We sell to the people who actually use the tool.
No procurement-tier sales motion. The decision-maker and the user are usually in the same conversation, and we like it that way.
Silica Systems builds Ardesia.
A small Swiss software company. Our work right now is one product, Ardesia, built fully. What comes after will come when this is ready.
01STORY
How Ardesia came about.
Silica Systems is the company. Ardesia is the product. The slate is the metaphor: the office's work gets recorded, structured, and acted on. The marks on the slate are the work.
We started with one close working relationship: an office manager at a manufacturing company who agreed to let us watch the daily work, listen to the frustrations, and test ideas as they came up. He was not asking for AI, automation, or transformation. He was asking for one place to read the customer's message, find the quote it was about, and write the reply, without switching between four windows to do it.
That is where Ardesia started. In September 2026 we rebuilt it around what that office manager was really missing: a memory of the company that doesn't live in one person's head. Ardesia reads the email and WhatsApp the office already has, keeps what was agreed with every customer, with its source, and turns it into correct quotes. The AI is how that memory gets built and read. It is not the point.
02WHO
Who we are.
A small team of two based in Switzerland. Backgrounds in computer science, AI, operations, and manufacturing. The kind of people who would rather ship one thing that works than three things that almost do.
03HOW WE WORK
How we work as a company.
Beyond the product itself, four things shape how Silica operates.
We say what we don't do.
Ardesia has a defined scope. When we hit the edge of it, we say so, and recommend the systems that cover what we don't.
We write the software ourselves.
No reseller margins on someone else's product. Argo runs on open models on our own servers, and everything around it is ours: the memory, the data model, the rules.
We're small, and we mean to stay that way for a while.
The fastest way to ruin a focused product is to grow the team faster than the understanding. We add people when the work demands it, not when funding does.
04PARTNERS
Who we build with.
Ardesia takes shape against the daily work of real offices. The companies whose teams help us test, refine, and decide direction are partners, not just customers.
ELISEI NASTRI TRASPORTATORIAssisi, Italy
We're looking for a few more.
A design partner runs Ardesia in a real office while it is being built, and tells us what works, what doesn't, and what's missing. In return the product comes at favourable terms, and the things you need get built before the things nobody asked for. It is a normal commercial arrangement.
It fits best if your office puts each product together for the order instead of picking it from a price list, keeps its history in email and WhatsApp, and depends on what one person knows.
Talk to us about itContact us.
Partnership, press, hiring, or just a question about Ardesia: get in touch and we'll come back to you within two working days.