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    Architecture and Operating Model

    From Fragmented Legacy Assets to a Validated, Maintainable Target System

    ASIMOV connects source understanding, target intent, specification-as-code, agentic execution, continuous validation and retained engineering knowledge in one controlled lifecycle.

Overview

Smarter People focuses on the individual experience of work. We help employees and customers find the right information faster, understand context, make better-informed decisions, complete routine interactions with less effort, and adopt AI confidently. The goal is to improve individual productivity by reducing cognitive load and time lost to search, interpretation, and repetitive work, giving people more capacity for judgment, creativity, customer interaction, and higher-value work. 

The Challenge

People spend too much time searching for information, interpreting fragmented knowledge, switching between systems, and repeating routine work, all of which directly limit productivity. At the same time, enterprises are rolling out copilots and AI platforms that often lack role-specific context, trusted enterprise knowledge, or a clear adoption model. Instead of improving productivity, AI can become another tool people need to learn, verify, and work around. 

What We Deliver

  • Role-aware AI assistance. We give employees and customers assistance across the moments where people lose time, context, and productivity: finding and applying knowledge, supporting decisions, completing common requests, and learning new ways of working with AI.

  • Knowledge and adoption foundation. We build the enterprise knowledge foundation and adoption model required for these capabilities to become trusted parts of everyday work and deliver sustained productivity improvement.

  • Trusted, grounded answers. Assistance draws on governed enterprise context rather than raw retrieval, so people get consistent, cited answers they can act on with confidence. 

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Enterprise programmes

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Continuous field refinement

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Faster modernization

40

%
Cost reduction versus conventional approaches

Ingest

Reconstruct the System From All Available Evidence

Understanding a legacy system takes more than reading its code. ASIMOV analyzes every artifact that defines how the system is built and how it runs.

Source code, configuration, modules and build structures

Database schemas, procedures, files and data models

APIs, messages, batch jobs, schedulers and reports

Screens, journeys, roles, calculations and validations

Tests, runbooks, manuals, target standards and architecture blueprints

What goes in What comes out
What goes in What comes out

AGIE - ASIMOV Graph Ingestion & Enrichment

ASIMOV Builds a Semantic Source Graph of Your Legacy Application

Language-aware parsing and enrichment convert code and supporting assets into connected entities, relationships and evidence that agents and reviewers can use.

Structural truth

Applications, modules, classes, methods, calls, jobs, tables, interfaces and dependencies.

Behavioral truth

Business rules, calculations, process paths, data movement, exceptions and user journeys.

Engineering meaning

Descriptions, risk signals, duplicate logic, technical debt, confidence and review status.

One Intelligence Core

ASIMOV Intelligence Core

Six integrated layers that transform legacy code into actionable knowledge

AI-Native Product Engineering

Enterprise AI Strategy & Advisor

Shape and prioritize AI opportunities across people, processes, and products, with clear value, readiness, and execution paths. 

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

Reconstruct complex applications, define the target state, and execute controlled modernization or software transformation with ASIMOV.

Forward Engineering

Forward Engineering

Carry modernized system knowledge forward into new features and services so the application can evolve without immediately rebuilding architectural debt.

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Use business and engineering evidence to decide where to invest, consolidate, re-engineer, maintain, or retire across the product portfolio.

AI-Augmented Software Engineering

Extend AI beyond coding into impact analysis, development, testing, documentation, review, and release.

SaaS Agentification & Embedded AI Features

Add intelligent capabilities and agentic experiences to existing SaaS products while respecting the product architecture, user experience, and operating constraints.

AI-Led Brownfield Support

Make complex live applications easier to understand, support, enhance, and transition toward modernization when the business is ready.
01

Graph Ingestion & Enrichment

Converts source assets into a connected system graph covering code, data, rules, dependencies and flows.

02

Business Logic & Dependency Intel

Identifies execution paths, validations, calculations, integration points and impact relationships.

03

Documentation Generation Engine

Generates functional, technical, integration, data and test documentation 

04

Traceability & Evidence Layer

Links source components, generated artifacts, target requirements, decisions and validation evidence.

05

Knowledge Chat & Search

Teams ask questions across applications, generated documents, rules, dependencies and migration artifacts.

06

Expert Review & Delta Capture

Users review, edit, enrich and capture approved future-state changes or non-as-is requirements.

ASF - ASIMOV Specification Format

Turn Knowledge and Target Intent Into Specification-As-Code

The ASIMOV Specification Format connects selected scope, source-to-target mappings, architectural constraints, approved business deltas, transformation rules, test expectations and acceptance criteria.

Retain, modify, replace, consolidate or retire decisions

Target components, service boundaries and platform patterns

Business-rule traceability and approved future-state change

Data, interface, security and non-functional requirements

Versioned review comments, exceptions and approvals

Process Intelligence and Discovery

Discover

Retain, modify, replace, consolidate or retire decisions

ground

Specify

Translate approved target architecture, mappings, rules and acceptance criteria into ASF.

engineer or Migrate

Migrate

Agents transform, generate, compile and remediate within approved constraints.

Validate

Validate

Check architecture, functionality, interfaces, data and behavioural evidence continuously.

Maintain

Maintain

Carry migration knowledge into the target graph for impact-aware engineering.

AI-Native Product Engineering

Enterprise AI Strategy & Advisor

Shape and prioritize AI opportunities across people, processes, and products, with clear value, readiness, and execution paths. 

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

Reconstruct complex applications, define the target state, and execute controlled modernization or software transformation with ASIMOV.

Forward Engineering

Forward Engineering

Carry modernized system knowledge forward into new features and services so the application can evolve without immediately rebuilding architectural debt.

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Use business and engineering evidence to decide where to invest, consolidate, re-engineer, maintain, or retire across the product portfolio.

AI-Augmented Software Engineering

Extend AI beyond coding into impact analysis, development, testing, documentation, review, and release.

SaaS Agentification & Embedded AI Features

Add intelligent capabilities and agentic experiences to existing SaaS products while respecting the product architecture, user experience, and operating constraints.

AI-Led Brownfield Support

Make complex live applications easier to understand, support, enhance, and transition toward modernization when the business is ready.
ASIMOV- Solution Architecture
ASIMOV- Solution Architecture

AMM - ASIMOV Migration Machine

Execute Migration Through Specialized Agents

The Migration Machine orchestrates analysis, planning, transformation, generation, compilation, testing and remediation agents. The normal cycle is autonomous; engineers improve the factory and govern exceptions.

AI-Native Product Engineering

Enterprise AI Strategy & Advisor

Shape and prioritize AI opportunities across people, processes, and products, with clear value, readiness, and execution paths. 

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

Reconstruct complex applications, define the target state, and execute controlled modernization or software transformation with ASIMOV.

Forward Engineering

Forward Engineering

Carry modernized system knowledge forward into new features and services so the application can evolve without immediately rebuilding architectural debt.

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Use business and engineering evidence to decide where to invest, consolidate, re-engineer, maintain, or retire across the product portfolio.

AI-Augmented Software Engineering

Extend AI beyond coding into impact analysis, development, testing, documentation, review, and release.

SaaS Agentification & Embedded AI Features

Add intelligent capabilities and agentic experiences to existing SaaS products while respecting the product architecture, user experience, and operating constraints.

AI-Led Brownfield Support

Make complex live applications easier to understand, support, enhance, and transition toward modernization when the business is ready.
Operational Decision Automation

Plan

Select patterns, sequence dependencies and define bounded transformation work packages.

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Transform

Convert, refactor, decompose, generate interfaces, configuration, data objects and tests.

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Compile & Remediate

Use build feedback to resolve generated issues through iterative agent loops.

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Commit-Ready Output

Produce target code and evidence aligned to customer repositories and delivery controls.

MODERN~3-1
SaaS / Healthcare

3.2M-line Java framework modernization

Struts, Hibernate and EJB components transformed to Java Spring MVC with automated unit tests and zero user-experience impact.

Read more
Insurance

COBOL AS400 to .NET 8 & React

Core policy-lifecycle workloads modernized from 600K LOC COBOL toward .NET 8 microservices and a React frontend.

Modernizing-a-3M-Line-Delphi-Platform-with-ASIMOV-for-a-Leading-European-EdTech-Provider_642x642_1x
Edu Tech

3M-line Delphi to cloud-native .NET 8

Mission-critical desktop estate reconstructed into a scalable web platform with ~60% effort reduction vs manual.

Read more
Logistics

VB.NET monolith re-architecture

300K LOC monolith decomposed into modular .NET Core with a refreshed React frontend.

AVF - ASIMOV Validation Framework

Validate Against Approved Intent

The Validation Framework checks specification and architecture conformance, compilation, tests, interfaces, data reconciliation and  behavioral evidence.

AI-Native Product Engineering

Enterprise AI Strategy & Advisor

Shape and prioritize AI opportunities across people, processes, and products, with clear value, readiness, and execution paths. 

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

Reconstruct complex applications, define the target state, and execute controlled modernization or software transformation with ASIMOV.

Forward Engineering

Forward Engineering

Carry modernized system knowledge forward into new features and services so the application can evolve without immediately rebuilding architectural debt.

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Use business and engineering evidence to decide where to invest, consolidate, re-engineer, maintain, or retire across the product portfolio.

AI-Augmented Software Engineering

Extend AI beyond coding into impact analysis, development, testing, documentation, review, and release.

SaaS Agentification & Embedded AI Features

Add intelligent capabilities and agentic experiences to existing SaaS products while respecting the product architecture, user experience, and operating constraints.

AI-Led Brownfield Support

Make complex live applications easier to understand, support, enhance, and transition toward modernization when the business is ready.
MODERN~3-1
SaaS / Healthcare

3.2M-line Java framework modernization

Struts, Hibernate and EJB components transformed to Java Spring MVC with automated unit tests and zero user-experience impact.

Read more
Insurance

COBOL AS400 to .NET 8 & React

Core policy-lifecycle workloads modernized from 600K LOC COBOL toward .NET 8 microservices and a React frontend.

Modernizing-a-3M-Line-Delphi-Platform-with-ASIMOV-for-a-Leading-European-EdTech-Provider_642x642_1x
Edu Tech

3M-line Delphi to cloud-native .NET 8

Mission-critical desktop estate reconstructed into a scalable web platform with ~60% effort reduction vs manual.

Read more
Logistics

VB.NET monolith re-architecture

300K LOC monolith decomposed into modular .NET Core with a refreshed React frontend.

✓ Automated test generation and execution
✓ Source-to-target rule and behavior traceability
✓ Architecture, coding-policy and security checks
✓ Visible exception reporting and accountable review gates
✓ Release evidence linked to scope and specification versions
Validation Approach
Validation Approach

One intelligence core

Engage at any stage. Retain the same system context

Use ASIMOV for discovery, migration readiness, full modernization, rationalization or continuous maintenance.

AI-Native Product Engineering

Enterprise AI Strategy & Advisor

Shape and prioritize AI opportunities across people, processes, and products, with clear value, readiness, and execution paths. 

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

Reconstruct complex applications, define the target state, and execute controlled modernization or software transformation with ASIMOV.

Forward Engineering

Forward Engineering

Carry modernized system knowledge forward into new features and services so the application can evolve without immediately rebuilding architectural debt.

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Use business and engineering evidence to decide where to invest, consolidate, re-engineer, maintain, or retire across the product portfolio.

AI-Augmented Software Engineering

Extend AI beyond coding into impact analysis, development, testing, documentation, review, and release.

SaaS Agentification & Embedded AI Features

Add intelligent capabilities and agentic experiences to existing SaaS products while respecting the product architecture, user experience, and operating constraints.

AI-Led Brownfield Support

Make complex live applications easier to understand, support, enhance, and transition toward modernization when the business is ready.
01

Discovery & documentation

Reconstruct application knowledge and make business rules, dependencies and flows reviewable.

02

Migration readiness

Establish scope, target mappings, sequencing, complexity and a representative proof wave.

03

Full modernization

Execute agentic source-to-target transformation with continuous validation and delivery evidence.

04

Maintain & converge

Use the target graph for impact analysis, onboarding, change, rationalization and consolidation.

Proof Points

Documented Smarter Products engagements span brownfield modeling, continuous engineering, and program-scale modernization.

01

Brownfield application intelligence

A 2M+ line codebase modeled in approximately 2-3 weeks; impact analysis across a 1.6M-line application graph completed in about eight minutes.

02

Continuous engineering

93.4% test coverage generated from the model, with 23% fewer defects reported on the same team and codebase after adoption.

03

Modernization at scale

15M+ lines modernized across mainframe, Java, and desktop systems.

Why Accion

People productivity first

We start with knowledge friction, cognitive load, and repetitive effort rather than leading with chatbot or automation features.

Shared enterprise context

Semantic Engineering, SKG, and ECL create reusable grounding so people get more consistent answers across AI experiences. 

Assist first, act where useful

Copilots support knowledge and decisions; SPEX is brought in only where a user interaction needs governed action or deeper engineering. 

Built into existing work

We integrate with the productivity, service, knowledge, and business platforms people already use instead of creating another destination. 

Adoption is part of the solution

KAPS, AI Prism, role-based enablement, and SPEX adoption capabilities connect opportunity selection, user support, evidence, and scale.

Scale behind every engagement

The combined experience of approximately 5,000 engineers and a proven platform set stands behind each rollout, so what works for one team can extend across functions with the same grounding and governance.

Living Target Graph

ASIMOV Embeds Migration Knowledge Directly Into the Target System

ASIMOV carries transformed components, dependencies, business rules, source-to-target mappings, specifications, decisions, tests and validation evidence into the target graph.

Maintenance teams can understand what a component does, why it exists, what it affects and which tests should run before change is released. Teams work from a live, queryable system map rather than rediscovering the application from scratch.

AI-Native Product Engineering

Enterprise AI Strategy & Advisor

Shape and prioritize AI opportunities across people, processes, and products, with clear value, readiness, and execution paths. 

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

AI-Led Legacy Modernization

Reconstruct complex applications, define the target state, and execute controlled modernization or software transformation with ASIMOV.

Forward Engineering

Forward Engineering

Carry modernized system knowledge forward into new features and services so the application can evolve without immediately rebuilding architectural debt.

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Product Portfolio Rationalization

Use business and engineering evidence to decide where to invest, consolidate, re-engineer, maintain, or retire across the product portfolio.

AI-Augmented Software Engineering

Extend AI beyond coding into impact analysis, development, testing, documentation, review, and release.

SaaS Agentification & Embedded AI Features

Add intelligent capabilities and agentic experiences to existing SaaS products while respecting the product architecture, user experience, and operating constraints.

AI-Led Brownfield Support

Make complex live applications easier to understand, support, enhance, and transition toward modernization when the business is ready.
MODERN~3-1
SaaS / Healthcare

3.2M-line Java framework modernization

Struts, Hibernate and EJB components transformed to Java Spring MVC with automated unit tests and zero user-experience impact.

Read more
Insurance

COBOL AS400 to .NET 8 & React

Core policy-lifecycle workloads modernized from 600K LOC COBOL toward .NET 8 microservices and a React frontend.

Modernizing-a-3M-Line-Delphi-Platform-with-ASIMOV-for-a-Leading-European-EdTech-Provider_642x642_1x
Edu Tech

3M-line Delphi to cloud-native .NET 8

Mission-critical desktop estate reconstructed into a scalable web platform with ~60% effort reduction vs manual.

Read more
Logistics

VB.NET monolith re-architecture

300K LOC monolith decomposed into modular .NET Core with a refreshed React frontend.

Impact-Aware Change

Trace affected services, data, rules, journeys, tests and interfaces before implementation.

Living Documentation

Refresh approved functional and technical knowledge as the application evolves.

Engineering Onboarding

Give new teams searchable, traceable system context from day one.

Convergence Intelligence

Compare overlaps and plan consolidation across applications and platforms.

See the Complete Architecture on a Representative Application

A technical demonstration shows ingestion, graph queries, target mapping, agentic execution, validation and retained target knowledge.

See the Complete Architecture on a Representative Application

A technical demonstration shows ingestion, graph queries, target mapping, agentic execution, validation and retained target knowledge.

FAQs

Smarter People is Accion Labs' approach to improving how employees and customers find and use enterprise knowledge, make decisions, complete routine interactions, and adopt AI in their everyday work. It combines enterprise intelligence, role-based copilots, self-service, and workforce enablement on a governed foundation. 

Enterprise AI Strategy & Advisory; AI Copilot & Knowledge Assistants; Customer and Employee Self-service; AI Enablement and Workforce Adoption; Enterprise Intelligence & Knowledge Layer. 

Semantic Engineering structures enterprise context as governed knowledge and relationships. SKG and ECL provide reusable grounding and source evidence, while role-based access, validation, and human oversight keep assistance appropriate to the user and use case.