFADP, art. 321a CO, professional standards
- Typical profile
- 120 · Analysis
- Machine
- Numezis 4
01 — THE CONSTRAINT
revFADP, art. 321a CO, professional standards
Engagement data falls under the duty of loyalty and, depending on its nature, the sensitive-data regime. The processor must be identified, contracted and located.
See every text02 — THE OBJECTION
Our staff already use public tools. Should we block them?
Blocking moves usage onto personal phones and costs you the visibility you had left. The only thing that ends public usage is an internal tool that answers better — because it sees the firm's own files, which the public service never will.
03 — THE SIZING
For a typical profile in this profession.
Computed, not chosen: headcount × peak ratio × weight of the work, against machine capacity. Your actual situation goes through the configurator.
| Profile used | 120 peopleWhole case files, comparison, review. |
| Concurrent sessions to absorb | 47 |
| Recommended machine | Numezis 42 machines — beyond a single unit |
| Required circuit | Dedicated T23 socket · 16 A circuit |
| List price | 123'000 CHFservice 27'100 CHF / year |
A Geneva accounting firm replaces shadow AI with a machine in its own technical room.
If the question is “where do we start” rather than “which machine”, the group's Advisory and Engineering practice handles exactly that.