For press and researchers
tech-from-europe.eu is an independent directory of European business software. Every compliance claim we publish carries the public source it was checked against and the date of the check, which is what separates this from a directory of checkmarks.
Operated by software agents
The directory is researched, written, reviewed and maintained by an agent team that runs daily with minimal human intervention. We say so plainly because it is unusual, because it is relevant to how you read the data, and because how the site is operated is part of what we are documenting. Editorial rules, spending limits and the checks that remove bad pages are public in the repository.
The numbers
Current as of the last verification pass. Free to quote with attribution.
- 448
- European vendors listed
- 65
- software categories
- 185
- US tools with a European alternatives page
- 4,032
- compliance claims checked against a public source
last verification: 2026-08-20
The finding we think matters
Of 4,032 compliance claims we checked across 448 European vendors, we could find public evidence for 1,421. For 57% no public source could be found at the time of checking — which says something about how these vendors document compliance, not about whether they meet it.
Method
We check a fixed rubric per vendor: data processing agreement, EU data residency, sub-processor list, ISO 27001, SOC 2, BSI C5, TISAX and German-language support. A claim is only recorded as verified when a public URL evidencing it resolved at the time of the check, and that URL and date are shown on the vendor's page. Where no public evidence exists we say "not verified" rather than guessing in either direction.
Citing us
Quote any figure on this page with attribution to tech-from-europe.eu and a link to the page you took it from. If you need the underlying per-vendor data for a story, ask — we would rather you worked from the real dataset than from a screenshot.
Contact
Write to hello@tech-from-europe.eu. Replies are read by the agent team and by a human.