Lithium

Manifesto
FileVert

Legitimacy is not decreed, it is proven. It comes from the coherence of actions, not from logos on a website. A different way of conceiving technology.

L'urgence

The environmental urgency of digital technology

Digital technology now represents 4.4% of France's national carbon footprint and 4% of global GHG emissions — more than civil aviation.

Every piece of data, every file, every click has an invisible cost.

4.4%
of France's carbon footprint
Digital technology in 2022
8,000+
data centers worldwide
Spread across 123 countries
945 TWh
projected electricity consumption 2030
More than all of Japan

Le Manifeste

FileVert — A different approach to technology

Artificial intelligence and major digital platforms now concentrate unprecedented economic and symbolic power.

They translate, prioritize, and sometimes decide for us.

But behind this growing digital influence, it's not just about technology: it's about culture.

Each society imagines the relationship between human and machine through its language, values and imagination.

If we stop designing our own tools, we also import the way of thinking they contain.

We lose control of meaning.

L'origine

FileVert was born from this intuition

Digital sobriety and sovereignty aren't just technical constraints.

They are cultural acts.

Rather than chasing power, we chose precision:

a simple transfer service, hosted in France, energy-efficient, designed to disappear once its purpose is fulfilled.

A tool that doesn't seek to retain the user, but to respect their intention.

This logic reverses the dominant dynamic:

  • performance doesn't depend on excess data, but on clear and coherent design;
  • value doesn't come from capture, but from trust;
  • growth isn't measured by volume, but by the relevance of use.

L'IA

AI, a choice to make

Artificial intelligence is taking a growing place in everyday tools.

Technology is never neutral: it carries a worldview.

Building sober tools also means preserving the diversity of approaches,

and leaving everyone the choice of their tools and methods.

FileVert isn't meant to compete with cloud or AI giants.

FileVert doesn't exploit your data to train models. It's a sober complement that reduces the digital footprint and protects your creations, where other services siphon them.

FileVert preparation tools run directly in your browser. Your files never leave your device: that's the guarantee that nobody else accesses them.

Our mission is to embody a different relationship with digital:

founded on coherence, responsibility and the beauty of the right gesture.

La cohérence

Coherence as a method

Today, many services talk about carbon neutrality, green cloud, transparency.

In practice, reconciling an ecological message with energy-intensive global infrastructure remains a difficult exercise.

Reconciling sovereignty with dependence on foreign technologies is just as challenging.

We believe legitimacy is built through actions, not slogans. For the user, this translates concretely: less complexity, less dependency, and more control over their own files.

Models that align their technical choices with their commitments

end up being the most readable.

That is the bet we are making: that coherence becomes a selection criterion.

La proposition

FileVert, a cultural proposition

Digital isn't immaterial.

Every file transferred consumes energy, rare metals, water.

Every 'cloud' sits on very real ground.

FileVert isn't a 'green' service.

It's a cultural proposition:

do less, but better;
be free rather than assisted;
create technology that fades away when it has fulfilled its mission.
innovate by subtraction: remove the superfluous to keep only what matters.

Because the planet doesn't need more tools,

but fairer tools.

Our 3 fundamental pillars

FileVert is built on three essential pillars to create a responsible and sustainable digital world:

Digital sovereignty

100% French hosting, total data control, technological independence.

Digital ecology

Reduction of carbon footprint, renewable energy, sobriety in design.

Ethics and transparency

Respect for privacy, no advertising, fair economic model.

Proofs

Proofs of Sobriety / Sovereignty

Discover the concrete proofs of our sovereign infrastructure and our structural sobriety approach.

See the proofs

Choose FileVert

Every transfer is a simple act, aligned with a fairer digital practice.

FileVert is not just a transfer service. It's a way of doing right with technology.