European trust certificates for technology companies
TET exists because technology vendors need a credible way to make their strengths visible, while buyers need a consistent way to verify and compare European sovereignty claims. TET creates a trusted credential for procurement, visibility, and informed decision-making.
Technology companies use a protected workspace to submit evidence of European ownership, sovereignty, operations, and value creation. Public and external data, automated assessment logic, and reviewer validation support each certificate, while buyers receive a confidentiality-safe verification page showing its scope, validity, and status.
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THE VERIFICATION GAP
European buyers need a reliable answer to a simple question.
How can technology buyers verify a vendor’s claims of European sovereignty? The term “European” can refer to ownership, headquarters, engineering, operational control, data infrastructure, or simply brand positioning. Without a consistent framework, even genuinely European providers can struggle to communicate these strengths clearly and distinguish themselves from competitors making broader or less substantiated claims. TET gives vendors an evidence-based credential that makes their European sovereignty claims easier for buyers to understand, verify, and trust.
01
Who owns it?
Ownership has to be understood beyond the immediate shareholder list, because indirect control, voting rights, funds, public float, and unknown ownership can all change the practical risk profile.
02
Where does it run?
Infrastructure sovereignty is not a slogan; buyers need to know which cloud, data, AI, hosting, and critical sub-processors the product depends on.
03
Where is value created?
Value creation should be visible enough to tell whether the core product is genuinely built in Europe or only sold through a European entity.
04
Who controls operations?
Operational control matters because a company can be legally registered in Europe while leadership, governance, support, or critical decision-making sit elsewhere.
WHAT TET IS
Certification infrastructure for European technology trust.
TET’s vision is to make European digital sovereignty visible, comparable, and useful in real market decisions. By creating a shared standard for how technology companies demonstrate European ownership, operations, sovereignty, and value creation, TET aims to turn an often abstract concept into a recognised market credential. This gives genuinely European providers a clearer way to differentiate themselves, strengthen their credibility, and communicate what sets them apart.
Over time, TET aims to become part of the very foundation of the European technology market: a trusted certification framework combined with a searchable catalogue of certified providers. Companies could be discovered through relevant tags, capabilities, sectors, and sovereignty criteria, helping buyers identify suitable vendors more efficiently. The long-term goal is for TET to become a recognised European reference point for procurement, vendor evaluation, investment, and due diligence.
01Evidence before claims
A seal starts with structured company data and supporting records, then applies automated checks where the logic is clear and reviewer judgement where context matters.
02Private review, public signal
Ownership records, architecture evidence, declarations, reviewer notes, and audit trails stay inside the protected workflow. Public pages show the outcome, scope, validity, and certificate state.
03Built for procurement confidence
TET gives procurement, legal, security, and public-sector teams a comparable way to understand European trust before a vendor review turns into a bespoke investigation.
FEATURED SEALS
A closer look at two TET certification seals
This section introduces two examples from the wider TET certification framework. Each seal examines a distinct dimension of European digital sovereignty, using clear criteria to help companies communicate their strengths credibly and give stakeholders a more consistent basis for evaluation.
OWNERSHIP
European Ownership
European Ownership verifies whether at least 50.1% of the applicant company is European-owned. The review uses a recursive ownership graph so indirect ownership, voting rights, unknown holders, funds, public float, and beneficial ownership evidence can be assessed without reducing the result to a single self-declared number.
INFRASTRUCTURE
European Sovereignty
European Sovereignty reviews whether the product depends on cloud, data, AI, hosting, or operational infrastructure in ways that buyers should understand before adoption. The seal distinguishes critical exposure from ordinary supplier usage.
PUBLIC CATALOGUE
Find verified European technology providers.
TET certification produces more than a badge. It creates a public discovery index where buyers can search certified companies by certificate, company-specific tags, industry, and country, and then inspect the current verification record behind each result.
Turn your European strengths into credible credentials
TET helps technology providers make their European ownership, operations, infrastructure, sovereignty, and value creation clearly visible. Through focused certification seals, companies can substantiate specific strengths, differentiate themselves from less transparent competitors, and communicate their position more credibly to customers, procurement teams, partners, and investors.
Strengthen your market position. Use TET credentials to make specific European strengths easier to recognise and trust. Clear certification can support sales conversations, improve differentiation, and give customers, partners, and investors greater confidence in your company’s positioning.
Build credibility that travels. A TET credential gives your claims a consistent and independently reviewed basis, so they can be understood beyond a single pitch, tender, or market. This helps your company communicate its strengths more clearly across procurement processes, partnerships, and expansion into new European markets.
For technology buyers and procurement teams
Identify credible European technology providers with greater confidence
TET gives organisations a consistent way to understand and compare vendors’ European sovereignty credentials. Rather than relying only on self-declared claims, individual questionnaires, or fragmented documentation, procurement and evaluation teams can use clearly defined seals to assess relevant aspects of ownership, operations, infrastructure, and value creation. This supports more informed shortlisting, due diligence, and vendor selection across private- and public-sector procurement.
Compare vendors more consistently. Each TET seal represents a defined area of assessment, making it easier to understand what has been reviewed and compare relevant strengths across providers. This gives procurement, legal, security, and risk teams a shared reference point during evaluation.
Faster early-stage screening. TET credentials help teams identify vendors that meet relevant sovereignty criteria before beginning more detailed due diligence. This can reduce repetitive assessment work and allow internal resources to focus on the providers most closely aligned with the organisation’s requirements.
Support decisions across teams. A recognisable credential makes sovereignty-related information easier to communicate internally. Procurement teams can reference the same verified framework when working with legal, compliance, security, management, or public-sector stakeholders.
HOW IT WORKS
A process that keeps evidence and judgement separate.
TET is structured like a certification operating system. Applicants prepare the record, automated checks evaluate what can be calculated, reviewers handle judgement and exceptions, and the public certificate state is kept separate from the confidential evidence trail.
Questions buyers and applicants usually ask first.
Is TET a complete replacement for buyer due diligence?
No. TET provides a structured certificate signal that can support diligence, procurement, and vendor screening. Buyers may still request additional evidence depending on their risk profile.
Does public verification expose sensitive company information?
No. Public verification pages are certificate-centric. They show status, scope, validity, and safe metadata, not private evidence, ownership details, cap tables, or reviewer notes.
Why is European Ownership separate from European Sovereignty?
Ownership and infrastructure dependency are related but different questions. A company can be European-owned while still relying on non-European critical infrastructure, so TET reviews them as separate signals.
Can a certificate be suspended or revoked?
Yes. TET is designed to support status changes when evidence, eligibility, or monitoring outcomes change. Public verification should always reflect the current certificate state.
Which countries does "European" comprise?
TET interprets European as all countries geographically in Europe. This includes all EU countries, EEA countries, Switzerland, and many others. If you have questions regarding countries, please feel free to contact us.
START WITH A VERIFIABLE SEAL
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Build a certificate trail that helps buyers see what is European, what is sovereign, and what has been reviewed, without turning your sensitive evidence into a public marketing asset.
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