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built and hosted in the eu · scaleway, france · nothing leaves the eu
the facts, at a glance.
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the one-liner
MakeMode is an EU-sovereign AI coding agent that lets non-coders describe what they want, watch it build, and publish a shareable link — all on European infrastructure that never lets their work leave the EU.
short
MakeMode is an EU-sovereign AI coding agent. A design student describes what they want to make, watches an agent build it live, and publishes a real shareable link — no code, no terminal. It runs entirely on European infrastructure (Scaleway, France): one GDPR agreement, nothing leaves the EU.
full
MakeMode is an EU-sovereign tool that lets non-coders turn a vision into real, working software. You describe what you want in plain language, an AI coding agent builds it in front of you, and you publish a live, shareable link — the calm make-and-publish loop of tools like Lovable, on infrastructure a European institution is actually allowed to approve. It runs end to end on Scaleway in France: the app, the backend, the open models, and the hosting are all in the EU, under a single GDPR data-processing agreement, on a low-carbon French grid. One agent serves the whole institution — the first-year who has never coded and the researcher who lives in the terminal. First market: European design students, starting at TU Delft.
what the story is really about.
If you take four things away, take these.
access, not ai-hype
The story isn't "AI does it for you." It's that people who were locked out of building software — designers, students, researchers — can now make real, working things. The agent is the means; access is the point.
sovereign by architecture
Identity, code, published work and inference all live on European infrastructure. Nothing leaves the EU, and nothing here can be switched off by a company on another continent. For a university, that's what makes "yes" possible.
one agent, both ends
The same sovereign engine serves the first-year who never opens a terminal and the physicist who lives in one. Most tools pick a user; MakeMode spans the whole institution — one account, one DPA, one invoice.
clean by the same accident
Staying in Europe put the work on France's low-carbon grid — roughly 10× cleaner than the EU average, ADEME-audited and reported per model. The sovereign choice and the low-carbon choice turned out to be the same choice.
why makemode exists.
European design students increasingly need to make interactive things — portfolios, concepts, data visualisations — but they aren't coders, and every tool that would help routes their work through US infrastructure their institution can't fully sanction.
MakeMode is the European answer: coding-agent power wrapped in a surface a designer can actually use, on infrastructure that's GDPR-native and EU-hosted end to end. A student describes what they want, watches it build in a live preview, refines it by saying the change, and publishes a link — without ever thinking about code, or about whose servers it runs on.
The same sovereign engine reaches the other end of the building, too: a researcher can point a full coding agent at the same EU endpoint and get real compute on data that isn't free to leave the country. Two very different users, one product, one set of European rails — bought once, serving the whole campus.
the logo, ready to place.
Vectors and PNGs, in colour, ink and reversed. Please don't recolour, rotate, or restretch — the brand kit has the full rules, clear-space, and every variant.
real shots of the running app.
Not mockups — the actual product. Click any image to open it full-size, then save. The screenshots page walks the whole session start to finish.
who's behind it.
Founder of MakeMode, based at TU Delft's Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. His work sits where design education, AI, and access meet — building tools that let people who were never taught to code still make real, working things. MakeMode grew out of a simple constraint: the AI tools students most need are the ones their university can't approve, because the data leaves Europe.
Additional team bios and headshots on request — hello@makemode.eu.
"i couldn't have made this otherwise — and i just sent the link to my whole crit." — a design student, on publishing her first makemode page
talk to us.
For interviews, a live demo, a walkthrough for a policy or procurement piece, or anything not covered here — we're quick to reply.