The purpose of the company is to provide management consulting and market research services in various sectors, particularly in the field of automation related to artificial intelligence and in the automotive sector. The company may participate in other companies, acquire, exploit, manage and dispose of real estate, immovable property and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and perform all legal acts that may be connected with the company's purpose or that are suitable to promote its development or that of group companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, its direct or indirect shareholders and companies in which such parties have a direct or indirect interest, whether by way of loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or by way of guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.