Salona guides families through one of the most meaningful processes of their lives. Their portal should feel just as considered — secure, transparent, and unmistakably yours.
Citizenship by descent isn't a generic "project." It's vital records across generations and borders, court-sworn translations, apostilles, and a Ministry decision your clients wait months for. The portal mirrors that exact journey — so every applicant always knows where they stand.
Encrypted document vault, role-based access, audit logging, and EU/Swiss hosting — built for passports, birth records and sensitive family data from day one.
No more lost email chains. Each applicant gets one channel to their coordinator, automatic stage notifications, and a status they can check at 2am from any timezone.
Certified translations, apostilled sets and the citizenship decree — version-tracked, downloadable, and visible only to the right applicant and your team.
A clean data model and low-code foundation you own — add new services, languages, automations and team seats as Salona scales, without a rebuild.
A refined, heritage-inspired interface that works flawlessly on the phone of a client in Sydney and the desktop of your coordinator in Lucerne — with EN / HR / DE built in. See it for yourself →
Most agencies send a deck. We're sending you a clickable applicant portal, already shaped around Salona's process. Open it, click through the stages, read the messages, try the document vault.
You asked for low-code so you keep ownership and flexibility long-term — exactly the right instinct. But not all "low-code" is equal: some platforms hold your data and logic hostage. Here's an honest comparison against the things that matter to Salona.
| Platform | Data ownership | EU / CH hosting | Customisable UX | Long-term cost | Lock-in risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budibase Recommended Open-source · self-hostable |
Full — you host it | Yes, anywhere | High | Low | Minimal |
| Retool Mature · self-host option |
Strong (self-host) | Yes (enterprise) | Very high | Medium | Low–medium |
| Microsoft Power Apps If you live in M365 |
Within Microsoft | Yes (Azure EU) | Medium | Per-user, scales up | Medium |
| Bubble Popular no-code |
Limited export | US-default | High | Medium | High |
Our honest take: for sensitive citizenship data and genuine long-term ownership, an open-source / self-hostable foundation (Budibase or self-hosted Retool) wins. You hold the data, host it in Switzerland or the EU, and never get held hostage by per-seat pricing. We'll pressure-test this together in the workshop against your real volumes and team.
Birth certificates, passports, family records — this is among the most sensitive data there is, governed by Swiss nFADP and EU GDPR. We treat that as a first-class requirement.
One day together. We map your real process, agree the platform, lock the architecture and security model, and leave you with a costed plan — yours to keep whether or not we build it.
Applicant login, case dashboard, the 6-stage tracker, document vault and messaging — the prototype you've seen, made real on your chosen platform.
Coordinator side, deliverables, billing/milestones, EN·HR·DE, and notifications — the engine that lets your growing team handle more cases with less admin.
Analytics, automations, integrations (translators, payments, e-sign) and whatever the next service line needs. The foundation grows with you.
We're a Croatian product-engineering studio. Croatian institutions, the language, the bureaucracy of vital records and the Ministry — this is home turf, not a learning curve.
Senior engineers and designers who shape the product with you. The prototype in your hands is how we work before a contract — imagine after one.
Low-code you own, code you can export, hosting you control. We build to hand over, not to trap you in a retainer.
One focused day that de-risks the entire project — and the fee comes straight off your build.
Remote or in Lucerne — your call. Reply to this and we'll find a date in the next two weeks.