You are looking for a Taskade alternative that is actually GDPR compliant and built for teams in Germany and the EU. You are not alone. Taskade is a slick AI-driven task and project workspace with agents that can draft, summarise and plan - it does the “AI in a workspace” story well. The limit for a European team shows up on two pages of taskade.com: the US hosting on AWS (“Our primary infrastructure is hosted on Amazon AWS in the US East region”), the statement that “We do not currently sign Standard Contractual Clauses, a Data Processing Agreement”, and the per-workspace seat caps on the free and Pro plans that push a team of five straight onto Business1,2.
This comparison looks at nine honest alternatives through that lens, with a “Hosting / Data protection” column filled only from each vendor’s own pages, a “Price per user” column so a team of ten can do the math, and a clear verdict at the top. Superkind doesn’t replace your project tool - it works with it, like a colleague, in Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack, with 1,500+ integrations. For a wider look at the AI agent market, see our AI agents for the Mittelstand; for the question of what an AI employee actually is, see AI agent vs. chatbot.
Key takeaways
Best overall GDPR-compliant Taskade alternative for teams: Superkind - one AI employee in Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Slack and the web app, does the task in your programs through 1,500+ integrations including HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets and OneDrive, hosted in Europe, DPA via the Trust Center.
Best classic project tool made in Germany: awork (Hamburg), Stackfield (Munich-based) and factro (Bochum) all host in Germany, with DPA and a clear per-user price.
Best for Munich-based task-board teams: MeisterTask - ISO 27001 data centre in Frankfurt, GDPR, free plan.
Best for self-hosting and open source: OpenProject - German open-source project software you can host on your own infrastructure.
Best for teams who want a docs-and-databases layer alongside: Notion AI with the Business plan and a signed DPA, US-hosted; a complement to Superkind, not a replacement.
Get a ready-made AI team instead of Taskade AI agents - Superkind comes with an AI team (Inbox Triager, Routine Runner, Document Summariser, Follow-Up Writer) that runs automatically. Start free with unlimited users, or build your own.
Keep the control, keep the data in Europe - hosted and processed in Europe, GDPR compliant, aligned with the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), no training on your data, DPA via the Trust Center, and you decide what needs approval before anything goes out.
Your AI team for teams in Germany and the EU
Why You Need a Taskade Alternative
Taskade earned its share of attention for a reason: a clean AI-in-a-workspace interface, agents that draft and plan inside documents, and a free tier that gets a two-person team moving. These are the documented limits that make teams in Germany, Austria and the wider EU look further. All facts here come from taskade.com’s own pages1,2.
- US hosting is the default - Taskade’s own privacy page says: “Our primary infrastructure is hosted on Amazon AWS in the US East region”, with content delivery through Cloudflare. Data from outside the US “may be transferred to and processed in the United States”2.
- No signed DPA / AVV - the same page states plainly: “We do not currently sign Standard Contractual Clauses, a Data Processing Agreement” with customers. For a German or EU team that is used to an AVV as a first step, this closes the door before the demo2.
- AI processing outside the EU, including in China - Taskade’s AI sub-processor list, per its own page, includes providers in China: Alibaba (Qwen), DeepSeek, Moonshot AI (Kimi), Z.ai (GLM), MiniMax. AI requests “may be processed outside the US, the EU and the UK”2.
- Per-workspace seat caps on the lower plans - Free allows 2 people and 1 AI agent, Starter at USD 6/mo (yearly) allows 3 people and 3 agents, Pro at USD 10/mo (yearly) allows 10 people and unlimited agents. Unlimited people only arrives on Business at USD 25/mo (yearly). A six-person team is on Pro or Business before it has a routine1.
- Price is per workspace, published only on yearly billing - Taskade’s pricing page shows all tiers billed yearly. The page states yearly billing saves 50% versus monthly, but does not publish the monthly-billed prices on the same page, so a team paying monthly pays more than the sticker1.
- Works inside Taskade, not in your tools - Taskade agents live in Taskade projects and documents. If your team actually works in Outlook, Microsoft Teams, HubSpot and SharePoint, the AI agents need people to copy the context in and copy the output out.
- No signed EU DPA plus AI in China = a document for legal - the combination (no DPA, US primary infrastructure, AI processing possibly in China) is exactly the fact pattern that triggers an EU AI Act Article 4 literacy review and a DPIA under GDPR before a real team can roll it out.
Where Taskade is strong: a single person or a two-person team that wants an AI task workspace to try solo for a weekend, especially when the data in it isn’t client or employee personal data. For a team in the EU that needs an AVV, unlimited seats and AI that acts in the tools the team already uses, the honest answer is to look at the ten alternatives below.
GDPR-Compliant Is More Than an EU Server
A common shortcut in alternatives lists is to say “US company = not GDPR compliant”. That is not the right lens. Superkind itself uses AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and Google, processed in Europe. What matters for a European team is the stack of agreements and controls around the data, not the vendor’s postal address.
- A signed DPA / AVV - under Article 28 GDPR, the processor needs to sign one. If a vendor will not, that is the first stop sign.
- Where the data is processed - for application data, for AI prompts and for support access. Europe, with an option to pin region, is the clean story.
- No training on your content - a contractual guarantee that your prompts, documents and task contents are not used to train general models.
- Access controls and audit - who at the vendor can see data, with logs you can review.
- Approval and deletion - a human-in-the-loop step before AI sends or changes something that matters, and a clean delete path when the project ends.
- EU AI Act Article 4 literacy - everyone using the tool needs basic AI literacy; the vendor’s own materials should help with that, not get in the way.
A tool that ships all of this out of the box is less work for legal than one where every point is a negotiation. Superkind ships all of it, hosted and processed in Europe, with a DPA (AVV) via the Trust Center and no training on your data.
The 10 GDPR-Compliant Taskade Alternatives at a Glance
Every tool on this list is a credible Taskade alternative for a team in Germany, Austria, Switzerland or the EU. The “Hosting / Data protection” column is filled only from each vendor’s own pages; where a vendor does not clearly state EU processing or a signed DPA, it says “check with vendor”. Prices as of October 2026, excl. VAT.
| Tool | Focus | Core features | Best for | Hosting / Data protection | Price per user |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Superkind | AI employee for the whole team, with a ready-made AI team for teams in Germany and the EU (Inbox Triager, Routine Runner, Document Summariser, Follow-Up Writer) to use right away, or build your own. Works directly with your project tool. | Ready-made AI employees for inbox triage, weekly routines, document summaries and meeting follow-ups; does tasks in your tools, approval before anything goes out, Company Brain, 1,500+ integrations such as HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets and OneDrive | Teams in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the EU that want AI that acts in Outlook, Teams and Slack | EU, GDPR, EU AI Act aligned, DPA via Trust Center, no training | Free to start (up to EUR 150 in credits), unlimited users; from EUR 50/mo for the whole team |
| 2. Taskade | AI-driven task and project workspace with AI agents inside documents | AI agents in projects, kanban and mind-map views, chat, limited workflow runs per month | A one or two-person team that wants to try an AI workspace solo | AWS US East; HQ San Francisco; no signed DPA per own page; AI providers include China2 | Free 2 seats; Starter USD 6, Pro USD 10, Business USD 25/mo billed yearly1 |
| 3. awork | Made-in-Germany project and work management for teams | Projects, time tracking, workloads, automations, ISO 27001 per vendor | DACH teams that want a classic Hamburg-based project tool | Made and hosted in Germany, “ISO 27001 certified Microsoft servers in Germany” per FAQ, GDPR per vendor4 | Basic EUR 6, Standard EUR 15, Professional EUR 23 per user/month, billed yearly4 |
| 4. Stackfield | End-to-end encrypted project collaboration made in Germany | Tasks, chats, files, calls with end-to-end encryption per vendor; DPA listed as a feature | DACH teams where confidentiality and encryption are the top criterion | Made and hosted in Germany per vendor, DPA as a feature, end-to-end encryption per feature list5 | Starter EUR 9 (max 10 users), Business EUR 14, Premium EUR 18, Enterprise EUR 28 per user/month5 |
| 5. factro | Project management made in Germany (Bochum) | Gantt, kanban, time tracking, Government tier with EVB-IT Cloud contract | German teams and public sector with classic PM needs | Made in Germany per vendor, DSGVO-compliant per vendor materials; Government with EVB-IT contract6 | Basic free up to 3 users; Business EUR 19.99, Professional EUR 29.99 per user/month6 |
| 6. MeisterTask | Munich-based kanban task board with a free plan | Kanban, checklists, integrations, free plan | Teams that want a simple card-based task board on an ISO 27001 EU data centre | Data centre in Frankfurt, Germany per FAQ; GDPR & CCPA compliant per vendor7 | Free tier, paid plans per user per month (check current pricing page)7 |
| 7. Zenkit | All-in-one suite (projects, CRM, docs) from Karlsruhe, Germany | Kanban, lists, mind maps, Hyperlist, wiki, CRM | Teams that want several views (lists, boards, mind maps) in one app | German vendor; GDPR compliant per vendor; DPA available on request8 | Plus EUR 8 (up to 10 users), Team EUR 12, Business EUR 21 per seat/month8 |
| 8. OpenProject | German open-source project management, Community and Enterprise | Work packages, Gantt, agile, wiki, BIM, SAML/OIDC; self-hostable | Teams that want to self-host or need open source for procurement | Made in Germany per vendor; can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure or hosted by OpenProject in Germany9 | Community free (self-hosted); Enterprise on-premises and Enterprise cloud per user/month9 |
| 9. monday.com work management | Work OS with AI, boards, dashboards and automations | Boards, dashboards, workdocs, automations, monday AI | Teams that want a broad Work OS with AI add-ons | Multi-region hosting incl. EU option per vendor; DPA available; confirm current scope in DPA10 | Per seat; three-seat minimum; see pricing page for current tier prices10 |
| 10. Notion AI | Documents, databases and AI layer across them | Pages, databases, AI Q&A, AI writing and summaries | Teams that want a flexible docs-and-databases layer alongside Superkind | US vendor; DPA signed with Business and above; confirm current regions and sub-processors in DPA11 | Per user per month, published tier prices; AI usage included on higher tiers11 |
Feature Comparison: What Superkind Does That Taskade Does Not
Side by side on the criteria that matter for a team in Germany or the EU: where the AI lives, what it can act on, approval, team knowledge, hosting, price. Taskade is an AI task workspace; Superkind is an AI employee the team writes to in the channels it already uses, with 1,500+ integrations across the tools the work actually lives in.
| Criterion | Superkind | Taskade | awork | Notion AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works in Outlook, Teams, Slack | Yes - one AI employee across all channels | No - lives inside Taskade projects | No - lives in the awork app; integrations only | No - lives in Notion pages |
| Does the task in your programs | Yes - 1,500+ integrations incl. HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets, OneDrive, DocuSign | Agents act inside Taskade; limited workflow runs per month | Integrations to connect tools; AI not the core | AI acts inside Notion; connectors for a few sources |
| Approve / Reject before sending | Yes, where you set it | Agent configuration-dependent | N/A - no AI agents | AI writes in-page; you approve before sharing |
| Shared company knowledge (Company Brain) | Yes - rules, voice, customers, routines persist | Per workspace, within Taskade | Project templates and wikis | Pages and databases as source |
| Automatic routines | Yes - every new mail, every Monday 08:30 | Workflow runs on Pro/Business per plan | Automations in the app | Scheduled AI not the primary model |
| 1,500+ integrations | Yes - including HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets, OneDrive, DocuSign | 100+ integrations on Pro and above per page | Several dozen integrations | A growing set of connectors |
| EU hosting and processing | Yes - hosted and processed in Europe | US primary infrastructure per own page2 | “Made & hosted in Germany” per vendor4 | US vendor; EU hosting not the default |
| Signed DPA / AVV | Yes - via Trust Center | “We do not currently sign ... a Data Processing Agreement” per own page2 | Available per vendor | Available from Business plan |
| No training on your data | Yes | “Contractually barred” per own page, “may change” per vendor2 | Not applicable (no customer-content AI) | Yes, per plan |
| Unlimited users on paid plans | Yes - from EUR 50/mo for the whole company | Only from Business plan (USD 25/mo yearly)1 | Per user per month | Per user per month |
| No installation | Yes - runs in Outlook, Teams, Slack and the web app | Web, desktop and mobile apps per vendor | Web and apps | Web and apps |
| Builds custom apps on the platform | Yes - your own Super App | Custom agents and workflows in-app | No | Yes - databases and views |
Taskade is the slicker “AI inside a workspace” story. Superkind is the broader tool for the team’s daily work in the channels and programs the team already uses, with a signed DPA, unlimited users and EU hosting out of the box.
Who Benefits Most
Project-driven teams in Germany and DACH
Agencies, in-house marketing, product teams and client-services teams that run on projects and briefs. Superkind takes the long tail of inbox triage, weekly standups, document summaries and meeting follow-ups off your calendar, in Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack, with EU hosting. For the classic board-and-list layer, pair it with awork, Stackfield or MeisterTask.
Mittelstand operations with customer and employee data
Any team where the task list touches customer records (orders, complaints, contracts) or employee records (holiday, time, onboarding) is in GDPR territory on page one. Superkind is hosted and processed in Europe, signs a DPA via the Trust Center, and acts in SAP Business One, DATEV, SharePoint and HubSpot through 1,500+ integrations - not on top of a US workspace that cannot sign your AVV.
Teams with a Betriebsrat and an AI literacy policy
Under Article 4 of the EU AI Act, everyone who uses AI at work needs basic AI literacy, and under German works-council law (BetrVG), the introduction of AI tools often needs co-determination. An AI employee with an approval step for anything that goes out, a clear Company Brain and a documented EU data flow is much easier to approve than an agent inside a US workspace that writes back to your tools without a stop.
The 10 Taskade Alternatives in Detail
Each entry says what the tool does well and where it stops. Facts about each tool come only from the vendor’s own pages; where a point is not stated, you will see “check with vendor”. Prices are indicative for October 2026, excl. VAT.
1. Superkind: Best Overall Choice for Teams in Germany and the EU
Superkind is one AI employee you write to in Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Slack or the Superkind web app, like a colleague. It does the task in your programs, waits for your approval wherever you want it, learns your project rules and your voice, and keeps your project knowledge in a shared Company Brain. HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets, OneDrive, DocuSign, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack are among 1,500+ integrations. Hosted and processed in Europe, GDPR compliant, aligned with the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689).
- Lives where your team already works - you message it in Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Slack or the web app like a colleague, no new tool to learn, no new tab open after lunch.
- Works directly with your project tool - 1,500+ integrations across HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets, OneDrive, DocuSign, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack. Creates the task, drafts the mail, pulls the file, writes the summary, posts the Monday status.
- You decide what needs approval - sensitive steps wait for your OK, routine work runs on its own. Internal recaps go on their own; anything that goes to a client waits for you.
- Keeps your team knowledge - project rules, voice, customer profiles, templates, priority definitions live in the Company Brain. The knowledge stays when a team lead leaves.
- Grows into your own apps - when a routine gets more complex, you do not start over: build custom solutions and apps on the Superkind platform, on top of what Superkind already knows about your projects. Your own Super App, built yourself or with the Superkind team.
- Comes with a ready-made AI team - Inbox Triager, Routine Runner, Document Summariser and Follow-Up Writer work from day one; adapt them or build your own.
- Start for free, unlimited users - up to EUR 150 in credits to start, no credit card; paid plans from EUR 50/month, never a price per seat (as of October 2026, excl. VAT).
Best for: Teams in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the EU that want an AI employee for the whole team in Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack, with a signed DPA and unlimited users, without a Taskade-style US workspace in the middle.
How to get started with Superkind: your AI team for teams in Germany and the EU
Superkind gives you a ready-made team of AI employees for the project and task work a European team does every day. Each one runs on its own, triggered by a new mail, a new file, a new meeting recording or a weekly schedule. A human stays in the loop for the moves that matter - external client replies, budget commitments, contract decisions. Hosted in Europe, built on 1,500+ integrations including HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets, OneDrive, DocuSign, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack.
You do not start from scratch: Superkind comes with a ready-made team of AI employees for the project and task work a European team runs every day. They work automatically on every new request, every new document and every Monday morning, and you decide where they wait for a human before anything goes out. Use them right away, adapt them, or build your own.
Inbox Triager
AI employee for shared mailboxes and project intake
Every new mail to your shared project inbox goes through the Inbox Triager. It reads the message, pulls the project tag from the body or attachment, creates the task in HubSpot or Google Sheets with the right owner, due date and priority, and posts a short line in your Teams project channel. External client requests and anything with a budget line wait for your OK; routine updates run on their own.
Routine Runner
AI employee for recurring team routines
Nobody loves writing the Monday status. The Routine Runner pulls last week's closed tasks from HubSpot, Jira or Google Sheets, pulls open blockers from the Teams project channel, drafts a short bullet update per project and posts it in the leadership Slack channel every Monday at 08:30. You scan it over coffee; the one line that needs an edit, you edit, the rest goes out.
Document Summariser
AI employee for project briefs, specs and contracts
Clients send briefs, agencies send proposals, legal sends contracts. Nobody has time to read them end to end. The Document Summariser pulls the file from SharePoint or OneDrive, extracts the three decisions, the dates and the owner questions, posts a short summary in the Teams channel and drops any open questions as tasks to the right owner. The contract version goes to you for approval before anything moves.
Follow-Up Writer
AI employee for meeting follow-ups
Most meetings end with "someone will send the notes". The Follow-Up Writer reads the recording from Microsoft Teams or the transcript from Google Meet, writes a short recap in your voice with the three decisions and the next steps, drafts the follow-up email, and queues the owner, the due date and the next slot. Internal recaps run on their own; anything going to a client waits for your OK.
After every project meeting: write the recap in my voice (3 decisions, next steps, owners, dates), draft the follow-up email to the external attendees, and put the next slot on the shared calendar. Wait for my OK on anything to a client.
Reasoning ⌄Recap of the 45-min re-brand sync done. 3 decisions logged (nav: left-rail, hero: motion loop, launch: 15.12.), 5 next steps assigned (Lea, Jonas, Clara, Henri), slot for review booked 12.11. 10:00. Internal Teams recap posted; external follow-up to Clara waits for your OK.
Every employee is ready to use right away. Or build your own on the platform.
Safe by default
A project tool is full of personal data of clients, colleagues and vendors - names, companies, budget lines, meeting notes, contract drafts. Superkind keeps it in Europe and never uses it to train models.
- Hosted and processed in Europe
- GDPR compliant
- Aligned with the EU AI Act
- No training on your data
- DPA through the Trust Center
Send Superkind your first project mail
Free to start in Outlook, Microsoft Teams or Slack. Unlimited users, hosted in Europe, with 1,500+ integrations including HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets and OneDrive.
From the first task to your own app
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Start
Ready in minutes. Sign up for free, give Superkind the first task - “every mail to projects@ becomes a task in HubSpot with the right owner and due date” - and watch the first task arrive the next morning.
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Relief
Tasks become routines. What you explained once for new project mails runs for every new request from then on. You decide which steps wait for your approval - anything going to a client is a good first one.
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Knowledge
Learns from day one. Your project rules, voice, templates and priority definitions live in the Company Brain. The knowledge stays when a team lead leaves.
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Growth
When it gets more complex, you do not start over. Build your own project-dashboard or client-portal app on top of what Superkind already knows about your projects - your own Super App - with the Superkind team or yourself. It all belongs to you.
2. Taskade: Best for a Solo Trial of an AI Workspace
Taskade is a slick AI-first task workspace with agents that draft and summarise inside your documents. The free plan lets two people try the AI, Pro at USD 10/mo (yearly) unlocks unlimited AI agents for up to ten people, and Business at USD 25/mo (yearly) removes the people cap1.
- AI agents inside projects - the agents live in the workspace and can draft and summarise in-page.
- Mind-map, kanban and doc views - several views of the same workspace.
- Mobile and desktop apps - the workspace follows you across devices.
- Honest limit for EU teams - US hosting on AWS, no signed DPA per the vendor’s own privacy page, AI providers that include China. For a team in the EU with client or employee data in the project, this is the blocker2.
Best for: A one or two-person team that wants to try an AI workspace solo, with non-personal content.
3. awork: Best Made-in-Germany Project Tool for DACH Teams
awork is a Hamburg-based project and work-management tool, with projects, time tracking, workloads and a simple automations layer. ISO 27001 certified per vendor, “Made & Hosted in Germany”, GDPR compliant per vendor materials. Basic from EUR 6/user/month billed yearly, Standard EUR 15, Professional EUR 234.
- Hosted in Germany - “ISO 27001 certified Microsoft servers in Germany” per the FAQ.
- Classic project tool - projects, tasks, time tracking, workloads, Gantt - the familiar kit.
- DACH-first - interface, support and templates for the DACH market.
- Honest limit - AI is not the core; agents don’t act in Outlook, Teams or Slack like Superkind does. Pair the two for the full picture.
Best for: DACH teams that want a familiar, made-in-Germany project tool and will add the AI employee layer separately.
4. Stackfield: Best for End-to-End Encrypted Project Collaboration
Stackfield is a German project-collaboration platform with end-to-end encryption listed in its security features, data processing agreement listed as a plan feature and the Public Sector add-on covering an EVB-IT cloud contract. Starter EUR 9/user/month (max 10 users, yearly), Business EUR 14, Premium EUR 18, Enterprise EUR 285.
- Made and hosted in Germany - “Made & Hosted in Germany” on the pricing page.
- End-to-end encryption - listed in the security features.
- Public-sector-ready - add-on with EVB-IT cloud contract and Section 203 StGB cover.
- Honest limit - encryption adds friction to AI features; agents don’t act in your other tools like Superkind does.
Best for: DACH teams where confidentiality and encryption are the top criterion, including regulated industries and public sector.
5. factro: Best for Classic German Project Management
factro is a Bochum-based project management tool with Gantt, kanban and time tracking, and a Government tier covered by an EVB-IT Cloud contract. Basic is free up to 3 users, Business is EUR 19.99/user/month and Professional EUR 29.996.
- Made in Germany - Bochum-based vendor, DSGVO-compliant per vendor materials.
- Government tier with EVB-IT - a fit for public-sector procurement.
- Classic PM - Gantt, kanban, time tracking, workloads.
- Honest limit - AI is not the core; the price per user climbs quickly for a 30-person team.
Best for: German teams and public-sector buyers with classic project management needs.

6. MeisterTask: Best for a Munich-Based Kanban Task Board
MeisterTask is a Munich-based kanban task board with a free plan and paid plans per user per month. Per its own FAQ, servers are in an ISO 27001-certified data centre in Frankfurt, Germany, and it describes itself as GDPR & CCPA compliant7.
- Frankfurt data centre - ISO 27001-certified per FAQ.
- Free plan - the easiest start for a kanban board.
- Simple and visual - cards, checklists, sections, due dates.
- Honest limit - simple board without the AI-employee-in-your-tools layer; check the current pricing page for AVV availability.
Best for: Teams that want a simple card-based board on an EU data centre, with a free tier to start.
7. Zenkit: Best All-in-One Suite from Karlsruhe
Zenkit is a Karlsruhe-based suite that covers kanban, lists, mind maps, the Hyperlist to-do app, a wiki and a CRM. GDPR compliant per vendor, DPA available on request. Plus EUR 8/seat/month (up to 10 users), Team EUR 12, Business EUR 218.
- Several views of the same data - kanban, lists, mind maps, calendar.
- German vendor - Karlsruhe-based, DPA available.
- Suite not single app - one login across kanban, wiki, CRM and to-dos.
- Honest limit - the more views, the more to configure; AI agents don’t work in Outlook, Teams or Slack.
Best for: Teams that want kanban, lists and mind maps in one German suite.
8. OpenProject: Best for Self-Hosting and Open Source
OpenProject is German open-source project software with a Community edition you can self-host for free and an Enterprise edition hosted in Germany or on-premises. Fits procurement rules that require open source or on-premises deployment9.
- Self-hostable - full control on your own infrastructure or hosted by OpenProject in Germany.
- Open source - fits open-source procurement rules.
- SAML / OIDC - for SSO in the Enterprise edition.
- Honest limit - self-hosting means an operations burden; the AI-in-your-tools story is not there.
Best for: Teams that need self-hosting or open source for procurement or sovereignty reasons.
9. monday.com work management: Best Broad Work OS with AI Add-ons
monday.com’s work management product is a broad Work OS with boards, dashboards, workdocs, automations and a monday AI layer. Multi-region hosting with an EU option per vendor, DPA available10.
- Broad Work OS - the range of templates and views is the selling point.
- EU hosting option - confirm the current scope in the DPA.
- AI add-ons - monday AI across boards and workdocs.
- Honest limit - per-seat pricing with a three-seat minimum; AI lives in monday, not in Outlook, Teams or Slack.
Best for: Teams that want a broad Work OS and will add Superkind for the AI-employee-in-your-tools layer.
10. Notion AI: Best Docs-and-Databases Layer Alongside
Notion is a documents-and-databases tool with an AI add-on. Business and above sign a DPA; Notion is US-hosted and offers several data residency options per vendor11. For a team that wants a flexible docs-and-databases layer, Notion is a complement to Superkind rather than a replacement for Taskade.
- Documents and databases - the flexible layer where notes, wikis and lightweight DBs live.
- Notion AI - writing, Q&A and summaries inside pages.
- DPA from Business - signed with Business and above per vendor.
- Honest limit - US vendor; AI acts inside Notion, not inside Outlook, Teams, HubSpot or SharePoint.
Best for: Teams that want a flexible docs-and-databases layer alongside the AI employee in Outlook and Teams.
Switching from Taskade to Superkind
If you decided Taskade cannot sign your DPA or you want AI that acts in the tools your team already uses, the first week looks like this.
Notice period and data export
Taskade bills per workspace, billed yearly on the paid plans; check your current renewal date and cancellation terms on the billing page before you decide. Export each Taskade project (Taskade’s Export option on a project) into Markdown, OPML or CSV, and keep the archive with your contract file. You will reuse the contents as the first Company Brain in Superkind.
First three steps with Superkind
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Sign up for free and connect one channel
At
app.superkind.ai: unlimited users, up to EUR 150 in starting credits, no credit card. Connect the shared project mailbox and the one project tool you actually use (HubSpot, Google Sheets, awork or MeisterTask). 10 minutes. - 2
Give the Inbox Triager your first week of project mails
Forward last week’s project mails to Superkind: “Sort these by project, create a task in HubSpot with the right owner, due date and priority, and post a short line in the Teams project channel.” Approve or correct the result.
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Turn one task into a routine
“Every mail to projects@ runs through this triage.” Set which steps need your approval - replies to external clients and budget commitments are the right first ones. Add the Routine Runner for Monday mornings and the Follow-Up Writer for meeting recaps.
Data Protection and EU Hosting
A project tool is full of personal data of clients, colleagues and vendors: names, companies, budget lines, meeting notes, contract drafts. Under GDPR all of it is personal and often commercially sensitive. Under the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), using AI to process it is a decision you document. Where Taskade’s own privacy page says it does not currently sign a DPA and that content may be processed in the US, Superkind is the opposite side of that fact pattern.
For a project team this matters at two levels. First, every brief, every recap and every contract draft is personal data of a person at a company, and often commercially sensitive (budget, pricing, roadmap). Second, under Article 4 of the EU AI Act, everyone using the tool needs basic AI literacy - which means a written policy on when to override an AI-drafted follow-up, how to handle a complaint about an automated reply, and who signs off on a status update that AI suggested. Superkind uses AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and Google, processed in Europe, with GDPR and EU AI Act seals powered by heyData.
For wider reading, see our solution pages for email inbox triage and project reporting, and the integrations page for the full list of 1,500+ systems Superkind connects to.
6 Tips for Picking a Taskade Alternative
1. Start with one shared mailbox or one project, not a platform
Pick one process - project intake on the shared mailbox, weekly Monday status, meeting follow-ups, document summaries. Get it running end to end with your approval before you add the next one. One process live beats a six-month evaluation of five tools. Superkind runs this way by design, with 1,500+ integrations including HubSpot, SharePoint and Google Sheets ready on day one.
2. Keep the AI in the Approve / Reject loop on client-facing work
The posture that works in a European project team is simple: anything that goes to a client, anything with a budget line and anything that touches a contract waits for a human. Internal summaries, task creation and standup drafts run on their own. Set this with Superkind’s approval step, process by process.
3. Treat GDPR and the EU AI Act as design input
Match EU hosting, no training on your data, a signed DPA, access controls per team and basic AI literacy for every user (EU AI Act Article 4). A tool that cannot show you a signed DPA is not ready for a European project team, however good the workspace looks13.
4. Watch the per-user bill before you sign
Per-user pricing sounds friendly on tier 1 and bites at tier 3. On Taskade a six-person team is already on Pro or Business before week two; on most other tools the per-user price climbs with every seat. Prefer unlimited-user pricing with transparent usage. Superkind starts from EUR 50/month for the whole team, hosted in Europe.
5. Put your project knowledge in one place
Your project rules, voice, templates, priority definitions and client profiles should live where the AI can read them. In Superkind this is the Company Brain. Written down once, used every time by every AI employee - and it stays when a team lead leaves.
6. Measure what matters, not what looks nice
Inbox-to-task time, Monday-status minutes saved, days-on-blocked for each project, external replies sent per week. Do not chase an “AI touch” percentage in isolation - a high AI-touch rate on bad drafts costs you clients later.
Conclusion
Taskade built a slick AI workspace for a reason, and for a one or two-person test with non-personal content it is still a credible pick. For a team in Germany, Austria, Switzerland or the EU with client, employee or contract data in the task list, the honest 2026 answer is different: pick an AI employee that lives in Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack, does the work through 1,500+ integrations including HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets and OneDrive, keeps a human in the Approve / Reject loop on client-facing work, and is hosted in Europe with a signed DPA - and pair it with a classic European project tool like awork, Stackfield, factro, MeisterTask, Zenkit or OpenProject only when the team wants a board-and-list layer alongside.
The honest next step: try Superkind free for one process - the project mailbox, the Monday status, a document summary - and see how it runs end to end with 1,500+ integrations in your own stack. Or book 30 minutes and we will show you how it looks for your team.
Frequently Asked Questions
Taskade processes data on Amazon AWS in the US East region, is headquartered in San Francisco, and its own privacy page states: "We do not currently sign Standard Contractual Clauses, a Data Processing Agreement" with customers. The page also says non-US customer data "may be transferred to and processed in the United States" and that AI requests may be processed outside the US, the EU and the UK, including in China. Taskade says it collects personal data in accordance with the GDPR and that AI providers are contractually barred from training on your content, but for a team in Germany or the EU that typically needs a signed AVV/DPA, the missing signed agreement is the blocker. An EU-first tool like Superkind is hosted and processed in Europe, signs a DPA via the Trust Center and never uses your data to train models.
Taskade's Pro plan is USD 10 per month billed yearly and caps the workspace at 10 people; Business at USD 25 per month billed yearly lifts the people cap, and Max is USD 100 per month billed yearly for more credits. All of this is per workspace, billed yearly on the published page; the page does not publish monthly-billed prices, so a team paying monthly pays more. For a team of 12 that wants unlimited seats and a DPA, the honest answer is that Taskade is priced to push you to Business and to the yearly cycle. Superkind starts free with unlimited users and a one-off up to EUR 150 in credits, then from EUR 50/month for the whole company, hosted in Europe (as of October 2026, excl. VAT).
The free plan allows 2 people and 1 AI agent. Starter at USD 6/mo (yearly) allows 3 people and 3 agents. Pro at USD 10/mo (yearly) allows 10 people and unlimited agents. Unlimited people only arrives on the Business plan at USD 25/mo (yearly). If your team is five people and three of you need the AI agents, you are on Pro or Business before week two. Superkind is priced per credit, not per seat: unlimited users on every paid plan.
For most teams in Germany, Austria and the wider EU that want a Taskade-style AI task workspace with a signed AVV/DPA, the strongest overall pick is Superkind: one AI employee your team writes to in Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Slack and the web app, does the task in your programs through 1,500+ integrations including HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets, OneDrive and DocuSign, hosted and processed in Europe. For a classic project tool made and hosted in Germany, awork, Stackfield or factro are strong. For a Munich-based task board, MeisterTask. For a Karlsruhe-based all-in-one, Zenkit. The right pick depends on how much of the work you want the AI to actually do versus how much you want to lay out in cards and lists yourself.
You write to Superkind in Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Slack or the Superkind web app, for example: "Every new mail to projects@ becomes a task in HubSpot with the right owner, due date and project tag, and posts a short line in the Teams project channel." Superkind reads the mailbox, works in your programs through 1,500+ integrations including HubSpot, SharePoint, DATEV, Google Sheets, OneDrive, DocuSign, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack, uses your project rules and voice as Company Brain, and waits for your OK on the steps you flagged. The same task runs as a routine from then on.
For a team in Germany or the EU that is on Taskade today, Superkind is a credible replacement for the AI-task-and-agent part of Taskade: one AI employee in Outlook, Teams and Slack, with ready-made employees for inbox triage, weekly routines, document summaries and meeting follow-ups. You export your Taskade projects via the Export option, point Superkind at your shared mailbox, HubSpot or Google Sheets and the Teams project channel, and the AI work carries on where it was. Superkind does not try to be a kanban board - if you want cards and sprint columns as well, pair it with a European project tool like awork, Stackfield or MeisterTask.
Notion is a documents-and-databases tool with an AI add-on. It has a Business plan and offers a Data Processing Agreement, but it is US-hosted; for a team in the EU that cares about where AI prompts and content are processed, that belongs on the legal review and in the DPA. Superkind is the broader pick if you want an AI employee that actually does the work in Outlook, Teams, Slack, HubSpot and DATEV, with EU hosting and a DPA out of the box. Notion is a complement where the team wants a flexible docs-and-databases layer alongside.
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Sources
- Taskade - Pricing page
- Taskade - Privacy policy
- Taskade - AI agents overview
- awork - Pricing and plans
- Stackfield - Pricing and plans
- factro - Preise und Tarife
- MeisterTask - Pricing
- Zenkit - Pricing
- OpenProject - Enterprise edition
- monday.com - Security and compliance
- Notion - Security and data privacy
- ClickUp - Security
- EU AI Act - Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 overview
- EU Commission - GDPR overview
- Superkind - Trust Center
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