Rebuild without stopping the business.
Decade-old PHP. Abandoned Lotus Notes. That Access database holding the company together. We modernize without stopping the business.
Legacy software is rarely legacy because it's bad. It's legacy because it worked so well, for so long, that nobody dared touch it. Modernization is not rewriting — it's carefully de-risking a system the business depends on, piece by piece, until the new architecture has replaced the old one and nobody noticed the seam.
What’s actually included.
Assessment & roadmap
A four-week audit: current architecture, dependency graph, data model, pain points, and a staged migration plan with cost and risk for each step.
Strangler-pattern rebuilds
Incremental replacement — the new system grows around the old one, routing traffic piece by piece. No big-bang cutover, no extended dark period.
Data model rationalization
Decades-old databases accumulate cruft. We map the current model, design the target, and migrate with dual-write and verification.
Cloud migration
On-prem to AWS, Azure, or GCP. Lift-and-shift where appropriate, re-platform where it pays. Infrastructure-as-code from day one.
Legacy stack expertise
PHP 5/7, classic ASP, VB6, MS-Access, Lotus Notes, FileMaker, old .NET Framework. We've seen it. We can read it. We can replace it.
Change management
The system change is the easy part. We provide training, runbooks, support windows, and a senior on-call during cutover.
Zero-downtime cutover
Dual-run windows of 2–4 weeks where both systems serve traffic and reconcile. Only cut over when parity is verified.
Documentation recovery
Most legacy systems are undocumented. We reconstruct architecture docs, data dictionaries, and runbooks as part of the modernization.
Direct answers.
Q. We have a Lotus Notes / Access system the business runs on. Can you replace it?
Yes. This is literally half our modernization practice. Dual-run the new system alongside the old for a month, verify parity, cut over.
Q. Will my team need to retrain?
Ideally, no. We aim for the new system to feel obvious to current users on day one, with power-user features added gradually.
Q. How long does a modernization take?
Typical range: 4–9 months for a mid-size internal app; 9–18 months for a core line-of-business system. We break it into shippable phases so value lands early.
Q. Can you work with our internal IT team?
Yes. Most modernizations are collaborations — your IT team knows the system and the users; we know the target architecture. We co-own the plan.
Ready to scope this?
Tell us about the problem. If modernization is the right fit, we’ll scope it on the intake call. If it isn’t, we’ll tell you.