Service behavior is hidden in configuration and custom bindings
Timeouts, message sizes, security modes, and custom behaviors are set in configuration and bindings. They are invisible in the code and easy to lose in a migration.
Enterprise modernization
Enterprise modernization
Modernize contracts and runtime dependencies without breaking the consumers you cannot see.
We assess WCF contracts, Web Forms, Windows services, configuration, libraries, consumers, and hosting constraints to define a controlled path toward modern .NET.
Start the 30-day assessmentFixed-scope assessment30 daysRead-only discovery · written roadmap
No agent installed in pre-production. We begin with evidence, dependencies, and operational reality—not a predetermined rewrite.
How it works in practice
What the compatibility blueprint covers
Assessed from source, configuration, and hosting, with read-only access
Projects & packagesClassified by portability to modern .NET
WCF contracts & bindingsOperations, schemas, faults, and security documented
ConsumersIdentified from logs and configuration, with owners
Windows dependenciesListed with replacement or isolation options
Questions the readout answers
Which contracts can be versioned rather than rewritten?
Which consumers must be migrated first?
What can be hosted cross-platform today?
Where does a compatibility shim buy time safely?
Our operating principle
We will tell you when not to modernize it. The assessment says so in writing.
Why this assessment exists
The platform is rarely the whole problem.
Business rules, integrations, operator knowledge, support clocks, and unknown consumers determine the safest path. We map those constraints before recommending retention, integration, incremental replacement, or retirement.
Downstream SOAP consumers may be unowned or difficult to change
SOAP consumers built by partners or other departments may have no current owner. Changing a contract without finding them creates outages you learn about from someone else.
Windows-only dependencies block a direct runtime move
Windows services, registry access, and platform-specific libraries prevent a straight runtime move. Each needs a replacement or an isolation decision.
30-day output
A decision-ready modernization blueprint.
Every engagement ends with a traceable estate view, a prioritized sequence, and explicit uncertainties your team can resolve.
Compatibility assessment
Projects, packages, runtime dependencies, configuration, and hosting constraints classified.
Contract and consumer map
Operations, schemas, faults, security, and downstream ownership documented.
Incremental blueprint
Versioned transition options for services, interfaces, hosting, and consumer migration.
How the 30 days run
Scope. Scan. Verify. Roadmap.
The exception path comes before the happy path. Recommendations stay reversible until the evidence supports commitment.
Kickoff and scope
We show you our in-house analysis system, which scans code, repositories, and databases, and agree the estate, the people, and what you will receive.
NDA, access, and the scan
NDA signed and read-only access granted. Our system runs: data lineage traced, workflows identified, dependencies and consumers mapped.
Verify and weigh the options
Engineers verify the findings with your team. Retain, integrate, wrap, replace, or retire: practical paths compared with their tooling.
Roadmap and readout
Architecture, workflows, recommendations, risks, and a timeline with durations, documented and walked through with your decision makers.
What we provide30day assessment
Thirty days of read-only discovery and working sessions with your team. You finish with evidence, options, and a roadmap, not a sales proposal.
Start a 30-day assessment Fixed scope · read-only access · written findings you keepA 30‑day modernization assessment. Six answers in writing.
Where your estate stands
Applications, code, data, jobs, interfaces, and the knowledge concentrated in a few people, documented from evidence.
What you can do about it
Retain, integrate, wrap, replace, or retire: options per capability with their trade-offs stated plainly.
Which tools will help
Where AI-assisted code analysis, test generation, and migration tooling speed the work up, and where they do not.
What to improve in the process
Release, testing, support, and ownership practices that decide whether a modernization sticks.
How to upgrade the legacy system
A target architecture and a reversible path to it, without betting operations on one cutover weekend.
How long it takes, and the roadmap
Phases, durations, dependencies, and decision points your board or steering group can approve.
2 free PDFs · Specification + sample report
See exactly what the 30 days deliver.
We email you the 2-page specification and a 13-page sample report written for a fictional company: findings, options compared, recommended tools, target architecture, risks, and a 40-week roadmap.
- Assessment specification
- 13-page sample report
- Architecture, risks, roadmap
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Who is behind AICO Services
Built and delivered by Trobus Technologies.
A Maryland-based engineering company. AICO Services is how we package our AI automation, modernization, and assessment work. Our engineers have delivered for organizations including these.
Organizations represented in the broader Trobus Technologies delivery history. Engagement scope and team role vary; reference details are shared where authorized.
Delivery recordRepresentative production engineering record. Details available where authorized.
4systems in production4 yrscontinuous operation990+automated tests1,361commitsCompany qualifications
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MDOT
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WOSB
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