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Modernization with AI

AI modernization without engineering discipline isn't faster.
It's a more expensive way to fail.

The problems aren't new. AI is just generating broken code faster than your reviewers can read it. Without engineering discipline in place, you're paying to add technical debt at machine speed.

Faster isn't the goal. Faster on the right foundation is.

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The Core Insight

AI tools are incredible on clean systems.
On everything else they're a confidence multiplier for bad decisions.

Here's what's happening in legacy codebases right now. AI refactors a function without seeing how three other services depend on it. The code passes review, the deploy goes green, the integration breaks at 2am. Every undocumented workaround in the system becomes a confident new bug.

2.74x
More Vulnerabilities

Every AI-generated function that skips a security review ships 2.74x more flaws than the code it replaced. Your vulnerability backlog is growing faster than your agents can type.

Veracode, 2025
95%
No Measurable ROI

Ninety-five percent of GenAI pilots delivered nothing the CFO could measure. Not because the models failed. Because the codebases they operated on weren't ready for them.

MIT, 2025
80%
Agents Outside Boundaries

Eight out of ten organizations with deployed agents have already had boundary violations. Unauthorized access, unscoped mutations, cascading failures. The governance gap is real, documented, and widening.

OWASP/Strata, 2026
The Reframe

AI modernization runs on
engineering discipline.
Five practices, one orchestration layer, all in your AWS account.

Armakuni builds the engineering foundation first: five AK Way practices that make AI safe to use at scale, plus an agentic orchestration layer that enforces them. The foundation makes AI useful. The orchestration makes it trustworthy.

The orchestration layer is infrastructure you own. Bedrock, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch, Audit Manager. Deployed into your AWS Organizations under your IAM, your governance, your audit trail. When the engagement ends, your engineers walk away with the repo, the runbooks, and the commit history.

The AK Way

The AK Way is what turns AI speed into shipped product. Without it, you ship the wrong code faster.

Five engineering practices that determine whether AI agents make your team genuinely faster or just generate more code for your team to debug. The difference is the AK Way.

Automated quality gates
Clean architecture
Observability
Boundary controls
DORA metrics
Practice 01

Automated Quality Gates

Without test-first discipline, AI speed becomes risk your team inherits. Every AI-generated function passes a test contract before it reaches a branch. The test exists before the code does. If the test fails, the PR never opens. Change failure rate drops because broken code stays out of the pipeline.

Practice 02

Clean Architecture

Your legacy systems weren't designed for agents to operate on. Decades of coupling mean a refactoring agent can't tell boundaries from implementation details. Clean architecture maps the environment so agents operate within defined scopes. Your team stops discovering surprise dependencies in production.

Practice 03

Observability

Agents that operate without traces are agents your team can't debug. Observability instruments every action across every agent in the pipeline. When something breaks, the trace shows exactly what happened. Your mean time to recovery improves because the investigation step disappears.

Practice 04

Agentic Boundary Controls

Ungoverned agents with production access are the single biggest risk in agentic modernization. Boundary controls enforce bounded authority, audit trails, and human approval gates. Your team gets provable compliance and the confidence to scale agent usage without scaling risk.

Practice 05

DORA Metrics

Without measurement, you can't tell improvement from activity. DORA metrics baseline your delivery performance on day one and track it continuously. If deploy frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time don't improve, the approach changes.

What Runs Inside Evolve

Six AWS services do the heavy lifting. Your team learns the ones they don't already know.

The orchestration layer is thin on purpose. It wires AWS primitives you are already paying for into a single governed flow. No new runtime. No new vendor.

Bedrock AgentCore
Bedrock AgentCore

Runs every code-author, test-author, and review agent. Scoped per task, logged per invocation.

Claude · Q Developer · Titan
Bedrock Guardrails
Bedrock Guardrails

Strict PII, secret, and prompt-injection filters at every model call. Policy, not prayer.

OWASP ASI01 / ASI06
Step Functions
Step Functions

Encodes the TDD gate, Inspector scan, and human approval as one state machine. No gate, no merge.

Human-in-the-loop tokens
AWS Transform with CloudWatch and X-Ray
AWS Transform + CloudWatch + X-Ray

AWS Transform handles the refactor at scale. CloudWatch and X-Ray trace every diff and decision into one log group. Full chain of custody per PR.

Full trace per PR
IAM + SCPs
IAM + SCPs + Control Tower

Least-privilege per agent, SCPs at the OU level, Control Tower baseline everywhere. Blast radius is a setting, not an argument.

OWASP ASI02 / ASI03
Q Developer review
Q Developer Reviews + Inspector

Every AI-authored diff is reviewed by a second agent and scanned for CVEs before the human reviewer ever sees it.

2.74x fewer CVEs
What customers say
One of the largest cinema networks in the U.S.
Speed and partnership
Case study
Sean Gamble Presitent, ceo at One of the largest cinema networks in the U.S.
Senior Manager, Application Integration, One of the largest cinema networks in the U.S.
One of the largest cinema networks in the U.S. · Matt Suckel

Kudos to Armakuni for demonstrating the speed, precision, and partnership needed to turn a high-speed challenge into a success story.

Award-winning LMS provider for enterprises and mid-size organizations
C-Suite trust on a regulated platform
Case study
Co-Founder and Chairman of Award-winning LMS provider for enterprises and mid-size organizations, cofounder at Award-winning LMS provider for enterprises and mid-size organizations
AWS Account Manager
Award-winning LMS provider for enterprises and mid-size organizations · David Nacson

The Armakuni team demonstrated an impressive ability to earn customer trust and deliver against lofty expectations with the customer C-Suite. Ruben and team maintained consistent communication with the customer, even after initial projects were put on hold for half a year.

95% reduction in live-event downtime
Case study
What shipped
Gavel · Live commerce

95% reduction in downtime across live auction events, so the platform stays available through the moments that drive revenue rather than failing exactly when bidders are most engaged

One of the largest US payment technology and prepaid solutions companies
GLBA + HIPAA document platform
Case study
What shipped
One of the largest US payment technology and prepaid solutions companies · Financial Services

Four intake channels collapsed into one governed system. Email, fax, encrypted uploads, and paper all enter the platform now. Operations staff work from one interface. Document intake is observable, consistent, and auditable from day one of production.

The Payoff · Engagement Timeline

What used to cost millions and take years now takes weeks.
Not because AI is magic. Because the foundation changed the math.

Median outcomes across recent Evolve engagements where teams ran the AK Way practices and the orchestration layer was deployed in their AWS account.

Kickoff
12 systems modernized
In the last 12 months
Week 4
60% faster deployment
Median, not best case
Week 8
$2.1M first-year savings
Real budget freed
Exit
4.2x deploy frequency
DORA baseline to exit
Solutions

Start with Compass. See exactly what's in your codebase.
Then Evolve modernizes what's ready.

Assessment · 2-3 weeks · Fixed fee

Compass

Your modernization can't start with assumptions. Compass scans your entire portfolio and gives you the picture nobody else has built: what's in there, what it costs you, and what's ready for AI.

Output: a sequenced roadmap built from data, not opinion.

Compass scan: codebase assessment across 5 layers

What Compass delivers

Five-layer assessment. Static complexity, architectural coupling, test verifiability, change risk, AI readiness. Every app, every service.
Tech debt in dollars. Quantified per sprint. The number that turns "we should modernize" into a funded program.
Per-service AI readiness. Ready for agentic tooling now, needs foundation work first, or retire.
Sequenced roadmap. What to modernize first, what to batch, what to leave alone. Built from data, not opinion.
Modernization · 8-12 weeks · Fixed scope · MAP eligible

Evolve

Evolve executes Compass's roadmap. AK Way practices first, agentic orchestration second, then governed AI agents modernize your environment in priority order.

The orchestration layer stays in your AWS account when we leave. Yours outright.

Evolve: governed agentic modernization with orchestration layer

What Evolve delivers

AK Way foundation first. Quality Gates, Clean Architecture, Observability, Boundary Controls, DORA metrics. All in place before any agent touches the codebase.
Canvas Go/No-Go gate. Every milestone has a named owner, defined blast radius, and a tested kill switch.
AWS-native orchestration. AWS Transform, Q Developer, and Claude inside the orchestration layer. Full audit trail per PR.
Engagement handover. The orchestration layer stays in your AWS account. Repo, runbooks, and commit history transfer to your engineers.
Workshops

Three free workshops. Your engineers bring a real codebase. Ours run Compass, Evolve, or AI SDLC live.

Compass Workshop
Compass Workshop

Your engineers bring a real codebase. Ours run Compass on it live. In 90 minutes you'll see the five assessment layers operating on real code, not a prepared demo or a vendor pitch.

Walk away with
  • A preliminary tech debt assessment
  • An AI readiness snapshot
  • Enough data to decide whether a full Compass engagement is worth scheduling
90 minFree
FREEVIRTUALLIVE CODE
Evolve Workshop
Evolve Workshop

A live legacy modernization, start to finish. You'll see TDD catching AI-generated failures before they ship, the orchestration layer stopping an agent from exceeding its scope, and DORA metrics moving in real time. You walk away knowing exactly how governed agentic modernization works and whether it fits your environment.

Walk away knowing
  • Exactly how governed agentic modernization works
  • Whether it fits your environment
2 hoursFree
FREEVIRTUALLIVE DEMO
AI SDLC Workshop
AI SDLC Workshop

The testing and CI/CD pipeline your modernized stack actually needs once AI agents are writing code. Bring a real codebase. We wire up TDD harnesses that catch AI-generated regressions, governed PR gates, and DORA metrics that prove the program works.

Walk away with
  • A runnable pipeline
  • Not slides
2 hoursFree
FREEVIRTUALLIVE CODE
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Common questions

What CIOs ask before booking a Discovery Sprint.

How long is a typical engagement?
Compass is two to three weeks at a fixed fee, scoped on portfolio size. Evolve is eight to twelve weeks at fixed scope per workload. Most customers run Compass standalone first, commit to Evolve once the roadmap is in hand.
What does the team shape look like?
Evolve runs as a five-to-seven-person pod: solution architect, two senior engineers, an AI/agent specialist, and an AK Way practice owner. Sized to your codebase complexity, not bench utilization.
Do we need to already be on AWS?
No. Compass runs against any cloud or on-premise stack. Evolve targets AWS for the agentic orchestration layer (Bedrock, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch), but the assessment itself is cloud-agnostic.
How does pricing work?
Compass is fixed fee, scoped on portfolio size. Evolve is fixed scope per workload, MAP-eligible. AWS Migration Acceleration Program funding typically offsets a meaningful share of engagement cost.
What does success look like?
Median outcomes across recent Evolve engagements: 60 percent faster deployment by week four, two-point-one million dollars in first-year savings by week eight, four-point-two times deploy frequency by exit. Tracked against your baseline DORA metrics from day one.
Discovery

What does your tech debt actually cost?
Let's find out.

Most CTOs know they have tech debt. Almost none know what it costs. Two weeks. Fixed fee. You get the number, the roadmap, and the business case.

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