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HeyEla: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

HeyEla is an AI assistant for boards of directors, executive teams, committees and secretariats. The platform records meetings and turns them into structured minutes with agenda items, decisions and actions, and offers an editor with digital signatures. It also includes task management, a document hub and AI search across all documents and support for preparing the next meeting. HeyEla is delivered as a cloud service; for regulated environments the vendor offers dedicated instances or on-premise deployments on request.

HeyEla AI AG is based in Zurich, Switzerland. According to the vendor, platform data is hosted exclusively in Switzerland at Nine Internet Solutions AG, with AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, and training AI models on customer data is contractually excluded. The website names PHOENIQS as a partner for AI inference on Swiss infrastructure. Personal data is processed under Swiss data protection law and, where applicable, the GDPR; sub-processors are listed in its trust centre. No parent company is named. Switzerland is not an EU member but an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision.

Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • 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 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
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Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to HeyEla

The European alternatives to HeyEla come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 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 HeyEla

HeyEla is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

HeyEla hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

HeyEla 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 HeyEla 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 HeyEla?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to HeyEla?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to HeyEla include Agent Zero and Cognee. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

HeyEla is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes HeyEla 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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