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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 Productive International d.o.o. · productive.io

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The Enterprise Architect

Weighted verdict

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.

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 Enterprise Architect

Dependencies are first-class — Blocking, Waiting on and Linked types with Gantt visualization, no count limit, propagation on close — and capacity, over/under-capacity and overtime reporting gives genuine team-level workload views, with permission sets and client-hidden comments covering outside visibility. Cross-project visibility comes through reports grouped by company, project and status. I found no public information on guest or client user seats as such, and moving a task to another project deletes its dependencies — a rough edge I would want answered before rollout. 5 6 7 8 11

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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

The report surface is close to a product in itself: a report library of prebuilt reports, saved reports with custom categories, multi-level grouping, pivots, drilldown, charts, OR/AND filters, currency switching and table export, with Pulse automating delivery into Slack. Budget warning thresholds, payroll, intercompany hours, overtime and capacity reporting cover the money side, and a documented Open API plus a full database copy on exit protects the answers. I found no public information confirming every metric shown in the interface is reachable through the API, which is what keeps this short of the top. 7 8 9 4 11

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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

The native catalogue is broad — accounting from QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Exact, Fortnox, Twinfield and Visma E-conomic, HR from Personio, BambooHR, HiBob and more, Salesforce, HubSpot, calendars, both inboxes, Slack, Teams and Jira — on top of Zapier, a documented Open API and webhooks with event triggers. Real import paths exist from Harvest and CSV for companies, contacts, time entries, expenses and tasks, and an app marketplace plus admin-controlled AI connectors and agents give it extensible surfaces. Exit is covered by a full database copy on leaving. 9 10 12 11 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 Enterprise Architect

The free 14-day trial is self-serve with cancel-anytime, and CSV and Harvest importers plus a phased admin checklist with an Academy course make the path guided rather than improvised. But the checklist front-loads decisions a newcomer cannot yet judge — SSO or 2FA before inviting anyone, cost rates and holiday calendars before time is logged, permission sets and time-tracking policies — so first real value reads as a day, not an hour. I found no public information on whether the trial requires payment details. 11 12 9

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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

The privacy policy names The Productive Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation with a Delaware mailing address, as the legal entity, and documents Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers to the United States, while the security page states EU-hosted Amazon AWS servers. The named subprocessors include Stripe, Workable of Boston and Recall (Hyperdoc Inc.), all US-incorporated, so US jurisdictional reach is identifiable and documented rather than hidden. I found no public information on ownership control or on EU residency being fixed contractually, and the contracting entity sitting in Delaware is the fact my procurement file will open with. 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 Enterprise Architect

Docs are deep and structured — a reports collection of 22 articles, an admin onboarding checklist, a Help Center-connected AI assistant, plus a public Academy with certificates, a community, API docs, a Trust Center and a status page. Chat and email support averages a four-minute reply with published 2m 56s response time and 95.7% positive ratings, and Account Access is unusually well governed: reason required, sessions recorded, time-limited and revocable at any time. I found no public information on a per-plan support SLA, on whether chat is gated to top tiers, or on a changelog. 2 13 4 14 11

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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

Two self-serve tiers carry public per-user numbers — €9.50 and €23 per user per month, both stated as billed yearly with 10-user totals shown on the page — but the headline is annual-only: 'save up to 17%' implies a higher non-annual figure, and I found no public information on a monthly-billing price or on tax treatment. The Ultimate tier is 'Let's talk' custom pricing doing real enterprise work. That is a headline a buyer must qualify before it becomes an invoice number. 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.

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 4 Report an error

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What we left out

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Sources (14)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage productive.io Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page productive.io Checked 17 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 11 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy productive.io Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Security page productive.io Checked 17 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap help.productive.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap help.productive.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Reporting — found from sitemap help.productive.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Reporting — found from sitemap help.productive.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations — found from sitemap productive.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Integrations — found from sitemap help.productive.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap help.productive.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap help.productive.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Support & documentation — found from sitemap productive.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Support & documentation — found from sitemap help.productive.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →