# Toolbox — Convios

> 43 tools with our own verdict, along the question of buying, switching or building. Each entry states suitability, staying power, cost of leaving, pricing and nine evidenced points on regulation and data, each dated.

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## Guides

- [Buy, switch or build](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/build-or-buy): Off-the-shelf with licence costs, AI-native product or building it yourself: seven criteria that let you make the decision on evidence.
- [Build it yourself](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/build-it-yourself): What you build with and out of: build tools and building blocks, each with the question of who owns the result and what operations cost.

## Tools (43)

- [BLP Digital (BLP Digital AG, Zurich)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/blp-digital.md): Efficiency only. Runs the recurring document processes around an ERP system, namely incoming invoices, order confirmations, delivery notes and master data upkeep, and writes the result back into the ERP, which remains the system of record. — Storage location unclear, DPA unclear. As of 2026-07-31.
- [DATEV (DATEV eG, Nuremberg (Nürnberg))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/datev.md): Prevents falling behind. DATEV runs bookkeeping, payroll and annual accounts on a shared data set that the tax firm (Steuerkanzlei) and the company access at the same time. The bookings sit in the DATEV data centre, and filings to the tax office and social insurance travel the same route. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-08-04.
- [Paddle (Paddle.com Market Ltd)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/paddle.md): Prevents falling behind. Resells your software in its own name and thereby becomes the buyer's contractual counterparty. Registration, calculation, remittance and liability for indirect tax in foreign jurisdictions then sit with the vendor rather than with the software company. — No EU storage, DPA not applicable. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Personio (Personio SE & Co. KG, Munich)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/personio.md): Prevents falling behind. Personio keeps the personnel file, absences, time tracking, applications and either preparatory or full payroll in one data set that HR, managers and employees reach with different permissions. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-08-10.
- [Pleo (Pleo Technologies A/S)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/pleo.md): Prevents falling behind. Gives every employee a card with its own limit and ties the receipt to the transaction, instead of letting subscriptions and tools run through private cards that only surface weeks later in an expense report. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Qonto (QONTO SA, Paris, with a German branch (Zweigniederlassung) in Berlin)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/qonto.md): Efficiency only. Runs the payment account, cards, receipts and the handover to accounting in one place, with roles and approvals per person, instead of keeping the bank statement, the receipt pile and the coding apart. — EU storage available, DPA not applicable. As of 2026-08-14.
- [Sastrify (Sastrify GmbH, Cologne (owned by Deel since May 2026))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/sastrify.md): Efficiency only. Pulls software inventory, actual usage and contract data into one register, flags notice periods before an auto renewal fires, and holds the price you pay against a benchmark database built from other companies' contracts. — Storage location unclear, DPA unclear. As of 2026-07-30.
- [1Password (AgileBits Inc., trading as 1Password, Toronto, Canada)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/1password.md): Prevents falling behind. Holds a company’s passwords, keys and credentials in vaults with permissions per person and group, so that access is withdrawn in one place when somebody leaves instead of living on in browsers, spreadsheets and chat histories. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-08-17.
- [Credo AI (Credo.AI Corp.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/credo-ai.md): Prevents falling behind. Keeps every AI use case, model and AI vendor in one register, attaches to each entry the approvals and evidence a regulation or a customer asks for, and records who decided what and when. — Storage location unclear, DPA available. As of 2026-08-24.
- [Infisical (Infisical, Inc.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/infisical.md): Prevents falling behind. Keeps credentials, keys and certificates in one place, hands them out only to verified humans and machines, and logs every issue. That takes passwords out of chat threads, spreadsheets and source code. — EU storage available, DPA unclear. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Langfuse (Langfuse GmbH, Berlin (owned by ClickHouse, Inc. since 2026-01-16))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/langfuse.md): Prevents falling behind. Once you build language models into a product, you cannot see what the model was asked, what it answered, what the call cost, or whether a prompt change improved or degraded quality. Langfuse records every model call, versions the prompts and scores answers against fixed test cases. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [LiteLLM (Berrie AI Incorporated (BerriAI))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/litellm.md): Prevents falling behind. Puts one uniform interface in front of many model providers, so keys, cost, limits and logs sit in one place instead of scattered across every service that calls a model. — EU storage available, DPA unclear. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Nudge Security (Nudge Security, Inc.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/nudge-security.md): Prevents falling behind. Shows which AI and SaaS services are actually in use across a company, and what access rights those services hold on company data, without anyone having to survey the staff. — Storage location unclear, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Ory (Ory Corp (EU-Vertretung: Ory Germany GmbH, München))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/ory.md): Prevents falling behind. Sign-in, registration, sessions, multi-factor and access rights have to work in every product with more than one user. Ory supplies that layer either as a hosted service or as open source servers you run yourself. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Tailscale (Tailscale US Inc. (Delaware) for contracts from 2024-09-03, before that Tailscale Inc. (Toronto))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/tailscale.md): Prevents falling behind. Ties access to servers, databases and internal services to a person's identity rather than to a network cable, a VPN account or a shared password. When someone leaves, access disappears with the account. — Storage location unclear, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Apollo.io (ZenLeads, Inc. d/b/a Apollo.io)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/apollo.md): Efficiency only. Apollo runs its own database of business contact data and attaches sequence sending, dialling and call recording to the same interface. You look up an address and reach out to it without leaving the tool. — No EU storage, DPA available. As of 2026-08-03.
- [Cal.com (Cal.com, Inc.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/cal-com.md): Efficiency only. Provides booking pages that compute free slots from connected calendars, distribute incoming requests across a team by stored rules, and create the confirmed meeting with a video link and reminders. — Storage location unclear, DPA unclear. As of 2026-08-05.
- [Clay (Clay Labs Inc)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/clay.md): Efficiency only. A list of companies or people rarely carries the attributes you actually decide on. Clay is the workbench where you assemble those attributes, query several data sources in sequence and put your own scoring logic on top. — Storage location unclear, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Docusign (Docusign, Inc.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/docusign.md): Prevents falling behind. Sends documents out for signature, guides recipients through the signing flow, verifies their identity where requested, and records an audit trail for each transaction that is meant to evidence the signature later. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-08-11.
- [Leadfeeder (Dealfront Group GmbH, Karlsruhe (branded Leadfeeder since 24 March 2026, previously Dealfront))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/leadfeeder.md): Efficiency only. Leadfeeder matches the addresses of website visitors against a database of corporate address ranges and shows sales which companies looked at which pages and how often they returned. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-08-20.
- [lemlist (LEMPIRE SAS, Paris (RCS Paris 823 475 082))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/lemlist.md): Efficiency only. Runs cold outreach across email, LinkedIn, phone and SMS as a single sequence, manages the sending mailboxes and their deliverability, and writes replies, opt-outs and booked meetings back onto the contact record. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [tl;dv (tldx Solutions GmbH)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/tldv.md): Prevents falling behind. Records what was actually said in sales, customer and hiring calls and makes it searchable and analysable, instead of leaving it to individual memory and hand-written notes. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Astro (Astro-Projekt (MIT), getragen von Cloudflare)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/astro.md): Prevents falling behind. Builds a website into finished files at publish time, so no code has to load in the browser just to display the page. — No vendor storage, DPA not applicable. As of 2026-07-30.
- [DeepL (DeepL SE, Köln)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/deepl.md): Efficiency only. Translates text and documents between languages using its own models, and lets company terminology be fixed through glossaries and style rules. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-08-06.
- [Framer (Framer B.V.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/framer.md): Efficiency only. Builds websites in a visual editor and runs them on the vendor's infrastructure, so a new page goes live without a development step. — No EU storage, DPA available. As of 2026-08-12.
- [Peec AI (Peec AI GmbH)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/peec-ai.md): Efficiency only. Shows whether and how a brand turns up in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI mode, in which position, in what tone, and which sources those systems assemble the answer from. — Storage location unclear, DPA unclear. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Sanity (Sanity AS)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/sanity.md): Prevents falling behind. Separates content from its presentation and serves it through an API, so website, app and answer engines all read from one source. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Semrush (Semrush Inc., Boston (Delaware), owned by Adobe since 28 April 2026)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/semrush.md): Prevents falling behind. Brings keywords, rankings, technical site errors and third-party backlinks together in one interface and, through the retrofitted AI modules, also measures whether and how a brand shows up in answers from AI systems. — No EU storage, DPA available. As of 2026-08-18.
- [Sulu (Sulu GmbH)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/sulu.md): Prevents falling behind. Manages content, multiple websites and translations in a self-hosted system built on Symfony. — EU storage available, DPA not applicable. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Claude Code (Anthropic PBC)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/claude-code.md): Prevents falling behind. Works as an agent inside the project directory: reads, writes and checks code on instruction, rather than only suggesting text in an editor. — Storage location unclear, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Cloudflare Pages (Cloudflare, Inc.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/cloudflare-pages.md): Prevents falling behind. Delivers a website's files worldwide and runs small functions at the network edge, without operating your own server. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [GitHub (GitHub, Inc., owned by Microsoft Corporation since 2018)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/github.md): Prevents falling behind. Records the history of every change to the source code, merges parallel lines of work, and attaches review, issue and deployment to the same change. Without this layer nobody reliably knows which version is running, or who changed what and why. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [GitLab (GitLab Inc. (Nasdaq: GTLB))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/gitlab.md): Prevents falling behind. Records the history of every change to the source code and brings review, issue, build run, security scanning and deployment into one system. The difference from the competitor is not in that list but in the fact that the core is open source and you are allowed to run it yourself. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Linear (Linear Orbit, Inc.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/linear.md): Prevents falling behind. Keeps a product team's issues, tasks and projects in one place and exposes them through an API in machine-readable form, so coding agents can work from structured tickets instead of prose buried in chat threads. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Lovable (Lovable Labs Inc.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/lovable.md): Efficiency only. Turns a description into a running web application including interface, data storage and sign-in, without writing code. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [PostHog (PostHog, Inc., San Francisco, California, with the subsidiary PostHog GmbH (limited company), Munich)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/posthog.md): Strengthens the core product. Records what people do inside an application, releases individual features to selected groups and works out whether the change had an effect, so the decision about the next step rests on measured numbers instead of the loudest opinion in the room. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-08-19.
- [Cognigy (Cognigy GmbH (owned by NiCE Ltd. since 08.09.2025))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/cognigy.md): Prevents falling behind. Builds and runs voice and chat agents for customer service, connects them to the phone system and to the business systems behind it, and hands over to staff as soon as the case calls for it. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-08-07.
- [Fin (Intercom, Inc. (trading as Fin since May 2026))](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/fin.md): Prevents falling behind. Answers inbound support requests on its own across chat, email, WhatsApp, SMS and phone, and hands over to a human when it gets stuck. You pay per case resolved rather than per seat. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Front (FrontApp, Inc.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/front.md): Prevents falling behind. Brings email, chat, SMS and social channels together in one shared inbox where every message carries an owner, an internal comment thread and a history. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-08-21.
- [Intercom (Intercom, Inc. for orders with a US shipping address, otherwise Intercom R&D Unlimited Company, Dublin; the company has traded as Fin since May 2026)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/intercom.md): Prevents falling behind. Brings chat inside your own product, email, phone and help centre together in one shared inbox, and sends proactive messages, product tours and checklists to users from that same place. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-08-13.
- [Plain (Not Just Tickets Ltd)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/plain.md): Strengthens the core product. Routes customer requests from Slack, Teams, Discord, email and chat along accounts, customer groups and service level agreements instead of along channels, and makes every operation programmable through an API. — No EU storage, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Zammad (Zammad GmbH)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/zammad.md): Prevents falling behind. Brings requests from email, web forms, chat and messengers into one case system, so it stays traceable who promised what and when, instead of cases disappearing into a shared mailbox. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.
- [Zendesk (Zendesk, Inc.)](https://www.convios.com/en/toolbox/zendesk.md): Prevents falling behind. Collects customer requests from email, chat, phone and social channels into one ticket store with ownership, deadlines and history, so that no request disappears in a shared mailbox. — EU storage available, DPA available. As of 2026-07-30.