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About Enclessa
- Enclessa is a hosted collaboration platform for organisations, in open beta, combining team messaging, end-to-end encrypted direct messages, video calls and optional work modules such as task boards, time tracking and personnel records. It is run in the European Union by Quavon UG, a German company.
- Enclessa is in open beta: every business can create an organisation today, without an invitation and without a waiting list. Features may change during development. No uptime commitment applies during beta.
- No. Enclessa is a hosted service: you create an organisation, it is reachable at your-team.enclessa.app, and Enclessa operates the infrastructure. Desktop apps for macOS and Windows are optional.
- Direct messages and group direct messages are always end-to-end encrypted with MLS per RFC 9420. Channels are managed by default, which makes search, retention and compliance export possible; an organisation can permit encrypted channels.
- Yes. The Free plan is not a trial and has no time limit: up to 10 members get channels, threads, encrypted direct messages and video calls without a payment card.
- Quavon UG (haftungsbeschränkt) operates Enclessa and manages its infrastructure and updates. The same company develops the software.
- No. Enclessa is a commercial hosted service and its source is not public. Every runtime dependency is open source, including OpenMLS for end-to-end encryption.
Features
- No. An administrator switches a module on for the organisation. A module that is off is not merely hidden — its routes do not answer.
- Enclessa runs in the browser, as desktop apps for macOS and Windows that update themselves, and on iPhone and iPad from the App Store. There is no Android app.
- Yes. The whole API is described by an OpenAPI document, with webhooks, custom slash commands, bot accounts and scoped API tokens on the Team plan and above.
Security and data protection
- It is built for it: EU hosting, a German seller, a data processing agreement, data-subject export, retention rules and legal holds. The lawful basis stays yours.
- Not encrypted conversations — the server holds no key. The operator plane cannot read managed channels either, and there is no impersonation.
- Yes: everything, any time, in open formats, with a documented data model and API.
- Privately to security@enclessa.app. You get an acknowledgement and a timeline.
Pricing and billing
- An active member of your organisation. Bot accounts, guests and deactivated people are not counted, so an integration never appears on the invoice.
- No. The Free plan has no time limit and needs no payment card. Paid plans start with a 14-day trial.
- No. Prices exclude VAT. Enclessa is sold by a company established in Germany, so EU VAT applies and is shown separately on every invoice.