Escape the legacy trap

Trapped on an end-of-life monolith or a vendor-locked platform? We stabilise what's broken, then systematically rebuild in modern tech — without the eighteen-month replatforming death march.

What We Do

• Legacy codebase assessment and technical debt quantification
• Strangler fig pattern migration — replace piece by piece, not all at once
• Zero-downtime cutover planning and execution
• Monolith to microservices decomposition
• Database migration and data integrity preservation
• Vendor lock-in escape (proprietary platforms to open standards)
• API layer creation over legacy systems for gradual modernisation
• Cloud migration from on-premise infrastructure

Our Approach

• Stabilise First: Before rebuilding anything, we fix what's actively breaking. Patch critical vulnerabilities, stabilise performance, and stop the bleeding.
• Incremental Migration: No big-bang rewrites. We use strangler fig patterns to replace components one by one while the existing system keeps running.
• Business Continuity: Zero-downtime cutover. Your operations don't stop while we modernise. Feature parity is maintained at every stage.
• Modern Destination: The end state is a modern, maintainable platform — clean architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and documentation. An asset, not a liability.

Common Scenarios

• End-of-life frameworks (Classic ASP, ColdFusion, old PHP, legacy .NET) — modernised to current stacks
• Vendor-locked platforms where the vendor has sunset the product or raised prices 3x
• Monolithic applications that can't scale and take weeks for simple changes
• Acquisitions where the target's tech stack needs rationalising post-close

Industries We Serve

Our legacy modernisation expertise spans multiple verticals, with deep experience in:

• Automotive - Legacy dealer management systems, outdated inventory platforms
• E-commerce - End-of-life e-commerce platforms, monolithic storefronts
• Venture Capital - Portfolio companies trapped on legacy tech

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does modernisation take vs a full rewrite?

Modernisation delivers value incrementally — first improvements in weeks, full migration in months. A rewrite means 12–18 months of zero value before launch, with high failure risk.

Can you modernise without disrupting our operations?

That's the entire point. We run old and new in parallel, migrating traffic gradually. Your users and staff don't notice the transition.

What if our system is too old to document?

We reverse-engineer undocumented systems regularly. We map behaviour through code analysis, traffic observation, and stakeholder interviews before touching anything.

Do we lose data during migration?

No. Data integrity is our top constraint. We build migration pipelines with validation, rollback capability, and parallel-run verification before any cutover.

What does this cost compared to a full rebuild?

Typically 40–60% less than a ground-up rewrite, with value delivered continuously rather than all-or-nothing at the end.