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Non-EU vendorDigital Asset ManagementHeadquarters: US

Air: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Air is a creative operations and digital asset management platform. Creative teams use it to organise images and video, run review and approval workflows, and adapt approved work across formats and channels. Features include conversational search, AI-assisted design and editing, and asset storage and sharing. It is a web application delivered as a hosted service, with sign-in at app.air.inc and an enterprise tier that includes single sign-on.

The service is operated by Air Labs, Inc., whose privacy notice gives an address in Brooklyn, New York. The company describes itself as headquartered in the United States, which places the vendor under US jurisdiction. The privacy notice says service providers may operate in other countries, but it does not name hosting or storage regions, a sub-processor list or a data processing agreement. A European organisation that stores client or brand material in Air should therefore ask the vendor for data locations and contractual safeguards before adopting it.

Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUSVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryDigital Asset Management
TypeProduct
Websiteair.inc ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Air

The European alternatives to Air come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Air

Air is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Air hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Air is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Air together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Air?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Air include 4ALLPORTAL, ATAMYA and AtroDAM. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Air?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Air include AtroDAM. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Air GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Air is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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