Legacy to Launch in 30 Days.
Your internal tech team is not failing you. Your system is. We replace brittle, undocumented operating drag with a modern delivery foundation, a living knowledge base, and a resident Aspen Expert that reviews every future PR your team ships.
Legacy systems quietly tax delivery, security, and cost.
Teams navigate instead of ship
Brittle dependencies and undocumented behavior turn routine product work into slow, risky work.
Critical exposure hides in the seams
Hidden interfaces, outdated components, and weak observability increase operational and security risk.
Every quarter narrows the options
Delay increases remediation cost and leaves fewer credible paths to controlled modernization.
We built Aspen ourselves — the modernization platform behind every sprint — to close the large gaps we found in off-the-shelf AI tooling. Every engagement hands your team a resident Aspen Expert: a review artifact that inspects every future PR against the same evidence bar we hold ourselves to.
Three phases you can combine.
Every engagement begins with Illumination. From there, you choose.
Illumination
We use our Aspen Illumination Suite to build a comprehensive knowledge base of your current system, architecture, and codebase. Your team gets a chat interface to all of the current-state data that lives in the dev team's head — even the team members who have moved on to new projects.
Modernization
We use the modernization plan developed during Illumination to perform the transformation — all using the rigor and tooling of the Aspen platform, based on best practices our senior Google engineers have used for decades.
Resident Aspen Expert
Your resident Aspen Expert manages all code review from that point forward. A concern-routed panel of specialists — security, correctness, testability, data integrity, FHIR and health data, compliance, API design, and more — inspects every PR your team ships.
Findings feed back into the Expert's claim corpus. Its recall of your codebase grows. Its opinions refine. Reviews stop being a growing burden — they become an orchestrated pathway toward continuous improvement and repo maturation.
Three combinations. Every one includes Illumination.
Full modernization
The complete 30-day sprint plus the ongoing Aspen Expert review panel. Recommended when a legacy system is materially blocking delivery, security, or cost.
Illumination & Expert
Skip the transformation for now. Your team continues using new or existing tooling — at a higher rate of speed and with confidence, knowing that every PR is being put through a mature process. Reviews aren't a growing burden; they're an orchestrated pathway toward continuous improvement and repo maturation.
Illumination only
A complete, queryable knowledge base of your current system, standalone. Your team walks away with a chat interface to every architectural decision, dependency, and risk in the codebase — and continues its own delivery and review pipeline.
A real sprint output, not a mockup.
OpenMRS is an open-source electronic health record platform in active development for 20+ years, deployed in 40+ countries. We modernized the reference application on Aspen and stood up a resident Aspen Expert that inspects every subsequent PR.
Every PR your team ships makes your Aspen Expert sharper. Its recall of your codebase grows. Its opinions refine.
An Aspen-native modernization team.
Parallel work at a different speed
Aspen agents execute, check, and refine across the sprint so progress continues faster and with tighter feedback loops than a traditional consulting engagement.
Productized engagement, not open-ended billing
One sprint, clear milestones, and defined outputs instead of time-and-materials ambiguity.
Your team owns the codebase they deserve
We structure artifacts, architecture, documentation, and a resident Aspen Expert so internal teams can operate independently after the sprint.
Bounded access and zero drama
We work within clear review boundaries and minimize friction at the point of assessment and transition.
Getting started is intentionally simple. Let's talk.
We can begin with just a username, a password, and your permission to assess the system securely. Fixed-scope engagement with documented outputs and a credible day-30 result.
Book a scoping call or email hello@simplifyingsoftware.com