Big-bang rewrites burn years
Multi-year commitments made on faith rarely survive contact with the actual codebase.
Pricing
Most boards have watched the all-in bet fail once. Staged commitment is how the next proposal clears a much higher bar.
The model
Every all-in proposal asks you to commit the whole budget before anyone knows whether it works. After that happens once, the next proposal gets read far more carefully.
Multi-year commitments made on faith rarely survive contact with the actual codebase.
Once a rewrite has eaten two years of budget, funding it again is easier than admitting it stalled.
The second proposal gets read far more carefully than the first one did.
Doing nothing does not avoid the risk. It defers it, at a higher price, to next year.
Stages
Each stage is quoted once the one before it has delivered its evidence, so the number you approve is based on what was found rather than what was estimated.
A read on the stack and how well it suits modernization, a scoped plan, the risk list and the success criteria. Useful on its own even if you stop here.
The rules, flows and behaviour your engineers and your agents need in order to change the code safely, extracted and written down properly.
The scoped change itself — code, services, APIs or migrated work — delivered in stages you can watch rather than wait for.
Playbooks, training, test suites and a queryable knowledge base, so the system keeps moving after we are gone.
Fixed scope · typically 2–4 weeks
A snapshot of the stack and its modernization fit, a scoped plan, the risk list and the success criteria. Yours whether or not you continue.
Priced per stage · scoped from the Assessment
Quoted once the stage before has delivered its evidence, so the number you approve reflects what was found rather than what was guessed up front.
In their words
The part I did not expect was how much of it was people, not software. Their engineers sat with ours until the undocumented rules were actually written down.
VP of Engineering
Insurance, Northbank group
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