Claude is a strong chat assistant, but it runs on US servers and does not know your office. It answers questions and writes text, but it has no access to your meetings, emails or tools. For a European company working with real customer and company data, that is two problems at once: data protection and missing context.
Sally is the GDPR-compliant Claude alternative from Germany: an AI chat that works in dialogue just the same, but additionally with your conversations, meetings and connected apps. This article shows how the two differ and when Sally is the better choice.
Why Claude hits limits in the European office
Claude is technically impressive. Its limits show not in the quality of the answers, but where real company data and taking action come in.
Data location and Schrems II
Claude is operated by Anthropic in the US. As soon as you enter personal or confidential data, you leave the European legal framework, and after the Schrems II ruling such a transfer needs an assessment and appropriate safeguards. In regulated industries this is often a hard deal breaker, regardless of how good the AI is.
A pure chat does not know your context
Claude knows nothing about your last customer call, your deal or yesterday's agreement. You have to copy every bit of context in manually, every single time. That is exactly the manual work AI is supposed to remove, and it eats up much of the time gain again.
No access to your tools
A pure chat can produce text, but do nothing. It cannot send an email, fill a CRM or read a message in Slack. The result stays a block of text that you copy, paste and execute yourself. The last, decisive step remains manual work.
What Sally does differently: the chat for the office
Sally starts where a pure chat stops: at your real data and at execution. The chat works as usual, but with what actually happens in your work day.
Chat on the basis of your meetings
Sally joins meetings in Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Webex and then works with what was discussed. You can ask the chat what was decided in a meeting, who committed to what or what is still open, and get an answer with a source from the real conversation, not from memory.
Access to your connected apps
This is the actual difference. From the Sally chat you can send emails, read and write messages and fill the CRM, across all the apps you connect. Native connections exist for your CRM system and for Slack and Microsoft Teams, among others, plus a total of 8,000+ tool connections via the integrations overview.
Its own LLMs hosted in Germany
Sally does not use the US models from Anthropic or OpenAI, but its own language models hosted in Germany. That is the core of GDPR compliance: the processing happens within the German legal framework, a transfer to the US is eliminated entirely. The comfort of a modern AI chat, without the data protection compromise.
Acting instead of only answering
Because Sally knows your context and can act in your tools, a chat does not end with a text suggestion. "Summarize the meeting and send the customer a follow up email" becomes a finished, checked action, not copy and paste. Drafts for binding steps are presented to you for approval, not executed blindly.
GDPR: what "from Germany" concretely means
"GDPR compliant" is an overused phrase. For Sally it stands for three verifiable properties.
Processing exclusively in Germany
Sally is operated by Aliru GmbH in Mannheim, and all processing happens exclusively in Germany. There is no detour via US data centers, which removes the entire Schrems II issue that burdens every use of Claude or ChatGPT with personal data.
No training on your data
Your conversations and documents are your data. Sally does not use them to train the models. They are processed to help you and stay within your area of responsibility, instead of drifting anonymously into a global training set.
Transparency and consent
For recording meetings the rule is: only with the consent of everyone involved. The visible assistant in the meeting creates the necessary transparency, instead of recording secretly. More on processing, hosting and legal bases is on the page about GDPR and security.
Claude or Sally: which for what
Fair is fair: Claude is an excellent tool for many tasks. It is not about better or worse, but about the right purpose.
| Criterion | Claude | Sally |
|---|---|---|
| General knowledge, writing, coding | Very strong | Focused on the office |
| Access to your meetings | No | Yes |
| Acting in your tools | No | Yes (email, CRM, messages) |
| Data location | US | Exclusively Germany |
| GDPR without transfer assessment | No | Yes |
| Training on your data | Depends on plan | No |
In short: For creative writing or general research, Claude is the first choice. For the office with real company data, Sally is the obvious, GDPR-compliant answer. How the same logic transfers to ChatGPT is shown in our article on the GDPR-compliant ChatGPT alternative.
Conclusion
Claude is a strong assistant, but for the European office with real data it has two gaps: the data location and the missing access to your conversations and tools. Sally closes both, as an AI chat that works on your meetings, acts in your apps and processes exclusively in Germany. Effectively Claude for the office, only with your context and without the data protection compromise.
If you want to see how an AI chat feels that knows your meetings and acts in your tools: try Sally free for 30 days, GDPR compliant from Germany.
