The systems are aging faster than the plan to replace them.
You don't need a technology pitch. You need the software that runs the business replaced without betting years and a rewrite-sized budget on it, and without handing the company's data to someone else's cloud.
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Three pains, three mechanisms.
The core systems are old, the people who understand them are leaving, and the replacement quote reads like a moonshot.
A rewrite prices in rediscovering what your business already knows. Reengineering on Forge starts from your existing data and rules, and the foundation every system needs is already built, so the timeline is months rather than years and the price is fixed at each step.
The three ways to engage →The board wants an AI story. The pilots keep dying quietly.
Pilots die on ungoverned data. A system modernized on Forge is governed by construction, and AI agents get the same locked-down access people do. That turns AI from a demo into something you can put in front of auditors.
The evidence, with sources →Big software bets have a famous failure mode, and you'd be the one signing this one.
You don't sign a multi-year bet. You sign a fixed-price assessment, then a fixed-price pilot. By week six you have a working starter system on your real data and a number for the rest, and every path keeps you the owner of the system and the data.
What each step costs →Straight answers.
The anchors are published. A pilot is $45K fixed. A typical build-and-hand-off is $120K over 10 to 14 weeks. A division-scale license runs about $113K a year. Rewrite quotes for the same systems usually start at seven figures and two years, and the industry's record on them is poor.
You do. It runs on your SQL Server, on your infrastructure or in your own cloud account. The code is handed to your team, or we run it for you and you can take it in-house later. There is no hostage scenario at renewal.
That's the managed path. We reengineer the system and run it inside your cloud account: patching, upgrades, monitoring, and operations. If you build a team later, operations moves in-house without a migration.
The last 10 percent of any modernization is business judgment: edge cases, exceptions, and rules the old system got wrong. That work is real and it needs your people's attention. What you're not risking is the foundation, because it's already built and tested.
Put one system on the table.
A fixed-price assessment tells you the scope and the price before you commit to anything else.