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Fellow: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Fellow is an AI notetaker for organisations that prioritise privacy, security and data governance. Its desktop and mobile apps capture audio directly from the device, or a bot can join Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings. Fellow is delivered as a cloud service with native apps and integrations. The company states that it does not train AI models on customers' meeting data and that the service is GDPR and CCPA compliant.

Fellow was founded in November 2017 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The legal entity, hosting regions and sub-processors are not stated on the public pages. For a European organisation, the seat is outside the EU. The hosting location should therefore be confirmed in the vendor's security documentation before business meetings are recorded.

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Sovereignty score
32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (CA)
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
    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 11, 2026
HeadquartersCA (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionYes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingOTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryAI Cowork
TypeProduct
Websitefellow.ai ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Fellow

The European alternatives to Fellow come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Fellow

Fellow is headquartered in CA, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Fellow hosts data outside the EU (OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Fellow 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 Fellow 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 Fellow?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Fellow include 2501.ai, Beam and Cognigy. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Fellow?

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

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

Fellow is headquartered in CA (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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