Is Production Board subject to the CLOUD Act?

No. The CLOUD Act compels US-based companies (or US subsidiaries) to hand over data they control, regardless of where it physically lives. Production Board has no US entity, no US contracts, and no US-controlled infrastructure in the data plane. Stripe processes payment data and is US-headquartered, but that boundary is well-defined: payment metadata only, never your records.

Where exactly is my data stored?

On dedicated servers we operate ourselves, physically located in Germany. The audit log, attachments, embeddings - everything in the data plane - lives there. Backups stay within the same EU jurisdiction in different physical locations and roll off on a 30-day window. We deliberately do not name the exact data centre - knowing the rack does not buy the customer anything and would make operator changes a public event.

Do you log IPs or session metadata to a US service?

No third-party analytics, no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no third-country tag manager. The first-party device + session ledger lives in our own Postgres + Redis - same EU boundary as the rest of the data plane. Logs are operational only and rotate at 30 days.

What happens if I'm a customer outside the EU?

You can use Production Board from anywhere. The data still lives in the EU; the request travels from your location to our servers and back. That's a posture choice on our side, not a geo-restriction on yours.

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Production Board: the EU alternative to Airtable

Same job, hosted in the EU. Production Board runs in Germany under German law - your data stays in EU jurisdiction end to end.

EU alternative

Productivity

Kanban

Airtable

Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering

·April 2, 2026·

1 min read

If your reason for moving off Airtable is data sovereignty, the comparison gets simpler. Production Board is hosted in Germany on infrastructure we operate ourselves - no US-headquartered company in the request path. The CLOUD Act does not reach what physically lives here.

At a glance

Airtable is genuinely good as a flexible database with a kanban view on top: you build the schema, build the views, build the automations. Production Board ships the schema (cards, phases, durations, owners), the view (the board), and the live updates (websocket fan-out across tabs) on day one. Airtable wins on flexibility; we win on the boring fact that production teams want to start working, not configuring.

EU jurisdiction

What 'EU-hosted' actually means here, end to end

Production Board runs on dedicated machines we operate ourselves, physically located in Germany. There is no US-headquartered subprocessor in the request path - the data plane (your records, your files, your audit log) lives entirely in EU jurisdiction. Two third parties exist outside that boundary: Stripe (payment information only, under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework) and the mail relay for transactional email. Neither sees your records. Airtable's setup is the variable - if their primary infra is US-based, the CLOUD Act applies regardless of what their privacy page claims.

Production Board vs Airtable: EU comparison

	Ours Production Board	Theirs Airtable
Hosted in Germany
Custom database schema
Production phases + durations		Build it
Live multi-tab		With delay
Setup time	Hours	Days for production-shaped use
Free tier

When to pick which

Pick Production Board when

Production work where the schema is stable - cards, phases, owners, durations.

You don't want to be the in-house Airtable architect.

Pick Airtable when

Multiple distinct use cases sharing one tool (board, content calendar, inventory, CRM).

You actively enjoy designing relational schemas.

EU-jurisdiction questions

Specific to where the data lives, who can subpoena it, and what crosses borders.

Start with Production Board

Free plan, no credit card. We host in Germany. Export + delete are self-serve.

Written by

Finn Glas

Co-Founder + Engineering

Finn is one of the Co-Founders. He owns the engineering side, the infrastructure, and most of the late-night fixes that ship before anyone notices.

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