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Press release from October 2026 The Swiss marketing automation platform is expanding its existing labels with “Swiss Hosting”: Data is stored on an additional all-Swiss infrastructure with Nine, and emails are sent via Mailomat. Both…

Approving every single AI suggestion individually isn’t feasible, but not checking anything isn’t an option either. What eight SMEs said about control, risk, and staged approval in our study with the ZHAW.

On October 21, 2026, I took Aivie completely offline for the first time. Here I explain how we made the decision, what was difficult, and what we learned from it.

Worldwide PHP security vulnerabilities fixed: Since October 21 at around 8:30 PM, Aivie has been running normally again. Your data is safe. Notes for Mautic self-hosters.

Customers demand a Swiss data location while privately using ChatGPT. What the study by Aivie and ZHAW shows: for some SMEs, data privacy has long since become a selling point, and having your own AI…

The Federal Government recently tried something many thought unthinkable: 172 employees from various departments used open-source software in their daily work – instead of the usual Microsoft package. Documents, email, calendar, chat, video calls. Everything…

Your data contains your competitive edge. The real question isn’t AI yes or no, but whose AI you use, where it runs, and how you stay in control with your own AI.

Together with the ZHAW, Aivie asked eight SMEs whether they would train an AI together without sharing customer data. No one said no. But the doubts concerned the benefits, not data privacy.

What is DKIM, which DNS records do you need, and how do you verify the signature? An easy-to-follow guide to your sender domain with Aivie.

Agentic AI is currently taking over marketing – at least according to the headlines. 91 percent of marketers use AI today, according to a Jasper survey of 1,400 marketers. But less than a third truly…

Apple won’t deliver its new Siri AI to the EU or China. The real point isn’t Apple, but a question that also affects your marketing tool: Who actually decides which AI you can use—you or…

At the end of August, Anthropic and Salesforce deepened their partnership under the name “Claudeforce.” From now on, Claude works directly on your Salesforce data—with pre-built sales skills, in Agentforce, and even in Slack. Specifically,…

A US court ruling undermines the legal basis on which most marketing tools transfer customer data to the USA – digital sovereignty has thus become a concrete issue for Swiss SMEs in 2026, moving from…

Mautic Insights: A Reality Check on the two genuine pain points — Infrastructure and Usability — and how Aivie solves them for SMEs.

2026 is the year of pricing rounds. Almost every major marketing tool has raised prices, reshuffled packages, or cut discounts. For many SMEs, that means the next invoice will be higher—often for features they don’t…

Nine years ago, I set up an open-source tool for the first time: Mautic. I was sitting at my computer at night working on it—alongside my day job. My goal: I wanted marketing automation that…

Just a few minutes, and I’m sitting in front of my finished newsletter. All I needed for it? A single photo. I chose a picture I had taken earlier with the team at the lake.…

In Switzerland, the topic of digital sovereignty is moving further into the political spotlight this year. At the beginning of July, the Canton of Geneva became the first canton ever to adopt an official digital…

Material compliance is essential, but often time-consuming. With Aivie, Studer Cables saves several days of work per cycle in the compliance process. Studer Cables faced the challenge of regularly and verifiably checking hundreds of materials,…

In email marketing, trust is crucial. As soon as your recipients start marking emails as spam, not only does your deliverability suffer, but your brand image can also be damaged in the long term. That’s…