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Pulse Feedback: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Pulse Feedback is a survey and feedback platform from Creaholic SA in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, for HR teams and managers. It covers employee surveys, short pulse surveys and 360-degree feedback, with ready-made templates, a question database, custom questions and automated invitations and reminders. Results appear in a dashboard; AI functions summarise comments, answer questions about the results in a chat and support moderated team discussions that lead to agreed actions. The vendor also offers consulting alongside the software. Pulse Feedback is delivered as a web application.

Creaholic SA is headquartered in Switzerland, an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision, and no parent company is named. According to the vendor, Pulse Feedback runs in Amazon Web Services data centres in the EU and complies with the GDPR and Swiss data protection law; data and backups are encrypted. Amazon Web Services is a US provider, so a European organisation with strict jurisdiction requirements should review the contractual safeguards and ask which services sit behind the AI features. A self-hosted option is not described.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • 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 October 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (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
Category
HR
Type
Product
Website
start-pulse.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Pulse Feedback

The European alternatives to Pulse Feedback 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 Pulse Feedback

Pulse Feedback 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Pulse Feedback scores best on data residency.

Pulse Feedback 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 Pulse Feedback 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 Pulse Feedback?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Pulse Feedback include absence.io, AFAS and AlexisHR. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Pulse Feedback?

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

Is Pulse Feedback GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Pulse Feedback is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in EU. That makes Pulse Feedback 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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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in HR

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