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0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Vispato GmbH · www.vispato.com

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Vispato at a glance

Vendor
Vispato GmbH
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Vispato 1.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Vispato is a German whistleblowing system from Vispato GmbH of Düsseldorf, acquired in April 2025 by HRworks GmbH of Freiburg, with support handled by HR WORKS. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 13 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 15 Oct 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The SME Operator

Weighted verdict

Runs a 60-employee company that the law obligated, not convinced. Optimizes for compliance set up in an afternoon at a price the year-end review will not question, with the legal duties handled by the product. Rejects per-report fees, setup charges and anything that needs a compliance department to operate.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The SME Operator

Panel median The SME Operator This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The SME Operator
Reporting channels & reporter experience 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5
Case management & deadline discipline 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
Legal compliance alignment 1 of 5 1 of 5
Security & anonymity assurance 2 of 5 2 of 5
Group & multi-entity capability 2 of 5 1.5 of 5
European sovereignty 2 of 5 1 of 5

Reporting channels & reporter experience

How this is scored

The intake side: how a reporter actually submits — web form, anonymous dialog, phone/voice, languages, accessibility — and whether anonymity survives first contact.

0 — A web form that is an email in disguise: no anonymous route, no way to reach the reporter afterwards.

3 — An anonymous form exists but the dialogue ends there — no secured mailbox for follow-up questions, few languages, desktop-only.

5 — Anonymous two-way dialog via a protected mailbox, a usable set of languages, mobile-friendly; voice or phone intake missing or an add-on.

8 — Multiple channels (web, voice message or hotline, QR entry points), broad language coverage with translation support, accessibility considered, and the anonymous dialog is first-class rather than bolted on.

10 — Intake engineered around the frightened reporter: every channel anonymous-capable, dozens of languages, WCAG-conscious, no app install or account required, and the vendor documents how the reporter's identity is kept out of the channel itself.

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The SME Operator

An anonymous submission portal with a shareable link is offered and anonymity is promised in headline terms, which is the bare minimum. Beyond that I found no public information on a two-way follow-up dialog with the reporter, language coverage, phone or voice intake, or mobile accessibility, so I cannot see what the frightened employee experiences after hitting submit. 1

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Case management & deadline discipline

How this is scored

The case worker's side: triage, statutory deadlines (7-day acknowledgment, 3-month feedback), role separation, audit-proof documentation.

0 — Reports land in an inbox; deadlines, roles and history live in a spreadsheet next door.

3 — A case list with status fields, but deadlines are manual, permissions are all-or-nothing, and the record of who did what is thin.

5 — Deadline tracking with reminders for the statutory clocks, case notes and attachments, basic role separation between case handlers; reporting on the caseload is limited.

8 — Automated statutory clocks, conflict-of-interest handling (excluding implicated case handlers), complete tamper-evident case history, retention and deletion rules applied per case, and management reporting.

10 — A case system an external investigator can rely on: enforced workflows, full audit trail, legally aware retention/deletion automation, evidence handling, and statistics that survive a regulator's questions.

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The SME Operator

Case processing with communication, documentation and deadline compliance on one platform, plus role-based permissions, logged entries and trend reporting, covers the working day of a case handler at my company's size. I found no public information on automated statutory clocks, conflict-of-interest exclusion of implicated handlers, or per-case retention and deletion rules, so the audit-proof side rests on trust. 1 2

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Legal compliance alignment

How this is scored

How specifically the product implements EU Directive 2019/1937 and national transpositions (HinSchG et al.) — not whether the marketing mentions them.

0 — Generic feedback software wearing a whistleblowing label; no reference to the legal obligations it claims to satisfy.

3 — The directive is invoked in marketing but the mapping is vague; deadline rules, documentation duties and retention periods are the customer's problem.

5 — The statutory duties are implemented as product features — acknowledgment and feedback clocks, documentation, deletion after the retention period — for at least one national law, with guidance for the rest.

8 — Multiple national transpositions supported with their differing details, legal templates and process guidance maintained by named counsel or documented review, and updates when the law moves.

10 — The product is a legal instrument: per-country rule sets kept current, documented legal review, guidance for edge cases (group-wide channels, external ombudsman setups), and the vendor shows its homework in public.

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The SME Operator

This is a dedicated whistleblowing system rather than generic feedback software, but I found no public information referencing the EU whistleblowing directive or the German HinSchG, no legal templates, no named counsel and no per-country rule sets. Deadline compliance appears only as a generic feature, which means the legal mapping would be my job — exactly the job I pay a product to take over. 1

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Security & anonymity assurance

How this is scored

Whether the confidentiality promise is engineered and evidenced: encryption, metadata handling, penetration tests, certifications.

