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Category median

Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by Schuchert Managementberatung GmbH & Co. KG · www.factro.de

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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

Real-time shared planning is marketed — Strukturbaum, a cross-project LIVE cockpit, and 'Meine Aufgaben' aggregating your tasks from all projects — plus multi-user plans from 3 users. But there is zero evidence of comments, dependencies, workload/capacity views or guest access, so I can't credit this past solid per-project teamwork with one team-level view. 3 4

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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

The cockpit gives a live cross-project status view and the table is pitched as 'fokussierte Auswertung mit allen Details', which clears fixed per-project status. But no time, budget or utilization reporting and no export path is evidenced anywhere — and an API mentioned in one marketing line does not count as a reporting surface. 3

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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

An API is claimed — 'factro API Offen für alles' — alongside native Teams, SharePoint, Outlook and iCal sync, though gated to Business/Professional tiers. The catalogue is Microsoft-heavy, there is no evidence of webhooks, Zapier/Make-class automation platforms, or any import/export path from competitors, and the API has no documented surface in the registry — that's a sentence, not an integration story. 3 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

A genuinely free Basic tier (3 users, 5 projects) plus 'Kostenlos testen' means a small team starts without a sales call or payment details. What's missing is any evidence of templates, importers or guided setup that would let me credit hour-to-value and tool-assisted migration. 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

The entity is verifiably European — Bochum KG with HRA/HRB registers, German VAT ID, German general partner and managing director — so the anchor-3 condition of US hosting or non-European ownership does not hold. But product data residency is stated nowhere, no product DPA is evidenced, and the privacy policy itself concedes possible US-government-style access it has no influence over while routing visitor data through HubSpot and TruConversion — paperwork over substance on the product itself. 1 2

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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

The registry shows a single email address and a phone number — no help center, no API documentation, no changelog, nothing per plan. A product whose API is marketed as 'Offen für alles' with no documented surface anywhere is below even thin-docs; a phone line is the only thing lifting it off the floor. 2 3

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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

Basic, Business and Professional are fully priced per user with seat minimums and project caps plainly on the page, and the quote-only Government tier is arguably genuine public-sector consulting. But the headline per-user prices lean on annual billing ('Bequeme jährliche Zahlung') with the monthly alternative and tax treatment unqualified, so the number on the page still needs qualifying before it's the number on the invoice. 4

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European sovereignty — proven facts

2 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 EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 5 Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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Sources (9)

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

  1. 1 Privacy policy www.factro.de Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Imprint www.factro.de Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Vendor homepage www.factro.de Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Vendor pricing page www.factro.de Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Security / trust page www.factro.de Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.factro.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.factro.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Support & documentation — found from sitemap www.factro.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Support & documentation — found from sitemap www.factro.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →