Dataris makes your municipality's figures understandable, comparable and actionable. From self-financing rate to 2035 budget projections — everything on one platform, built for all 26 MCH2 variants.
Enter your municipality name. Dataris instantly calculates its key financial indicators from the latest public accounts and positions it against peers. No sign-up, no commitment.
Try my municipality →We surveyed over 40 municipal secretaries and finance advisers before writing a single line of code. The same bottlenecks always come up.
MCH2 contains 8 key indicators, 26 cantonal variants, thousands of accounting lines. Militia-system elected officials — farmers, teachers, tradespeople — must vote on budgets they don't always fully grasp.
Are my administrative costs within normal range? Is my debt high for a commune of 5'000 inhabitants in a periurban area? Today, to answer, you must dig through cantonal statistics or call your neighbours.
A CHF 4 M investment, a tax multiplier reduction, a new crèche: what are the consequences for debt and investment capacity in 10 years? When citizens ask the question at the municipal assembly, the Council must have the answer — not "we'll check and get back to you".
2'131 communes in Switzerland. The majority managed by part-time advisers — farmers, teachers, tradespeople, retirees. Today, they make multi-million decisions from 200-page PDFs.
Dataris gives them clear, comparable and actionable financial insight — a tool that, until now, existed nowhere else.
Understand. Compare. Decide. Three simple steps, designed together to shift municipal finance from annual reporting to continuous management.
The 8 key MCH2 indicators calculated automatically according to your canton's exact rules. Traffic-light system, 5-year trends, plain-language explanations. A councillor who has never read a balance sheet understands their municipality's position in 90 seconds.
Dataris aggregates public data from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office and all 26 cantonal statistical offices, then builds relevant peer groups: size, canton, economic structure, urbanisation. You see precisely where you perform best — and where potential remains.
Tax multiplier cut, school loan, new tax policy: Dataris projects the exact impact on your financial plan in three scenarios — optimistic, realistic, pessimistic. AI runs exclusively on Swiss infrastructure, never leaving the country.
Annual accounts, budget, financial plan: Dataris generates reports compliant with all 26 MCH2 variants. From 3 weeks of preparation to 1 afternoon.
Automatic monitoring of the 8 MCH2 ratios. As soon as an indicator drifts, an alert is sent to the finance officer — before critical deviation.
Direct export of tables, comments and charts for your sessions. The finance officer arrives with clear materials, ready to project or distribute.
Municipal accounting software, existing files, public databases. Automatic import, no IT project required. Everything remains hosted in Switzerland.
Six features that save hours every week.
Each legislature, new councillors discover the municipality's figures. Dataris offers a guided journey — understand MCH2 indicators in 30 minutes, hands-on with their own data.
Generate a summary PDF to publish on the municipal website: key figures explained simply, clean charts, all signed by the authorities. Active transparency, no additional burden.
From macro framework to consolidation, including Council iterations. Dataris tracks each step, maintains version history, and alerts on deviations from your financial plan.
Before each export, verification of cantonal rules: numbering, chart of accounts, thresholds, consolidation. Anomalies are flagged, explained, corrected upstream — not after rejection by the Municipal Authority.
The financial plan is no longer a static document reviewed every 3 years. Dataris continuously recalculates your financial plan over 5 to 10 years, at each budget variation or major investment decision.
The secretary prepares, the finance officer validates, councillors consult. Each with their own access level, comments, history. No more Excel files sent by email at midnight.
MCH2 — Harmonised Accounting Model 2 — is the Swiss standard for public finance published by the CDF in 2008. Numbering, functions, thresholds, consolidation: each canton has adapted it in its own way. Dataris speaks the accounting language of each, from the Ticino Modello contabile armonizzato to the Alemannic Harmonisiertes Rechnungslegungsmodell.
Dataris is built for the Swiss public sector: hosted, operated and governed entirely under Swiss law. Zero dependence on US Cloud Act. Zero data exported abroad for model training.
Tier III datacenters in French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland. No data transits foreign cloud infrastructure. No dependence on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
Our AI models run on Swiss GPUs. Your data never leaves. Zero training on your municipality's figures—by contract and by architecture.
Architecture aligned with the new Swiss Federal Data Protection Act: processing register, data minimisation, data portability built in from inception.
Full portability, export in standard formats (CSV, Excel, XBRL MCH2). No vendor lock-in: when you leave, you take everything.
Municipal benchmarking solutions exist in Switzerland. Here's why the most demanding finance leaders switch to Dataris.
| Criterion | DatarisAnalysis + decision | Standard benchmarkingStatic comparison |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | 26 / 26 cantons · complete MCH2 | ~90 municipalities · limited scope |
| Data freshness | Quarterly updates, real-time integration of your accounts | Annual PDFs · often 1–2 years out of date |
| Financial projections | ● Projections 5–10 years, 3 scenarios | ○ None — retrospective only |
| Decision simulation | ● Impact on PFT, debt, cash-flow | ○ Not covered |
| AI-assisted decision support | ● 100% Swiss · not trained on your data | ○ No AI |
| Automated MCH2 reports | ● Accounts, budget, financial plan | ◐ Limited exports |
| Continuous alerts | ● 24/7 monitoring on 8 MCH2 ratios | ○ Annual publication |
| Free self-service diagnosis | ● Key indicators without registration | ○ Paid access from first consultation |
| Trilingual (FR · DE · IT) | ● Interface, terminology, support | ◐ Often single language only |
| Hosting | Exclusively Swiss | Varies by provider |
Each canton applies MCH2 differently: numbering, functions, thresholds, chart of accounts, consolidation rules. Dataris speaks the local language — both literally and in accounting terms.
Our team monitors publications from the Conference of Cantonal Finance Directors (CDF). Each cantonal update is integrated into Dataris within weeks of official publication.
Beyond municipalities, Dataris offers a dedicated cantonal module for Municipal Services, Finance Departments and oversight bodies. An aggregated, standardised, MCH2-compliant view — without manual harmonisation of 26 different realities.
Model the impact of intermunicipal consolidation on consolidated accounts, fiscal equalization, debt and taxation. Three scenarios quantified in minutes — not six months of studies.
Adjust intermunicipal fiscal equalization parameters: indices, thresholds, caps. Visualise transfers between contributing and beneficiary municipalities immediately, before public consultation.
The canton is alerted automatically when a municipality breaches an MCH2 risk threshold. No need to wait for year-end closure to spot a drift — preventive support, targeted dialogue, corrective measures upstream.
Enter your municipality name and instantly access its financial indicators, position among peers, and five-year trend. No sign-up, no credit card, no commitment. When you're ready, we'll talk.