The sovereign alumni software for accredited schools
Terrilink is the "sovereign by design" alumni platform for accredited French schools: each school gets its own dedicated database, and the product natively covers what your leadership actually needs — CGE/CTI employment tracking for accreditation, end-to-end GDPR compliance, and support for apprenticeship-tax campaigns. Hosted in France, at a public price.
Four requirements specific to French higher education
An accredited school's alumni network has different constraints from a general-purpose community. Here are the four points where Terrilink is designed differently.
🏛️ Data sovereignty
A dedicated database per school, hosted in France. Your alumni data is identifiable, fully exportable and deletable as a block — sovereignty that is verifiable, not just declared.
🎓 CGE/CTI accreditation
The employment tracking required for accreditation is inside the product, not in a spreadsheet: standardised questionnaires, reminders, national benchmarks, exports ready for your file.
🔒 GDPR by design
The right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) is treated as an engineering invariant: controlled deletion/anonymisation, hosting and backups in Europe.
💶 Apprenticeship tax
Terrilink links the alumni → company → decision-maker graph to power your apprenticeship-tax balance campaigns and direct contacts to SOLTéA.
Your data in a dedicated database, not a shared one
This is the most important architectural difference — and the hardest to see in a demo.
Terrilink gives each school its own isolated database (a database-per-tenant architecture). Concretely, for your IT and data-protection officers: your alumni data is identifiable (you know exactly where it lives), fully exportable at any time, and deletable as a block. The "data sovereignty" argument becomes verifiable rather than declarative.
The right question to ask any vendor
"Is my alumni data in the same database as other schools'?" At Terrilink the answer is no — by design. Ask it of every solution you compare.
Guaranteed reversibility
Your data belongs to you and is exportable in open formats. You are never locked into a proprietary format, and a reversibility clause can be written into the contract.
Hosting & backups in France
Infrastructure hosted in France (Europe), encrypted backups and tested restoration. A frequent requirement of public-institution leadership and legal teams.
CGE/CTI accreditation built into the product
For an accredited school, employment tracking is not an option: it is an accreditation requirement.
Accreditation to award the French engineering degree (titre d'ingénieur) is granted by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (CTI) for a limited duration, to be renewed periodically; graduate-employment tracking is part of its standards. Terrilink's Employment Surveys module provides the standardised CGE/CTI questionnaires, pre-filling, reminders, a dashboard with benchmarks from the Conférence des Grandes Écoles employment survey, and XLSX/PDF exports ready for your file. Several days of Excel reprocessing saved every campaign.
GDPR & apprenticeship tax: two constraints turned into assets
GDPR as an engineering invariant
The right to erasure (Art. 17) requires deleting data within one month (up to three depending on complexity). Terrilink implements it end to end: controlled deletion and anonymisation, traceability, hosting and backups in Europe. The argument that reassures a legal department and a DPO.
Apprenticeship tax, without replacing the channel
The balance of the apprenticeship tax is allocated by employers to eligible institutions via the national SOLTéA platform, managed by the Caisse des Dépôts. Terrilink never collects the tax: it targets your campaigns through the alumni → company → decision-maker graph and directs contacts to SOLTéA. It augments your campaign CRM.
A complete community foundation
Beyond compliance: mentoring, groups, events + ticketing, a geolocated directory, the AI Network Radar and a career center with recruiter module. And you talk directly to the publisher: your need can enter the roadmap.
Official sources: CTI, Conférence des Grandes Écoles, SOLTéA (French Ministry of Education), CNIL.
Frequently asked questions — Sovereign alumni platform
What is a sovereign alumni platform?
A sovereign alumni platform is a solution whose alumni data is hosted in Europe, controlled by the institution and isolated from other clients. With Terrilink, each school has its own dedicated database: its data is identifiable, fully exportable and deletable as a block, and hosting takes place in France. Sovereignty becomes verifiable, not merely declarative.
Does Terrilink help with a school's CGE/CTI accreditation?
Yes. Accreditation to award the French engineering degree is granted by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (CTI) for a limited duration, and graduate-employment tracking is part of its standards. Terrilink's Employment Surveys module provides the standardised CGE/CTI questionnaires, pre-filling, reminders, a dashboard with national benchmarks and XLSX/PDF exports ready for your accreditation file.
Does Terrilink collect the apprenticeship tax?
No — it would be illegal. The balance of the apprenticeship tax is allocated by employers to eligible institutions via the national SOLTéA platform, managed by the Caisse des Dépôts on behalf of the State. Terrilink never collects the tax: the platform helps your school target its campaigns using the alumni → company → decision-maker graph, then directs contacts to SOLTéA.
What happens to our data if we leave Terrilink?
Your data belongs to you and is fully exportable at any time, from your dedicated database, in open formats. You are never locked into a proprietary format, and a reversibility clause can be written into the contract.
How much does Terrilink cost for an accredited school?
Terrilink publishes its prices: €69/month (Starter), €149/month (Pro) and €299/month (Premium, which includes the CGE/CTI employment surveys and the AI Network Radar). 14-day free trial, no commitment — unlike quote-only vendors. See how much an alumni software costs and the vs AlumnForce comparison.
An alumni platform whose data you control
Dedicated database, proven GDPR, built-in CGE/CTI accreditation, apprenticeship-tax tooling — hosted in France, public price. 14-day trial, no commitment.