0 — Security is a paragraph of adjectives; no certificates, no test reports, no statement on metadata.

3 — TLS and encryption at rest asserted, but nothing audited: no ISO 27001 or equivalent, no published pentest, silence on IP and metadata logging.

5 — A current ISO 27001 (or equivalent) certificate for vendor or hosting, end-to-end encryption of report content claimed with some technical detail, an explicit no-IP-logging statement.

8 — Certified ISMS covering the product, regular third-party penetration tests attested, documented end-to-end encryption architecture, metadata minimization explained, security contact and disclosure policy published.

10 — Assurance a hostile auditor accepts: current certificates with visible scope, recurring pentest summaries public, cryptographic architecture documented, anonymity analysed against the operator itself — the vendor can answer "how would you unmask a reporter?" with "we cannot, and here is why".

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The SME Operator

End-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication, regular backups, need-to-know access and regular security tests are asserted, which is more than a paragraph of adjectives. But I found no public information on ISO 27001 or equivalent certification, third-party penetration test attestations, or how IP addresses and metadata are handled — for the most sensitive data a company holds, that assurance gap lands on my desk. 1 2

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Group & multi-entity capability

How this is scored

Whether one contract can serve a corporate group: separate channels per legal entity, central oversight, ombudsman access, white-labeling.

0 — One company, one channel; a group buys and administers N separate instances.

3 — Multiple channels under one account, but no separation of case access per entity and no consolidated view.

5 — Per-entity channels with separated case handlers and a group-level overview; branding per entity is basic; external counsel access possible.

8 — Real multi-tenant group structure: per-entity channels, languages and branding, delegated administration, external ombudsman roles, group reporting that respects entity boundaries.

10 — Group compliance as architecture: hundreds of entities manageable centrally, per-country legal rule assignment per entity, white-label reporting pages, and access separation strong enough to satisfy each subsidiary's works council.

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The SME Operator

One or more portals with self-chosen contact persons, custom categories and role-based permissions are documented, which reads as multiple channels under one roof. I found no public information on separated case access per legal entity, a consolidated group-level view, or external ombudsman and counsel access — workable for my single company, but a group buyer cannot rely on what is shown. 1 2

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where reports about people actually live and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. In this category the data is by definition the most sensitive a company holds.

0 — Non-EU entity, non-EU-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list — for whistleblowing data.

3 — A DPA exists and an EU region is available on request or on top tiers; subprocessor exposure to US CLOUD Act reach is broad or undocumented.

5 — EU hosting is the default, DPA and subprocessor list published; the vendor or a critical subprocessor is still within non-European jurisdictional reach.

8 — EU entity, EU hosting with named data centers, published subprocessor list free of content-touching non-EU processors, DPA and TOMs public.

10 — Jurisdictionally clean end to end: European ownership, EU-only hosting and subprocessors for report content and metadata, on-premises or sovereign-cloud options, and the whole chain documented publicly.

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The SME Operator

EU data location is stated plainly — all data securely in the European Union — though the statement sits on the acquirer's security page rather than the vendor's own. I found no public information confirming the legal entity and ownership on the vendor's pages, no published data processing agreement and no subprocessor list, so the chain the reports travel through is not visible end to end. 2 1

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether an obligated company can compute the real invoice — per entity, per employee band, per year — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — An entry price exists, but the tiers most obligated companies need are unpriced, or the maths is obscured by employee bands, per-report fees or mandatory setup charges.

5 — Most tiers carry real numbers with billing period and VAT treatment stated, but at least one commonly needed capability — extra entities, extra languages, phone intake — hides in an unpriced add-on.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with employee-band boundaries, entity rules and setup fees stated; only genuine corporate-group contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: every tier, band, add-on and renewal rule public, so the invoice for a 60-employee company and a 5-entity group is a two-minute exercise.

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The SME Operator

I found no public information on prices — no tier names, employee bands, billing period, VAT treatment or renewal rules appear in the captured pages, only a support handover notice. For an obligated company that wants to defend the invoice at year-end and avoid per-report surprises, an entirely unpriced product is a non-starter no matter how tidy the software looks. 1

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 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 Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

Questions about Vispato

Is Vispato European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Vispato as EU-Made.

Where does Vispato store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

Does Vispato have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Vispato?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates preeco | hinweisgeberschutz (3.5/5), EQS Integrity Line (3.5/5) and Safecall (3.5/5) highest among the other 36 Whistleblowing Portals products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is preeco | hinweisgeberschutz (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Vispato alternatives.

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Sources (2)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.vispato.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Security / trust page www.hrworks.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →