Mapping Switzerland's fiduciary landscape with open register data
How can open company-register data help explain the structure of an
entire professional sector? Navor's Swiss Fiduciary Landscape
[https://navor.ai/reports/swiss-fiduciary-landscape] turns an April
2026 snapshot of over 17 000 Swiss companies classified as fiduciary
or accounting providers into a multilingual public research resource.
Instead of presenting a directory of individual businesses, it shows
aggregate patterns by canton, city, legal form and founding period.
The project illustrates how open register data can be reused to
provide broader insights to the professional sector. 

The analysis uses a two-stage method. Multilingual search terms first
identify potentially relevant companies. An artificial intelligence
review then considers each company's name, description and registered
purpose, with the registered purpose serving as the main
classification criterion. Navor [https://navor.ai/] publishes
the methodology
[https://navor.ai/reports/swiss-fiduciary-landscape#method] alongside
the results, while excluding company names, addresses, contact details
and company-level classification decisions. This helps users
understand how the findings were produced and and interpret the
aggregate results in context.

The underlying source is the Zefix central business name index
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets/foj-zefix-eidgenoessisches_amt_fuer_das_handelsregister_ehra?locale=en],
catalogued on the European Data Portal
[https://data.europa.eu/en]. Navor [https://navor.ai/] also
uses Zefix [https://www.zefix.ch/en/search/entity/welcome] data in
its accounting service to help users locate active Swiss legal
entities and verify business identification numbers. This demonstrates
two different forms of reuse: supporting a practical product function
and producing aggregate research that makes a market easier to
understand.

“Open register data can reveal the structure of a market without
becoming a directory of individual companies,” explains Simone
Roznowicz, co-founder of Navor [https://navor.ai/].

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Publication Date/Time
2026-10-07T09:00:00+00:00
How Navor transforms Zefix data into aggregate insights while keeping
its methods transparent