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Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by 42he GmbH · centralstationcrm.com

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The Sales Ops Lead

Weighted verdict

Owns the forecast a 40-seat team lives by. Optimizes for pipeline discipline: stage hygiene, required fields, routing, quota and forecast reporting the CFO will accept. Rejects freeform pipelines that cannot enforce a process and reporting that stops at a dashboard screenshot.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Sales Ops Lead

Contact & data model

How this is scored

Depth and hygiene of the core records — contacts, companies, deals, custom fields, deduplication.

0 — A flat address book; no relations between people, companies and deals.

3 — The standard three objects exist but customization is cosmetic: few field types, no required fields, duplicates accumulate unchecked.

5 — Custom fields across objects, basic dedupe on create, activity history on the record; complex models still need workarounds.

8 — Rich field types with validation, merge and dedupe tooling, relationships beyond the standard model, permissioned field access.

10 — A genuinely modelable system: custom objects or equivalent, bulk hygiene tooling, field-level history — the data model bends to the business, not the reverse.

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The Sales Ops Lead

The entire data-model story is a contact count in a price table and 'import data and get started' — no custom fields, no required fields, no dedupe, no merge, not even evidence the standard three objects exist. That's at or below the flat-address-book anchor, and I can't build stage hygiene on records I can't validate. 1 2

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Pipeline & forecasting

How this is scored

Whether the pipeline enforces a process and produces reporting a finance department accepts.

0 — A kanban of deals with amounts; nothing is enforced, nothing rolls up.

3 — Multiple pipelines and stage probabilities exist, but no required fields per stage and only canned reports.

5 — Stage requirements, win/loss capture and standard forecast views; custom reporting is limited or an add-on.

8 — Enforceable process (required fields, stage gates, routing), custom report builder, forecast by team and period with quota tracking.

10 — Forecasting a CFO signs: weighted and commit-based views, historical snapshots, attainment tracking, and reporting composable enough to answer questions the vendor never anticipated.

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The Sales Ops Lead

This is the criterion I live by and the registry is completely silent: no deals object, no stages, no probabilities, no quota, no forecast, no report builder appears anywhere in either captured page. A vendor whose whole functional pitch is 'the easy CRM for small teams' evidences nothing that enforces a process, so it sits at the kanban-with-nothing anchor and below. 1 2

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Automation & workflows

How this is scored

Triggers, sequences and routing that remove manual work without a consultant.

0 — No automation beyond email templates.

3 — Simple if-this-then-that on records; no multi-step sequences, no branching.

5 — Multi-step workflows with delays and branching, email sequences, basic lead routing — capped by tier or count.

8 — Full workflow builder across objects with webhooks as steps, round-robin routing, sequence analytics.

10 — Automation as infrastructure: versioned workflows, error handling, per-step logs, and limits generous enough that the feature is not its own upsell.

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The Sales Ops Lead

The only 'automatic' thing on record is backups. No triggers, sequences, routing, or workflow builder is evidenced anywhere — not even the email templates the 0 anchor assumes, so 0 without hesitation. 1

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Integrations & API

How this is scored

Two-way email/calendar sync, native connections, and an API that treats external systems as first-class.

0 — No API, no sync; data enters by CSV and leaves never.

3 — One-way email logging (BCC), a handful of Zapier triggers, a read-mostly API.

5 — Two-way email and calendar sync for the major providers, a documented REST API with sane limits, a modest native directory.

8 — Deep native integrations for the revenue stack, webhooks, OAuth apps, API parity with the UI for core objects.

10 — An ecosystem: public API covering everything the UI does, event streams, a marketplace, and sync so reliable the CRM can be the system of record without being the only system.

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The Sales Ops Lead

'API documentation (English)' is the whole integration story: an API exists, which beats CSV-only, but there is zero evidence of email or calendar sync, native integrations, webhooks, or API depth. That lands just above 0 and well short of the 3 anchor's one-way email logging and Zapier triggers, none of which are evidenced. 1 2

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where other people's personal data actually lives and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA.

0 — US entity, US-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list.

3 — A DPA exists and an EU region is available on request or on top tiers; subprocessor exposure to US CLOUD Act reach is broad and undocumented.

5 — EU hosting selectable at signup, published DPA and subprocessor list; core processing still touches US entities.

8 — EU entity or EU-default hosting with published subprocessors, consent-friendly fields, retention and deletion controls; residual US exposure named and narrow.

10 — European entity, EU-only processing including subprocessors, deletion that provably deletes — sovereignty a DPO can sign off without a caveat file.

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The Sales Ops Lead

A founder-held German entity (42he, Cologne) with German data centers including attachments and a GDPR claim gives strong defaults no US vendor matches here. But no published DPA, no subprocessor list, and no retention or deletion controls appear anywhere, so exposure is unnameable rather than narrow — my DPO would still need a caveat file. 1 2

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Import, export & exit

How this is scored

Getting in with history intact, and out with everything — the anti-lock-in criterion.

0 — Import is a support ticket; export is contacts-only CSV missing notes, activities and files.

3 — Self-serve CSV import with mapping; export covers main objects but drops activity history, attachments or relations.

5 — Guided migration from major competitors, full-object CSV export, API access sufficient to rebuild the database elsewhere with effort.

8 — Complete export (all objects, history, files) self-serve in open formats, import with dedupe and dry-run, no API metering that prices exit out of reach.

10 — Exit as a feature: documented full-fidelity export, migration tooling both directions, and contractual data-return terms — leaving is a weekend, which is exactly why you can stay.

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The Sales Ops Lead

'Export your data independently at any time', self-serve import on onboarding, and cancel-today-no-charge-tomorrow terms are a genuine start on the anti-lock-in front. But nothing specifies format or completeness — whether notes, activities, attachments and relations come out — so exit is promised, not specified; between the 3 and 5 anchors. 1 2

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real invoice — per seat, per month, at renewal — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — An entry price exists, but the tiers most buyers need are unpriced, or per-seat maths is obscured by bundles, minimums or mandatory onboarding fees.

5 — Most tiers carry real numbers with billing period and VAT treatment stated, but at least one commonly needed capability hides in an unpriced tier or usage-metered add-on.

8 — Every tier priced publicly including annual/monthly split; limits, seat minimums and overage rules stated; only genuine enterprise contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: every tier, add-on, usage meter and renewal rule public, with a calculator or table that makes the invoice at 3 and 30 seats a two-minute exercise.

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The Sales Ops Lead

The one place the evidence is rich: all four tiers carry real monthly prices with VAT stated and hard limits on users, contacts and storage, plus no-contract terms and a 30-day no-card trial. The knock is that extra storage and contacts are 'bookable separately' with no published prices and no annual split or overage rules are shown — my 40 seats sit exactly at the Enterprise ceiling with nowhere priced to grow. 1 2

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European sovereignty — proven facts

2 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Data residency EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 1 Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined — uncited Report an error

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Sources (7)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage centralstationcrm.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page centralstationcrm.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Legal notice centralstationcrm.com Checked 21 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Privacy policy centralstationcrm.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Contact & data model — found from sitemap centralstationcrm.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Integrations & API — found from sitemap centralstationcrm.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Integrations & API — found from sitemap centralstationcrm.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →