Cost and complexity takeout

Most legacy platforms cost more to keep alive than to run. The savings are real, but they hide in dead code, duplicated services and infrastructure sized for a peak that stopped happening years ago.

Where the money goes

Run costs are visible: hosting, licences, support contracts. Keep-alive costs are not. They are the engineers who can't be moved because only they understand a module, the change that takes six weeks because nobody knows what it will break, and the licence renewed because no one can prove the feature isn't used.

What ARC finds

• Dead and duplicated code. Screens no journey reaches, services no one calls, and three implementations of the same calculation.
• Change hot spots. Files that change together in git history, revealing the coupling that makes every release slow.
• Maintainability, measured. Each component scored, with the debt that would pay back fastest called out first.
• Infrastructure against usage. What the system actually does at peak, so the target is sized for reality.

Then a plan with a number on it

Discovery ends with a fixed-price plan for the rest. You decide what to remove, rebuild or leave alone with the cost of each choice in front of you, not after a two-year program has started.

You can't cut what you can't see. Discovery makes it visible.

What you get

Timelines depend on access to code and people; we confirm them on the scoping call.