Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, Jimdo, Webflow, IONOS: renting is convenient — until you realise what it actually means.
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Rent stays rent
Every monthly fee buys you nothing. On the last day of your subscription you own exactly as much as on the first: nothing.
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Their platform, their rules
Your design, your data, your customer relationships — all of it sits on a platform whose prices and terms someone else decides. When they change, they change for you.
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Leaving means starting over
Leave the platform and you take almost nothing with you: no system, no code, often not even the design. That is exactly what the rental model is built on — switching is meant to hurt.
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What we build
Four directions, one principle: you get a system that belongs to you — not a subscription that holds on to you.
Websites
Your company, clearly presented: we build websites that load fast, get found by search engines — and belong to you, from the code to the domain.
E-commerce
Selling without platform rent: payment, shipping and invoices run automatically, with no platform taking a cut of your turnover. For your team you create separate accounts with graded permissions. Anything more, we build on top.
Systems & portals
When off-the-shelf software stops being enough: client portals, internal tools and databases that follow your workflow — not the other way round.
AI automation
We hand repetitive work to software — texts, enquiries, documents. Sensitive data stays in closed environments; data protection comes first with us. You pay only for what you use.
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We don't tell you what's possible. We show you.
Everything you see here runs in real production today — built with the same process and the same care your project gets.
ambernord.ch
AN-SHOP-01 · Product page with DE/EN/FR/IT language selector
ambernord.ch
AN-ADMIN-02 · Admin: orders, inventory, CMS
AN-MOBILE-03 · AI assistant answering customer questions — on mobile
ambernord.ch LIVE
Sells in four languages — and does its own paperwork.
A Swiss premium brand sells direct — in four languages, without platform rent and without extra hands for the paperwork. Payment happens in the shop; shipping labels and invoice PDFs are produced automatically — and those automations belong to the product: we take no commission and no surcharge per order for them. A bird in the hand — features the brand owns — beats the one in the bush that rental platforms hold out in exchange for a share of every sale. Whatever comes later, we build on top.
▸ Technical details
~84 pre-rendered SEO pages — hreflang & JSON-LD, 4 languages
Online payment right in the shop; shipping labels generated automatically
Automatic invoice PDFs for every order
Full admin: orders, inventory, campaigns, CMS — login behind an additional access layer
CSP & consent system; AI assistant with brand knowledge base
MyButik
MB-SHOP-01 · Product page with colour and size selection
MB-CHECKOUT-02 · Mobile checkout: choosing a parcel locker
MyButik
MB-AI-VID-03 · AI writes and translates product copy
MyButik LIVE
A fashion shop in five languages — the AI writes the product copy.
Around 50 products in many colours and sizes, five language versions — a catalogue like this can no longer be kept by hand. So we built the product capture ourselves: photograph a product, send it off, and moments later it sits finished in the admin — description, category, colour, material and every language version. Check, confirm, live.
Online payment right in the shop; parcel lockers with pickup points connected directly
Invoices & email marketing campaigns right in the admin
Product intake by photo or drag-and-drop: description, colour, material & translation by AI
Content Studio
CS-AUTOPILOT-VID-01 · Autopilot planning and writing a post
Content Studio
CS-BRANDS-02 · Voice profiles and knowledge base per brand
Content Studio LIVE
Content that gets written even when nobody is at the desk.
Regular content for several brands eats time — and quickly sounds like nobody. Content Studio gives each brand a voice of its own and keeps producing by itself, at night too. You pay only for what is used — prepaid, no subscription.
▸ Technical details
Multi-brand: dedicated voice profile & knowledge base per brand
Autopilot: cron plans and writes posts on its own
Automatic syndication of SEO articles
Video editing & poster generation in the cloud
Token wallet with online payment — billed per use
The same engineering, one level deeper: systems where encryption, access control and auditability are the foundation. Someone who builds like this builds your website with a steady hand too.
B2B Portal
Three parties, one supply chain — and each sees only what it is allowed to see, down to field level.
254 automated tests · Mandatory two-factor (TOTP) Immutable audit log · Data in the EU · 4 languages
ArchivBox
A document archive encrypted so thoroughly that not even the service itself can read along.
