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Legacy Zero: Enterprise Legacy Application Modernization Services

Eliminate technical debt permanently. Our "Legacy Zero" approach uses Agentic AI to accelerate legacy software modernization. We transition your aging COBOL, VB6, and monolith systems to cloud-native microservices—with zero vendor lock-in and zero operational downtime.

Zero
Technical Debt
100%
Code & IP Ownership
Zero
Downtime Cutover
MAIN.CBL
Tech Debt
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Agentic Application Refactoring

Watch as our AI agents read decades-old undocumented code and rebuild it into a highly scalable, cloud-native architecture in real-time.

Legacy Monolith (COBOL)Tech Debt: Critical
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Cloud-Native (Next.js / TypeScript)Tech Debt: Zero

The "Zero Debt" Guarantee

Stop renting your infrastructure. Escape vendor lock-in and own 100% of your technology stack.

Zero-Downtime Migration

Through advanced dual-write ETL pipelines and the Strangler Fig pattern, your legacy system runs in parallel with the modern cloud-native system. Departments transition sequentially without a single dropped user session or missing data byte.

100% Code Ownership

No SaaS traps. No recurring seat licenses. You own the fully modernized source code, documentation, and IP.

Zero Vendor Lock-in

Built on standard, open-source cloud technologies (React, Node.js, Next.js, .NET 8). Any competent team can maintain it.

Eliminate Security Vulnerabilities

Decades-old legacy systems are a prime target for ransomware and data breaches. By refactoring to modern microservices, we enforce zero-trust security policies, end-to-end encryption, and compliance with modern enterprise data standards from Day 1.

The Strangler Fig Pattern

Scroll down to see how we safely decouple monolithic applications into modular microservices with zero operational risk.

LEGACY_MONOLITH.EXE
User Auth API
Checkout API
Inventory Sync
Cloud SQL
Why MetaDesign

Hire the team that's been doing this for 20 years.

We've shipped over 200 projects across BFSI, healthcare, SaaS, and edtech. Our people won't be learning the first-call delivery model.

AI-Powered Application Assessment

Our AI agents map monolithic legacy codebases in days, capturing business rules for microservices transition.

Microservices Architecture Delivery

Agentic AI generates boilerplate at machine speed, escaping the monolithic trap 70% faster.

Zero-Downtime Cloud Migration

Dual-run ETL pipelines ensure your legacy system data is migrated to the cloud without dropping a session.

Technical Debt Reduction

You own 100% of the modernized code. No vendor dependency, no SaaS licensing, and zero technical debt.

What we ship

Capabilities, end to end.

Retire

  • COBOL & VB6
  • Classic ASP & Delphi
  • FoxPro
  • Legacy Monoliths

Rebuild

  • Next.js
  • React
  • .NET 8
  • Python
  • Node.js
  • Microservices

Realize

  • Zero Technical Debt
  • Cloud-Native
  • API-First
  • Full Scalability
Tech stack
What we use, fluently.
COBOLVB6Classic ASPDelphiFoxProLegacy Monoliths
Next.jsReact.NET 8PythonNode.jsMicroservices
AWSAzureGCPDockerKubernetes
Approach

6 stages. No surprises.

01

Discovery & Dependency Mapping

AI scans the monolithic codebase for tight coupling, extracting rules to design bounded contexts.

02

Target Architecture Design

Senior architects design the cloud-native, microservices-based target state.

03

AI-Assisted Code Refactoring

Agentic AI accelerates enterprise software refactoring while human engineers harden every component.

04

Automated ETL Data Migration

Safely transfer legacy data to modern SQL/NoSQL cloud stores with byte-level validation.

05

Parallel Run & UAT

Implementing the Strangler Fig pattern, the new system runs alongside the legacy system for zero-risk cutover.

06

Decommission & Handover

Retire the legacy system completely and transfer 100% of the IP and runbooks to your team.

By the numbers
400+
Engineers worldwide
200+
Active clients
20yr
Pure-play software
94%
Client retention

They quietly replaced a critical platform under us in eighteen months. We didn't lose a single customer in the cutover. That's the highest compliment I can pay an engineering partner.

Director of engineering
SaaS, post-merger — $50 ARR
FAQ

Asked first, every time.

Don't see yours here? Send us the question — a principal engineer will reply within 24 hours.
The most effective strategy is a phased approach using AI for application portfolio assessment, followed by agentic software refactoring into a microservices architecture. This mitigates risk and speeds up delivery.
Our AI agents ingest the full monolithic codebase—whether COBOL, VB6, or Delphi—and produce structured documentation and entity-relationship diagrams in days. It then generates 70% of the modern boilerplate code.
We achieve "Legacy Zero" by ensuring the target architecture is fully cloud-native, decoupling monolithic constraints, and transferring 100% IP ownership to you, eliminating vendor and SaaS lock-in permanently.
Yes. We utilize the Strangler Fig pattern and automated dual-run ETL pipelines. This allows departments to transition sequentially to the new microservices architecture with absolutely zero operational downtime.
We handle COBOL, VB6, Classic ASP, Delphi, FoxPro, PowerBuilder, Oracle Forms, legacy Java EE, old .NET Framework applications, and more.
Absolutely. We recommend a module-by-module approach — start with the highest-pain system, prove the model, then expand. This reduces risk and delivers ROI faster.

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