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wyrd: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

wyrd is leadership software for management, HR and team leaders. With Fokus, teams translate strategic goals into their own priorities. Wirkung supports continuous conversations about contribution, collaboration and performance. Entwicklung helps employees use their strengths, collect feedback and record development steps. Puls Check measures how the team is doing, and Stärken makes the strengths of people and teams visible. The modules can be used separately or combined. wyrd is offered as a web platform.

wyrd.io AG is headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland; the website names no parent company. According to its privacy notice, the infrastructure runs on AWS and MongoDB Atlas and the application on Vercel, each with hosting in Germany. Some service providers are US companies, and AI functions use OpenAI (USA); data is pseudonymised where possible and, under the agreement, not used to train models. When used through an employer, wyrd acts as a processor, under Swiss data protection law and the GDPR. Switzerland is not in the EU but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision.

Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
  • 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-645
    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
EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to wyrd

The European alternatives to wyrd 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 wyrd

wyrd 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.

wyrd hosts data in EU, US. 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.

wyrd 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 wyrd 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 wyrd?

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

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

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

wyrd is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes wyrd 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in HR

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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