Autonomous product Engineering

New systems, legacy systems, everyday changes — all built from one spec, all verified against it.

EltegraAI autonomously reads what your code actually does and reconstructs it as a specification your team can read and correct. Everything that follows — requirements, code, tests, compliance evidence, deployment — is generated from that spec and checked back against it at every step. We call that Autonomous Product Engineering.

For banks, insurers, telecoms and healthcare providers who cannot afford software that behaves differently from the system it replaces. COBOL, RPG, PowerBuilder, SAP — and the ten-year-old .NET or Angular nobody wants to touch.

Named a 2026 Intellyx Digital Innovator — selected from hundreds of enterprise technology briefings.

Verification proportional to autonomy

Each layer hands the machine more.
Each layer raises the bar for proving it.

Scope comes in layers. At the core, AI writes code. Wider, it shapes requirements. Wider still, it touches compliance and the audit trail a regulator actually reads. Every step outward hands the machine more of the decision, so the proof has to grow with it.

Autonomous
Product Engineering
verification · testing · quality rigor
+ Autonomous
Product Delivery
compliance · governance · audit trail
+ Autonomous
Product Development
requirements · planning · ideation
Autonomous
Development
code generation
modernization
Autonomous Development

Proof required: the output compiles, passes tests, and behaves like the system it replaced.

+ Autonomous Product Development

Proof required: every requirement traces back to something in the existing system, not to a model’s guess.

+ Autonomous Product Delivery

Proof required: an evidence trail you can hand a regulator without assembling it afterwards.

Autonomous Product Engineering

Holds across every layer inside it: correctness demonstrated against the specification at every step, not sampled at the end.

What this means for buyers

You can enter at any layer and expand outward. Scope and verification move together, so widening autonomy never outruns the ability to prove the result is correct.

Where agentic AI fits

Agents are something the platform produces, alongside requirements, tests, documentation and modernized applications. The platform itself stays deterministic: knowledge is verified and frozen before anything is generated.

Uniform governance across all four is the failure, not the fix. Clamp down on trivial work and teams route around you; leave consequential work loose and you own the outcome.

Same data. Same rules. New system

Every value traces back to the rule that produced it.

On the left, a benefits terminal that has been in production since the 1980s. On the right, the interface EltegraAI generated from it — not redrawn, reconstructed. This is the Modernize intent at the Development layer; the same trace exists at every layer above it.

Click any line on the right to trace its source

Legacy · CICS session BEN015

BEN015 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT INQUIRY CICS / PROD -------------------------------------------------- EMP ID . . . . : 104782 NAME . . . . . : SMITH, MARGARET A. EARN NUMBER . : ACCT0204 STATUS: VERIFIED PROV BN . . . : PRV-482 MATCH: EXACT BENEFIT CYCLE : 04/2024 SPECIAL CODE : --- OVERRIDE: NONE -------------------------------------------------- BENEFIT ACCRUAL BY AREA AREA 1 (MEDICAL) MED-A 12.00 486.00 AREA 2 (DENTAL) DEN-B 4.50 162.75 AREA 3 (VISION) VIS-A 2.00 58.40 -------------------------------------------------- ACCRUED TOTAL . . 707.15 ELIGIBILITY . . . PASSED CPS BYPASS . . . . NO PAYABLE BENEFIT . 707.15 -------------------------------------------------- PF1=HELP PF3=EXIT PF7=PREV PF8=NEXT

Modern · generated by EltegraAI

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Margaret A. Smith

Employee 104782 · Plan PRV-482 · April 2024

Payable benefit$707.15
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Employee 104782 · Plan PRV-482 · April 2024

Payable benefit$707.15
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Understand → Transform → Evolve

The missing layer between AI code generation and enterprise reality.

01Understand

What should be built? Why?

Capture the business and technical knowledge trapped in software, documentation and people, and structure it into a trusted, patent-pending Enterprise Knowledge Graph — the foundation for everything that follows.

02Transform

Build it. Test it. Validate it.

Turn that knowledge into production-ready requirements, tests, documentation, modernized applications and AI agents — with full traceability.

03Evolve

Keep it correct and current.

Continuously keep software and knowledge synchronized as the enterprise changes, creating a living source of truth for both people and AI.

Autonomous Product Engineering ≠ autonomous code generation.

One platform, three entry points

Three ways in. One governed pipeline.

Every engagement enters through one of three intents. All three run the same pipeline and the same verification.

WeeksNew apps and agents — from business intent to production, not months.
Modernized systems — legacy rebuilt from within, no big-bang rewrites.
DaysChange requests — from business request to validated change, not weeks.

Modernize

“We need to move a twenty-year-old .NET Framework application to .NET 10.”

Intent arrives as a legacy estate. The platform reconstructs its knowledge, designs the target architecture, then rebuilds and validates against the original.

Change

“We need to support California’s new tax rules.”

Intent arrives as a change request. The platform identifies every affected application and business rule, traces dependencies and assesses enterprise-wide impact before any code moves.

Build

“We need a new onboarding flow that respects every rule already in the system.”

Intent arrives as an idea. The platform locates the relevant knowledge, data, systems and policies, then builds against verified ground truth rather than against assumptions about what the business does.

Knowledge Specification Requirements Architecture Code Tests Automated validation Human approval Deploy
Knowledge Specification Requirements Architecture Code Tests Automated validation Human approval Deploy

Every artifact traces back. The knowledge graph updates continuously.

Modernize what you have. Change it when the rules do. Build what you don’t.

What boards are actually asking

If the AI rewrites it, who signs off that it still behaves?

40%Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, on escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls.Gartner, press release, 25 June 2025
31.7%of behaviour-changing drift is silently endorsed by the very model that produced it. Several models articulated the exact semantic distinction that broke their output, then declared behaviour preserved.arXiv 2605.21537, May 2026 — 1,980 modernization calls across 11 production models
56%of CEOs say AI has delivered no significant financial benefit to date. Only 12% report both cost and revenue gains.PwC, 2026 Global CEO Survey (29th edition)
95%of ATM transactions still run through COBOL. The systems carrying the most consequence are the ones with the least written down.IBM

Neither of those first two is a technology failure. Both are failures to prove control. Generate first and check afterwards, and the checker inherits the same blind spot as the generator.

Institutional knowledge, on demand

Ask the system what it does.

Right now the answer to "why does this behave like that" lives in two engineers, and one of them retires next year. Once the knowledge graph exists — the patent-pending Enterprise Knowledge Graph at the centre of the platform — anyone on the team asks in plain language — and every answer cites the rule and the file it came from.

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Three tests that separate the field

Autonomy is only as safe as what the system knows.

Test one

Knowledge, not retrieval — and not only from code

Most platforms retrieve context and hope it’s representative. Better ones read the source. But code tells you what a rule does, never why it exists, and the why is what breaks when you rebuild. EltegraAI reconstructs a dependency-linked graph from source, documentation, tickets, meeting transcripts and automated SME interviews with the people who still hold the knowledge — capturing why a rule exists, not just what it does.

Ask any vendor where their knowledge comes from. If the answer is only code and tickets, the intent that was never written down is not in their model.

Test two

Verified first, not reviewed after

Most platforms generate, then check. EltegraAI verifies the specification and locks it as the baseline before generation, so correctness never depends on the generator grading its own work. You correct the specification while it’s still a specification, rather than after it has become code.

Ask any vendor when verification happens. Before or after is the whole difference.

Test three

Persistence, not project by project

One knowledge graph that compounds across every workflow, rather than re-analyzing the estate project by project. What the first modernization learns about your system is still there for the next change request, and for the application you have not started yet.

Ask any vendor what survives the engagement. If the analysis is scoped to one project, you pay for it again next time.

Committees do not buy velocity. They buy evidence — and an audit trail you can hand a regulator shortens a sales cycle faster than a demo does.

Evidence, with the baseline attached

Numbers you can check against your own system.

18.5 → 3.5months of calendar time. Full modernization of an 18-year-old payroll system, ~2.5M lines of code, against an 18.5-month systems-integrator estimate.~2.5M LOC payroll system
70%less audit preparation time. 480 hours down to 144 per cycle.Methodology on request
8,400+test cases generated from a single brief, each traced to the requirement that produced it — 100% of business rules in the specification covered by at least one test.Single-brief engagement
$500K–$1.5Msaved on a medium-size modernization project.Scope defined in methodology
Phase by phase

18-year-old payroll system, ~2.5M LOC. Calendar time, not person-months.

AI only With EltegraAI
Discovery, dependencies, docs, requirements, test cases & Jira
6 mo
1 wk
Developer onboarding & context transfer
1 mo
1 wk
Architecture-aware prompting & kickoff
1 mo
1 wk
Flow-by-flow implementation
5 mo
1.5 mo
AC-driven self-checking & code correction
1.5 mo
1 wk
Rework from hidden dependencies
1.5 mo
1 wk
Integration validation & end-to-end testing
1 mo
2 wk
QA, UAT & business signoff
1 mo
2 wk
Program coordination & handoff overhead
1 mo
1 wk
Total, full migration
18.5 months~3.5 months

5× faster · ~15 calendar months saved on 2.5M LOC · full docs, traceability and compliance included.

