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Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by Notion Labs, Inc. · www.notion.com

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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.

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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

Concurrent block editing, block-level comments, mentions with an inbox, live presence and read/comment/edit permission levels are documented, guests run from ten on the free plan to unlimited on paid, and dashboards can combine timeline and board widgets from multiple databases. We found no public information on dependency tracking or workload/capacity views, which keeps team-level planning short of first-class. 5 6 2 7

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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

Dashboard views deliver configurable cross-database reporting — filters, sorts, grouping by status or assignee, charts — and page analytics track views and editors, with whole-workspace export to HTML, Markdown, CSV and PDF. We found no public information on time tracking, budgets, utilization or scheduled delivery, and dashboards are Business/Enterprise-only with a twelve-widget cap. 7 8 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

A documented public API with granular content and user capabilities, real-time webhooks monitoring multiple workspaces, personal access tokens, a file upload API, Enterprise admin APIs for exports and legal holds, a broad catalogue and genuine import paths from Confluence, Asana, Trello and Evernote. The beta custom-code Workers push toward ecosystem-grade extensibility, but the documented webhooks give no notifications for user or workspace-settings changes, and we found no public information on automation-platform connectors such as Zapier or Make. 9 10 12 2

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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 free plan at €0 with a Notion AI trial, starter templates personalized during signup, thousands of marketplace templates, and importers that pull existing work from Trello, Evernote, Confluence and Asana with visible progress tracking. Import friction is real — one Google Doc at a time, Excel via CSV, five-megabyte limits on the free plan — and we found no public information on whether trials require payment details. 2 11 12

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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

A US company whose privacy policy says information may be transferred, processed and stored anywhere in the world including the United States, with AWS and Cloudflare named as infrastructure partners and no region information on the captured pages; a DPA and GDPR language exist, which reads as compliance paperwork over substance. We found no public information confirming EU data residency, and the named subprocessors sit within CLOUD Act reach. 3 4

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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

Deep, current help-center articles on collaboration, dashboards, API capabilities and import limits, an academy with badges and certifications, community webinars, consultants, a chat channel and a published 99.9% uptime guarantee. We found no public information on support response times or a changelog, the customer success manager is Enterprise-only, and chat gating per plan is not documented. 13 6 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

Free, Plus and Business are priced on the page at €0, €9.50 and €19.50 per member per month with plan limits and guest counts side by side, and the yearly difference is stated as saving up to 20%. The per-month figures don't say which billing period they assume, tax treatment is absent from the captured pages, and Enterprise — the only tier with audit log, SCIM provisioning and a customer success manager — is custom-priced, so the deciding number still needs qualifying. 2

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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 Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors US CLOUD Act reach ⚠ unverified 0/2 pts 3 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 www.notion.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page www.notion.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Security page www.notion.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Privacy policy www.notion.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap www.notion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap www.notion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Reporting — found from sitemap www.notion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Reporting — found from sitemap www.notion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations — found from sitemap www.notion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Integrations — found from sitemap www.notion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.notion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.notion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Support & documentation — found from sitemap www.notion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →