Legacy modernization
Your developer retired. Your system didn't.
The people who wrote it are gone, the documentation never existed, and every quote you have had assumes someone spends three months working out what it does before anyone changes a line.
Six questions. A person replies with a fixed quote, privately.
Reading an undocumented VB6, Delphi, AngularJS, PHP 5 or Java 8 monolith was slow, specialist work. That is the part that changed — which is why businesses that could never justify modernization now can.
The cost of staying
Keeping it alive is not free. It is just unbilled.
Scarce specialists
Priced accordingly, and harder to find every year.
End-of-life licences
Still paid for, no longer supported.
Growing exposure
Security and compliance risk that compounds annually.
An integration dead-end
It quietly caps what the rest of the business can do.
The rewrite fear
Everyone knows a rewrite horror story
So nothing here is big-bang.
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Strangler-fig phasing
Module by module, never big-bang.
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Proven feature parity
A traceability matrix answers the real fear — that something nobody remembered quietly disappears.
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Milestone billing
Billed by milestone, each milestone tied to a module you accept.
- Customer records moved · parity proven
- Invoicing moved · parity proven
- Order entry moving
- Reports still on the old system
- Admin still on the old system
The old system keeps running the parts that have not moved. Nothing goes dark on a cut-over day.
Your code
A conversation first. Code access only when the assessment begins.
Starting
You can start with a conversation about the system. We ask for read-only code access only when the assessment begins.
During the assessment
Code access is read-only and logged, never used for training, and deleted within 30 days of the evaluation ending unless we engage.
Where it starts
The Legacy System Specification Assessment
It may recommend keeping the system. The specification is yours either way.
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A written specification
What the system really does, including the business rules buried in the code, the data it holds, the reports it produces and what it connects to.
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A risk register
What could go wrong if you keep it, and what could go wrong if you replace it.
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A keep-vs-replace cost comparison
The cost of carrying on as you are, set against the cost of replacing it in stages.
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A staged replacement plan
If replacing it is the right call: which module goes first, and what each stage proves.
If replacing is right, the first stage is quoted the same way: fixed, itemised, with exclusions.
Six questions
Tell us about the system, and get a fixed quote
Fixed price, agreed at scoping, sent to you privately. No call needed.
The assessment fee is credited in full against the first build stage if it starts within 90 days of the report.
Defined by both lists
Tell us about the system.
Start with a conversation. Code access comes only when the assessment begins.