Built and hosted in Switzerland
Reach everyone on your team. In one place.
The internal platform for schools, public administrations, practices and businesses. Built and hosted in Switzerland.
Sound familiar?
Important things get lost between the channels.
In most organisations internal communication has grown over the years: a group chat here, a mailing list there, plus notice boards, phone chains and files on three different drives.
At school: Word about the project week arrives by email, the room change in a group chat. Cover for an absence gets arranged on the phone during the break.
In administration and practices: Quick exchanges run through private messengers — even though official or professional confidentiality applies.
In the workplace: The shift plan circulates as a photo in a group chat. Whoever is ill messages the manager on WhatsApp, and new staff have no idea where to find anything.
SELAS brings all of this into one place: reachable for everyone, with clear rules about who sees what.
When someone is away, the team organises itself.
No ringing around, no list in the staff room, no message to ten people at six in the morning. And leadership still stays in control.
- 1
Report the absence
Whoever is away records the absence in SELAS. If a weekly plan is stored, the affected lessons or shifts are already selected.
- 2
Short notice or planned
Short-notice absences such as illness go straight to the team. Planned absences that need approval go to leadership first. Once approved, the call for cover is triggered automatically. Each organisation decides for itself which absences need approval.
- 3
Take it on
A single tap is enough, with a note for payroll if you like. Once every slot is covered, the absence switches to «covered», and completed calls for cover clear themselves away automatically.
«For us, substitutions sort themselves out almost on their own in no time — no ‹do you have time?› asking around, no digging through the free-period folder. And whoever takes it on states right away how it should be billed; that takes the load off the whole system and the office too.»
Around 70 lessons covered out of 42 reported absences in the first six weeks.
Born in a school, it works just as well with shifts as with lessons: in the hotel, the practice, the workplace.
What SELAS looks like day to day.
Real views from the platform, with demo data.
Important announcements reach everyone.
Posts, comments, reactions and surveys, neatly ordered by topic or team. What matters stays at the top.
- Pinned posts for what matters
- Surveys, anonymous if you wish
- Set per channel who reads along and who can post
Quick exchanges, without a private messenger.
One-to-one and group chats with direct replies and read receipts. As familiar as a messenger, but under your control.
- Read receipts configurable per organisation, so no one feels pressured to reply
- Moderation traceable and logged
- Problematic content can be reported confidentially
Who does what by when.
Create tasks and checklists, assign them with a deadline to individuals or whole groups and check them off. Everyone sees what is still open.
- Assign to people or groups
- Deadlines and checklists
- What's done at a glance
One place to store files, instead of attachments back and forth.
Shared folders for the team and a personal space for each person. Word and Excel files can be edited right in the browser.
- Share folders with people or groups
- Office editing in the browser (add-on)
- Your personal space stays private, even from the administration
All your dates in one place.
Shared dates for the school or workplace and personal dates, kept apart yet shown in a single view.
- Filter shared and private dates separately
- Bring in existing calendars: subscriptions, ics files, CSV
- Multi-day items like camps, project weeks or company holidays as a bar across the month grid
Your work inbox right inside SELAS.
Existing mailboxes are connected via IMAP: read, reply, forward, with attachments straight from your file storage. Your email provider stays the same. (add-on)
- Attachments from your storage without the download detour
- Formatted emails with bold, lists and links
- A consistent signature from a few fields, the logo embedded for good and without tracking
Hello
many thanks for your reply — I'll be in touch by Friday …
Kind regards
Maria Muster
Head of Administration
Musterhausen Organisation
062 000 00 00
www.musterhausen.ch
Projects that pass from hand to hand.
Cards with an owner, a due date and checklists, passed on from station to station. Every handover is traceable.
- For projects, orders and workflows across several stations
- A full history of every handover
- In sync on smartphone and desktop
Enquiry2
Kitchen remodel, Meier
Windows, Zölli
In progress2
Blind installation, Bürli AG
Carport, Schmid
Invoiced1
Garden fence, Frei
Blind installation, Bürli AG
SalesTechnical
Beat: Materials ordered — delivery week 34.
Sandra: Customer ok with installation on Tuesday.
Know what you have, and reorder in time.
Record stock, set minimum levels and store suppliers. When stock runs low, SELAS warns you, and the order list is created in one click: ready to print or as a CSV for the supplier.
- Low-stock warning
- Order list per supplier, to print or as CSV
- Just for those in charge, or as an internal shop in a channel where the team orders itself
- Your own barcodes for items, shelves and collections
One place for IT requests.
A channel becomes a help desk: requests come in as ordinary posts, the IT team sets them to «Accepted» and «Resolved». Whoever reported something sees the status at any time.
Everything new staff need on one page.
The organisation builds its own orientation pages from blocks: text, images, sticky notes, contacts, documents and links. For stand-ins or new seasonal staff, for example.
Made for your everyday.
For schools where children's data sets the standard.
SELAS was born in a school. Role separation, moderation and reporting paths are built in, not bolted on.
- Substitutions with a weekly plan and approval by the school leadership
- Safely include students from lower secondary (cycle 3) up (see protection block)
- Channels for staff, year groups and subject teams
- Teaching materials with locations: 12 in storage, 23 in room 5, 20 in room 6. You always know what is where.
- School library by smartphone: scan the book, scan the child on the class list, done. If the child has a SELAS account, they receive the loan with a due date digitally, and reminders and overdue notices run automatically.
- A shared calendar for camps, project weeks and events
In use at Oberstufe Huttwil.
Protection for children and young people
Safely include students, from lower secondary (cycle 3) up.
When a group chat gets out of hand
The teacher removes disruptive messages directly. Beforehand, SELAS reminds them to secure a record. Afterwards only a neutral note remains in the chat. The content is deleted; who intervened and when stays logged.
When someone is harassed
The person affected reports the message confidentially. The reported person learns nothing of it. The report goes to a responsible office at the school. If it is left unattended, it goes automatically to a second, named person after a deadline set by the school. Every look into the reported content is logged.
Private chats stay private
No one reads along in private chats between students, not even the operator of SELAS.
Data sovereignty & security
Your data stays in Switzerland. With a Swiss provider.
SELAS is developed and operated in Switzerland, on its own servers in Swiss data centres (Infomaniak, ISO 27001). There is no US subsidiary and no US cloud provider in between.
Swiss operation
The database, files and application run on infrastructure that SELAS operates itself. Only push notifications are technically delivered via Apple and Google, encrypted and with no readable content.
Separated data
Every organisation is separated from all others right down into the database. On every access, each individual row is checked.
Encryption
Connections with TLS 1.3, the servers' storage with AES-256.
No reading along
The operator takes no look into your organisation's content. Technical work happens only on your instruction, for a data export for example, and is logged.
Two-factor sign-in
Required for administration accounts.
Checked before every change
Every change passes automated security tests — including checks that no organisation can see another's data — before it goes live.
To be honest: SELAS encrypts on the server side, not end to end. That is the only way moderation and reporting can work.
For your data-protection review we provide a security overview and the documents for a prior check.
Why the server location alone is not enough
For public bodies and holders of professional secrecy, what matters is which law the provider is subject to, not just where its servers stand. US providers can be compelled to hand over data under the CLOUD Act, even for data held in Switzerland. The conference of Swiss data protection commissioners considers outsourcing particularly sensitive data of public bodies to large US clouds unlawful «in most cases».
- 2018
Since 2018 the US CLOUD Act has required American cloud providers by law to hand over customer data on the order of US authorities — expressly regardless of where in the world it is stored. No contract and no European data centre lifts this obligation.1
- FISA 702
US intelligence services may surveil non-US persons via US providers — without suspicion of a crime, without an individual court order. And the provider is legally bound to stay silent about it.2
- 10 June 2025
Asked by the French Senate whether Microsoft could guarantee that citizens' data would never be handed to US authorities without the consent of their own government, the legal head of Microsoft France answered under oath: «Non, je ne peux pas le garantir» — he could not guarantee it; it had, he said, never yet happened.3
- 32 %
According to Microsoft's own transparency report, in the second half of 2025 about a third of all US government requests carried a secrecy order — the affected customer learns nothing of the access for as long as it applies.4
- 18 Nov 2025
The conference of Swiss data protection commissioners draws the line: outsourcing particularly sensitive personal data of public bodies to large US SaaS solutions is unlawful «in most cases».5
Integrations
Ready for your existing systems.
SELAS has a documented interface and a file import. With them you can connect HR, scheduling or payroll systems. Which data flows is something we clarify with you during onboarding.
Open interface
A documented interface with its own access key per organisation. You decide what a connected system may see. Today the interface takes over people and master data; further data types we build out with you as needed.
File import
Take over people and master data via CSV or Excel, without any involvement from your previous provider. That way the rollout can start right away.
Only what's needed
Only the fields that are needed flow across, and they are held in Switzerland.
Typical connections: HR system · scheduling and time tracking · payroll · learning platform
What SELAS can do today, and what comes next.
Available
- Channels and surveys
- Chats with moderation and reporting
- Files
- Tasks
- App with push notifications
- People groups and global search
- Two-factor sign-in
Add-ons:
- Substitutions and shift swaps
- Calendar
- Email inbox
- Office editing in the browser
- Projects
- Materials and inventory
- Teaching materials and library
- IT service desk
- Info board
- Interface and file import
In development
- Sign-in without a company email
- Interface in French, Italian and English
Under evaluation
- Video conferencing via a Swiss solution
Who is behind SELAS
Born in the staff room, not the boardroom.
I'm a teacher and spent ten years working with a large staff app. I know what works well day to day and what's missing.
In spring 2026 my school faced the question of how to reorganise its internal communication. On the table were a group chat called «sick», phone chains for every absence and yet another private messenger. I told the principal: I'll build it for you. Five days later he had his login.
Two months on, the school decided to go with SELAS. Ever since, the best ideas have come from everyday use. What's genuinely needed in daily work goes into the product. What only clutters stays out.
What this means for you: You talk directly to the person who builds SELAS, not to a ticketing system. Your feedback doesn't land in a queue, but in the next release.
And if something happens to me? A stand-in is appointed for emergencies: a federally certified IT specialist who knows SELAS as a testing and development partner and has access to the operation. The access credentials are securely deposited, and your data is held in an open standard format rather than a closed system.
Adrian Lanz, founder and developer of SELAS
Clear prices, by size rather than per head.
One base for everyone, add-ons as needed. Unlimited accounts.
Schools
from CHF 200 per month
Businesses and organisations
from CHF 85 per month
Schools we bill as a flat rate by school size, businesses and organisations by number of staff — in both cases with a fixed base fee and no limit on the number of accounts. The exact tier we settle in the quote.
In the base: Channels, chats, file storage, tasks, surveys, app with push.
Add-ons: Substitutions and shift swaps, calendar, email inbox, office, projects, materials, teaching materials and library, IT service desk, info board, integrations.
12-month term. We're happy to prepare a quote for your organisation.
How to get started
- 1
Get to know it
30 minutes online. We show SELAS live and answer your questions.
- 2
Try it yourself
30 days in your own environment, with support by email and video.
- 3
Onboarding
Setup, import and training once the contract begins.
Pilot partners wanted
Per sector we support a few organisations especially closely: personal setup, a direct line to the developer, preferential terms. In return we receive your feedback and may name you as a reference.
Frequently asked questions
Do we have to give up Microsoft 365 or our email addresses?
No. SELAS complements your existing tools. Mailboxes stay with your current provider and are connected, and Office files can still be edited.
Is there an app?
SELAS can be installed as an app on any smartphone, tablet and computer, with push notifications. No download from an app store is needed.
Does everyone need an email address?
Today, yes. Sign-in without a company email, for staff without a desk job for example, is in development.
How much effort is the rollout?
After a demo you test SELAS yourself for 30 days. Once the contract begins we take over setup and the import of people by file and train your team.
Which documents do we get for data protection?
A data processing agreement with technical and organisational measures and the list of sub-processors, plus a security overview for your review.
What happens to our data if we cancel?
After the contract ends you get your data back in a common format, or we delete it — entirely your choice. We confirm the deletion in writing on request.
Who helps if something doesn't work?
Our support is reachable by email at support@selasonline.org. You receive a reply within two working days.
Get to know SELAS.
We'll show you SELAS in 30 minutes online and answer your questions about data protection, rollout and cost. You'll receive a reply from Adrian Lanz within two working days.