We build the database Europe was told it couldn't have.

Sovereignty and modern architecture have been sold as a trade-off for years: pick the fast, branching, scale-to-zero Postgres and your data lives under a US company's jurisdiction, Frankfurt data center or not. Pick the sovereign option and get 2014-era Postgres wrapped in a national flag. We don't accept the trade. We're building the first on infrastructure that satisfies the second — not because it's easy, but because nobody serious had bothered to try.

Sovereignty is a property, not a slogan.

"EU region" from a US-headquartered company means nothing — the CLOUD Act reaches your data wherever that company's corporate structure reaches, Frankfurt included. Sovereignty is a fact about jurisdiction and ownership, not a checkbox on a data-residency form. We're building as a French company, EU-owned, no US parent — ever. We run on OVHcloud, and we say so in public. Check the registry. Don't take our word for it.

Your data can always leave.

Standard pg_dump. Standard logical replication. No proprietary export format, no walled garden dressed up as a platform. If we disappear tomorrow, you get your data out today. That's not generosity — it's the EU Data Act's portability mandate, and we'd rather build it in from day one than be forced into it later.

We publish our postmortems.

When we break your database, you will read exactly why, in public, with a timeline and a fix — not a status-page euphemism. We intend to get very good at explaining outages, because no infrastructure company avoids them forever, and the ones worth trusting are the ones who say so.

Built on open source, not on lock-in.

Your database runs on PostgreSQL and Neon's storage engine — both open source, both auditable by anyone. We keep our changes to Neon deliberately small, so the engine under your data is one the world can read. What we sell is running it well, not a format you can't leave.

We are small, and we say so.

Today this is one founder and a handful of servers in Paris. That's a real constraint on our on-call and our roadmap, and pretending otherwise would be the first lie in a company built on trust. What we can promise instead: honesty about what's fragile, speed because we're small, and every euro spent on the product, not on sovereignty theater.

Modern isn't the enemy of sovereign.

Branch a database like a git repo. Scale it to zero between deploys. Give every pull request, every agent, its own throwaway Postgres. None of that requires an American company or an American subpoena. It requires engineers who care about the architecture and the jurisdiction in equal measure — a shorter list than it should be, and one we intend to lead.

This isn't anti-American. It's pro-European.

We have no argument with American engineering — Neon's architecture is the one we build on, and we say that plainly. Our argument is that Europe deserves infrastructure of the same caliber, built and controlled here, answerable to European courts and no others. That's not resentment. That's confidence that we can build it ourselves.

Read the postmortems when they come. Bring your data — and know, always, that you can take it with you.