Two limitations worth stating up front. Our analysis requires access to source code: if all you have is compiled binaries, we cannot build the knowledge graph. And the SME interviews depend on people who still hold the knowledge — the sooner you start, the more of it there is to capture. If you are not sure what you have, the first conversation will tell you.

Customers

Programs that were stalled before we arrived.

“Our original timeline to migrate 3M lines was 18 months with an internal team and a coding agent. With EltegraAI feeding those agents context, we compressed it to just over three months.”
Principal Engineer

Payment processing · 3,000+ employees

SQL stored procedures → C# / .NET Core

“We had been afraid to touch our core loan servicing platform for a decade. EltegraAI surfaced every business rule and dependency in the first two weeks.”
Chief Technology Officer

Regional bank · 900+ employees

COBOL → Java Spring Boot

“EltegraAI gave us a complete specification before we wrote a single line of new code. The program finally has a contract to build against.”
VP of Engineering

P&C insurer · 1,500 employees

PowerBuilder → .NET Core

“So far, everyone has been impressed with the product.”
CTO

Work Truck Solutions

“Our review of the generated code has gone very well. Our team was satisfied with the quality and accuracy of the results.”
VP Engineering

Nulogy

Coverage

Any intent source. Most legacy stacks.

Not all legacy is COBOL, and not all intent arrives as code.

Read and reconstructed

PowerBuilder
Progress OpenEdge
COBOL
RPG
SAP ABAP
Perl
Delphi
C
C++
PL/SQL
VB.NET
JSP
Apex
Magic XPA
C# / .NET
Angular
Frozen intent

Generated into

C# / .NET
Java
React
Angular
SQL

C# / .NET and Angular appear on both sides on purpose: a ten-year-old Angular front end is legacy too.

Stack not listed? Ask. We have added languages on customer request before.

Categories, not endorsements

Five ways to do this. One that verifies first.

CapabilityAI coding agentsAutonomous build platformsBehavioral modernizationCode knowledge layersEltegraAI Captures knowledge beyond code (docs, tickets, SMEs) Knowledge verified and frozen before generation Modernize, change and build from one foundation Requirement → code → test traceability Cloud, on-premise and air-gapped deployment Works without source code
Captures knowledge beyond code (docs, tickets, SMEs)
AI coding agents
Autonomous build platforms
Behavioral modernization
Code knowledge layers
EltegraAI
Knowledge verified and frozen before generation
AI coding agents
Autonomous build platforms
Behavioral modernization
Code knowledge layers
EltegraAI
Modernize, change and build from one foundation
AI coding agents
Autonomous build platforms
Behavioral modernization
Code knowledge layers
EltegraAI
Requirement → code → test traceability
AI coding agents
Autonomous build platforms
Behavioral modernization
Code knowledge layers
EltegraAI
Cloud, on-premise and air-gapped deployment
AI coding agents
Autonomous build platforms
Behavioral modernization
Code knowledge layers
EltegraAI
Works without source code
AI coding agents
Autonomous build platforms
Behavioral modernization
Code knowledge layers
EltegraAI

Coding agents reason from syntax. When the business logic was never written down, they guess, and produce code that compiles but does not behave like the system it replaced. Those tools translate your code. EltegraAI specifies your system, then supports Claude, Cursor and Copilot through MCP. You keep the tools your engineers already use; we make them safe to point at a system that cannot afford to break.

Security and trust

Built to survive your security review.

Runs inside your perimeter

Cloud is the default, processed in EltegraAI's Azure-hosted environment. Full on-premise runs entirely inside your own infrastructure, and air-gapped deployment is supported for environments with no outbound path at all.

Your data is not our training data

We do not use your code, your inputs or anything the platform generates to train, fine-tune or improve models.

Regulated systems are supported

The platform is built to analyze systems that process protected health information, cardholder data and personal data. Production data records stay in your environment.

Evidence, not assurances

Traceability from source system to generated artifact is produced as the platform runs, not assembled afterwards for an audit.

Certification

ISO/IEC 27001 certification is in progress. Full status available on request.

Security documentation, including our DPA and current subprocessor list, is available on request.

Start with a conversation

See it run on a system like yours.

Thirty minutes with our engineering team. You describe the system you are afraid to touch — the language, the age, what broke last time someone tried. We show you what the platform reconstructs from systems like it, and what a first phase on yours would look like.

No code required to start

The first conversation needs nothing from your repository. If it goes further, we sign an NDA before anything technical is shared.

What you get from the call

A view of which parts of your system carry the most undocumented logic, an outline of the phases, and an honest read on whether we are the right fit.

If we go further

A scoped assessment under NDA returns documentation, dependency maps, a complexity heatmap and a modernization timeline with estimates.