End-to-end encrypted (zero-knowledge) · Passkeys · works offline Scan & OCR in 5 languages · AI classification without sending images · 139 tests
AmberNord Fleet
Reads digital tachograph data and proves cryptographically that it is genuine — mathematically, not on someone's word.
Signature chain up to the EU root certificates · Infringement analysis Validated against a real driver card (1'220 activity periods) · Data in the EU
“For the first time, I feel our website truly belongs to us — including everything behind it.”
— Owner, fashion label
“From the first conversation to the handover, I always knew where I stood. That wasn't the case with earlier projects.”
— Managing director, trades business
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Under the hood
Facts instead of buzzwords — this is in every project, whatever its size.
254automated testsB2B-PORTAL
139automated testsARCHIVBOX
~84pages in four languagesAMBERNORD.CH
1'220activity periods analysedFLEET
BROWSEREDGEAPPDATA
The path of every request: from the browser via a global edge network to the application and its data.
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Highly available at the global edge
Your platform runs highly available on an enterprise-grade global edge network — on infrastructure that carries a significant share of the internet. Close to your visitors, everywhere.
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Yours to own — completely
Code, domain, data, accounts: everything runs in your name from day one. You depend on no one — not even on us.
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Data in the EU and Switzerland — also where AI is involved
Where it matters, your data stays in the EU or Switzerland — in line with local data protection requirements. For AI, that means:
Sensitive documents and private data: closed environments, the data does not leave the system
If an application does need external AI processing: European servers only, specialised model providers
Transmitted content is deleted after processing and does not feed the training of models
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Monitoring around the clock
Automatic monitoring with immediate alerts — around the clock. Problems report to us before you ever have to go looking for them.
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Tested before it goes live
In the serious systems, hundreds of automated tests check every change before it reaches your users. That discipline is standard — not a surcharge.
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Security from day one
Encryption, strict browser security policies, clean access control: security is part of the architecture — not an extension bolted on afterwards.
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How your project runs
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48h concept free & no obligation
You send us a few sentences about your plans — or the URL of your current website. Within 48 hours you receive a concrete concept: structure, scope, timeline and price.
Your effort: a few minutes. Then you decide at your own pace — there is no commitment.
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Build 7–14 working days from your go-ahead
We build your platform — custom-made, no site builder. At any point you are looking at a real preview, not at slide decks.
You provide feedback and content where needed — we take care of the rest.
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Handover everything is yours
You receive every access: code, domain, data, accounts — cleanly documented and in your name.
You review everything at your own pace. From here on you are fully independent — though you are welcome to stay.
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Care optional
If you wish, we keep your platform in shape: updates, monitoring, small changes, a direct line.
The choice is entirely yours — your platform runs without Care too, because it belongs to you.
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What your project costs
We do not quote flat rates, we quote concretely: in the free concept your price is in black and white before you decide. The structure behind it is always the same.
Four project types, four entry points. Where your project sits exactly is settled by the concept — not by fine print.
Website
Your presence with a clear structure — from a focused one-pager to a multilingual website whose content you manage yourself.
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Shop
Sell without platform rent: payment, shipping, invoicing and administration in one system that belongs to you.
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System & portal
Client portals, internal tools, databases — built around your workflow, with clean access control and data handling.
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AI automation
Hand recurring work over to software — copy, enquiries, documents. As an extension of your platform or as a project of its own.
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Included in every project
Full ownership: code, domain, data, accounts
Custom design — no site builder, no template
Technical SEO foundation, visibility in AI search too (GEO), cleanly documented code
Automatic monitoring with immediate alerts
Handover with every access — you depend on no one
How you pay
Four models for every project — and a fifth you apply for.
One-time price
One fixed amount for your project — set in the concept, paid once. After that, everything is yours.
fixed in the 48h concept
Rent-to-own
For anyone who doesn't want to invest everything at once: you start on a monthly basis — and take over ownership as soon as you are ready. The buyout is part of the model from day one, not an option in the fine print.
CHF — / month
Hourly rate
For extensions, changes and advice after handover — billed transparently, and only when you actually need us.
CHF — / hr
Monthly
Care & operations as a subscription: updates, monitoring, small changes. Optional — and you can end it at any time.
CHF — / month
AI features billed per use — prepaid, no monthly fee.
With us, AI only costs money when it does work: you top up a credit, and every use is transparently deducted from it. No subscription, no base fee.
credit from CHF —
Reference discount
If we may show your finished project and «Created by digital.ambernord.ch» appears in your footer, your price goes down. This exchange is open to every project.
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Limited programme · by application
Partner deal — product for reach
A few projects a year we build on special terms: paid partly or entirely with public visibility instead of money. That is not a discount — it is a trade between partners. And we choose who.
What a partner brings
A brand and an audience that visibly fit Ambernord
Real reach: customers, a community or a presence that will see your project
The willingness to show the project publicly as a reference — with a name and a story
— places per year
If it isn't a fit, we will say so openly — and make you a regular offer instead.
The price is not low because there is less inside — but because there is less around it: no agency structure, no intermediate layers, a proven process. Judge the quality by the platforms above, not by promises. And your price is fixed in the concept before you say yes.
“New to the market — without a long reference list?”
Ambernord Digital is a young studio, that is true. Instead of a wall of logos we show something verifiable: platforms running in real operation today — multilingual shops, portals with strict permissions, encrypted systems. Click your way through them.
“Am I tied to you?”
No — and deliberately so. Your system runs in your name from day one, cleanly documented, on open standard technologies — none of it is tied to us. You never have to stay with us, and that is exactly why our clients like to.
“AI — isn't that the cheap shortcut?”
AI speeds up what repeats: scaffolding, routines, translations. What goes live is on people — every architectural decision has a name. Where a project needs more depth, the review comes from our specialist partner network. Judge the result, not the label.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes — literally. Code, domain, data and every account run in your name; at handover you receive all credentials and clean documentation. No licence that expires, no platform that holds you. If you want to work with someone else tomorrow, you can.
You receive the concept within 48 hours. After your go-ahead the build takes 7 to 14 working days — for websites, shops, integrations and automations. Structurally complex systems and portals with a large test scope get their own schedule, which you see in the concept before you decide.
Little, but the part that matters: your knowledge of your business. In practice that means a short briefing at the start, texts and images where you have them — and feedback when we need it. If content is missing, we help create it. You need no technical skills at all.
The price is fixed in the concept before you commit — no open items, no surprises at the end. We agree the concrete payment steps together with the concept. Ongoing services such as Care or work at the hourly rate we bill separately and transparently.
AI features are billed per use: you top up a prepaid credit and usage is deducted from it — no monthly fee, no subscription. If you don't use the features, you pay nothing. What typical usage would cost in your case, we show you in the concept.
Yes — and more than just text. Your platform comes with an admin area for texts, images, products and prices; depending on the build you also create whole pages yourself. For staff you create separate accounts with restricted permissions. We define the scope together in the concept; for integrations and new components we are there afterwards at the hourly rate.
Yes — multilingual is the normal case with us, not an add-on module. Our platforms run in four and five languages, with clean language versions that search engines can index. For Switzerland that usually means German, French, Italian and English — other languages just as well.
Yes — one of the most common cases. Just paste the URL of your current website into the form: the concept shows what a rebuild in your ownership looks like and what happens to content, domain and search rankings. Your domain and content move along, of course.
Care is the optional operation after handover: updates, automatic monitoring with immediate alerting, small adjustments, a direct line. An offer, not an obligation — your platform runs without Care too, because it belongs to you. Scope and price are set in the concept.
Our studio is in Aarau; our clients are all over Switzerland. Most things happen directly and simply via video, phone and email — for on-site meetings in your region, we will find a solution on request.
By default, no: Ambernord Digital is not subject to VAT, as annual revenue is below the CHF 100'000 threshold — so your invoice comes without VAT. If your company needs an invoice with VAT shown, that is possible on request via an Ambernord Group company in the EU. Just raise it with us.
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Who's behind this
You always speak directly with the people building your project. Behind Ambernord Digital stands Eriks — founder and technical core of the studio, at home in Aarau: a background in computer science and engineering, then years of systems of his own in live operation. Around that core works a network of specialist partners for review, design and specialist fields.