n8n

Automation You Can Host Yourself

n8n connects APIs together on a canvas: trigger, transform, branch, call, repeat. Where most automation tools stop at the visual layer, n8n lets you write JavaScript or Python in a node when the visual approach stops being the shortest path, which is why it tends to survive contact with real marketing operations work that Zapier-style tools cannot express.

For marketing teams it covers lead routing, enrichment, CRM synchronisation, campaign triggers and the long tail of internal glue that would otherwise be someone's manual Monday morning.

Self-Host or EU Cloud

The reason n8n appears in sovereignty conversations is that self-hosting is a first-class option rather than an enterprise upsell. Run it in your own EU data centre and the data question is entirely yours to answer.

For the managed service, n8n's security page is specific: "n8n cloud uses Microsoft Azure for hosting" and "the physical hardware powering n8n, and the data stored by the platform, is currently hosted in the European Union".

That is a good answer with one caveat this directory exists to make visible. Azure is Microsoft, an American company, and under the CLOUD Act a US provider can be compelled to produce data it holds anywhere, including in Frankfurt. n8n GmbH itself has no US parent and cannot be compelled that way, but its host can. Self-hosting on a European provider removes that exposure entirely, which is the choice on offer here and not on offer from most competitors.

Licence, Not Open Source

n8n uses a Sustainable Use Licence rather than an OSI-approved open source licence. The source is public and self-hosting is permitted for internal business purposes, but reselling it as a service is not. Worth knowing if a procurement checklist has an open source box on it.

n8n GmbH is registered in Berlin under HRB 212509 B and publishes a data processing agreement, a sub-processor list and a security page.

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