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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.

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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

Real shared planning shows everywhere: a roadmap organized by teams, objectives with key results spanning epics, an org-wide activity feed with comments and mentions, plus docs with threaded comments and suggestion mode. I found no public information on dependency links, per-person capacity views, or guest and client access, which keeps team-level planning a notch short of fully first-class. 10 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 Integrator

Seven standard charts — velocity, cycle time, burndown, cumulative flow and more — filterable by date range, team, epic, objective, label and iteration, with CSV export from boards and roadmap export. Time tracking arrives only through Clockify or Everhour integrations, and the vendor's own help points to the API or Google Sheets for anything custom; I found no public information on budget or utilization reporting. 6 5 8 10

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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

This is where the tool earns its keep: a directory of roughly seventy integrations built in-house and by third parties, deep GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket automation that moves stories on commits, outgoing webhooks, a REST API, and Zapier, Make, Pipedream and IFTTT all present. An MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and Zed plus AI agents like Devin make the surface extensible; I found no public information on a complete export of all data through the API, though Jira, Trello and CSV importers and board and roadmap exports give real migration paths. 8 12 10 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 Integrator

Free self-serve start, Google single sign-on on all plans, a quick-start tour from story to board to roadmap, a demo workspace, and importers plus transition guides from Jira, Trello, Asana, ClickUp and Linear that map familiar concepts and pull existing work in. The captured pages do not state whether the free start asks for payment details up front. 10 11 5 1

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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 service is stated to operate in the United States under US law, running on AWS with DynamoDB storage and S3 backups, while GDPR language, a Data Privacy Framework notice and a subprocessor document are present. I found no public information on an EU hosting option or on ownership control, and named subprocessors include Google Analytics and Salesforce CRM — compliance paperwork over a European home for the data. 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 Integrator

The help surface is deep and current: a quick-start tour, transition guides for switchers, and genuinely detailed reference articles on burndown charts, cycle time and docs, plus a Slack community and a demo workspace in the help menu. I found no public information on live chat availability, response times, service level agreements or a changelog, so the fast ungated support channel a buyer would want is unevidenced. 10 11 7 13

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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 Integrator

The only pricing signal in the captured pages is "Get started - it's free" — the free entry point is clear, but Business and Enterprise plans are named without any prices. I found no public information on seat costs, billing periods or tax treatment, so a buyer cannot determine what a growing team will pay before talking to anyone. 4 5 3

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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.

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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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  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 →