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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 Atlassian Pty Ltd · trello.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".

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 Bootstrapper

The free tier genuinely fits a small team — up to 10 collaborators per workspace, 10 boards, unlimited cards — and card mirroring pulls to-dos from multiple boards into one view. But I found no public information on card assignments, comments, guest or client access, or any workload or timeline view, and dependency tracking appears through a partner add-on rather than a first-class feature. This is shared boards, not shared planning. 1 2 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 Bootstrapper

The analytics muscle is real but rented: cross-project velocity, throughput and time-in-list, custom chart building, scheduled sharing and Excel/CSV export all arrive through third-party Power-Ups carrying their own per-board subscriptions. What ships with Trello itself shows a simple data export on Premium, and I found no public information on budget or utilization reporting anywhere. Strong answers, but a buyer pays a second vendor to get them. 2 7 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

The catalogue is wide — more than 200 Power-Ups with Slack, Google Drive and Salesforce named, plus messages from Slack or Microsoft Teams forwarded straight into the board. But I found no public information on a documented public API, webhooks, calendar hooks or automation-platform coverage, and partner Power-Ups that require an additional subscription fee mean integration cost has to be checked item by item. 1 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 Bootstrapper

A team starts at literally zero: the free plan takes up to 10 collaborators with 10 boards and unlimited cards, and the template gallery hands over ready-made kanban and prioritization boards, with free video tutorials behind them. I found no public information on guided setup, and no importer to pull existing work over from another tool — you start from a template or from typing. 2 5 7

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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 GDPR paperwork is present — EEA regional disclosures, a processor-role statement, user rights — but ownership sits outside Europe, and the privacy policy states information may be transferred, processed and stored wherever the company and its providers operate; even the EU representative is listed care of a San Francisco address. I found no public information on EU data residency being offered or contractually fixed. This is compliance language, not European control of the data. 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 support ladder is at least published honestly: community support on Free, local business hours on Standard, 24/5 on Premium, 24/7 admin on Enterprise, plus public community forums and free video tutorials. But free-tier users get community support rather than a human channel, and I found no public information on a searchable help center, response times or SLAs. A bootstrapped team on the free plan is largely on its own. 2 3 7

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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 Bootstrapper

This is a price page that answers: Free for up to 10 collaborators, Standard at $5 per user/month billed annually ($6 billed monthly), Premium at $10 ($12.50 billed monthly), and even Enterprise at $17.50 per user/month billed annually, with plan limits like 250 versus 1,000 command runs stated up front. The deductions are add-ons priced as starting points — AI at $5 a month, Atlassian Guard at $4/month/user — plus unspecified partner Power-Up fees, and I found no public information on tax treatment. Still, I can compute the core cost at 3 seats or 30 without talking to a soul. 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 Publicly listed ⚠ unverified 1/2 pts 3 Report an error
Data residency Not determined — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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Sources (8)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage trello.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page trello.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy trello.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 11 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Security page trello.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap trello.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap trello.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Reporting — found from sitemap trello.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Reporting — found from sitemap trello.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →