# AI claims in Swiss commercial register purpose statements, 2018–2026

CC BY 4.0 2018-08 – 2026-08

Computed results and hand labels from a full-population analysis of AI claims in the Swiss commercial register. 65 output tables, 3 hand-label files, keyword regex definitions and SQL provenance. Covers the SHAB/FOSC publication feed from August 2018 to August 2026.

## Download

The dataset is distributed as a zip archive containing 65 output tables, 3 hand-label files, keyword definitions and SQL provenance.

| File | Size |
| --- | --- |
| incorporating-intelligence-data.zip | 351 kB |
| README.md | 5.1 kB |
| LICENSE.txt | 878 B |

**Citing this dataset**

Sidorenko, Semion (2026). AI claims in Swiss commercial register purpose statements, 2018–2026 [dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22308758

Attribution is a condition of the licence. A link to this page is the attribution we ask for.

## What this covers

Computed results and hand labels from a full-population analysis of AI claims in the Swiss commercial register. As of 31 August 2026, 3,310 companies carry an AI term in their registered legal purpose.

## Contents

**Output tables** (65 CSV files): one per computed result, covering quarterly AI share, canton rate ratios, legal form mix, survival analysis, rename events, trademark overlap and keyword net sensitivity checks.

**Hand labels** (3 CSV files): judgements that a rerun cannot reproduce. Company-name verdicts (234 entries), embedding-threshold labels (90 entries) and compound-net exclusions (4 entries).

The keyword definitions in `nets.py` are the regex patterns that define an AI claim in German, French, Italian and English.

**Provenance** (`export.sql`): the SQL that produced the source data from the Prospex production database.

## Three keyword definitions

The headline count (3,310) uses the extended net, which combines three layers:

- **Loose net** (2,860): spelled-out "artificial intelligence" in four languages, plus machine learning, deep learning and generative AI terms.
- **Compound net** (+434): hyphenated German AI/KI compounds, including l/I confusions the register contains, minus four hand-excluded false positives.
- **Misspelling net** (+16): misspelled variants the register actually contains.

## Where it comes from

The source data is the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce (SHAB/FOSC), the official publication of record for the Swiss commercial register. Prospex holds every publication since August 2018, including all incorporations, 137,637 dated purpose amendments and 88,872 company renames.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| AI claimants (extended net) | 3,310 |
| AI claimants (strict net) | 2,806 |
| AI share of 2026 incorporations | 2.80% |
| Pre/post-ChatGPT ratio (founding clock) | 4.4× |
| Zug rate ratio vs national | 2.32× |
| Companies that added AI later | 603 (18.2%) |
| Median amendment lag | 2.2 years |
| Three-year survival, AI claimants | 94.6% |
| Hazard ratio (AI vs matched controls) | 0.98 (0.79–1.21) |

## Mirrors

The same files are on Zenodo and Hugging Face. This page is the canonical version.

- [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/22308758) (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22308758)
- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/prospex-ch/swiss-ai-claims-register)

## Related

- [Analysis: AI companies in Switzerland](https://prospex.ch/blog/ai-companies-in-switzerland-what-the-commercial-register-shows/)
- [Swiss commercial registry panel (monthly)](https://prospex.ch/open-data/swiss-registry-panel/)