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Lindy AI: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Lindy is an AI assistant for teams that connects to the tools an organisation already uses and carries out tasks inside them, such as pulling reports, updating a CRM, drafting email replies, triaging support tickets and writing meeting notes. Recurring routines, such as a morning brief, are also possible. Lindy works in Slack, email, iMessage and the browser and, according to the vendor, connects to more than a thousand applications and to hosted MCP servers. Write or send actions can wait for approval. It is delivered as SaaS.

Lindy is operated by Crivello Corp, a US company with an address in Beaverton, Oregon, and is therefore subject to US jurisdiction. The software is not open source. The company cites SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance and says it does not sell data or use it for model training. Its privacy notice names Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, MongoDB and Cloudflare as infrastructure providers. The vendor does not state its data locations, so ask before processing personal data.

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Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    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-615
    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
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
AI Cowork
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Lindy AI

The European alternatives to Lindy AI 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 Lindy AI

Lindy AI is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Lindy AI hosts data in EU, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Lindy AI 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 Lindy AI 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 Lindy AI?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Lindy AI 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 Lindy AI?

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

Is Lindy AI GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Lindy AI is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, 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

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Compliance evidence

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