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Kenjo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kenjo is workforce-management software for people managers at small and growing businesses, including those with deskless teams in sectors such as retail, health, manufacturing and logistics. It covers shift planning with a mobile app, absence management, time tracking with a QR-code or PIN kiosk, payroll preparation with automatic gross-pay calculation, employee files with digital signatures, recruitment, pulse surveys, people analytics, a training tracker and an anonymous whistleblower channel. Kenjo is delivered as a cloud service.

The provider is Kenjo GmbH, registered in Berlin, Germany, which founder David Padilla set up in 2017. Kenjo also has offices in Madrid, Zurich and Mexico City. Its website names well-known investors who sit on its board but no parent company. The software is proprietary and offers no self-hosting. The sources consulted say only that data is processed in certified high-security data centres and do not name the hosting provider or region. A European organisation should therefore ask Kenjo for the data-centre locations and its sub-processor list before relying on it for employee data.

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 July 2, 2026
Headquarters
DE (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
Compliance documents
Hosting signal
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Type
Product
Website

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Kenjo

The European alternatives to Kenjo 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 Kenjo

Kenjo is headquartered in DE 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 Kenjo scores best on data residency.

Kenjo 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 Kenjo 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 Kenjo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Kenjo include AFAS, AlexisHR and ATOSS Workforce Intelligence. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Kenjo?

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

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

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

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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
kenjo.io/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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HR: Human resources — personnel management, payroll, recruiting. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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