Your IBM i Developers Are Retiring.
Your Business Can’t Wait.
Your Legacy Code Needs Evolution.
At Profound Logic we help technical leaders solve the critical challenges blocking innovation: workforce shortages that threaten continuity, development backlogs that slow competitive response, maintenance costs that consume resources meant for growth, and outdated user experiences that push customers away. Build modern web and mobile applications that transform your development capacity without disrupting what works.
The Talent Crisis
Finding and Keeping IBM i Expertise
Your experienced developers are aging out. New talent doesn’t know RPG. Recruiting takes months, and retention is uncertain. Every departure threatens institutional knowledge and system continuity.
This isn’t just an HR problem; it’s a business continuity risk. When development capacity depends on a shrinking pool of experts, your ability to respond to market changes, build new web and mobile applications, and meet customer demands becomes constrained.
Development Speed: When Backlogs Block Business Innovation
Your business moves faster than your development cycles. Features that should take weeks take months. New web and mobile applications sit in the backlog. Integration projects stall. Competitors launch modern user experiences while you’re still planning.
Legacy development processes weren’t designed for today’s pace or today’s expectations. Manual testing, limited tooling, and technical debt create friction at every step. Business leaders see development as a bottleneck, not an enabler.
Business impact: Missed market opportunities, competitive disadvantage, frustrated stakeholders who see technology as a barrier to growth.
The Maintenance Trap: Technical Debt Consumes Innovation Budget
You’re spending resources maintaining yesterday’s code instead of building tomorrow’s web and mobile applications. Bug fixes, patches, and workarounds consume developer time that should create modern user experiences and drive new value. Technical debt compounds, making every change more complex and risky.
When maintenance dominates your development calendar, innovation becomes aspirational. Resources that should build competitive web and mobile applications instead preserve the status quo.
Business impact: Rising operational costs, reduced innovation capacity, increasing risk as changes become more difficult and expensive over time.
The User Experience Gap: When Your Systems Push Customers Away
Your green screen interfaces are costing you business. Employees compare your internal applications to consumer apps and find them frustrating. Partners demand self-service portals, not phone calls to your support team.
Every interaction with outdated interfaces reinforces the perception that your organization is behind the times. New hires struggle with green screens they’ve never seen before. Customers abandon transactions because they can’t complete them on mobile devices.
Business impact: Lost sales from poor user experience, higher support costs from lack of self-service, difficulty attracting talent who expect modern tools, competitive disadvantage against companies with superior digital experiences.
The Solution
Profound AppDev Suite
for Web and Mobile Development
Build Modern Applications While Addressing Workforce Constraints
Profound AppDev transforms your existing team into a high-velocity web and mobile development organization. Our integrated suite, Profound UI for advanced web development, Profound.js for modern application logic, Genie for instant UI transformation, and Atrium for unified navigation, gives developers visual tools, pre-built components, and low-code capabilities that accelerate development by 5-10x.
Your current developers build responsive web applications and mobile experiences dramatically faster. New hires contribute quickly because visual development environments reduce learning curves. You need fewer specialists to deliver modern applications because the tools handle complexity.
The workforce challenge shifts from “finding enough developers” to “building the web and mobile applications our business needs.”
Accelerate Web and Mobile Application Delivery
Profound AppDev enables rapid web and mobile application development across your entire portfolio. Genie instantly transforms green screens into modern web interfaces without backend changes—delivering immediate user experience improvements. Profound UI lets you create stunning, responsive web and mobile applications with comprehensive development capabilities. Profound.js enables powerful Node.js applications using low-code approaches that preserve your RPG business logic.
This acceleration means you finally clear the backlog. New web applications launch in weeks. Mobile experiences reach customers faster. Integration projects complete on schedule. Business requests move from concept to production rapidly.
Your development organization delivers the modern applications your business demands.
Build New Applications While Reducing Technical Debt
Profound AppDev’s coexistence approach lets you build modern web and mobile applications while systematically reducing technical debt. Legacy and modern systems work together seamlessly through Atrium’s unified portal. You can build new applications using Profound UI and Profound.js while incrementally transforming existing screens and programs—all while maintaining full integration with your IBM i business logic.
As you build modern web interfaces, develop mobile applications, and migrate logic to Node.js at your own pace, maintenance demands decrease. Development resources shift from firefighting legacy issues to building the web and mobile applications that drive competitive advantage.
The budget conversation changes from “what can we afford to maintain?” to “what web and mobile applications should we build next?”
Premium Staff Augmentation
Immediate Access to Skilled Web and Mobile Application Developers
When your team needs reinforcement, we provide experienced developers who specialize in building modern applications on IBM i. Supplement your workforce with professionals who understand your platform and can deliver production-ready solutions quickly.
Flexible Resources
Scale your development capacity up or down based on project demands. Access skilled professionals who understand both IBM i architecture and modern web/mobile development practices.
Expert Delivery
Our developers bring proven expertise in Profound AppDev tools and IBM i integration patterns. They hit the ground running, delivering quality code from day one without lengthy onboarding.
Immediate Capacity
Bypass months of recruiting and training. Start critical projects immediately with developers who are already proficient in the tools and patterns you need.
AI-Powered Development
Agentic Coding Environments Accelerate Everything
Most AI tools suggest code snippets. We deliver complete agentic coding environments with CI/CD pipelines, Git integration, and automated testing built in. Developers work 5-10x faster because AI handles infrastructure complexity, generates comprehensive tests, and automates deployment.
For technical debt reduction
AI analyzes existing code, generates refactored versions that preserve business logic, and creates the documentation and test coverage that never existed. Work that took months happens in days.
For new application development
Describe requirements in natural language and the AI environment generates application scaffolding, API endpoints, and user interfaces. Developers focus on business logic while AI handles boilerplate code and integration patterns.
The complete advantage
Profound AppDev’s low-code tools + agentic coding environments + expert staff augmentation = web and mobile application delivery at speeds that seemed impossible with traditional approaches. Technical debt decreases while development capacity expands.
Ready to Build Web and Mobile Applications?
Every organization’s evolution is unique. We meet you where you are, helping you innovate confidently on IBM i or transition seamlessly beyond it. With over 25 years of experience, we’re the only partner that delivers end-to-end futurization: from application refactoring and UX transformation to AI readiness and coexistence enablement.
Your systems don’t need replacing, they need a future.
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Every day without action compounds the challenge. Your developers are retiring. Your web and mobile application backlog is growing. Your competitors are launching modern experiences faster. Let’s build your development capacity and the applications that drive competitive advantage.