EU Sovereignty Score
EU sovereignRecruitment & ATSHeadquarters: France

Balt: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Balt is an AI agent for IT services firms and recruitment agencies. It runs inside the team's Slack or Microsoft Teams workspace and can be mentioned like a colleague. Typical tasks are sourcing and qualifying candidates, following up with them, prospecting and tracking client accounts, and administrative work such as activity reports and monthly figures. It connects to the tools the company already uses and is delivered as a cloud service.

Balt is developed in France by SKILLFORGE APP, a simplified joint-stock company seated in Coignières. The legal notice states that the service's data is hosted in France and the European Union, and the privacy policy lists a single model provider, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, in the France and Sweden regions. The same sub-processor list also names providers outside the EU, for example Vercel, which relays messages in transit, and Sumble in the United States. According to the vendor, customer data is not used to train models. European organisations should review that list and the transfer section before deployment. No self-hosted option or parent company is described.

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 17, 2026
Headquarters
FranceVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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European alternatives to Balt

The European alternatives to Balt come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 Balt

Balt is headquartered in France 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 Balt scores best on data residency.

Balt 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 Balt 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 Balt?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Balt?

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

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

Balt is headquartered in France (EU) and hosts data in the EU. That makes Balt 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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