Most legacy rewrite projects don’t fail because of bad architecture decisions or inadequate developers.

They fail because the team didn’t truly understand the system they were replacing.

By the time that becomes clear, mid-project, usually around the time integration testing begins, the schedule is gone and the budget is stretched.

Business rules that weren’t documented are missing from the new system. Dependencies that weren’t discovered are breaking things they weren’t supposed to touch. The rewrite that was supposed to take 12 months is now in month 18 with no clear end in sight.

The discovery phase is where most rewrites are won or lost. And it’s the phase that gets the least investment.

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Next week, we’re hosting a 20-minute session focused specifically on this problem: how to compress the discovery and analysis phase of a legacy rewrite using AI-powered tools that do in days what used to take months.

We’ll show you what that looks like in practice. Automated business rule extraction, cross-program dependency mapping, and process flow documentation, among others, and what it means for your rewrite timeline and risk profile.

Shortening the Rewrite Time for Legacy App Rewrites
Thursday, March 26th, 2026, 10-10:30 a.m. CT

Speakers: Roger Hammer, John Rhodes (CTO), Roger Jipp