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Sovereignty: not determined

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

by Hive Technology, Inc. · hive.com

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The Enterprise Architect

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Buys for two hundred seats and answers for it later. Optimizes for SSO/SCIM, permissions, audit trails, certifications and a clean exit. Rejects anything that cannot survive procurement.

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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 Enterprise Architect

Team-level planning is evidenced as first-class: shared timelines with milestones and dependencies, utilization that flags over- and under-allocated users, roles and teams, and cross-company workspaces with role-based access for external stakeholders, with dashboards governed by project and role permissions. Documented quirks — a three-level project depth limit in dashboards and grandparent-project budgets excluded from rollup — read as the workarounds that keep this below the top rung. 5 7 8 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 Enterprise Architect

Ten out-of-the-box dashboards across financial, time and project analytics cover budgets, margins and utilization with per-user targets, plus global filters, widget data-source switching and PDF export. It is positioned as a premium add-on, and I found no public information on scheduled delivery or export of report data in other formats, so it sits a rung below reporting as a product in itself. 8 7 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 Enterprise Architect

Broad native catalogue (Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Google and Microsoft stacks, QuickBooks), a documented public API with reference docs and credential guides, Zapier automation, and real import paths from Trello, Asana, Basecamp, Smartsheet and Microsoft Project. I found no public information on webhooks, and the pricing page lists an Enterprise API as a feature of the top tier, so API access is at minimum a tier question I would settle in writing before purchase. 9 10 2 12

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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 Enterprise Architect

A free-forever tier with no credit card, a quick-start guide, a template library and importers (CSV, JSON, Microsoft Project, competitor tools) with field mapping and the option to merge into an existing project — signup to first project looks achievable inside a day without paid services. I found no public information on in-product guided setup, which is the only gap against the fastest path. 2 11 12 5

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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 Enterprise Architect

Hive Technology, Inc. is a New York company subject to FTC enforcement whose privacy policy states data may be stored or processed on servers located in the United States, so GDPR language, Standard Contractual Clauses and Data Privacy Framework certification function as transfer paperwork rather than European substance. I found no public information on EU data residency options, ownership control or subprocessor exposure; for a European deployment this does not survive my procurement bar. 3 4 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 Enterprise Architect

A help center with deep, current articles (a comprehensive dashboards overview dated 2026), Hive University, webinars and in-app help access for reaching support gives a stuck user real paths to answers. The only plan-documented support details are enterprise perks like a dedicated Customer Success Manager and unlimited onboarding, and I found no public information on published SLAs, chat availability by plan or a visible changelog. 13 8 11 2

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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 Enterprise Architect

Free, Starter at $5 / month per user and Teams at $12 / month per user are fully priced with member, project, storage and AI-credit limits stated, add-ons at +$5 each, a stated yearly saving of 33 percent, and a trial without credit card. Tax treatment is not stated on the captured page, and the contact-sales Enterprise tier carries real capabilities such as the Enterprise API, so the computed number still needs one qualifier at contract time. 2

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 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 Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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Sources (13)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage hive.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page hive.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy hive.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 20 Aug 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Security page hive.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap hive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap help.hive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Reporting — found from sitemap help.hive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Reporting — found from sitemap help.hive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations — found from sitemap hive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Integrations — found from sitemap help.hive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap help.hive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap help.hive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Support & documentation — found from sitemap help.hive.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →