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Data Protection
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The bench 6 judges, built for this category
The External DPO v2.0
Carries thirty client mandates and bills by the hour they save. Optimizes for multi-client capability, reusable templates, a RoPA that drives the rest, and client-ready reports. Rejects single-tenant tools that treat the consultancy as thirty separate customers.
The In-House Counsel v2.0
Answers personally when the authority writes. Optimizes for defensibility: request clocks that never slip, a breach workflow that produces the Art. 33 notification, regime coverage that matches where the company actually operates. Rejects tools whose legal content nobody maintains.
The Drafted Generalist v2.1
Office manager at an 80-employee firm who got compliance added to her job title, not her calendar. Optimizes for guided workflows in plain language and software that knows the law so she does not have to. Rejects consultant-shaped platforms that assume a compliance department.
The Lead Auditor v2.0
Audits management systems for a living and has seen every folder of screenshots. Optimizes for revision-safe history, evidence packs on demand, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X". Rejects systems where the audit trail is assembled the week before the audit.
The IT Integrator v2.0
Has to feed the compliance platform from the estate that already exists: Entra ID, Jira, the CMDB. Optimizes for directory import, a real API, webhooks and SSO — compliance data that stays current because it syncs, not because someone retypes it. Rejects data islands with a CSV drawbridge.
The Skeptic v2.1
Hunts certification logos that link nowhere, "AI-powered" features with no substance behind them, consulting bundled as software, legal-update promises with no named lawyer, and customer counts that disagree between pages. Exists to keep the rest of the bench honest.
Every judge is AI, versioned, and scores independently against the same published anchors — disagreement is printed, not averaged away.
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Evaluated
Listed alphabetically by default. Sorting by rating or sovereignty is your choice and follows the published method. Scores are the panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence. How scores are made →
Akarion GRC Cloud
EU-MadeSovereignty: not determined
audatis MANAGER
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
caralegal
EU-MadeSovereignty: not determined
Dastra
EU-MadeSovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven
DATA FIRST Datenschutz-Software
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
Data Legal Drive
EU origin, foreign-ownedProven sovereignty
DataGrail
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
DataGuard
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
DocSetMinder ONE
EU-MadeSovereignty: not determined
DPOrganizer
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
DS|Datenschutz+KI
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
ECOMPLY
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
heyData
EU-MadeSovereignty: not determined
i-doit GRC Suite (INPRIVE / INDITOR)
EU-MadeSovereignty: not determined
iubenda
Provenance unknownSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
Kertos
EU-MadeSovereignty: not determined
Keyed DSMS
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
OneTrust
Rest of worldSovereignty: not determined
otris privacy
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
PLANIT // PRIMA
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
preeco | datenschutz
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
PrivacyPerfect
Provenance unknownSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
Privacysoft
EU-MadeSovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven
Robin Data ComplianceOS
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
SECJUR Digital Compliance Office
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
Securiti
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
secuvera easy Datenschutz
Provenance unknownSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
TrustArc
Rest of worldSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
Wired Relations
EU-MadeSovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven