Practical knowledge for boards, foundation boards and secretariats: organising meetings, automating minutes, using AI safely.
24 October 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
What the US CLOUD Act means for a board of directors, what the revised Swiss data protection act requires when AI is used, and what to ask a provider.
Read more →22 October 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
Swiss law requires two signatures on board minutes, but no particular form. What separates a simple from a qualified e-signature, and how long minutes are kept.
Read more →20 October 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
What an extract of minutes is, when the commercial register, a bank, a notary or the auditor needs an extract of a board resolution, and what it must contain.
Read more →15 October 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
How a board plans its meeting year: dates, recurring agenda items such as budget, annual accounts and general meeting, and how they turn into the agenda.
Read more →25 September 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
What belongs in an invitation to a board meeting, how an agenda comes together and why a pre-read is more than a pile of attachments. With a sample agenda and a checklist for the board secretary.
Read more →24 September 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
A resolution is only implemented once someone implements it. Why action-item lists from board meetings fail, what belongs in the minutes and how the review of resolutions becomes a standing agenda item.
Read more →24 August 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
Swiss German, language switching, dropped connections, eight-hour workshops: why transcription is now the smaller problem, and what really matters when recording board meetings.
Read more →18 August 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
Several companies, several boards, often the same secretariat: how holdings organise board meetings across all entities without data getting mixed up.
Read more →5 August 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
Confidential documents, guests, committees and AI: a pragmatic guide to how boards organise access rights cleanly - without individual-grant chaos.
Read more →22 July 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
Duty to keep minutes, signatures, structure, retention: the basics of board minutes in Switzerland - and which steps can be automated today.
Read more →8 July 2026 · Richard Lauper, Co-Founder
AI meeting assistants are useful for team calls. Boards are held to different standards: confidentiality, data location, the duty to keep minutes, and access control.
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