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Sovereignty: 3 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by awork GmbH · www.awork.com

Project management and resource planning for teams, made in Hamburg.

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The Integrator

Weighted verdict

Lives in the API docs before the product tour. Optimizes for webhooks, import/export and a tool that plays well in a stack. Rejects closed ecosystems and CSV-only exits.

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

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Collaboration depth

How this is scored

How much real multi-person project work the tool carries: shared planning, assignments, dependencies, workload, comments, guest access.

0 — A personal task list; a second user has no defined place in it.

3 — Tasks can be shared and assigned, but planning stays per-person — no shared timeline, workload or dependency view.

5 — Solid shared projects with assignments, comments and at least one team-level planning view; gaps appear in cross-project or capacity planning.

8 — Team-level planning is first-class: cross-project views, workload/capacity, dependencies, guest or client access with sane permissions.

10 — Handles the full span from two freelancers to a structured department in one model — planning, capacity, permissions and client involvement all without workarounds.

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The Integrator

Free client/freelancer access with no extra license fees is real multi-person surface, and the calendar integrations pitch 'much more accurate capacity planning' — but the evidence never confirms the mechanics I'd need to see: assignments, comments, dependencies, workload or cross-project views. Docs are tiered at project level, nothing more. Genuinely collaborative product, but the evidence stops short of rubric level 5. 1 6 2

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Reporting

How this is scored

Whether the tool can answer questions about the work: progress, time, budgets, utilization — and export the answer.

0 — No reporting beyond looking at the board.

3 — Fixed per-project status views only; nothing aggregates across projects and nothing exports cleanly.

5 — Useful standard reports (progress, tracked time) with basic filters and CSV export, but limited customization and no budget/utilization depth.

8 — Configurable cross-project reporting incl. time, budgets and utilization, with dashboards and reliable exports.

10 — Reporting is a product in itself: custom report builder, scheduled delivery, API access to every metric the UI shows.

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The Integrator

Time tracking is confirmed and it flows out — tracked times transfer to billing tools and PSAs, plus a Google Sheets bridge — which is more than a closed board. But no report UI, dashboards, filters, budgets or utilization are evidenced anywhere, so I can't in good conscience reach rubric level 5 on export paths alone. 6 2

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Integrations

How this is scored

How well the tool connects to the rest of the stack: native integrations, calendar/comms hooks, API and webhooks, import/export paths.

0 — A closed box — no API, no integrations, CSV out if anything.

3 — A handful of marquee integrations, no public API or an API that covers a fraction of the product.

5 — The common set (calendar, Slack/Teams, file storage) plus a documented public API; automation platforms partially covered.

8 — Broad native catalogue, well-documented API and webhooks, first-class automation-platform support and real import paths from competitors.

10 — Ecosystem-grade: everything in 8 plus the tool is itself extensible (apps/plugins, AI/MCP surfaces) and exit via API export is complete.

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The Integrator

This is the strongest surface: a genuinely broad native catalogue across calendars, comms, storage, billing and PSA, first-class automation-platform coverage (Zapier, Make, n8n, OttoKit), an open REST API, and AI-agent connectors into M365, Slack, GitHub and Notion. It loses points on my home turf: no webhook confirmation, no evidence of API doc depth or coverage, and no import path from competitors — so exit and event-driven wiring remain unproven. 6 2 4

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Onboarding effort

How this is scored

Time and friction from signup to first real value for a small team, without paid services.

0 — No self-serve path — onboarding starts with a sales call and an implementation project.

3 — Self-serve exists but the first project requires configuration a newcomer cannot judge yet (workflows, custom fields, permissions) before anything works.

5 — A team gets a first project running within a day; trial requires payment details or key steps live behind docs.

8 — Signup to working project inside an hour: guided setup, sensible defaults, templates, trial without payment details.

10 — Minutes to value even for non-tool-people, importers pull existing work in, and the tool teaches its own advanced features as the team grows into them.

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The Integrator

The trial is cardless and social login gets you in fast, which is the right friction profile. But the vendor's own homepage says 'Get fully onboarded within 6 weeks', and there is zero evidence of templates, guided setup or importers to pull existing work in — nothing supports signup-to-value inside a day. 1 3 4

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the company and the data actually sit: legal entity, ownership control, data residency, and subprocessor exposure to non-EU jurisdictions.

