On-premises, national cloud or air-gapped
Static bundle plus the open-source Supabase stack on servers you operate. No telemetry, no calls home. Air-gapped deployments with local authentication are supported.
Feature details
Government & public sector
Digital sovereignty, without giving up modern tools.
Public administrations are moving collaboration off foreign clouds: France moved 2.5 million civil servants off US video and chat tools in 2026, and Germany's openDesk exists for the same reason. Tenon is one deployable workspace, on your infrastructure, with an isolated organization per agency or department.
Recommended: Self-hosted Enterprise (on-premises, national cloud, or air-gapped)
2.5Mcivil servants moved off US tools
In early 2026 the French government announced its civil servants would leave Zoom, Teams and other US collaboration platforms for state-developed tools, part of a broader European push for digital sovereignty.
Source: Digital sovereignty options for on-prem deployments, Network World
What goes wrong today
The three problems we hear most from government & public sector.
- Sovereignty rules, legacy toolsPolicy says data stays in-country on infrastructure the state controls. The tools that satisfy that are a decade old; the modern ones are foreign SaaS.
- Every department procures aloneAgencies buy their own trackers and wikis. Nothing is shared, nothing is consistent, and the audit trail is different in every building.
- AI policy is "no"Staff want summaries and drafting help. The only allowed answer is a ban, because every assistant sends prompts abroad.
How Tenon fits
Four things that change on day one.
One deployment, an organization per agency
Central digital services run one instance. Ministries, agencies and municipalities each get an isolated organization with their own SAML or OIDC provider, managed from a superadmin panel.
Feature detailsAI that stays inside the perimeter
Brain runs against a model hosted in your own data centre through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Summaries, briefings and draft tickets with zero egress.
Feature detailsAudit trail in your database
Per-user activity logs, session records and webhook delivery logs, all in Postgres you own. Stream to the national SIEM; retain for as long as the records rule requires.
Feature details
In the product
What it looks like for government & public sector.
Portfolio across agenciesEvery programme, every directorate, one table, from one deployment.
Decisions with a trailWho decided what, when, linked to the evidence.
Phased delivery on the boardColumns for the phases your standard defines.
Three projects, ready to copy
How to set up the board, the fields and the pages.
These are complete configurations, not suggestions. Create the project, add these columns and custom fields, create the pages, and the rituals column tells you which Tenon features carry the week.
Policy implementation programme
Turn a new regulation into coordinated work across directorates with a defensible record.
Board columns
- Mandated
- Impact assessed
- In delivery
- Consultation
- Approved
- In force
Custom fields
- Directorate (select)
- Legal basis (text)
- Statutory deadline (date)
Pages
- Implementation plan
- Impact assessment
- Consultation responses
- Ministerial briefing
Rituals
Timeline against statutory deadlines. Decision cards for each approval, linked to the briefing page. Weekly AI executive summary for the programme board.
Digital service delivery
Build a citizen-facing service with discovery, alpha, beta and live phases.
Board columns
- Discovery
- Alpha
- Beta
- Assessment
- Live
- Continuous improvement
Custom fields
- Service standard point (number)
- User need (text)
- Accessibility status (select)
Pages
- User research findings
- Service assessment evidence
- Accessibility statement
- Runbook
Rituals
Hill chart per phase. Async standup with digest to the service channel. Assessment evidence pages shared with assessors by link.
Procurement and vendor onboarding
Run a compliant tender and onboarding with every decision recorded.
Board columns
- Need identified
- Market engagement
- Tender live
- Evaluation
- Award
- Onboarding
Custom fields
- Threshold (select)
- Evaluator (text)
- Standstill end (date)
Pages
- Specification
- Evaluation criteria
- Moderation notes
- Award report
Rituals
Evaluation column has restricted membership. Every moderation outcome is a decision card. Activity log exported for the audit file.
A week with Tenon
What Monday, Wednesday and Friday look like.
- Monday: the digital services team reviews portfolio health across 22 agency organizations from the superadmin panel. Two programmes are at risk. Neither agency has to be asked for a status report.
- Wednesday: a ministry drafts a ministerial briefing with Brain, running on the state data centre's inference cluster. The draft cites the tickets and consultation pages it read. Nothing left the network.
- Friday: the auditor asks for the decision trail on a procurement. The evaluation channel's Decisions tab and the activity log are exported. It takes an hour, not a month.
Illustrative scenario based on how teams in this sector describe their week.
Questions
Common questions from government & public sector.
Is the source available for review?
Yes. Tenon is source-available; security teams can review the code, the migrations and the Row Level Security policies before deploying.
Can it run fully disconnected?
Yes. Self-hosted Supabase, local identity (SAML against an internal IdP or email/password), and a local model for Brain. No component requires internet access.
What about records retention?
Everything is in your Postgres database and storage bucket. Retention, backup and legal hold follow your existing database policies.
Other industries
Similar problems, different vocabulary.
Set it up for your team this afternoon.
Start free on Tenon Cloud, or self-host it. Copy one of the project setups above and you have a working board in ten minutes.