What changed in the commercial register today? Matching each day's gazette notices to your entities
Tuesday morning, a notice in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce: a director of one of your client companies has resigned and their signing authority is deleted. From the day of publication, no one can claim not to know it, your team included. It is also that company's first change in the register since 1 October, so its transparency report may now be due within a month. It was one of 1,269 register notices that day. Who on your team read it?
The short answer: every commercial register entry is published electronically in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce, takes effect on publication, and from then no one can claim not to know it. The notices are public, and the gazette offers them through a public interface, so reading them every working day and matching them to your entities is work on public data: a low-risk first project for AI. Match by the company identification number, sort each notice by kind, compare it with your own records, and flag what starts a clock, such as an existing company's first change since 1 October 2026, which can bring its transparency report due within a month. A local AI, on servers in Switzerland, Meow's or your own, can do the daily reading and matching, while a person reviews the matches that count.
Checked against the law on 30 September 2026
What changed today?
- Over 1,000
Commercial register notices the gazette published on each of 28, 29 and 30 September 2026: 1,030, 1,269 and 1,214, counted through its public interface. A handful concern you.
- 1 working day
Cantonal offices pass each entry to the federal office on the working day it enters their daily register. It takes effect when the gazette publishes it, and from then no one can claim not to know it (Commercial Register Ordinance, arts. 31 and 34; CO, arts. 936a and 936b).
- 1 month
After an existing company's first change in the commercial register since 1 October 2026, its transparency-register report falls due, if that comes before its own deadline (Transparency Act, art. 51 para. 1).
How to read the gazette for your entities
0 of 8 checked
Each with its company identification number (UID), legal name and seat, and why it matters to you: you administer it, sit on its board, or it owes you fees.
They are published electronically in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce and are public; entries, articles and foundation deeds are also free online (CO, arts. 936 and 936a).
The identification number first. Names change, and a name change is itself a notice.
New entries, board and signatory changes, name, seat or purpose changes, capital changes, mergers, liquidations and deletions.
Who you think is on the board, who signs and how, the address you use. A difference is either news or an error to correct.
An existing company's first change since 1 October 2026, a creditors' call in a liquidation, a new signatory before the next payment (Transparency Act, art. 51; CO, art. 742).
Each match goes to the person responsible for that entity or client, with the notice number and publication date the federal office assigned (Commercial Register Ordinance, art. 35).
Which notices were read, which matched, who reviewed them and what followed.
Ticked them all? The kit turns this into a daily routine: six notices answered, what each of eight kinds of notice sets off, the rules an AI follows to read the gazette and match it to your list, and a plan to test it on your own entities. Get the kit
What does it mean for you? Six notices
The kit answers six common notices. Two of them:
- A director of a company you administer has resigned
- Update your records and signing instructions now: the entry took effect on publication, and no one can claim not to know it (CO, arts. 936a and 936b).
- An existing company's first change in the register since 1 October 2026
- Its transparency report may now be due within a month of that change, if that comes before its deadline by legal form and audit (Transparency Act, art. 51).
- A client company goes into liquidation and calls on its creditors
- In the kit
- The company whose chair was reported as its beneficial owner elects a new chair
- In the kit
- A new signatory with sole signature at a client company
- In the kit
- A company with a similar name, but a different identification number
- In the kit
Public data, a safe first project
The notices are public, so the reading itself handles no client secret; the confidential part is your list of entities and what you do for each, and it stays on your side. That makes the daily reading a low-risk way to start with AI and see how it performs before it reads anything confidential.
Where a local AI helps
More than a thousand notices a day, a few that matter to you. A local model reads them all, matches them to your list, and explains each match in the notice's own words, while a person decides what to do. Your client list stays on servers in Switzerland, Meow's or your own.
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