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Productive: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Productive is agency management and professional services automation (PSA) software that brings resourcing, projects and finances into one platform. It covers resource planning, time tracking and time-off management, project management with Gantt charts, documents and a sales CRM, and financial functions such as budgeting, profitability, invoicing, forecasting and revenue recognition. It also includes AI features for reporting, task creation and time-tracking suggestions. Its target users are professional services businesses such as agencies, consultancies, IT services firms and architecture and engineering firms.

According to its privacy policy, the provider is The Productive Company, Inc., a Delaware company with a United States address. Productive states that its servers are part of the AWS infrastructure and hosted in the EU, without naming a specific region, and that personal data may be transferred to the US under EU Standard Contractual Clauses. Productive is not open source and no self-hosting option is described. European organisations should weigh the US legal entity of the provider alongside the EU storage.

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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	HR (EU)	Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)	Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU	Verified by hand
Open-source	No	Verified by hand
GDPR-compliant	Yes	Vendor-stated
Compliance documents	3 published, see below	Vendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)	Technically measured
Category	Project Management
Type	Product
Website	productive.io ↗

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 Productive

The European alternatives to Productive 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 Productive

Productive is headquartered in HR 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 Productive scores best on data residency.

Productive 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 Productive 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 Productive?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Productive include Arinto, awork and Bitrix24. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Productive?

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

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

Productive is headquartered in HR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Productive 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".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): productive.io/trust/data-processing-addendum/
Subprocessor list: productive.io/trust/productive-subprocessors/
Security page / trust center: productive.io/trust/security/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. 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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