About Softa
Softa is a metadata-driven, enterprise-grade application framework with built-in AI integration and interaction building blocks. We design it for teams who need to ship business systems that are secure, strict, and able to evolve sustainably.
What Softa is
- A framework for real enterprise apps: it packages the common platform capabilities you repeatedly rebuild (security, metadata governance, workflows, integration, etc.).
- Open-source, community-driven: we follow Build in public, build in community—decisions and evolution happen in the open.
- More than a framework over time: a key milestone is open-sourcing applications built on top of Softa, so the ecosystem grows with real-world apps.
What problem we solve
Enterprise systems don’t fail because “CRUD is hard”—they fail because governance, security, change management, and cross-system integration become unmanageable as complexity grows.
Softa reduces repeated plumbing and helps you keep consistency across UI, APIs, automation, and data rules—without giving up guardrails.
Core capabilities (high level)
- Metadata-driven foundation: unify model/field/UI abstractions, with versioning and multi-environment publishing.
- Flow automation: approvals, scheduled jobs, and AI-assisted operations as first-class building blocks.
- OpenAPI-first integration: clear, standard documentation and an API style that’s easier for both humans and AI agents to use.
- Security & privacy by design: ABAC, row/field-level permissions, encryption & masking, and audit-friendly change logs.
- Integration and orchestration: configurable integrations with common authentication patterns.
- Timeline model: query effective data by date and track business events consistently.
- i18n and SaaS readiness: multi-locale UX, multi-tenancy patterns, and mainstream relational database support.
Who it’s for
- Teams building medium to large business systems
- Organizations that need fine-grained security governance
- Products that must support multi-tenant and/or multi-locale requirements
- Developers who want to integrate with other systems via standard OpenAPI
Get involved
- Start here: Quick Start
- Learn the architecture: Architecture
- See what’s included: Features
- Contribute: Contribution guide
- Source code:
https://github.com/softa-io/softa
Thanks
Softa stands on the shoulders of the open-source ecosystem—thank you to everyone who builds and maintains the tools and libraries we rely on.
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