rready FAQ
What is rready and what do we do?
rready offers a sovereign AI platform for work and innovation management, built and hosted in Europe. We serve enterprises and public organizations running critical business processes, from idea and innovation management to replacing Jira and Confluence. Customers include BMW Group, Swisscom, TetraPak, and more than 40 other global enterprises.
How many product lines does rready offer?
rready offers two product lines. rready innovate is the innovation suite for sourcing, evaluating, and executing ideas across the organization. rready work contains sovara, Europe's sovereign alternative to Jira and Confluence for workflow, project, and knowledge management. Both run on the same sovereign AI platform, built and hosted under European jurisdiction.
Who is behind rready?
rready AG was founded in 2021 as a spin-off from Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telecom and IT provider, building on enterprise software experience since 2016. The company is backed by Swisscom Ventures, Verve Ventures, FYRFLY Venture Partners, and Equity Pitcher Ventures. rready is incorporated in Switzerland and operates under Swiss jurisdiction.
What products does rready innovate include?
rready innovate covers the full corporate innovation lifecycle in one platform. It includes Idea Management for sourcing and evaluating ideas from employees and internal data, Innovation Management for portfolio governance and ROI tracking, KICKBOX Intrapreneurship for employee-driven bottom-up innovation, Employee Suggestions (BVW) for structured suggestion schemes with transparent rewards, and Continuous Improvement (KVP) for systematic, measurable process improvements. All products share one platform, one data model, and one AI layer.
What results can I expect from rready innovate programs?
Organizations use rready to drive four outcomes: cost reduction (removing waste), efficiency gains (doing more with the same headcount), faster time-to-market (moving improvements from weeks to days), and quality improvements (fewer defects, smoother processes). While results vary by organization and program design, documented outcomes from rready customers include CHF 4.8 million in financial impact at Swisscom, CHF 2.8 million in benefits realised at Siemens Energy and 12+ patents filed within 18 months.
What is sovara?
sovara is rready's sovereign work platform and Europe's alternative to Jira and Confluence. It covers software development, project management, issue tracking, and knowledge management in one integrated platform, hosted in the EU or Switzerland, with user-independent licensing and a guaranteed migration.
What structural risks come with Jira and Confluence?
Three structural risks stand out: EU hosting does not equal EU control under the US CLOUD Act, Atlassian determines which AI models access your data, and licensing costs have escalated consistently year over year. For teams running Jira or Confluence Server on their own infrastructure, Data Center end-of-life makes a migration decision unavoidable now.
Why is sovara the right alternative to Jira and Confluence?
sovara keeps data under European jurisdiction, gives you full control over which AI models access your workflows, and delivers up to 30% lower total cost through user-independent licensing with no forced upgrades. Built API-first and modular by design, it plugs into your existing stack and keeps data fully exportable, so you stay in control whether you scale with sovara or decide to move on.
Is sovara as capable as Jira and Confluence?
For the workflows most teams rely on day to day, yes. sovara covers the core of what Jira and Confluence deliver — work items, boards, project tracking, and knowledge management — and in some areas goes further, built genuinely API-first and AI-native for the way teams are starting to work. The interface is kept deliberately familiar, so moving across means low friction and minimal retraining. Where a specific capability is business-critical to you, we confirm it directly against your requirements in a scoped proof-of-concept before any commitment, so there's no guesswork about fit.
How much does sovara cost?
sovara is designed around a lean architecture that avoids the pricing surprises and forced upgrades common with legacy tools, and pricing is typically 30% lower than comparable Atlassian licensing. For an exact quote, book a demo.
Is sovara cheaper than Jira and Confluence?
In most cases, yes. Atlassian's per-user licensing has risen sharply year on year; sovara's lean, modern architecture keeps total cost lower and more predictable.
Does sovara protect against annual price increases?
Predictable pricing is a core part of the sovara proposition - avoiding the escalating, hard-to-exit cost path many teams hit with incumbent tools.
How does rready use AI?
rready is AI-native, meaning AI is embedded directly into every workflow, not as a chatbot, but as a system that structures data, supports decisions, and drives execution. A context-aware co-pilot lives in every workspace and reads, writes, and acts in context. AI agents go further: they scan internal data and signals to surface opportunities, help innovators structure their ideas, detect duplicates, and move initiatives into action. BMW Group runs more than 20 rready AI agents in production. Learn more at rready.com/ai.
Can I use my own AI models?
Yes. rready is built on a Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI) principle, letting you connect any OpenAI-compatible endpoint: your own self-hosted model, sovereign European providers like Aleph Alpha or Mistral AI, or global providers including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and DeepSeek.
Can I turn AI off completely?
Yes. rready’s platform is AI-native, not AI-dependent. This means you can switch AI features off entirely, feature by feature, with no forced AI layer touching your data. This is a deliberate difference from tools that bundle an AI assistant that can't be disabled.
Will my data be used to train AI models?
No. If you use your own AI endpoint, processing never touches rready's systems. If you use the platform’s built-in AI (Azure OpenAI-based), rready contractually guarantees your data is not used for external or model-training purposes.
What tools does rready integrate with?
rready is API-first, connecting directly to the tools your teams already use, including SAP, Salesforce, and Microsoft, without duplicating data or creating new dependencies. A standard REST API enables reliable connections with almost any additional system, and AI agents can connect natively via MCP — including a self-hostable MCP server (or as part of an on-prem deployment), a CLI, and a Claude extension. As an example, rready built an automated employee reward payout system for BMW Group directly via SAP SuccessFactors. Full details at rready.com/integrations.
What makes rready a sovereign platform?
rready is built and hosted in Europe under Swiss jurisdiction as a Swiss-owned company with no US parent, making it structurally free from US extraterritorial legal mechanisms like the CLOUD Act and FISA 702. Sovereignty at rready goes beyond hosting location: it covers legal ownership, full control over which AI models access your data, and the ability to operate and exit the system independently. More at rready.com/digital-sovereignty-trust-center.
How does rready protect our data?
rready safeguards intellectual property with enterprise-grade security, certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 by independent audit and fully GDPR compliant. The platform operates at 99.9% uptime with continuous threat monitoring and granular access control, with hosting in sovereign Swiss or EU cloud or on-premise.
Which hosting options does rready support?
rready supports two deployment models, both built and hosted in Europe. The default is sovereign cloud, hosted in Switzerland and the EU, with your data under European jurisdiction and free of US CLOUD Act exposure. For organizations that can't use the cloud — such as public-sector bodies or teams handling classified data - rready also offers a fully on-premise option, running inside your own infrastructure.
How does rready support migration?
rready runs structured migrations with full data continuity - history, roles, and rewards carried across. For teams moving to rready innovate from platforms like Brightidea, Qmarkets, or HYPE Innovation, migrations are proven at scale, with 90,000+ ideas moved in a single project. For teams moving to sovara from Jira - whether Cloud, Data Center, or Server — migration of tickets, workflows, automations, and core configurations is guaranteed or your money back - excluding third-party plugins and custom code. And should you ever decide to leave rready, your data stays fully exportable, with no artificial lock-in.
How long does a migration from another platform take?
How long a migration takes depends on scale and complexity, but our fastest go-live to date was under one month with more than 210,000 records migrated in a single project. Larger, multi-instance estates with heavy plugin reliance may take longer and are scoped up front.
What about existing plugins and add-ons?
We handle these case by case. Many common plugin capabilities are already covered natively by rready's modern architecture, including automatic translation, Draw.io-style diagramming, Groovy scripting, PI Planning and portfolio views, time tracking, and AI-assisted reporting. Other capabilities can be supported through API- or MCP-based integrations. Where a genuine gap remains, we identify it as part of the individual plugin assessment, so there are no surprises during migration. Plugins and custom code are outside the standard migration guarantee.
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