HeyEla
Board meeting recording, AI-drafted minutes and a document hub, hosted in Switzerland.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Hosted in SwitzerlandCore customer data and workloads are hosted in Switzerland by default.
- Swiss InfrastructureHosted in Switzerland on infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider (or the company itself) — not a foreign hyperscaler.
- Self-hostableCan be installed on your own servers or on-premises.
heyela.ai
Overview
HeyEla is a meeting platform for boards of directors, executive committees and other governing bodies. It records meetings in the browser, through a bot in Microsoft Teams or Google Meet, or from uploaded audio, transcribes them with speaker attribution (including Swiss German) and drafts minutes with agenda items, decisions and action items. Minutes can be edited, signed with a simple electronic signature and exported to Word or PDF in the organisation’s own layout. A document hub, task tracking and an AI chat that answers questions from the organisation’s minutes and documents complete the product, and one login covers several boards. The interface is available in German, French and English.
HeyEla combines several third-party language, speech and embedding models, some of them open-weight, and does not name them. According to the vendor, AI inference runs in Switzerland on its own GPUs and at PHOENIQS, with Infomaniak as a fallback, and customer data is contractually excluded from model training. Platform data is hosted by Nine Internet Solutions AG in Zurich, and sign-in runs through the St. Gallen identity provider Zitadel with mandatory two-factor authentication. HeyEla states that ISO 27001 certification is in preparation; the ISO certificates shown on its website belong to its hosting provider.
Prices are not published; the vendor offers demos on request. Enterprise customers can request dedicated instances or on-premises deployment. HeyEla AI AG was entered in the Zurich commercial register in September 2025.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
HeyEla is operated by HeyEla AI AG, which is headquartered in Zürich. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
According to the information we found, core customer data is hosted in Switzerland.
May replace
- Diligent BoardsDiligent Corporation · USCentred on recording meetings and drafting minutes with AI; signatures are simple electronic signatures, and no native mobile apps are listed.
- Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft Corporation · USLimited to meeting minutes, tasks and documents of boards and committees; it is not a general-purpose assistant for other Microsoft 365 apps.
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss company. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Zürich, Zurich (ZH), SwitzerlandVerified[1]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- Unknown / not verified
The shareholder register of a Swiss AG is not public. The three board members entered in the register, including president Richard Lauper (named as a co-founder on the vendor's website), are Swiss citizens living in Switzerland. The share capital was raised from CHF 100,000 to CHF 150,000 in July 2026 and conditional capital was created; the investors are not named. No controlling parent company was found.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- PartlyInferred[3]
HeyEla AI AG builds the platform and its AI orchestration in Zurich, and lists the Zurich studio mühlemann+popp as technology partner for development and operation. The language, speech-to-text, embedding and OCR models are third-party models, some of them open-weight; HeyEla does not train its own base model and does not name the models it uses.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Yes — SwitzerlandVendor claim[2]
Platform data (recordings, transcripts, minutes, documents) is stored at Nine Internet Solutions AG in Zurich, with backups at separate sites of the same provider. AI inference runs in Switzerland on HeyEla's own GPUs and at PHOENIQS (Phoenix Technologies AG, Pfäffikon SZ), with Infomaniak as a fallback. Mistral AI in Paris is listed as an inactive emergency inference option, and transactional e-mails may be processed in the EEA.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Yes — Nine Internet Solutions AG (platform hosting); own GPUs and PHOENIQS (AI inference) · SwitzerlandVendor claim[2]
Refers to Nine, which states that it is employee-owned. The ownership of Phoenix Technologies AG, which runs part of the AI inference, was not verified.
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
Privacy & security
- Encryption at rest
- Yes
- Encryption in transit
- Yes
- Multi-factor authentication
- Yes
- Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC)
- Yes
- Data export
- Yes
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, SCIM provisioning and Public API
- Certifications
- None listed
Pricing
- Free plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Free trial
- Unknown / not verified
- Enterprise plan
- Yes
- Billing in CHF
- Unknown / not verified
Company
Zurich-based software company founded in 2025 that develops HeyEla, a meeting and minutes platform for boards of directors and executive committees.
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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