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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 CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG · www.cleverreach.com

An AI-assisted analysis of public evidence — not a hands-on test.

Every score, rationale and verdict on this page is AI-generated. Every claim cites the source it was read from. Nothing here is a human star review — and no score can be bought. How scores are made →

Method and versions

The CRM Manager v1.0 · The Deliverability Engineer v1.0 · The Data Protection Officer v1.0 · The Shop Owner v1.0 · The Integrator v1.0 · The Skeptic v1.0 · rubric v1 · evaluated 30 Sep 2026

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Integrator

Weighted verdict

Has to wire this into a stack that already exists. Wants a documented API with rate limits, webhooks that retry, a sandbox and a deprecation policy. Treats a partner-form integration page as a missing API, and reads "Zapier supported" as an outsourced one.

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

Scored by The Integrator

Campaigns & automation

How this is scored

Building the mail and the journey around it: editor, templates, segmentation, triggered sequences, A/B testing.

0 — One-off broadcasts from a fixed template; no segmentation and no automation of any kind.

3 — A drag-and-drop editor and simple list segmentation, but automation is a single welcome mail and there is no testing.

5 — Reusable templates, attribute and behaviour segmentation, multi-step automations on common triggers, and subject-line A/B testing.

8 — A visual journey builder with branching on behaviour and data, dynamic content per segment, send-time optimisation, and testing that reports significance rather than raw counts.

10 — Journeys treat the whole lifecycle: event-driven entry from other systems, branching on any attribute or event, holdout groups for measurement, and automations a marketer can read months later without a diagram.

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The Integrator

The captures show a drag-and-drop editor, segmentation, a visual workflow editor with behaviour triggers and twenty-plus ready automation tracks, and both subject-line and content split tests with automatic winner send-out. I stop short of the top there: we found no public information on branching automations on data attributes, on send-time optimisation, or on statistical significance in the test analysis — the pages describe which subject line achieved the higher open rate, automatic or manual. 1 3 6 7

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Deliverability infrastructure

How this is scored

Whether the mail arrives — authentication, sending reputation, bounce and complaint handling — judged on what the vendor documents rather than the inbox rate it advertises.

0 — No documentation of authentication or bounce handling; deliverability appears only as a marketing number.

3 — SPF and DKIM setup documented, but no DMARC guidance, no stated bounce policy and shared sending only.

5 — SPF, DKIM and DMARC documented with a custom sending domain, automatic hard-bounce suppression, and complaint-loop handling stated.

8 — The above plus dedicated-IP options with a documented warm-up, seed or inbox-placement testing, engagement-based sunsetting, and published guidance on list hygiene.

10 — Deliverability is operated as a service: reputation monitoring surfaced to the customer, per-domain and per-ISP diagnostics, enforced authentication before first send, and postmaster or blocklist handling the vendor documents doing on the customer's behalf.

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The Integrator

DKIM is documented in depth and is a precondition for sending, with an automatically generated TXT record, a record check and selector support; hard bounces are suppressed after the first attempt for a year, soft bounces retried three times with a month's block, and a deliverability dashboard sits in the reporting, with a dedicated IP available on request at the top plan. We found no public information on complaint-loop handling, on warm-up for that dedicated IP, or on seed and inbox-placement testing, so this lands above the middle of the scale and well below the top. 2 8 9 12

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Consent, proof & tracking limits

How this is scored

How subscribers arrive and what the sender can prove afterwards: double opt-in, logged consent, unsubscribe handling, and whether open and click tracking can be limited or switched off.

0 — Single opt-in with no consent record; tracking is always on and cannot be disabled.

3 — Double opt-in available but not the default, and the consent record is a timestamp without the source, IP or the wording consented to.

5 — Double opt-in as the documented default with a stored consent record including source and timestamp, one-click unsubscribe, and tracking that can be turned off per campaign.

8 — Consent is reproducible as evidence: the confirmation mail and form wording versioned and retrievable per subscriber, unsubscribe honoured across lists, tracking off-by-default available, and retention rules for inactive subscribers.

10 — Built for the burden of proof: a per-subscriber consent history an authority would accept, documented handling of Art. 15 access and Art. 17 erasure requests, pixel-free and link-tracking-free sending as a supported mode, and preference-centre granularity rather than all-or-nothing.

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The Integrator

Double opt-in is the documented standard and its success is logged automatically, expressly so the sender can prove consent in a dispute; unsubscribe is immediate with single, confirmed and double opt-out variants, recipients manage their own data and newsletter preferences, and reporting data can be anonymised on request. For the top of the scale I would want retrievable, versioned form wording, tracking off by default and documented handling of access and erasure requests — we found no public information on those. 10 11 12 13

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List ownership, import & exit

How this is scored

Whether the list and its history remain the sender's: import with attributes intact, full export including engagement history, deletion that executes, and no metering that prices leaving out of reach.

0 — Export is addresses only; engagement history, segments and automations cannot leave.

3 — CSV import and export of subscriber fields, but engagement history and unsubscribe state are not exportable.

5 — Full subscriber export including custom attributes, subscription status and unsubscribe state, plus API access sufficient to sync elsewhere.

8 — Everything exportable in open formats — subscribers, engagement history, campaigns and templates — with documented deletion of a subscriber across all records, and no export throttling.

10 — Exit is a documented feature: full-fidelity export of the whole account, contractual data return, deletion that is evidenced rather than asserted, and migration tooling in both directions.

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The Integrator

Import is properly built — CSV, Excel, text files and FTP, up to forty-five custom attribute fields, realtime sync from shop, CMS and CRM — and deletion is documented: records can be edited or deleted at any time, and account data within ten days of withdrawal. The exit side is where the captures fall silent: we found no public information on subscriber export, engagement-history export or full-account export, and that is the part I price hardest. 5 11 12 13

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Integrations & API

How this is scored

The connection surface a newsletter lives on: shop and CRM systems, events in and out, webhooks, and an API somebody can build against without a partner agreement.

0 — No API and no named integrations; the list is maintained by CSV upload.

3 — A handful of native integrations and a read-mostly API, with no webhooks and no documented rate limits.

5 — Named integrations for common shop and CRM systems, a documented REST API with keys, and webhooks for the core subscriber events.

8 — Maintained bidirectional integrations with named systems including at least one major shop platform, event webhooks with retries, documented rate limits, and a sandbox.

10 — The tool is a component rather than a destination: transactional and marketing sending on one API, events flowing both directions, versioned API with a deprecation policy, and integrations the vendor maintains rather than lists.

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The Integrator

This is a genuine developer surface, not a partner form: a documented API with a PHP SDK and an MCP server, webhooks that deliver instant POST requests to your endpoint with a published events list, verification and optional encryption, plus 120-plus named integrations including Shopify, WooCommerce, HubSpot and Salesforce, with Zapier and Make alongside rather than instead. What stops me building on it blind: we found no public information on documented rate limits, webhook retries, a sandbox, or an API versioning and deprecation policy. 3 12 14 15

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where subscriber data and behavioural tracking live, who the contracting entity is, and which subprocessors touch the send. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it — which in this category is heavily.

0 — US vendor and contracting entity, US hosting, subprocessors unnamed; subscriber behaviour leaves the EU with no stated basis.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option or for storage only, while sending, tracking or support access remains non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — sending infrastructure, analytics, support tooling — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting with a named data-centre provider, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, and any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting, sending and every subprocessor in the EU, certification published, and no transfer that needs a Schrems II argument to survive.

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The Integrator

German legal entity and contracting party in Rastede, servers stated on the vendor's own pages as Germany and the EU, a digitally signable data processing agreement, an external data protection officer, and non-EU processing actually named with a stated basis — Zendesk support data in the USA under Art. 49 Abs. 1 lit. a DSGVO, Reddit under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. We found no public information naming the data-centre provider, and the subprocessor names in the captures cover the vendor's website rather than a complete list for the newsletter-sending chain — and a consent-based transfer is a thin shield for support data. 1 4 5 11

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a sender can compute the real invoice for their list size and send volume — including overage, extra domains and automation limits — from public pages alone.

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

3 — A headline price per contact tier exists, but send limits, overage rates or the tier where automation begins are not stated.

5 — Contact-tier prices public with the billing period stated and send limits given, but at least one commonly needed capability sits in an unpriced tier or add-on.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with contact and volume limits, overage rates, feature boundaries and VAT treatment stated; only genuinely custom volume lacks a number.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator producing the annual invoice for a given list size and send frequency, including overage, additional domains and dedicated IPs.

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The Integrator

The free tier (250 recipients, 1,000 mails monthly, no credit card), an Enterprise tier at 449,10 $ per month with 250,000 mails, priced add-ons — 3,00 € per accessibility test, 5,00 € per design and spam test, 29,00 € per onboarding appointment, 22,95 € monthly premium support — a 10 % annual discount and annual-in-advance billing are all public. But the captures give no price for the middle tiers, no overage terms under the fixed-quota option and no VAT treatment, and they price Enterprise in dollars while the add-ons are in euros — so I cannot compute an invoice for a mid-size list from the public pages alone. 2 3

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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.

Legal entity	Incorporated in DE	3/3 pts	4 Report an error
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

Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 16 Sep 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
Weak sourcing — Data residency, Subprocessors. Not confirmed on the vendor’s own pages as captured.
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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.

5 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
4 subprocessors facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
3 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
1 legal fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
2 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown. Know more? Tell us

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Sources (15)

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

1 Vendor homepage www.cleverreach.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
2 Pricing www.cleverreach.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
3 Features www.cleverreach.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
4 Imprint www.cleverreach.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
5 Privacy policy www.cleverreach.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
6 Campaigns & automation — found from sitemap www.cleverreach.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
7 Campaigns & automation — found from sitemap www.cleverreach.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
8 Deliverability infrastructure — found from sitemap www.cleverreach.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
9 Deliverability infrastructure — found from sitemap www.cleverreach.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
10 Consent, proof & tracking limits — found from sitemap www.cleverreach.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
11 Consent, proof & tracking limits — found from sitemap www.cleverreach.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
12 List ownership, import & exit — found from sitemap www.cleverreach.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
13 List ownership, import & exit — found from sitemap www.cleverreach.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
14 Integrations & API — found from sitemap www.cleverreach.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
15 Integrations & API — found from sitemap developers.cleverreach.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →