Certivity
Certivity is a German RegTech platform that turns regulations, standards and internal documents into structured, traceable engineering requirements. It covers more than 75 regulatory regions and exports requirements straight into requirements management tools used by regulated industries.
What is Certivity?
Certivity is a cloud-based product compliance and regulatory intelligence platform published by Certivity GmbH in Munich. It addresses a specific problem in regulated manufacturing: regulations, standards and internal company documents arrive as unstructured PDFs, scattered across authorities and revisions, while engineering teams need precise, current requirements they can build and test against.
The platform is built on what the vendor calls a data-driven approach. Every document is broken down into individual atomic elements held in a proprietary graph-based data model. Each element becomes an object that can be searched, updated and traced on its own, while the hierarchy and structure of the source document are preserved. Sections, paragraphs, references and dependencies are extracted during transformation, so a document behaves like data rather than a file, and any change can be located and assessed down to the smallest element.
Four modules make up the product. Certivity Core is the regulatory monitoring engine: it consolidates documents from more than 75 regulatory regions, translates and quality-checks them into English, and adds a Regulatory Inbox showing what changed and how many projects are affected. Core also carries the AI layer, an assistant for summarising, extracting and comparing, automatic summaries of amendments, semantic vector search, automatic classification of paragraphs by type such as requirement, definition, scope or obligation, resolution of internal and external references, and a Consolidation Order Graph that displays the lineage between original acts, amendments and corrigenda. Collaboration handles projects, interpretations and shared compliance knowledge. Customer Documents manages company-specific material with versioning and on-demand digitalisation. Engineering Integration / Export pushes structured requirements into requirements management tools.
Certivity summarises its method as work done by machines and approved by humans, with a four-eyes quality check on critical interpretations. It claims a reduction of more than 60% in regulatory analysis time and up to 75% in engineering effort on requirements work. It is used in automotive, general engineering, nuclear and waste, defence and rail, and reports more than 15,000 users and a team of over 80 people.
What it does
- Monitor regulatory change across more than 75 regions from one consolidated view
- Turn regulations and standards into structured, engineering-ready requirements
- Export requirements into requirements management tools while keeping the link to the legal source
- Compare two versions of a regulation and see every difference highlighted
- Assess which projects a regulatory change actually affects before acting on it
- Search regulations by meaning rather than exact wording, using semantic vector search
- Collaborate on interpreting a requirement across compliance, engineering and legal teams
When to use Certivity / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Certivity is the right fit.
When to use Certivity
- Regulatory affairs and product compliance teams tracking rule changes across several jurisdictions at once
- Homologation and type-approval specialists in the automotive sector who must evidence conformity vehicle by vehicle
- Systems and test engineers who need a regulation turned into requirements they can actually work from
- Organisations already running IBM DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Jama Connect or PTC Codebeamer and wanting compliance data inside those tools
- Quality and audit functions in nuclear, defence or rail that must keep audit-ready traceability from legal source to engineering artefact
When not to use Certivity
- Individuals and small teams: there is no self-service sign-up, no published price and no free tier
- Anyone wanting to evaluate the product alone, since the only entry point is a sales-led demo
- Mobile-first users: there is no iOS or Android application, only a browser-based platform
- Teams needing a non-English working corpus, as every document is normalised into English
- Buyers looking for a legal drafting or legal advice assistant rather than regulatory intelligence for engineers
How to use Certivity
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Book a demo from the website, the only entry point since there is no self-service sign-up
- Describe your regulatory landscape, use case, existing toolchain and the modules you need, so the demo is tailored
- Agree the order parameters with the sales team: package size based on headcount, number of Regulatory Management users and any advanced options
- Accept the written offer prepared by Certivity, then receive the contract, the data processing agreement and the IT security documentation for your setup
- Have Certivity run the Integration and Set-Up services, which are quoted separately
- Access the platform through a browser, with no local installation and updates managed centrally
- Connect your requirements management tools by entering API keys and endpoints and activating the relevant rights in the third-party system
- Load your own company documents into the Customer Documents module for digitalisation and versioning
- Set up the Regulatory Inbox so changes are routed to the right people or teams
- Assign roles, then export structured requirements into your requirements management environment
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Legal identity fully verifiable: complete site notice, Munich commercial register entry and a VAT number that validates against VIES
- Explicit contractual commitment that customer content is never used to train AI models or develop features
- Customer ownership of uploaded content stated without ambiguity in the terms
- Broad and unusually deep integration list, including direct APIs into major requirements management platforms
- Regulatory coverage normalised into English across more than 75 regions, giving international teams one reading experience
- End-to-end traceability claimed and designed in, with exported elements retaining their source link and metadata
- Named, quotable industrial references including Mercedes-Benz, Aptiv and Aumovio
Cons
- No public pricing at all: there is no pricing page, and no amount appears anywhere on the site
- No free plan and no free trial, so the product cannot be evaluated without going through sales
- ISO/IEC 27001 and TISAX are claimed without a certificate number, a certification body or a validity date
- The site advertises an ISO 27001:2024 certificate, but no such edition of the standard exists
- The published privacy policy still contains unfilled template placeholders and an editorial note left online
- Nothing is published about where platform data is actually hosted; only the marketing site's host is disclosed
- No API documentation is publicly reachable and the help centre sits behind authentication
Pricing & Plans
There is no free plan and no free trial, and Certivity publishes no price. The website has no pricing page, and no amount appears anywhere on it. The general terms state only that prices are net amounts in euros, excluding VAT, as presented in an offer prepared individually by Certivity's sales team. The monthly fee depends on declared order parameters: the package size chosen according to the customer's headcount, the number of users with Regulatory Management role access, any advanced option such as the Interpretation Option, the Spec Option or API Integration, the Integration and Set-Up services, and any further chargeable functionality. Customers choose monthly or annual billing, with a minimum term of one month or one year respectively, and an unquantified discount applies to annual prepayment. Because no figure is published, no entry price can be stated.
- No named pricing tiers are published
- the offer is assembled per customer by the sales team
- Package size for platform access
- scaled to the customer's number of employees
- Additional users with Regulatory Management role access
- Interpretation Option
- Spec Option and API Integration
- Certivity Integration and Set-Up services
- billed as a separate line
- Certivity Core
- Collaboration
- Customer Documents
- Engineering Integration / Export
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Certivity handles your data.
GDPR overview
Implementation is concrete and documented. The controller is named as Certivity GmbH in Munich, a data protection officer is designated by name, Alexander Hönsch, reachable at privacy@certivity.io, and a central Digital Services Act contact point is published. The privacy policy cites specific legal bases, Art. 6(1)(a)(b)(c)(f), Art. 9(2)(a) and Art. 49(1)(a) GDPR together with § 25(1) TDDDG, and lists each processor with its data processing agreement. German law and Munich jurisdiction govern the contract. One reservation matters: the published policy still carries two unfilled template placeholders where the controller's and the officer's phone numbers should be, and an editorial instruction left online asking that a transfer question be confirmed. Any contractual fact drawn from that document should therefore be treated as provisional.
Who owns the data?
The general terms are unusually explicit. Content uploaded by the customer remains the customer's sole property, and Certivity states that it does not claim, assert or retain any ownership, licence or usage right over it. Content stays confined to the customer's own workspace and is not made available to other customers. The counterpart is that the customer carries full responsibility for what is uploaded: they warrant that they hold the necessary rights and authorisations, and Certivity performs no review of that content and accepts no liability for its accuracy, completeness or legality. Certivity may name the customer and use its logo as a commercial reference, a consent the customer can withdraw in writing at any time.
Reuse rights
Within the platform the customer works freely on its own material: uploaded documents and derived work such as interpretations or specifications belong to the customer, stay inside its workspace and can be exported into its own requirements management tools, each exported element remaining linked to its source with its structure and metadata. Certivity commits contractually that no data derived from customer content will be used to train AI models, to develop features, or to be made available to other customers by any other means. Note that regulatory texts and standards distributed through the platform remain subject to the rights of the bodies that publish them, which the terms make the customer responsible for respecting. Website analytics data is processed separately by named processors under data processing agreements.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Certivity discloses one host, and only for its marketing website: Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany, used on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR and covered by a data processing agreement. That is consistent with the domain's own resolution, which points to a Hetzner address in Falkenstein, Saxony. Where the platform itself stores customer regulatory data is never stated publicly, so no hosting country or region is recorded here rather than inferring the platform's location from the website's. Named website processors, each under a data processing agreement, are Hetzner, HubSpot, Google, Leadinfo, Cybot A/S, Personio and Guideflow, with HubSpot and Google declared as certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The contract is governed exclusively by German law with jurisdiction in Munich. Customers are told they will receive IT security documentation tailored to their setup after the initial consultation, which is where hosting details would presumably be confirmed.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Certivity.
- Certifications are claimed but unevidenced: ISO/IEC 27001 and TISAX L2 High appear on three pages with no certificate number, no certifying body and no validity date, and the Vanta Trust Center meant to publish them returns nothing readable
- The site advertises an ISO 27001:2024 certificate, an edition of the standard that does not exist, which should prompt a direct request for the actual document
- TUV Rheinland appears on the site as a commercial partner, not as Certivity's certification body; the two should not be conflated
- The published privacy policy is effectively still a draft, carrying two unfilled template placeholders and an editorial instruction left online, so any contractual fact drawn from it is revocable
- Automation of regulatory reading invites over-reliance: the vendor itself insists that interpretation and approval stay with human experts, and a team that stops reading the source text loses the judgement the tool assumes
- Headline efficiency figures of over 60% and up to 75%, and the claim of more than 15,000 users, are vendor statements that cannot be verified from outside
- Nothing is published about where platform data is hosted; only the marketing site's German host is disclosed, which is not the same thing
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low for end users, moderate for the organisation. There is no local installation: the platform runs in a browser and Certivity manages updates centrally. The effort sits in onboarding. Certivity quotes Integration and Set-Up services as a separate chargeable line, and connecting requirements management tools requires work on the customer side, entering API keys and endpoints and activating rights in the third-party system. Certivity recommends involving regulatory or compliance, purchasing, IT and IT security, plus the technical owners of any exports or connected systems. Contract, data processing agreement and IT security documentation are tailored after the initial consultation.
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly is the Certivity platform?
Which modules make up the product?
Who is it built for?
How many regulatory regions does it cover?
Which requirements management tools can it feed?
Does Certivity train AI models on customer data?
Is the price public?
Is there a free trial or a free plan?
Does it require installation, and is there a mobile app?
Is Certivity certified to ISO/IEC 27001 or TISAX?
Should you pick Certivity?
Certivity is a serious, narrowly focused product built by people who clearly know the problem they are solving. Founded in Munich in 2021 and registered there in April of that year, it has reached more than 80 employees, raised a EUR 13.3 million Series A, and won named industrial customers, with Mercedes-Benz selecting it and retiring the competing Aureon product. Its strength is not the AI layer in isolation but the combination of a structured, graph-based representation of regulatory text with genuine integration into the requirements management tools engineering teams already use. Traceability from legal source to engineering artefact is the real proposition, and it is a credible one.
Two caveats deserve attention before contact. The first is commercial opacity: no price is published anywhere, no trial exists, and the only route in is a sales-led demo, which makes independent evaluation impossible and puts smaller teams out of scope. The second concerns evidence. Certivity states plainly that it is certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and assessed under TISAX L2 High, and it is consistent about this across its pages, but it publishes no certificate number, no certifying body and no validity date, its Vanta Trust Center returns nothing readable, and it advertises an ISO 27001:2024 edition that does not exist. Alongside a privacy policy still carrying unfilled template placeholders and an editorial note left online, this is a documentation maturity gap rather than a product flaw, but a buyer in a regulated industry should ask for the certificates directly.
For a compliance team drowning in PDFs across several jurisdictions, Certivity is worth the demo.
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