AI & Digital Transformation · Switzerland

I turn your ideas into working products.

I help Swiss SMEs and startups design, build and deploy solutions from initial concept to live product. With a Ph.D. in computer science and 8+ years delivering R&D projects for Swiss institutions, I bring rigour without the overhead.

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Available for mandates · 2026
8+
Years in R&D
15+
Projects Delivered
50+
Collaborators
17+
Publications
Trusted by
University of Fribourg FSVO / Federal Gov. SNSF InnoSuisse HES-SO IMMOMIG SA UPK Basel
What I Do

Three ways I can help your business grow

01

AI & Digital Transformation Consulting

Struggling to figure out where AI fits in your business? I assess your processes, identify high-value automation opportunities, and give you a clear, actionable roadmap.

AI Strategy Process Audit Roadmapping Workshop
02

R&D Project Management

Managing an innovation project that bridges research and product? I run it. From InnoSuisse grant applications to delivery, I bring the structure, scientific credibility and team coordination to get it done.

InnoSuisse SNSF Grants Prototyping Delivery
03

AI Product Development

Need a chatbot, recommendation engine, data pipeline or intelligent app built? I go from specification to working prototype fast; leveraging 8 years of applied AI development across health, real estate and education.

Chatbots NLP / NLU Computer Vision Data Models
Selected Work

Projects that shipped and delivered impact

2025–Present
GUTPAP · Strategy · Product

Gutpap.ch – Digital Strategy and Product

Current project. End-to-end design and development of a digital strategy and product development for a B2B wholesaler. Focused on structuring the digital presence (website + social media), improving product storytelling, and building a coherent user experience.

Client: GUTPAP
2023–2026
TIMED · Product

TIMED Europe - Time Experience in Europe Digital Age

My latest delivered project. Project manager and postdoctoral researcher where we delivered a study with 300 participants and developed a Web plarform and a Mobile application for collecting daily and mobile sensors data.

Client: UNIFR Funding: CHANSE - SNSF Scope: European
2023–2025
Dreamo.ch · Product

Dreamo.ch - Real-estate portal

Led R&D and developement for a real-estate portal platform with AI-driven broker and applicant matching, automated dossier submission, and direct CRM integration for agencies to manage leads and listings seamlessly

Client: IMMOMIG SA
2023–2025
Real Estate · AI

DigiRENT-AI - Automated Rental Platform

Led R&D for an InnoSuisse-funded AI platform that automates property listing, tenant matching and broker selection for the Swiss rental market, cutting publication time and manual processing costs.

Client: IMMOMIG SA Funding: InnoSuisse
2021–2023
Public Health · GovTech

National Nutritional Survey - FSVO

Projet manager for a multilingual digital survey platform for the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, enabling simultaneous data collection across Switzerland's language regions on food habits and meat substitutes.

Client: Federal Gov. (FSVO) Scope: National
2019–2022
EdTech · Knowledge Management

Colearnis - Corporate Knowledge Platform

Project manager for an InnoSuisse-funded collaborative platform enabling companies to capture and share employee know-how via interactive AI-guided videos deployed with FELCO SA and PX Group.

Clients: FELCO SA, PX Group Funding: InnoSuisse
About

A researcher who ships

I am a Ph.D. computer scientist and engineer who has spent the last 8 years at the intersection of academic research and real product delivery. I've led over 10 funded R&D project collaborating with Swiss federal institutions, hospitals, universities and private companies.

My speciality is empathic AI: designing systems that understand and respond to human emotional states. But the skills that made those projects successful rigorous thinking, fast prototyping, stakeholder management, and delivery are exactly what SMEs need when they take their first AI bet.

I am trilingual (EN / FR / AR), based in Switzerland, and have completed InnoSuisse's federal startup training program at EPFL.

Karl Daher
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Experience
Research

Published. Peer-reviewed. Credible.

Empathic and Empathetic Systematic Review to Standardize the Development of Reliable and Sustainable Empathic Systems
MDPI Sensors, 2022 · Journal
Empathic Interactions in Automated Vehicles #EmpathicCHI
CHI 2021, Yokohama · ACM Conference
Enhancing Conversational Agents with Empathic Abilities
IVA 2021 · ACM Conference
The Effect of Music and Light-Color as a Machine Empathic Response on Stress
CoDIT 2022, Istanbul · IEEE Conference
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Whether you have a specific project in mind or just want to explore what AI could do for your business; reach out. First call is always free.

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