SCHAFFHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND – Berg Digital is proud to announce that its innovative regional platform, schaffhausen.live, has been officially selected as a finalist for the Best of Swiss Web Award 2026.
Best of Swiss Web was founded in 2001 and is now one of the most established and recognized awards in the digital economy in Switzerland and internationally, evaluating hundreds of submissions across various categories annually.
Being shortlisted out of 317 contestants, this recognition places schaffhausen.live among the top digital projects in Switzerland. It is not only a testament to the hard work of the Berg Digital team, but also a powerful confirmation that commitment to building products that strengthen regional life, redefining how local communities interact with digital media, and solving real-world communication challenges through GenAI adoption was recognised on the country level.
Schaffhausen.live solves the problem Google does not: a “last-mile” information gap
Residents in each of 2121 municipalities of Switzerland face a paradox: they can access news from Milan or Tokyo instantly but remain unaware of critical updates from their own municipality until it’s too late. A farmer’s fresh crop alert, a neighborhood’s flea market opening hours or tomorrow’s street closure for users specific commute – such granular, time-sensitive, location-specific intelligence is not available easily in 2026 in any search engine.
Essential local information scatters across municipality websites, quartier boards, Facebook groups, Whatsapp & Telegram channels, even paper notices – requiring constant monitoring of a handful of different sources weekly. Switzerland’s multilingual reality makes the situation even more complicated.
Schaffhausen.live is AI-powered personal information agent that harvests and delivers you only what matters for every citizen.
While others build chatbots users must actively prompt, at Berg Digital the paradigm was inverted: GenAI is used as a proactive autonomous agent that works for users 24×7, continuously monitoring the community’s information landscape, and updating users when anything that matters pops up.
On the platform, GenAI crawls municipal websites, announcement boards and social media to understand context, synthesize connections and generate narrative briefings that read like a knowledgeable neighbor explaining what happens today – but adapting tone, detail level, language and format based on user preferences. Schaffhausen.live is the digital platform bridges the gap between traditional local newsletters and modern chatbot technology.
Five Key features of schaffhausen.liveAgentic AI-platform
- Free to use: Anyone can set up their autonomous AI agents for free that instantly start monitoring the local landscape on your behalf, analysing information according to defined preferences.
- Hyper-Local Intelligence: The platform provides granular, time-sensitive updates such as fresh crop alerts from local farmers, neighborhood flea markets, or specific street closures and narrative briefings that read like a knowledgeable neighbor.
- Highly Visual: All events are plotted on an interactive map for an immediate visual understanding of what is happening nearby.
- Multilingual Support: The platform bridges the gap for non-native speakers, helping everyone stay connected to community life in their language, while the user interface is available in 3 national languages (German, French, Italian) and in English.
- Absolute Privacy: To comply with Swiss data protection laws, all data is stored and processed within Switzerland. Berg Digital doesn’t sell user data and maintain a platform free from third-party ads or tracking pixels.
A Proven Impact
Since its launch in December 2025, pilot users reported 12 minutes saved weekly on average per household by eliminating manual checks of multiple sources. This translates to 10 hours saved annually for a family in the Schaffhausen region, giving them back the whole day in their life to spend as they prefer.
As Berg Digital looks toward expanding to other Cantons later in 2026, this nomination reinforces its mission: everyone deserves to know what happens around them to live a better life.
A Milestone for Berg Digital
“Being selected as a finalist for the Best of Swiss Web is a serious milestone for us,” says Taisiia Berg, Founder of Berg Digital. “With schaffhausen.live, we proved that regional digital platforms can be just as sophisticated and technologically advanced as global ones. This nomination confirms that we are setting a new standard for local digital communication in Switzerland.”
We invite the community and partners to explore the platform and join us in celebrating this achievement as we head toward the final award ceremony.