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 Notion

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

Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering

·January 29, 2026·

1 min read

If your reason for moving off Notion 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

Notion is a generalist - docs, databases, wikis, light CRMs, lightweight project trackers. Production Board is a specialist - it's a board for production work with steps, statuses, blockers, and live updates. If your team uses one tool for everything, Notion wins by default. If you've watched Notion slow down past five hundred items, that's where we come in.

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. Notion'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 Notion: EU comparison

	Ours Production Board	Theirs Notion
Hosted in Germany
Boards / kanban
Live multi-tab updates
Step / phase pipeline		DIY
Wikis + docs
Free tier

When to pick which

Pick Production Board when

Your work is production - things move from step to step, with blockers, owners, and durations.

Notion got slow past your five-hundredth item.

Pick Notion when

Your team needs the docs / wikis / lightweight DBs in one place.

Less than a hundred items total - any tool works at that size.

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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