Agentic Legacy Code Modernization
Boro runs fixed-price legacy modernization engagements: documentation recovery, test-suite generation, and dependency migration, delivered by AI agent squads working under senior architectural direction.
We work with engineering organizations carrying legacy or under-documented systems nobody on the current team wants to own; the service nobody's touched long enough that no one is sure what breaks if it stops. The codebase with no tests and one person who understands it, the dependency tree several major versions behind. If a system like that keeps getting bumped off the roadmap because touching it feels too risky, that's the work we take on.
# the boro way take → what already works adapt → to how you work now patch → the thin, worn seams replace → only what must go
The mend methodology
Four steps, one fixed price.
Every engagement follows the same four-step method: take stock of what's there, adapt it to how the team actually works today, patch the worn seams with agentic coding, and carry the whole thing forward onto ground the next engineer can stand on.
Agent squads do the repetitive work (reading the codebase, generating tests, tracing dependency chains) while a senior architect sets direction and reviews every change before it ships.
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Take stock
A fixed-scope paid assessment: we map what you're running today (the tools, data, and workflows worth keeping) and hand back a scoped modernization plan before either of us commits to more.
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Adapt
We reshape what fits to how your team actually works now, instead of forcing a rewrite that throws away institutional knowledge already built into the system.
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Patch
Agent squads recover documentation, generate a test suite against current behavior, and migrate dependencies: the seams most likely to fail first.
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Carry forward
We hand back a system your team can maintain: documented, tested, and on supported dependencies, with the years of institutional logic still intact.
Direction on every engagement comes from Daniel Joyce's 25+ years in production systems, the same senior-review discipline that measured 80–90% time savings against conventional development in earlier production roles. Agent squads carry the volume work; the architect carries the judgment.
Every engagement starts with taking stock, not a sales pitch. Book the assessment and you'll get a written, scoped plan for whether the system is worth mending before you commit to anything past that.