Five numbers you already know from your last budget review. One defensible annual figure, plus a one-page PDF your CFO can read in ninety seconds.
Mainframe-to-cloud migration typically cuts run-rate infrastructure cost 30–40%, freeing $20–40M annually.
Quarterly releases shift to weekly. Each month of delay puts ~2% of annual digital revenue at risk.
Engineers who know COBOL and other legacy systems are rare and retiring. Salaries run ~20% above market, and roles take twice as long to fill.
Unsupported legacy systems add 15–20% to annual compliance and audit spend, often $5–10M.
Benchmarks from the ARC CIO briefing. These are estimates, not quotes. The ranges are deliberately conservative, and most teams find the real number is higher once discovery maps what's actually there.
Repositories, schemas and stored procedures across 78+ languages, indexed before any model draws a conclusion. Code is parsed into syntax trees, so ARC follows real call chains and data paths.
Around fourteen analysers compute dependencies, integrations, data contracts, screens, journeys, security and code quality. Business rules come out as Given / When / Then, cited to files and lines.
A structured architecture intake: 96 questions across 15 areas, from your SDLC and hard constraints to hosting, data, security and team. Every answer becomes a pinned decision your architects sign off.
The approved future state is written as a spec pack: one specification per capability, in build order, each owning the legacy rules it must preserve.
Coding agents build each spec as stories, and every story passes the same gates: tests, security audit, dependency scan and spec-to-code traceability.
Our QA team tests the new system against the rules discovery extracted, and a Field CTO owns the cut-over.
Future state specified by you: library choices, patterns, SOX or HIPAA compliance posture.
How tests are written, doc depth, and trade-off priorities, at the right level of rigor for your team.
Security, audit, and retention requirements declared upfront, not retrofitted at the end.
Every phase, Discovery through Deploy, requires a human sign-off before the next begins.
Agents independently validate every artifact. Security checks are built into the pipeline, not bolted on.
Every agent action, decision, and output is logged and reviewable. Nothing happens off-screen.
From conception to QA, ARC migrated our legacy Oracle Forms system into a cloud-native React frontend and Java backend in a span of just a few weeks. What we had scoped as an 18-month, multi-million-dollar program landed in under 30 days at a fraction of the cost.
Forty-five minutes, mutual NDA. We'll pressure-test your estimate against systems like yours and leave you with a fixed price for Discovery and Audit.