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Sovereignty: not determined

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

by Sellsy SAS · go.sellsy.com

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The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

Assumes the pricing page is the nicest thing the vendor will ever say. Hunts per-seat maths that explode at renewal, "unlimited" with footnotes, AI features priced by credits, dead changelogs and acquisition rumours. Exists to keep the rest of the bench honest.

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

Scored by The Skeptic

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 Skeptic

The registry is completely silent on the data model — no contacts, companies, deals, custom fields, dedupe or merge tooling are evidenced anywhere; 'quotes into invoices' implies linked records exist but says nothing about their depth or hygiene. A capability the evidence doesn't evidence is a capability I can't credit, and this sheet evidences almost nothing here. 1

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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 Skeptic

One checkbox — 'Budget forecast' — is the entirety of the pipeline evidence: no multiple pipelines, stage gates, win/loss capture or report builder appear anywhere in either capture. A feature flag is the nicest thing a vendor will ever say; it is not forecasting a finance department can sign. 1

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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 Skeptic

'Marketing automation' is confirmed to exist and nothing more — no sequences, branching, lead routing, workflow builder or limit counts appear anywhere in the evidence. That buys existence at the simple-trigger anchor and not one point of depth beyond it. 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 Skeptic

A 'marketplace of integrations' is claimed, but the evidence is dead silent on any API, two-way email/calendar sync, webhooks or OAuth — a marketplace sign is a shopfront, not a documented surface. 48,000 users suggests connections exist; the evidence doesn't show a single one, let alone API parity. 1

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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 Skeptic

A French SAS in La Rochelle with EU made provenance is a genuinely good start, but the evidence itself records 'no sovereignty attributes on record' — no DPA, no subprocessor list, no hosting disclosure, no deletion controls. The entity is European; everything a DPO actually needs to sign off is unevidenced. 1

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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 Skeptic

Not one word about import, export, API access or migration in either capture. When a vendor publishes full pricing and marketing copy but leaves exit completely undocumented, I assume lock-in until proven otherwise. 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 Skeptic

Credit where due: three tiers with real per-seat numbers, VAT treatment, annual/monthly split, a stated 2-user minimum and 'save 2 months' quantified — the invoice is computable in two minutes. But note the trap: the '/month' price carries a 12-month commitment on every single tier, and the feature matrix is visible only in fragments, so you can compute the bill but not fully what's in it. 2

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 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 — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

Where this could be wrong

What we left out

A claim that does not survive our checks costs us the claim, not the page. This is what was taken off this one.

Sources (14)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage go.sellsy.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page go.sellsy.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Legal notice go.sellsy.com Checked 21 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Privacy policy go.sellsy.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Contact & data model — found from sitemap go.sellsy.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Contact & data model — found from sitemap go.sellsy.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Pipeline & forecasting — found from sitemap go.sellsy.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Pipeline & forecasting — found from sitemap go.sellsy.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Automation & workflows — found from sitemap go.sellsy.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Automation & workflows — found from sitemap go.sellsy.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Integrations & API — found from sitemap go.sellsy.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Integrations & API — found from sitemap go.sellsy.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Import, export & exit — found from sitemap go.sellsy.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Import, export & exit — found from sitemap go.sellsy.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →