Portus · by Alplexio
Developed by a team of lawyers and engineers.
Portus clears conflicts and decides whether a mandate even falls under the AMLA. When it does, it takes a financial intermediary from first contact to a fully compliant file — identification, beneficial owners, screening and ongoing monitoring — self-hosted, so your most sensitive client data never leaves your firm.
Currently in testing·MLL Legal AG & IPrime Legal AG
The triage
Most onboarding tools assume the answer is yes. Portus decides — every mandate is sorted into one of three, from a short structured intake, with the reasoning kept on the file. The how stays yours; the verdict, and why, are documented.
Pure advisory or litigation. No KYC obligation — and a record that proves why you were out of scope.
Lighter due diligence, still mandatory. Portus runs exactly what Art. 8b asks — and not a step more.
Full obligations — the complete KYC dossier, screening and ongoing monitoring.
The status quo
What Portus does
Scope, screening and risk — resolved at intake, with the reasoning kept on the file.
Everything in one place, append-only and audit-ready. Nothing to reconstruct at SRO season.
The most sensitive data you hold — beneficial owners, PEPs — stays on your own infrastructure.
Why not a generic tool
Generic onboarding SaaS and spreadsheets were never made for Swiss AML. On the axes a partner actually weighs, they can’t follow.
How it works
Sequential and gated — no in-scope case opens with a required step left open. Out-of-scope mandates are recorded and closed without KYC. Conflicts first, then scope, then the dossier, then sign-off.
Conflicts cleared before anything else.
In scope, or not — decided and documented.
Parties, beneficial owners, screening, risk.
Signed off, sealed and timestamped.
See it run
Conflicts, scope, the full KYC dossier and the sealed case opening — the whole onboarding, start to finish. It plays muted; turn the sound on any time.
In practice
The same short intake — full financial-intermediary duties, an advisor mandate the law exempts from KYC, out of scope entirely, or a hard stop the software won’t let you past. Portus decides which, runs exactly what each needs — not a step more — and records why.
Fictional scenarios — no client data. The full flow runs in the demo, on your own cases.
Beyond onboarding
Onboarding is day one. The AMLA duties run for the life of the mandate — Portus keeps them running, and keeps every case in one place.
Every party stays screened against UN, SECO, PEP and FATF. A new hit surfaces in a rescreen-review queue — confirm or dismiss — and re-opens the file, with the re-screen recorded for the audit.
Every mandate’s lifecycle in one view — in clearance, ready to open, opened — with each attorney’s open cases at a glance. No spreadsheet of who-checked-what.
When a partner leaves, their AML files transfer to another SRO-registered partner through a guided exit procedure — the takeover captured on the same append-only chain.
Client collaboration
Send the client a secure link, opened with a 6-digit code you give them separately. Give them view-only access to the dossier, or let them complete their own identification and beneficial-owner details — you set the rights, and can change them any time.
A preview — tap through it.
Emailed as a secure link, opened with a code you share separately · view or edit rights you control, revocable any time.
The second app
The link opens a distinct, stateless app that carries no database, no keys and none of your firm’s code. Your client unlocks it with the 6-digit code you gave them, sees exactly what you shared, and — with edit rights — completes their own part. Documents they upload are encrypted on their device before they’re sent; their answers return straight to your file.
Who it’s for
Portus is built for the professionals the Anti-Money Laundering Act reaches — law firms and attorneys, public notaries, fiduciaries (Treuhänder) and real-estate intermediaries. Wherever accepting a mandate can bring you under the AMLA, Portus runs precisely the duties it triggers — no more, no less — and keeps the record that shows you met them. Deployed today for a law firm acting as a financial intermediary.
When acting as financial intermediaries — asset handling, company formation, transactions.
Treuhänder managing client assets and structures under AMLA.
Independent managers and advisers with due-diligence duties.
Anyone subject to the Anti-Money Laundering Act and its SRO oversight.
Security & sovereignty
Beneficial owners, PEP matches, suspicious-activity files — Portus keeps all of it on your own infrastructure. The database and storage are the entire data plane.
Run it on your own infrastructure, or with a Swiss-based provider — your choice, never a US cloud. Beneficial owners and PEPs stay in Switzerland; no CLOUD Act exposure either way.
Every action on every file is logged — exactly what an SRO audit wants to see.
Auditable by your own team — inspectable software, not a black box. You are never locked into a vendor you cannot see inside.
Specified by someone who has had to meet the duty — not reverse-engineered from a brochure.
Where the data lives
What a sealed record looks like
On-prem or your own server — the database and storage volumes are the entire data plane.
Run it with a Swiss hosting provider, so client data stays in Switzerland end to end.
Plug into your existing infrastructure — e.g. Microsoft Azure — encrypted under your own keys (CMK).
Why now
On the roadmap
Being built now, in the open. We’ll call them live when they’re live — not before.
Identify a client over a secure video call — the FINMA-recognised route to onboarding remotely, with no branch visit and no certified copy to chase. It slots into the KYC step, with the evidence kept on the same sealed file.
An AI assistant that reads the mandate and proposes where it lands — outside AMLA, financial intermediary, or advisory — with its reasoning laid out for you to confirm. It speeds the first question; it never answers it for you.
Questions partners ask
Nothing special — that’s the point. Every mandate already sits in one complete, append-only file: the triage verdict and its reasoning, the identification documents, the screening runs, the sign-offs. The auditor sees what happened and when. Reconstruction season disappears.
No — and be wary of anything that claims to. Portus structures the duties, documents the decisions and makes nothing fall through; the legal judgment stays with your people, on a record that shows they exercised it.
Yes — each existing mandate is re-entered through the same intake, so it runs through the same triage and completeness checks and gaps surface instead of hiding in drawers. You set the pace; the statute’s 10-year retention applies either way.
Only you. Portus is self-hosted: the database and storage volumes on your infrastructure are the entire data plane. Alplexio has no standing access — beneficial owners, PEP matches and risk files never leave your firm.
Your data is yours: complete export in open formats, and the statutory files remain readable for the full retention period. Run it on your own infrastructure or a Swiss host, and audit the source yourself — no lock-in is a design goal, not a promise.
Flat annual fee scaled to firm size — all-in, no per-check metering — walked through for your firm in the demo.
Something specific to your setup? Ask it in the demo — or email jan.petrik@alplexio.com.
The people behind it
Portus is the first product from Alplexio AG — a Swiss software company building tools for regulated professionals — led by two practising lawyer-engineers and advised by senior technical hands.
Co-founder & CEO
Dr. sc. et Dr. iur. des. · LL.M.
Lawyer, engineer & European Patent Attorney
Co-founder & Legal Counsel
Dr. iur. et Dipl. El.-Ing. ETH
Attorney at Law, Swiss Patent Attorney
Technical Advisor
Prof. Dr.
Professor, ETH Zurich
Where we are
We’re onboarding the next Swiss intermediaries — thirty minutes with the lawyer-engineer who built it, no sales team in between. Self-hosted, or hosted by a Swiss provider.
Flat annual fee scaled to firm size — all-in, no per-check metering. Your exact quote comes in the demo.