0 — Non-European vendor, data on US infrastructure under US law, no DPA worth the name.

3 — DPA and GDPR language present, but hosting defaults to the US or ownership sits outside Europe — compliance paperwork over substance.

5 — EU data residency is available and contractually fixed, but the vendor or its controlling owner is non-European, or core subprocessors put data within CLOUD Act reach.

8 — European company under European control with EU-resident data and a public DPA; remaining exposure is limited to identifiable subprocessors (e.g. a US hyperscaler's EU region) and is documented.

10 — European company, European control, EU-only data residency on European infrastructure, subprocessor list free of extraterritorial reach — verifiable, not asserted.

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The Integrator

German GmbH in Hamburg with named representatives, data contractually on Azure in Frankfurt/Berlin with a downloadable GDPR DPA, and every remaining exposure documented: Chargebee, Intercom and OpenAI (help-center search, USA processing possible) are identifiable, mostly DPF-certified subprocessors. That is rubric level 8 almost verbatim — the unconfirmed ultimate ownership caveat keeps me from going higher, and the US subprocessors rule out a 9. 4 5 1

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Support & documentation

How this is scored

Whether a stuck user gets unstuck: docs quality, support channels and their availability per plan, and the health of the learning surface.

0 — No docs beyond marketing pages; support is a contact form that may answer.

3 — Docs exist but are thin or stale; support on entry plans is effectively email-only with slow turnaround.

5 — Searchable help center covering the core product; chat or email support on all plans with reasonable response times.

8 — Deep, current docs incl. onboarding guides and templates; fast chat support not gated to top tiers; visible changelog.

10 — Docs, academy, community and support so good they are a reason to buy; SLAs published, support quality independent of plan.

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The Integrator

A help center exists, hosted in Germany, with AI-assisted answers, and chat/email are supported with phone gated to Professional and Enterprise. That lands on rubric level 5 — but I see no evidence of doc depth, a changelog, published SLAs or response times, and for an API-first buyer the absence of any API documentation evidence stings. 4 2 1

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Can a buyer determine the real, payable cost of the tool for their team before talking to anyone?

0 — No public pricing at all — every number sits behind "contact sales".

3 — Some tiers are public, but a deciding factor (seat minimums, mandatory add-ons, billing-period surcharge, tax treatment) only surfaces at checkout or in fine print.

5 — Self-serve tiers are publicly priced and the billing-period difference is stated, but the headline number still needs qualifying — e.g. annual-only headline, taxes excluded without saying so, or an opaque enterprise tier doing real work.

8 — Every self-serve tier is fully priced with billing periods and tax treatment plain on the page; only genuinely custom enterprise work lacks a number.

10 — Every tier including enterprise has a public price or published price formula, and the headline number is the number on the invoice.

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The Integrator

Tier names and structure are visible on the pricing page and Enterprise is explicit 'Contact sales', the trial needs no card — but not a single price figure, billing-period difference or tax treatment appears anywhere in the captured evidence. I cannot compute what a team of ten actually pays from this sheet, which caps it at rubric level 3. 2 1

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European sovereignty — proven facts

3 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 ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Data residency EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 4 Report an error
Subprocessors US CLOUD Act reach ⚠ unverified 0/2 pts 4 Report an error

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Sources (17)

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  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.awork.com Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page www.awork.com Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Legal & privacy hub www.awork.com Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Privacy policy www.awork.com Checked 17 Sep 2026 +2 earlier captures: 11 Sep 2026, 20 Aug 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Imprint www.awork.com Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Integrations directory www.awork.com Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Privacy policy www.awork.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap support.awork.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap support.awork.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Reporting — found from sitemap support.awork.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Reporting — found from sitemap support.awork.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Integrations — found from sitemap support.awork.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Integrations — found from sitemap developers.awork.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap support.awork.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap support.awork.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Support & documentation — found from sitemap support.awork.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  17. 17 Support & documentation — found from sitemap support.awork.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →