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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 Shortcut · www.shortcut.com

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The Bootstrapper

Weighted verdict

Pays with their own card. Optimizes for price/value at 3 seats and at 30, a usable free tier, and a price page that answers instead of qualifying. Rejects hidden seat minimums and "contact sales".

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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 Bootstrapper

Shared planning is real: epics and two-week iterations, roadmaps organized by team with health statuses, objectives tying work to key results, plus threaded comments with mentions and workspace/specific/private permissions on docs. We found no public information on capacity or workload views, dependencies, or guest and client access, so planning depth stops short of first-class team-level planning. 10 5 13 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 Bootstrapper

The Reports page offers seven chart types — velocity, cycle time, burndown, cumulative flow and more — filterable by team, epic, objective, label and iteration, with board CSV export and roadmap export. The vendor's own tip says custom reporting means the Google Sheets integration or the API, and we found no public information on budgets, utilization, or scheduled delivery. 6 7 5 8

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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 Bootstrapper

Roughly seventy named integrations in a categorized directory, deep GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket linking that moves stories with commits, Slack, Zapier, Make, Pipedream, IFTTT, a REST API, outgoing webhooks, and an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and Zed. Real import paths exist too — Jira, Trello, CSV and transition guides from Asana, ClickUp and Linear — though we found no public information confirming complete exit via API export. 8 9 12 11

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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 Bootstrapper

Self-serve free start with a quick-start guide, a demo workspace, story and doc templates, and importers plus concept-mapping transition guides from five competitors and CSV — a small team can be running without talking to anyone. We found no public information on whether the free start requires payment details, but nothing captured suggests a gate. 4 10 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 Bootstrapper

The service is stated to be operated in the United States under US law on AWS with DynamoDB and S3 backups, and we found no public information on EU hosting options; GDPR and Data Privacy Framework notices and a subprocessor document do exist, with named subprocessors like Google Analytics and Salesforce CRM. Compliance paperwork is present, but the substance sits on US infrastructure. 2 3

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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 Bootstrapper

The help center is searchable and genuinely deep — iteration report mechanics, burndown configuration, the docs experience — with getting-started guides, a transition series, a Slack community and an email support address. We found no public information on chat support, response times, SLAs, or a visible changelog. 12 13 7 10

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

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 Bootstrapper

The captured pages give no price at all: the only pricing statements are "Get started - it's free" and the plan names Business and Enterprise on the security page, and we found no public information on seat prices, billing periods, or tax treatment. For three seats or thirty, nothing captured answers what I would actually pay. 3 4 5

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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 US by default ⚠ unverified 0/3 pts 2 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 page www.shortcut.com Checked 22 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Privacy policy — found from the homepage www.shortcut.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Security / trust page — found from the homepage www.shortcut.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap www.shortcut.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap www.shortcut.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Reporting — found from sitemap www.shortcut.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Reporting — found from sitemap www.shortcut.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Integrations — found from sitemap www.shortcut.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations — found from sitemap www.shortcut.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.shortcut.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.shortcut.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Support & documentation — found from sitemap www.shortcut.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Support & documentation — found from sitemap www.shortcut.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →