Evolve Without Disruption: Transformation Is Your Competitive Advantage, Not Your Risk

Your IBM i or AS/400 systems aren’t broken. They’ve been the backbone of your success, but as business needs accelerate, legacy constraints are limiting your ability to innovate. The challenge isn’t reliability, it’s evolution. We help you futurize from strength, not replace what works.

Whether you’re staying on IBM i or moving beyond it, we guide your evolution with precision, confidence, and measurable ROI, turning transformation into a strategic advantage, not a risky leap.  

Need help executing the journey? 

Our IBM i experts can step in with staff augmentation and managed transformation services that extend your team’s capacity at every level. Whether you need seasoned developers who understand both legacy systems and modern architectures, strategic advisors who can chart your futurization roadmap, or experienced project leads who can orchestrate complex transformations, we bridge talent gaps and accelerate progress. Evolution doesn’t have to wait for headcount. 

You’re not alone. Thousands of businesses rely on IBM i applications that were built for reliability, not agility. While these systems have served you well, they’re now creating a competitive disadvantage in today’s fast-moving market. 

The Transformation Challenges Holding Your Business Back

You know your IBM i applications need to evolve. But traditional transformation approaches create risks that feel worse than standing still. You’re facing challenges that keep IT leaders up at night: 

"Rip and Replace" Risk

Complete system rewrites threaten business continuity and requires massive upfront investment with uncertain returns.

One failed deployment could cripple operations for days or even weeks. Worse, off-the-shelf replacements can’t replicate the custom business rules and workflows you’ve refined over decades: the very logic that differentiates you from competitors.

Meanwhile, your competitors aren’t waiting for you to recover from a “big bang” migration gone wrong.

Talent Scarcity Crisis

Your experienced RPG and COBOL developers are retiring faster than you can replace them, taking decades of institutional knowledge with them.

The custom business rules embedded in your applications exist primarily in the minds of developers who won’t be around much longer.

Premium costs for scarce legacy skills are escalating while younger developers gravitate toward modern languages. Projects sit in the backlog simply because you don’t have the resources to execute. 

Integration Barriers

Your valuable business data and proprietary business logic remain locked inside applications that can’t easily connect to cloud services, AI platforms, or modern analytics tools.

While competitors leverage your industry’s data with AI and real-time analytics, your custom algorithms and decision rules sit inaccessible behind outdated interfaces.

Integration projects that should take weeks stretch into months. Each new business requirement feels like an uphill battle against architectural limitations built into systems decades ago. 

The cost of inaction compounds daily. Maintenance spending increases while innovation capacity decreases. Competitive agility suffers as development cycles stretch from weeks to months. The gap between what your business needs and what your systems can deliver grows wider. 

You need a transformation approach that eliminates these risks, not one that amplifies them. 

Algorithmic + AI Refactoring with Agentic Coding

The Future of Safe, Fast, Continuous Transformation

Traditional approaches force impossible choices: risk everything on AI alone, wait years for manual rewrites, or accept mounting technical debt. We eliminate that false dilemma.  

Our Algorithmic + AI Refactoring with Agentic Coding solution delivers transformation you can trust and innovation that never stops: 

Proven algorithms provide the guardrails to your business-critical logic demands, deterministic, predictable, safe at scale.

AI adaptability accelerates delivery and handles complexity that would take months manually, compressing transformation timelines from years to weeks.

Agentic coding enablement positions your futurized applications for autonomous development post-transformation, where AI agents independently tackle feature requests, refactoring, and enhancements while comprehensive testing frameworks validate every change.

Three-Column Value Framework

Transform Safely

Protect mission-critical business logic through proven algorithmic refactoring that delivers predictable, auditable results. Our coexistence technology lets legacy and futurized components run side-by-side, eliminating “big bang” failures and ensuring business continuity throughout transformation.

Accelerate Delivery

Prove value in weeks, not years. Target high-impact areas first with phased transformation that demonstrates ROI quickly, then scale confidently. AI handles complexity and volume that would bottleneck manual approaches, slashing time-to-market from months to weeks.

Unlock Continuous Innovation

Post-transformation productivity is where the real advantage emerges. Enable your team to leverage autonomous AI agents that work independently on validated tasks—handling routine enhancements, refactoring, and testing while developers focus on strategic initiatives. Multiply team capacity without proportional headcount increases. 

Strategic Impact You Can Measure

Redirect IT spending from maintenance to innovation while reducing dependency on scarce legacy talent

Gain platform independence—run on IBM i, cloud, or hybrid environments based on business needs

Enable integration with AI services, cloud platforms, and emerging technologies that drive competitive advantage

Maintain development velocity post-transformation through agentic coding capabilities that sustain innovation momentum

Expert Guidance for Complex Transformation Journeys

Transformation is about people as much as technology. Our staff augmentation and custom services bring experienced IBM i and futurization specialists directly into your team. 

From assessment through implementation, we provide the extra hands, and brains; you need to move faster without compromising quality. Whether you need short-term development acceleration, specialized AI integration, or long-term architectural support, our experts operate as part of your team, ensuring a seamless transition from legacy to futurized systems. 

Our staff augmentation services complement our transformation solutions by providing

Deep IBM i, RPG, COBOL, and futurization architecture expertise 

Accelerated delivery through proven patterns and frameworks 

Knowledge transfer that builds internal capability alongside external support 

Risk mitigation through experienced oversight of business-critical transformations 

Strategic guidance to ensure success in a constantly changing technology landscape 

Project leadership for initiative of all sizes ensuring focused execution and adherence to best practices 

We adapt to your needs, from strategic advisory roles to embedded development teams, ensuring your transformation succeeds on schedule and on budget. 

Ready to Evolve from Strength?  

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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