Leading insurance broker management system provider in Canada came to Armakuni for aWS MAP Assess Phase for 25-year-old VB6/Citrix platform; AI-powered PDF-to-JSON production build on AWS Bedrock.
The challenge
PDF-to-JSON AI production build completed in mid-2025, followed by AWS MAP Assess Phase in early 2026. Both engagements were won on the strength of Armakuni's consultative discovery approach, which impressed both the client and the AWS account team. Armakuni is positioned for the Mobilize Phase next.
Scale: SaaS platform serving Canadian insurance brokerage industry; 1,200+ customer databases; ~75 TB customer data; 12 TB file storage.
What we built
Armakuni delivered aWS MAP Assess Phase for 25-year-old VB6/Citrix platform; AI-powered PDF-to-JSON production build on AWS Bedrock. The engagement ran as two fixed-scope SOWs: PDF to JSON Path to Production (Jul 2025); AWS MAP Assess Phase (Jan 2026). AWS funded the work at $54,000.
The outcomes
4 measurable outcomes shipped across the engagement. The ones that moved the business the most:
AWS MAP funding covered the full Assess Phase cost, delivering $54,000 of strategic work at zero cost to Vertafore Canada.. The migration assessment, compliance strategy, and roadmap were fully funded through the MAP program. Vertafore Canada received a comprehensive migration plan without capital outlay.
The PDF-to-JSON production system runs at real-world volume, handling insurance forms the previous manual process could not.. The event-driven pipeline processes forms asynchronously, at scale, without blocking the user experience. What was previously a manual, template-limited bottleneck is now an AI-powered production system embedded in the existing platform.
Vertafore Canada leadership shifted from patching to rebuilding.. The most significant outcome of the Assess Phase was not the deliverables but the reframe. Leadership moved from asking how to migrate VB6 to asking how to rebuild on a modern platform. That question unlocks a meaningfully different roadmap and a meaningfully different future…
Two engagements across distinct capability areas demonstrate the land-and-expand model.. A PDF-to-JSON AI engagement completed in 2025 was followed by an AWS MAP Assess Phase in 2026. Armakuni is now positioned as the strategic partner for the full modernization journey, with the Mobilize Phase the next step.
It was very easy to be engaged. I was very impressed because I felt like we were moving forward with very good discussions, very smart people, and a lot of empathy and care. Of course, I'm also putting forward people whose expectations I'm trying to manage and how they see this. So yeah, I would agree, wonderful team for sure.
Dimitrios Argitis, GM and VP, Vertafore Canada
Built on AWS
Delivered under our AWS Migration and Modernization Competency competency.
What's next
Mobilize Phase: execution of the migration roadmap; continued platform modernization from VB6 to web-based architecture