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Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by Acquia, Inc. / Mautic Community · www.mautic.org

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Method and versions

The Demand Gen Lead v1.0 · The Sales Ops Manager v1.0 · The Data Protection Officer v1.0 · The Lifecycle Marketer v1.0 · The Solution Architect v1.0 · The Skeptic v1.0 · rubric v1 · evaluated 28 Sep 2026

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The Sales Ops Manager

Weighted verdict

Owns the CRM and inherits every duplicate the platform creates. Wants field-level ownership defined, conflict rules that are configurable rather than folklore, and a sync error log somebody can act on before the pipeline report is wrong.

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Scored by The Sales Ops Manager

Journeys & orchestration

How this is scored

Multi-step automation: triggers, branching, waits, and — the part that decides whether it survives contact with reality — what happens when journeys collide.

0 — Autoresponders on a single trigger; no branching, no waits, no conditions.

3 — Linear sequences with simple conditions, one entry trigger per journey, and no visibility into where a contact currently sits.

5 — A visual builder with branching on attributes and behaviour, waits and goals, entry and exit conditions, and per-contact journey state visible.

8 — Event-driven entry from external systems, frequency capping and suppression across journeys, priority when a contact qualifies for several, versioning of a live journey, and testing against real records.

10 — Orchestration is coherent across the whole programme: one decision layer deciding what a person receives next regardless of which journey wants to send it, holdout groups for measurement, and a journey a colleague can read months later without a diagram.

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The Sales Ops Manager

The drag-and-drop Campaign Builder and lead-nurturing automation from capture to conversion are evidenced, so a visual builder is on the table, but we found no public information on branching on attributes and behaviour, waits, entry and exit conditions, or where a contact currently sits in a campaign. We also found no public information on what happens when journeys collide — frequency capping, suppression across journeys, or priority when a contact qualifies for several — which is the part that decides whether automation survives contact with reality. 2

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Lead scoring, routing & lifecycle

How this is scored

Scoring, qualification and handover to sales — including whether the customer can explain to a lead why the system decided what it decided.

0 — No scoring or lifecycle model; every contact is treated alike.

3 — A single additive score with fixed rules, no decay, no lifecycle stages and no routing.

5 — Configurable scoring on attributes and behaviour with decay, lifecycle stages, and routing to owners or teams with notification.

8 — Multiple scoring models per product or region, negative scoring, account-level scoring alongside contact-level, SLA on follow-up, and score history visible per contact.

10 — Scoring is explainable and accountable: the contribution of each signal visible per record, model changes versioned with their effect on the funnel, routing rules auditable, and predictive scoring — where offered — documented well enough for a DPO to assess it as automated decision-making.

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The Sales Ops Manager

Customizable lead scoring is evidenced, which clears the fixed-rules floor, but we found no public information on decay, lifecycle stages, routing to owners or teams with notification, or score history per contact. I inherit the handover, and nothing here would let my team explain to a lead why the system decided what it decided; we found no public information on negative scoring, account-level scoring or multiple scoring models either. I place it midway between a simple additive score and a fully configurable model. 2

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Channels & personalisation

How this is scored

What the platform can actually send and personalise: email, SMS, push, on-site content, ads audiences — judged on what shares one profile and one suppression list.

0 — Email only.

3 — Email plus one further channel, managed separately with its own list and no shared suppression.

5 — Email, SMS or push and web forms driven from one contact profile, with dynamic content blocks and shared unsubscribe handling.

8 — The above plus on-site personalisation, ad-audience sync to the major networks, cross-channel frequency capping, and content personalised on behaviour rather than only on stored fields.

10 — Channel is a delivery detail: one profile and one consent state across every channel, next-best-channel selection, and personalisation that draws on the full behavioural record without the marketer assembling it by hand.

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The Sales Ops Manager

Email marketing and transactional email with personalisation and A/B testing, plus web forms, landing pages and web tracking, are all evidenced from one platform. We found no public information on SMS or push, ad-audience sync, cross-channel frequency capping, or shared unsubscribe handling across channels. The contact profile appears shared across what exists, but no second delivery channel is evidenced to join it. 1 2

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Consent, tracking & profiling

How this is scored

The platform builds behavioural profiles of named people. Consent capture and proof, tracking that can be limited, retention, and whether automated decisions about individuals are documented and contestable.

0 — Tracking always on and undocumented, single opt-in, no consent record, no retention rule, no way to exclude a person from profiling.

3 — Double opt-in available with a timestamp, cookie tracking that cannot be disabled per contact, and retention described as the customer's problem.

5 — Double opt-in as documented default with a stored consent record including source, per-channel consent states, tracking switchable per contact, and stated retention for inactive records.

8 — Consent reproducible as evidence with the wording versioned, profiling suppressible per person, retention executed per data category, documented handling of access and erasure requests including derived scores, and a cookieless or first-party tracking mode.

10 — Built for the accountability principle: a per-contact history of what was tracked, scored and decided, automated decision-making documented well enough to support an Art. 22 assessment, profiling off by default for anyone who has not consented to it, and deletion that removes derived scores as well as raw events.

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The Sales Ops Manager

Privacy positioning is loud — "privacy-focused by default", compliance claims for GDPR and CCPA, web tracking with a compliance focus, and a consent banner on the vendor's own site — but we found no public information on double opt-in defaults, stored consent records with source, per-channel consent states, tracking suppressed per contact, or retention rules for inactive records. The deletion facts that do exist concern website accounts, and removed profile information is stated to sit in backups for a period before complete removal. For a platform building behavioural profiles of named people, the captured pages evidence the promise and not the mechanism. 1 2 3

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CRM integration & data model

How this is scored

The join that decides the implementation: how the platform and the CRM stay in agreement about who a person is, and what happens when they disagree.

0 — CSV import and export; no CRM integration and no identity resolution.

3 — One-way sync into a named CRM on a schedule, with duplicates resolved by hand and no conflict rules.

5 — Bidirectional sync with at least one major CRM, field mapping, deduplication rules, and a sync error log somebody can act on.

8 — Configurable conflict resolution per field, account and contact objects both modelled, custom objects supported, near-real-time sync with retry, and a documented API with rate limits.

10 — One record, two systems, no ambiguity: identity resolution across anonymous and known states, field-level ownership defined per system, replay of failed syncs, and a data model the customer can extend without vendor services.

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The Sales Ops Manager

A documented REST API, a plugin ecosystem and a partners directory for installation and configuration are evidenced — build-it-yourself territory — and we found no public information on connectors to any named CRM, field mapping, deduplication rules, configurable conflict resolution per field, or a sync error log I could act on before the pipeline report is wrong. The join that decides who a person is in two systems, and what happens when the systems disagree, is exactly where duplicates get born, and the captured pages are silent on both. The Drupal integration is content, not CRM. 1 2 1

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where behavioural profiles of named EU residents are processed, who the contracting entity is, and which subprocessors see them. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it — which given the profiling is heavily.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated or non-EU, subprocessors unnamed, behavioural data leaving the EU with no stated basis.

3 — EU data residency for storage while tracking, sending or support access remain non-EU, or the contracting entity sits outside the EU.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — tracking scripts, AI scoring, analytics — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, and any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: every profile, event and derived score processed in the EU by European subprocessors, certification published, and no transfer requiring a Schrems II argument to survive.

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The Sales Ops Manager

The steward is Acquia, Inc. in Boston, the trademark sits with a US-based Open Source Collective, disputes run under North Carolina law, and website use is stated as consent to international transfer of information, while data residency and subprocessors show as unknown. The only GB presence is a postal contact address for privacy inquiries, not a statement of incorporation. Self-hosting is genuinely offered as "true data sovereignty" — a customer-managed escape hatch — but on the vendor's own side the captured pages support only the lowest level of this scale. 1 3

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual invoice for their contact base and send volume — including the tier where automation actually begins, overage, and mandatory onboarding — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation, and onboarding fees are never mentioned.

3 — A contact-tier headline exists, but the tier where journeys, scoring or CRM sync begin is unstated, as is any mandatory implementation fee.

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

8 — Every tier priced publicly with contact and volume limits, feature boundaries, overage rates, onboarding costs, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual invoice derivable for a given contact count, send volume and feature set, including overage, additional users and any implementation fee stated outright.

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The Sales Ops Manager

The only pricing-related fact on the captured pages is a 14-day free trial with no credit card required; we found no public information on contact-tier prices, billing periods, send limits, overage rates, or mandatory onboarding fees. A buyer cannot begin to compute an annual invoice from these pages. 2

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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 GB ⚠ unverified	1/3 pts	3 Report an error
Ownership	Not determined	—	uncited Report an error
Data residency	Not determined	—	uncited Report an error
Subprocessors	Not determined	—	uncited Report an error

Where this could be wrong

Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 2 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 — Legal entity. This is a postal contact address for privacy inquiries, not a registry or imprint statement of incorporation, and the page separately notes "MAUTIC is a trademark of the Mautic project of the Open Source Collective", a US-based fiscal sponsor.
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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.

16 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
6 legal 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 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
3 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. Know more? Tell us
3 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. Know more? Tell us
2 hosting 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
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. Know more? Tell us

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Sources (4)

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

1 Project homepage www.mautic.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 +3 earlier captures: 28 Sep 2026, 2 Sep 2026, 2 Sep 2026 Details →
2 Features www.mautic.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
3 Privacy policy www.mautic.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
4 Security / trust page mautic.org Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →