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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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Method and versions

The Data Protection Officer v1.0 · The Bootstrapper v1.2 · The Enterprise Architect v1.0 · The UX Purist v1.0 · The Integrator v1.0 · The Skeptic v1.2 · rubric v1 · evaluated 5 Oct 2026

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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.

Scored by The Integrator

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

Dependencies are first-class — blocking, waiting-on and linked types with no count limit, subtask dependencies, Gantt visualization and status cascades when a task closes — and every task carries a feed with rich comments, attachments, quoting, pinning and a hidden-from-client option that implies client-visible project work. Workload shows up through capacity, over/under-capacity and overtime reporting, and reports can group across Company > Project > Task Status, but we found no public information on a live workload planner or on guest and client accounts with their own permissions. 5 6 7 8

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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

Reporting behaves like a product in itself: a 22-article reports collection covers a prebuilt report library, custom data sources, charts, OR/AND filters, capacity & availability with a workload field, hours over/under capacity, overtime by person, payroll, intercompany hours and absence allowances, with pivot, third-level grouping, relationship-field grouping, drilldown and a currency switcher on top. Scheduled delivery exists through Pulse, including straight to Slack. The captured pages document a table data export without format detail, and we found no public information on whether every metric shown in the interface is also reachable through the API. 7 8 9

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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

The connection surface is the strongest part of this product: an Open API with its own client and documentation plus event-triggered webhooks sent to a chosen URL, a broad native catalogue across accounting (QuickBooks Online, Xero, Sage, NetSuite, Exact, Fortnox, Twinfield, Visma E-conomic), Google and Outlook calendars, Gmail and Outlook inboxes, Slack, Microsoft Teams, seven HR systems, HubSpot, Salesforce and Jira, plus Zapier. Real migration paths exist — CSV templates, a Harvest importer under Settings > Data import and task import into task lists — and on exit "you get a full copy of your database." An App Marketplace is named on one page and assistant connectors are admin-controlled, but we found no public information on a third-party plugin or extensibility surface. 4 9 10 11 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 Integrator

There is a genuine self-serve path: a free 14-day trial cancellable anytime, a phased admin checklist, an Academy course with videos and practical tasks, an assistant connected to the help center, and importers (CSV templates, Harvest, tasks) plus personalized migration support for heavier moves. The checklist itself signals the real cost, though: cost rates and a holiday calendar are "needed the moment anyone logs time", and permission sets, time-tracking policies, invoicing settings and the SSO-versus-2FA choice all land before inviting the team. We found no public information on time-to-first-project or whether the trial asks for payment details. 9 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

The privacy policy names The Productive Company, Inc., a Delaware-based company with a USA mailing address, as the entity providing the services, and documents Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers to the United States, with Stripe for card processing and Workable (Boston) in the subprocessor flow. Data is stated to be hosted in the EU on Amazon AWS and Notetaker audio is processed on EU-based infrastructure exclusively, so residency language is present, but a US-incorporated provider with documented US transfers keeps this from reading as fully European. We found no public information on ownership, a contractually fixed residency commitment, or the subprocessor list beyond the reference to it. 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

Documentation is deep and specific — a 22-article reports collection, precise semantics for dependencies, commenting, data migration and import, and a transparent support account-access model with recorded, time-limited, revocable sessions. The learning surface is real: Academy courses with shareable certificates, a community, a status page, a trust center and an assistant connected to the help center. Chat and email support advertises a four-minute average reply and 95.7% positive ratings, though we found no public information on a changelog or on how support channels vary by plan. 1 2 7 11 13 14

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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

Two self-serve tiers are publicly priced — Essential at €9.50 /month (€95/month for 10 users) and Professional at €23 (€230/month for 10 users), both billed yearly — while the billing-period difference appears only as "save up to 17%" with no monthly prices, tax treatment or seat minimums shown. Ultimate is "Let's talk", an opaque top tier in a suite where enterprise features plausibly live, so the headline number still needs qualifying before a buyer can commit. 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.

Legal entity	Not determined	—	uncited Report an error
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

Where this could be wrong

Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 11 Sep 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
Weak sourcing — Data residency. Not confirmed on the vendor’s own pages as captured.
Weak sourcing — Subprocessors. Amazon AWS is a US-headquartered provider even though the servers are stated to be EU-hosted; the pages also name Stripe (credit card processing) and the Notetaker sub-processor 'Recall (Hyperdoc Inc.)' (stated to run on EU-based infrastructure), which are US-incorporated as well.
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What we left out

A claim that does not survive our checks costs us the claim, not the page. This is what was taken off this one.

18 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
9 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
4 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
3 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
3 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
1 data fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
1 legal fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown. Know more? Tell us
The panel’s written verdict is withheld: our own re-read found claims in it that the evidence does not carry, and a second synthesis did not fix them. The scores and the material below are unaffected. Know more? Tell us

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Sources (14)

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

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