# Relesys — Employee Communication & Intranet

Relesys by Relesys A/S holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-30. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Relesys A/S (https://www.relesys.ai)
- Category: [Employee Communication & Intranet](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-communications.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-communications/relesys
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-communications/relesys/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-communications/relesys/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-11-04 · evaluated 2026-10-30 · oldest source captured 2026-10-29

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Relesys A/S
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Relesys is an AI-powered all-in-one employee app from Relesys A/S of Copenhagen, aimed at retail and hospitality frontline teams, with persona-weighted totals of 3.2-3.7. It is strongest on engagement and feedback and on integration and administration, both clustered at 4: onboarding from day 0, a brand-ambassador community, API, SLA and system status pages, and user and duty-plan integrations. It is weakest on content and knowledge: beyond employees finding answers without asking management, no public information appears on intranet pages, document areas, search, a people directory or translation. Scores split 3-4 on reach and targeting (targeting and staff-without-email login undescribed) and on works council and privacy — judges who scored 4 credited the published data processing agreement on EU standard contractual clauses; those who scored 3 weighed the pitch that managers "identify issues and spot champions" against missing works-agreement, quiet-hours and private-phone detail. Sovereignty sits at 3: Azure with no region stated and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 as targets to be obtained. No prices appear on the captured pages.

**Speaks for it:**
- Engagement and feedback scores cluster at 4, on documented onboarding from day 0 and an expert community of brand ambassadors.
- Integration and administration scores cluster at 4, with an API developers page, published SLA and system status pages, and maintained user and duty-plan integrations.
- A published data processing agreement built on EU standard contractual clauses covers audit rights, pseudonymisation, breach notification, role-based access control and deletion on termination with certification.
- A trust centre offers an internal security-programme overview with audit reports and security policies on request, alongside a named Data Compliance Manager.
- Campaign execution across all locations is described, with a Selected (BESTSELLER) customer case across 26 locations.

**Held against it:**
- Content and knowledge scores fall to 2-3, with no public information found on intranet pages, document areas, search, a people directory or translation.
- Sovereignty scores sit at 3: hosting stated only as Azure with no region, the preapproved sub-processor list held in a data processing agreement annex, and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 described as certifications to be obtained.
- We found no public information on single sign-on, SCIM, a named identity provider, Microsoft 365 integration, or login for staff without a company email address.
- The pitch that managers can identify issues and spot champions, with remote compliance checking across all locations, drew works-council scrutiny of individual performance visibility.
- We found no public information on a works-agreement template, quiet hours, private-phone rules or survey anonymity thresholds.

**Best for:**
- You run retail or hospitality sites across many locations and need a branded daily app for store teams, with campaigns executed and understood in all locations.
- You hire seasonal or frontline staff and need onboarding from day 0 plus an expert community of brand ambassadors.
- You want the compliance paper trail in public: a published data processing agreement on EU standard contractual clauses with audit rights, deletion on termination with certification, and a trust centre offering audit reports on request.
- Your teams work to duty plans — duty-plan integrations and a full integration onboarding service are documented.

**Avoid if:**
- You require certifications already held — the pages describe ISO 27001 and SOC 2 as certifications to be obtained rather than held.
- Your procurement must verify the full data and ownership chain — hosting is stated as Azure with no region, the preapproved sub-processor list sits in a data processing agreement annex, and ownership is unresolved after the 2024 takeover by Unite BidCo ApS.
- Your works council will examine individual performance visibility — the pages invite managers to identify issues and spot champions, with remote compliance checking across all locations.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The Internal Communications Lead | The Frontline Operations Lead | The Microsoft 365 Administrator | The Works Council Member | The Data Protection Officer | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reach & targeted announcements | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pages, documents & knowledge | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Engagement, surveys & onboarding | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Works council, private phones & privacy by design | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Integration, identity & administration | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The Internal Communications Lead** (v1.0): Heads internal communications at a 3,000-person manufacturer with eleven sites in four countries, a third of the staff at desks and the rest on the shop floor. Sends the CEO letter, the site news and the safety notice, and wants each to reach the right people in their language, a read confirmation where the law asks for one, and figures that show the board who actually saw it — not an email open rate.
- **The Frontline Operations Lead** (v1.0): Runs HR and operations for a logistics company with 1,800 drivers, pickers and store staff, most of them without a company email address and many on temporary contracts. The notice board and the WhatsApp group are what works today. Wants a login a new picker manages on day one, onboarding before the first shift, content in six languages, and a per-user price that still makes sense for seasonal staff.
- **The Microsoft 365 Administrator** (v1.0): Looks after Entra ID, SharePoint and Teams for a company of 4,000, of whom 2,500 have no Microsoft licence. Has seen an intranet project end as a second SharePoint nobody maintains. Wants provisioning from the HR system including staff without email, SSO and SCIM, the app inside Teams rather than beside it, delegated admin rights per site, a real API, and an export when the contract ends.
- **The Works Council Member** (v1.0): Sits on the works council of a retail chain and negotiates the Betriebsvereinbarung for every new system under § 87 BetrVG. Will not sign off an app that tells a store manager who read a post at eleven at night, or that colleagues must install on their private phones to get their shift news. Reads the analytics pages first and asks what a manager can see about one person.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): External data protection officer for several mid-sized employers. Reads the DPA and the subprocessor list before the feature pages: where push notifications, translation and the AI assistant send employee data, how long messages and read receipts are kept, how voluntary use on a private phone stays voluntary, and whether the parent company sits under a non-EU law that reaches the whole workforce's data.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen an "employee super app" that was a news feed with a chat bolted on, "reach every employee" that needed a company email to log in, and "95 percent adoption" that counted downloads. Reads "GDPR compliant" next to a push provider and a translation API that sit outside the EU, and per-user prices that apply only above a thousand seats — and asks what leaving would cost.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting location | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting options | Not determined | — | — |
| Open source | Not determined | — | — |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Audit rights: yes [S7]
- Audit trails: yes [S7]
- Backup recovery: yes [S7]
- Breach notification: yes [S6]
- Breach notification: yes [S7]
- Certifications targeted: Stated as certifications to be obtained, not necessarily held [S7]
- Confidentiality agreements staff: yes [S7]
- Controller processor roles: Supplier · Client [S7]
- Data deletion on termination: yes [S7]
- Data portability interface: yes [S7]
- DPA available: yes [S10]
- DPA sccl EU 2016 679: DPA based on EU SCCs (Standard Contractual Clauses) for Article 28(3)/(4) GDPR compliance [S7]
- Encryption rest: yes [S7]
- Encryption transit: SSL/TLS · PGP · IPSec [S7]
- Erasure measures: yes [S7]
- GDPR: yes [S6]
- Incident response plan: yes [S7]
- Liability cap saas agreement: Liability capped per the SaaS Agreement [S7]
- Multi factor authentication: yes [S7]
- Pseudonymization: yes [S7]
- Rbac: yes [S7]
- Staff training: yes [S7]
- Subprocessor notification days: 30 [S7]
- Termination rights: yes [S7]
- Trust center available: yes [S10]

**Data**
- Applicant retention months: 6 [S6]
- Data portability: yes [S6]
- Marketing register contents: name and contact information, role and employment details, IP addresses, interests, freeform info [S6]
- Marketing retention: as long as Relesys has legitimate interest to market [S6]

**Hosting**
- Azure: Status Monitoring · Azure · BC/DR [S8]

**Integrations**
- API developers available: yes [S10]
- Migration offered: yes [S10]
- Onboarding service: yes [S5]

**Legal**
- Data compliance role: Data Compliance Manager [S6]
- Entity address: Relesys, Orientkaj 1, 1st floor, 2150 Nordhavn, Denmark [S6]
- Third party sharing: no · yes [S6]

**Product**
- Access control: Data Access · Logging · Password Security [S8]
- Annexes modules: Processing annexes cover: Relesys Platform, AI Smart Notifications, AI Rich Text Editor, Smart Content Scheduler [S7]
- App security: Responsible Disclosure · Code Analysis · Credential Management [S8]
- Brand ambassador community: Community building of brand ambassadors [S9]
- Campaign execution: Campaign execution and understanding across all locations [S9]
- Claimed capabilities: Retain talent, Boost performance, Ensure compliance, Consolidate systems [S10]
- Communication platform: employee comms platform with communication and collaboration tools [S2]
- Compliance audits: Remote compliance checking across all locations [S9]
- Cookies used: yes [S6]
- Corporate security: Asset Management Practices · Email Protection · Employee Training [S8]
- Customer case selected: Selected (BESTSELLER) · 26 [S10]
- Data security: Access Monitoring · Data Backups · Data Erasure [S8]
- Duty plan integrations: yes [S5]
- Endpoint security: Disk Encryption · Endpoint Detection & Response · Mobile Device Management [S8]
- Gen z engagement: Branded app for daily store team engagement [S9]
- Industries listed: Retail, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Transportation [S10]
- Information access: Employees find answers without asking management [S9]
- Integrations maintained: yes [S5]
- Kpi dashboards: yes [S5]
- Modules listed: Connect, Grow, Accelerate, Understand, Integrations [S10]
- Network security: Data Loss Prevention · DNSSEC · Firewall [S8]
- Onboarding: Employee onboarding from day 0 [S9]
- One entry point: one entry point for all systems [S5]
- Overview: AI-powered all-in-one app combining communication, training, and operations [S1]
- Product security: Audit Logging · Data Security · Integrations [S8]
- Proof case: BESTSELLER uses it across 26 locations [S1]
- Retail performance app: Retail performance app for frontline teams [S9]
- Site links: yes [S6]
- Subprocessor list annex: Preapproved sub-processor list maintained for the Relesys Platform [S7]
- Trust center overview: Trust Center offers overview of internal security program and option to request audit reports and security policies [S8]
- User integrations: yes [S5]
- Webinar case: Customer case: Selected (BESTSELLER) across 26 locations [S4]

**Subprocessors**
- Marketing agencies: marketing agencies for campaign and event execution [S6]
- Marketing third parties: Hubspot · Facebook · Google Services · LinkedIn · Instagram [S6]

**Support**
- Other links: Site offers SLA, System Status, API Developers pages [S7]
- Security email: security@relesys.net · security-related inquiries [S8]
- SLA available: SLA page linked in site footer · yes [S10]
- System status available: yes [S10]
- Trust center contact: support [S8]

## Questions

### Is Relesys European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Relesys as EU-Made.

### Where does Relesys store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026.

### Does Relesys have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 29 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Relesys?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates [Flip (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-communications/flip), [Workvivo by Zoom (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-communications/workvivo) and [Staffbase (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-communications/staffbase) highest among the other 17 Employee Communication & Intranet products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Flip](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-communications/flip) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Relesys alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-communications/relesys/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- We found no public information on pricing on the pages we read (relesys.ai, relesys.ai/connect, relesys.ai/grow, relesys.ai/understand, relesys.ai/integrations, relesys.ai/privacy-policy and 4 more). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page.
- 37 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.
- 14 compliance 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.
- 9 integrations 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.
- 5 support 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.
- 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.
- 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.relesys.ai (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S2] Features page (communication): https://www.relesys.ai/connect (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S3] Features page (training and onboarding): https://www.relesys.ai/grow (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S4] Features page (insights): https://www.relesys.ai/understand (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S5] Integrations page: https://www.relesys.ai/integrations (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S6] Privacy policy: https://www.relesys.ai/privacy-policy (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S7] Data processing agreement (dpa): https://www.relesys.ai/data-processing-agreement (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S8] Security / trust page: https://trust.relesysapp.net/ (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S9] Reach & targeted announcements — found from sitemap: https://www.relesys.ai/app-demos/your-first-customer-the-frontline (checked 2026-10-29)
- [S10] Pages, documents & knowledge — found from sitemap: https://www.relesys.ai/search (checked 2026-10-29)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Relesys — Employee Communication & Intranet", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-11-04. https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-communications/relesys

Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/1173?target=page