Compass told you what was in the codebase. Evolve is how the modernization ships, and how you keep the means to do the next one yourselves. AK Way practices go in first, so your team can recognize good code before the agents touch anything. The orchestration layer follows: AWS Q Developer and Claude rewrite production code under audit, with human approval required on every production change. The whole layer runs in your AWS account, under your IAM, and transfers to your team with full source when we leave.
Point AI agents at a legacy codebase and the velocity metrics climb in week one. The vulnerability backlog shows up in week four, the coupling failures in week eight, and the governance audit findings in month six. The foundation we install first is what stops that compounding: test contracts the agents must pass, architecture maps the agents must respect, observability that catches drift before it ships.
AI-generated code contains 2.74x more vulnerabilities than human-written code.
Veracode 2025
80% of companies with AI agents have had agents act outside intended boundaries.
Strata 2026
40%+ of agentic AI projects face cancellation by 2027 due to governance gaps.
Gartner
Each practice addresses a specific failure mode that the research identified. They go in at the start of the engagement, not bolted on after something breaks.
Most consultancies deliver a methodology as a PDF and a workshop. Armakuni delivers infrastructure. The agentic orchestration layer enforces every AK Way practice as code, running in your AWS account, governed by your IAM policies, monitored by your observability stack.
Code generation agents powered by AWS Q Developer and Claude produce artifacts. Test agents validate them automatically. Governance agents audit every action against your compliance policies. Deployment agents ship only what passes every gate. Each agent type has defined permissions and scoped authority. Agents check each other's work. Humans approve what reaches production.
When an agent tries to operate outside its boundaries, the layer stops it. Not a policy document. An actual enforcement mechanism.
AK Way practices established on the first priority services from Compass's roadmap. Test contracts written. Architecture boundaries defined. Observability instrumented. Governance controls deployed. DORA baseline captured. The orchestration layer goes live in your AWS account. Your team works alongside ours from day one.
AI agents start modernizing services in priority order. Every PR goes through automated quality gates. Every agent action is audited. Canvas Go/No-Go gate on every milestone: named owner, blast radius defined, kill switch tested. Your team sees DORA metrics move sprint over sprint. AWS Q Developer, Claude, and your engineering team working inside the orchestration layer. Full audit trail per PR.
The orchestration layer, the practices, the operational knowledge. All of it transfers to your team. Full source code, documentation, runbooks. Your engineers have been working inside the system since week one, so the handover isn't learning something new. It's owning something they already use.
Your team operates independently with Armakuni on standby. We're available for questions, edge cases, and the inevitable "what about this service?" conversations. By week 12, your team runs the entire pipeline without us.
Full source, deployed in your AWS account, governed by your IAM. No managed service. No vendor lock-in. No ongoing licence.
Test contracts, architecture boundaries, observability config, governance rules. All codified, all runnable, all yours.
Baseline to current. The evidence that the engagement produced measurable improvement, not just activity.
Priority services from Compass's roadmap, modernized with full test coverage, clean architecture, and observability instrumented.
How to operate the orchestration layer, add new services, update governance rules, onboard new team members. Written for your team, not for ours.
Every agent action, every PR, every governance decision. Structured for compliance review.
You've run Compass (or equivalent assessment) and know which services to modernize first but don't have the governed AI infrastructure to start safely.
You've tried AI-assisted modernization and the velocity gains came with a vulnerability backlog your security team is still clearing.
Your compliance team needs provable governance over agentic AI before they'll approve production access. OWASP Agentic, SOC 2, or internal audit requirements.
You need to show measurable improvement in delivery metrics (DORA), not just code changes. Your leadership measures outcomes, not output.
You want the modernization infrastructure to stay in your AWS account and run after the engagement ends. No ongoing vendor relationship. No per-seat licence.
You're preparing for AWS MAP funding and need an engagement that qualifies. Evolve is MAP eligible.
The last thing we hand over isn't a report.
It's an engineering team that modernizes faster, safer,
and with metrics to prove it.
A leading premium wildlife stock footage platform built agentic AI inside their content pipeline with the orchestration layer in their AWS account.
Read use case →A regional agricultural cooperative in the U.S. Midwest deployed production AI with the controls documented and the platform running in their account.
Read use case →Award-winning LMS provider for enterprises and mid-size organizations modernized a regulated edtech platform with delivery the C-Suite could brief the board on.
Read use case →One of the largest cinema networks in the U.S. integrated AI on Connect with per-tool allow-lists and audit trails ready for live regulator review.
Read use case →SMS campaign automation platform for e-commerce and restaurant brands shipped agentic AI on the data layer with the orchestration layer running inside their AWS account.
Read use case →8-12 weeks. Fixed scope. AK Way foundation, governed agents, DORA tracked. MAP eligible.
Talk to an Engineer →2 hours. Free. Governed agentic modernization running live. Engineers run it.
Register for the Evolve Workshop →AWS Premier Tier Services Partner
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