Keep the system your business runs on. Make your team love using it.

Legacy Software Modernization

The system that runs your business cost a fortune and still works, but your team builds spreadsheets around it and new hires take months to learn it. We build a modern experience layer on top of the system you already rely on, or rebuild it on modern infrastructure when the old stack genuinely can't be saved. Both come with a fixed price, a guaranteed outcome, and a 12-month bug-free warranty.

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Modernization, without the failure rate the category is known for

Most modernizations run on time-and-materials and miss the original business case. Gartner puts that failure rate at 70%. Here is how we change the odds.

The third option

Keep your system of record and build a modern, role-based experience on top of it. We replace the experience, not the whole system. Less cost, less risk.

Vendor deadlines

Vendors keep ending support for on-prem systems and forcing a migration decision. We give you a fixed timeline and a fixed price, not a panic migration under deadline.

The triple guarantee

Fixed price, guaranteed outcome, and a 12-month bug-free warranty on the build. In a category that almost always runs on time-and-materials with overruns expected.

Senior U.S. team

Ten years, 100+ projects, and modernization work live in production today. A senior US-based team with deep integration experience, and a founder involved throughout.

Faster, lower cost

AI-Native delivery compresses the messy data-mapping and integration work that drags traditional modernizations out for months. The same scope, in less time, at a lower price.

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“We Weren’t Just A Project To Them.”

Amit Kapoor
CEO, First Line Technology

How we'd work with you

Some legacy systems can be saved. Others have to be replaced. We figure out which, then we build it. Every engagement starts with a fixed-price diagnosis before you commit to the work.

Diagnose the right path

We map the system, the data, and the workflows, decide between an experience-layer overlay and a full replatform, and produce a phased implementation plan with guaranteed pricing for the build.

Modernize

We build the experience layer or replatform, phase by phase, starting with the highest-impact workflow. Delivered under the full triple guarantee.

Keep it running

Ongoing support and feature work on the modernized system, on a pre-negotiated monthly retainer. Optional, never required.

Overlay or replatform: we choose based on the system, not the sale

Most vendors push the one approach they sell. We diagnose what your system actually needs, then build that.

Step 1, The experience-layer overlay: When the underlying stack still runs the business reliably but the interface is killing your team, we build modern, role-based screens on top of it. The system of record stays. The daily experience changes completely.

Step 2, The replatform: When the legacy stack can't be salvaged, or the vendor is forcing the move, we rebuild on modern infrastructure with the same milestone pricing and guarantee as a custom build.

Step 3, How we choose: The path gets decided during Discovery, based on the system's architecture, how reachable its data is, the vendor's lifecycle, and where the business is headed. The recommendation fits the system, not our pipeline.

Step 4, Backed by the guarantee: Whichever path the system needs, the implementation carries a fixed price, a guaranteed outcome, and a 12-month bug-free warranty.

System power up

A platform that couldn't scale, rebuilt to serve thousands more

AARP Foundation's Property Tax-Aide program ran on digital tools that could no longer keep up. They struggled with scale, security, and accessibility, and every change was slow and risky. We audited the system, rebuilt the platform on modern infrastructure, cut the clicks required by 40%, and gave the program room to expand into more states.

  • 28,000+ users have applied for tax relief
  • $10M+ in property tax relief secured
  • Faster, scalable platform now serving more states
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70% of modernizations miss the business case. The ones that don't are structured differently.

Most modernization vendors bill by the hour, run waterfall, and treat overruns as normal. We run fixed milestones, tackle the hard integration work first, and stand behind the result with a 12-month warranty. Whether your system needs an overlay or a rebuild, you get a fixed price and a path you can take to your board.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Both. An overlay builds a modern, role-based experience on top of your existing system of record, which stays in place. A replatform rebuilds the system on modern infrastructure when the old stack can't be saved. We decide which fits your system during a fixed-price Discovery, based on the architecture, the data, and your vendor's lifecycle.

Only if that's genuinely the right call. Often it isn't. If the underlying system still runs the business reliably and the real problem is the interface, an experience layer on top delivers most of the value at a fraction of the cost and risk of a full replacement.

Sooner than the deadline suggests. Discovery takes 4 to 8 weeks and implementation runs several months, so starting well before the cutoff lets you modernize on your terms instead of under pressure. The systems forcing these decisions vary, but the clean approach is the same: plan early, build in phases.

Discovery is a fixed price with clear deliverables. Implementation runs on fixed milestones under the full triple guarantee: the price holds, the outcome is guaranteed, and the build carries a 12-month bug-free warranty.

Yes. Ten years and 100+ projects across operational software, including modernization work live in production today. Our senior US team has already solved the hard problems here: integrating with legacy systems, synchronizing data, and building role-based interfaces on top of systems that can't be taken offline.

A quote without discovery is a guess, and guesses are how modernizations run over budget. Discovery produces a real implementation plan and a price we can guarantee. As one client put it after the fact, "I wish we would have spent more time in discovery and requirements mapping up front."

For a full year after delivery, we repair any non-conforming code at no charge. The warranty covers code that doesn't work as specified. Feature additions and ongoing operational support are handled separately through Maintain.