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Adeptiq: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Adeptiq is an applicant tracking system (ATS) for recruitment, aimed at recruitment agencies and recruiters. CVs in PDF or Word are parsed into structured candidate profiles, and candidates can be searched in plain language with AI support. It also offers a drag-and-drop pipeline per job, multiposting to your own website and job boards, synchronisation with LinkedIn profiles, and messaging by email, LinkedIn or WhatsApp with conversation history per candidate. The service is delivered as a cloud application.

Adeptiq describes itself on its website as "built in Europe". According to a post by its developer, everything runs in containers at Scaleway, a French cloud provider, and Mistral is used for the AI features to keep data within Europe. Text extraction and OCR run on the team's own infrastructure. Adeptiq is not open source. The website does not state an exact data-centre location or where the company is established; ask about both in the data processing agreement if they matter to your organisation.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 5, 2026

Headquarters	BE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Recruitment & ATS
Type	Product
Website	adeptiq.be ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Adeptiq

The European alternatives to Adeptiq come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Adeptiq

Adeptiq is headquartered in BE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Adeptiq scores best on data residency.

Adeptiq is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Adeptiq together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Adeptiq?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Adeptiq include Altamira Recruiting, Beetween and Carerix. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Adeptiq?

Our list of EU alternatives to Adeptiq is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Adeptiq GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Adeptiq is headquartered in BE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Adeptiq an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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