## Corteza Project | The Open Source Salesforce Alternative

Welcome to the Corteza Project, the world’s premier open source low-code platform. Take advantage of a platform designed to be the ultimate alternative to Salesforce cloud. Built for organizations seeking enterprise-grade automation, flexibility, and innovation, Corteza empowers businesses to thrive with a powerful, familiar, and cost-effective solution.

## Why Choose Corteza?

- **Open Source Freedom:** Corteza is fully open source (Apache v2.0 license), ensuring transparency, control, and freedom from vendor lock-in.

- **Salesforce Familiarity:** Designed with Salesforce users in mind, Corteza provides a seamless transition with similar build logic and a familiar user experience.

- **Comprehensive Feature Set:** Corteza supports the majority of Salesforce Standard Objects and delivers enterprise automation capabilities, including custom object creation and management, robust workflows and automation, analytics and reporting.

- **Seamless Integration:** Effortlessly connect Corteza with your existing systems to build a fully integrated digital ecosystem.

## Modern Architecture and Code Base

Corteza’s backend is built in Golang, the multi-threaded computing language developed by Google to build and manage its application infrastructure. Its front end is written in Vue.js, a lightweight JavaScript framework. Corteza uses W3C standards and formats wherever possible and all Corteza components are accessible via RestAPI. Corteza is cloud-native and deploys via Docker containers.

## Scalable and Customizable

Corteza adapts to organizations of all sizes and industries. Tailor workflows, data models, and user experiences to align with your unique business processes.

Corteza was created by Planet Crust, which continues to maintain and develop Corteza and is Corteza’s primary contributor.