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Category median

Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by Keyed GmbH · keyed.de

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The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

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.

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

Scored by The Skeptic

Records & DPIA depth

How this is scored

The DSMS core: records of processing (RoPA/VVT), data protection impact assessments, processor/DPA management and TOMs — how deeply the legal artifacts are modeled and connected.

0 — Document templates in a folder tree; the "register" is a Word file with version numbers in the filename.

3 — A structured RoPA with basic fields and a DPIA questionnaire, but processors, TOMs and legal bases live outside the system.

5 — RoPA and DPIA as linked modules with templates; processor management and TOM assignment exist but are shallow, and group reuse is copy-paste.

8 — A connected data model — processing activities linked to systems, processors, TOMs and legal bases — with DPIA triggers derived from the record, reusable group templates, and outputs a supervisory authority accepts.

10 — Privacy records as a system of record: the RoPA drives DPIAs, processor management and TOM coverage from one data model, multi-client/mandate capability included, and the documentation is audit-ready without manual assembly.

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The Skeptic

The help center confirms genuine modules for records of processing, impact assessments, TOMs and data recipients, with records generatable from an existing impact assessment and an inheritance feature for groups — better than copy-paste. But the evidence is mostly help-article titles: we found no public information on legal bases linked in the record model, DPIA triggers derived from the record, or outputs a supervisory authority has accepted, so the depth of the connections stays unevidenced. 7 8 10

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Data subject rights & incidents

How this is scored

The operational half of the DSMS: data subject request handling with statutory clocks, breach register and authority notification, deletion concepts that actually delete.

0 — Requests arrive by email and live there; breaches are a phone call and a memo.

3 — A request log and a breach list exist, but deadlines are manual, intake is unstructured, and deletion rules are documentation rather than workflow.

5 — DSR workflows with the Art. 12 clock tracked, structured breach register with the 72-hour clock, deletion concepts assignable to records; automation is reminders.

8 — Intake channels for requests (portal/form), identity-check support, deadline automation with escalation, breach severity assessment and authority-report output, deletion rules tied to the RoPA with execution tracking.

10 — Rights and incidents as operations: end-to-end request handling an authority audit walks through, breach workflows that produce the Art. 33 notification, and deletion automation with evidence that the deletion happened.

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The Skeptic

Data subject requests and a deletion concept appear only as names in a coverage list, while external communications get linked tasks with reminders and breach tasks trigger daily notifications tied to the 72-hour duty — clock awareness via reminders, not deadlines automated end to end. We found no public information on request intake channels, identity checks, breach severity assessment, authority-report output, or any evidence that deletion rules are executed and tracked rather than documented. 8 9 10

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Privacy regime coverage

How this is scored

Which privacy regimes the product actually operationalizes — GDPR, BDSG, Swiss nDSG, UK GDPR, ePrivacy, EU AI Act privacy duties — and whether one record maps across them or each regime is a fresh island.

0 — One regime, hard-coded; anything else is "on the roadmap".

3 — GDPR plus one national law as separate checklists; the same processing activity is documented once per regime.

5 — The major regimes for its market with partial cross-mapping; newer duties (AI Act, ePrivacy changes) present as content packs of varying depth.

8 — Broad current coverage with one-record-many-regimes mapping and visible maintenance as regimes evolve.

10 — Regime coverage as a living product: multiple privacy regimes on one data basis, per-country variants, and documented update cadence when the law moves.

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The Skeptic

GDPR is the operational core, and the AI Act appears as a separate AI-management product plus its own audit template — a second island, not one record mapped across regimes. We found no public information on national variants, Swiss or UK regimes, or any documented update cadence when the law moves. 3 1 10

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Audit readiness & evidence

How this is scored

Whether the system produces defensible proof: revision-safe history, evidence collection, reports for auditors, authorities and management.

0 — Exports are screenshots; history is overwritten in place.

3 — PDF reports exist but evidence is attached ad hoc and changes leave no reliable trail.

5 — Versioned records, standard report generators for the core registers, evidence attachments per activity; assembling a full audit file still takes days.

8 — Revision-safe change history, audit-scoped evidence packs on demand, management and authority reports current at a click, auditor access roles.

10 — Audit readiness as a standing state: continuous documentation status per regime and scope, exportable proof packs an auditor accepts as-is, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X".

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The Skeptic

This is the best-evidenced part of the product: risk audits ending in a risk matrix, conformity audits with a per-chapter score, templates from the vendor's own lawyers or custom-built, configurable recurrence with results persisting on the object, group-wide control with reporting levels, and period reports spanning every core register in a custom layout. The versioning claim, however, covers audit communication specifically; we found no public information on revision-safe change history across all records, auditor access roles, or a defensible answer to 'show me the state on date X'. 8 10 11

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Integrations & automation

How this is scored

Whether the platform feeds from the real IT estate — directory import, ticketing, API — and automates the recurring privacy work instead of re-typing it.

0 — A closed island: manual entry in, PDF out, no API.

3 — CSV/Excel import and export; no live connections, no API worth the name.

5 — Directory import (AD/Entra), a documented REST API for core objects, a handful of native connectors (ticketing or SSO); automation is reminders and recurrence.

8 — Real connector set (ticketing, HR or asset sources), webhooks, SSO/SCIM, workflow automation with delegation and escalation, useful AI assistance with human review.

10 — The platform behaves like infrastructure: API parity for the data model, event streams, bidirectional sync with the estate, and automation that measurably removes the recurring toil (reviews, attestations, evidence pulls) rather than renaming it.

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The Skeptic

The automation on display lives inside the product — recurring audit cycles, deadline reminders, a document generator — and SSO appears only as an Enterprise-tier feature; we found no public information on an API, directory or ticketing connectors, or import paths from the real IT estate. The captured pages also give different figures for effort reduction (50% less effort, up to 70%, and up to 50% time savings), so the promised savings are not consistently quantified anywhere. 1 2 9 10

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the compliance record of the whole company actually lives and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. A platform that maps your processing is itself your most concentrated processing.

0 — Non-EU entity, non-EU-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list — for the system holding your RoPA.

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 or undocumented.

5 — EU hosting is the default, DPA and subprocessor list published; the vendor or a critical subprocessor is still within non-European jurisdictional reach.

8 — EU entity, EU hosting with named data centers, published subprocessor list free of content-touching non-EU processors, DPA and TOMs public.

10 — Jurisdictionally clean end to end: European ownership, EU-only hosting and subprocessors, on-premises or sovereign-cloud options, and the whole chain documented publicly.

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The Skeptic

A German GmbH with '100% EU-Server' claimed as standard and development in Münster is the right shape, but that is where the public trail ends. We found no public information on a data processing agreement, a subprocessor list, named data centers, or the ownership behind the entity — for a system holding your records of processing, that silence is the deciding fact. 5 8 10

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real invoice — per module, per entity, per year, with consulting unbundled — from public pages alone. Unpublished pricing is the B2B norm in this market, so this criterion describes rather than condemns; the benches weight it accordingly.

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

3 — An entry price exists, but module add-ons, entity counts or bundled consulting make the real total incomputable.

5 — Most editions carry real numbers with billing period stated and software separated from services; at least one commonly needed module or scale step is unpriced.

8 — Every edition and module priced publicly with entity/user boundaries and setup fees stated; only genuine corporate-group contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: modules, scale steps, service packages and renewal rules public, so the invoice for a 100-employee company and a 10-client consultancy is a two-minute exercise.

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The Skeptic

Three of four tiers carry real figures with billing period and company limits stated (0 €, ab 99 € monatlich, ab 299 € monatlich), and consulting is offered as a separate path from the software. The 'ab' wording leaves every scale step above the floor unpriced and Enterprise is Auf Anfrage, so a multi-company buyer still cannot compute the invoice from public pages alone. 1 10

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 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 — 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 (11)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +2 earlier captures: 16 Sep 2026, 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 DSMS product page keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +3 earlier captures: 15 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026, 24 Aug 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Vendor pricing page keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Company page keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +2 earlier captures: 16 Sep 2026, 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Imprint keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 31 Aug 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap help.keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap help.keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap help.keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap help.keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap help.keyed.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →