The only Swiss AI-first programme that combines the depth of coaching with the practical rigour of a real business incubator.
Book your free Exploration Session9 honest questions - a personalised picture of where you stand, and what your real options are.
Take The Free Assessment →We start with you: your identity, your values, your passions - your moment. The business follows the person, not the other way around.
The founders made this transition themselves. This is lived experience, not a theoretical programme.
9 weeks part-time incl. workshops, 1:1 coaching & mentoring, and a Lions panel. Not a training course, a process.
Every session ends with a clear next step. You leave Phase 1 with clarity about your personal business plan and next steps.
You hate having a boss. You're biding your time until you can build something of your own.
The corporate world is changing, and you can feel it, quietly but clearly. You're not in crisis. You're seeing an opportunity.
A restructuring, a career move that didn't work as planned. The right job opportunity hasn't landed and it's time to take control.
You have skills, time, maybe a severance package and some capital. What will you build?
You've had the idea for years. You kept putting it off - a promotion, a family, "not the right time."
The right time is easily delayed. Once you've tasted the idea of freedom, it's hard to let it go. It's time to act.
Who are you as a founder? What is your idea? Is there a market? You leave with a Spark Deck, refined with the support of a Lions panel.
From validated idea to launch-ready business. Structured support, real accountability, and the community to carry you through.
4 in-person · 2 online workshops. 1:1 coaching & mentoring from experienced founders.
We help you apply AI to shape and test your business ideas, learning AI by using AI.
Always-on between sessions. Startup specialists, built for founders.
End-of-programme panel. Your idea, stress-tested together.
The business plan you've been meaning to write.
Peers who are building. Real experience.
Sparksli was built by people who made the corporate-to-founder transition themselves. This isn't a theoretical programme designed from the outside - it's built from lived experience, which is why it puts the human first and the business idea second.
These are the real doubts people bring to their first conversation with us. Better to name them now.
That's why Phase 1 runs alongside your current job. Nothing about the Innovation phase requires you to resign, tell your employer, or burn a bridge. You build clarity and a real business plan first - the leap, if you take it, comes later and on your terms.
Yes. Most of our founders start exactly this way. The programme is designed around evenings, weekends, and focused 1:1 sessions - not a full-time commitment.
You'll leave Phase 1 with a validated business plan and a Lions panel review - something concrete to share, not just an idea. Many founders bring their partner to the closing conversation.
Phase 1 is deliberately built to test that. If the Lions panel - or you - decide it's not ready to proceed, you leave with clarity and a real business plan, not a sunk cost.
Yes, the Self-Employment Unit (Fachstelle Selbständigkeit) offers active support for entrepreneurs including up to 90 days to define and plan your business launch, removing the obligation to job seek and with support for marketing and finance / accounting tax (Treuhänder).
Yes, you will be guided to use AI tools effectively as part of your work - practical, applied and no need to code. Also to integrate AI into your business operations, including Agentic AI.