Business-critical
The system supports important operations, customer experiences, transactions, data, or industry-specific work.
Modernize + AI
Rebuild critical systems faster, with AI built into what comes next.
VBT modernizes the platforms, data, integrations, and experiences the business depends on, using AI-accelerated engineering to move faster while creating the foundation for AI-enabled work and customer experiences.
Modernize what matters first. Deliver value in phases. Keep the business running throughout the change.
When Modernize + AI fits
The underlying system is the constraint.
Modernize + AI applies when a critical platform, application, integration, data foundation, or architecture is materially limiting the business and requires a substantial rebuild, migration, or phased replacement.
Constraining change
The current platform makes releases slow, integrations brittle, data difficult to use, or new capabilities risky to introduce.
Requires production accountability
The engagement includes architecture, product design, engineering, migration, launch, and continuity, not only recommendations or cosmetic improvement.
Creates future leverage
The rebuilt foundation should improve the business immediately and make future workflows, experiences, and AI capabilities easier to create.
Modernize + AI is not ordinary maintenance, a visual refresh, or a short feature build. The system itself must be a meaningful business constraint.
The problem
Legacy systems do more than slow down technology. They slow down the business.
When critical software becomes a bottleneck, every improvement takes longer. We modernize the systems, data, and experiences holding the business back while protecting the operations and institutional knowledge they support.
Current state
- Slow and risky releases
- Fragmented data
- Brittle integrations
- Manual workarounds
- Outdated experiences
- Limited path to AI
Modernize with purpose
Future state
- Faster delivery
- Accessible, usable data
- Connected systems
- Streamlined operations
- Modern experiences
- AI-ready architecture
Why Modernize + AI
Use AI to rebuild faster. Rebuild so AI can create value afterward.
AI changes both how we rebuild and what the rebuilt platform makes possible.
AI accelerates the rebuild.
We use AI to help analyze legacy code, document business logic, develop software, expand testing, and support migration. Experienced architects and engineers remain accountable for security, quality, and production readiness.
The foundation supports what comes next.
Accessible data, clear interfaces, reusable services, and permission-aware controls make it easier to introduce useful AI capabilities. We design for human review, monitoring, and reliable operation, rather than adding isolated features to an unsuitable foundation.
Modernization in production
Modernize in phases. Deliver value throughout.
These engagements replaced critical legacy constraints while keeping the business operating and creating a stronger foundation for future growth and AI.
Modernize + AIClear Packaging
Rebuilding a critical platform without stopping the business.
VBT modernized a core laboratory platform and customer experience in phases, improving performance and flexibility while protecting live operations throughout the transition.Minutes to secondsReport performance10×Reporting flexibilityRead Case Study Modernize + AIID Fund
Replacing a critical platform without interrupting the business.
VBT rebuilt the investor platform while live operations continued, creating a more scalable foundation for onboarding, account management, and future growth.10 MonthsFrom legacy platform to ground-up rebuild, live in productionZero DowntimeAll data and every investor migrated liveRead Case StudyWhy VBT
Generative AI expertise. Award-winning product craft.
Deep generative AI expertise is only part of the job. The system also has to make complex work easier for the people using it. VBT brings award-winning product design and engineering to modernization, rethinking the workflow, experience, and technology together.
Webby Awards
“Winner”
Top Technical Achievement on the Web
W3 Awards
“Winner”
Top Technical Achievement
UX Design Awards
“Winner”
Product of the Year
Where we help
Modernize the systems standing between the business and what comes next.
Modernization can begin with a complete platform, but it often starts with one critical capability, workflow, experience, or layer of the architecture.
Core business platforms
Rebuild the systems that run essential operations, transactions, services, and industry-specific processes.
Customer and partner portals
Replace outdated digital experiences with faster, clearer, self-service tools connected to real operational data.
Internal applications
Modernize the tools employees use to manage work, make decisions, serve customers, and coordinate across teams.
Data and reporting
Improve how data is structured, accessed, governed, analyzed, and presented to the people and systems that need it.
Integrations and APIs
Replace brittle point-to-point connections with reliable interfaces that support current operations and future capabilities.
Operational workflows
Reduce manual workarounds and redesign how people, systems, information, and approvals move through the business.
Architecture and infrastructure
Create a secure, scalable technical foundation that is easier to release, maintain, monitor, and evolve.
AI-enabled capabilities
Add intelligent search, summarization, recommendations, automation, assistance, or analysis where it creates real value.
Deliver value throughout the rebuild.
Start with the constraint that matters most. Deliver in phases, validate each release, and protect the business throughout the transition.
Assess and prioritize
Understand the business constraint, users, architecture, data, and dependencies. Choose a first phase with a measurable outcome.
Design and build
Rethink the experience and technical foundation together, using AI to accelerate engineering while validating the work against real requirements.
Migrate and launch
Test against real operations, reconcile data, and use staged cutovers or parallel operation where appropriate to protect business continuity.
Measure and evolve
Support adoption, measure results, retire legacy components deliberately, and add capabilities as the new foundation proves itself.
Modern systems. Scalable AI-enabled work.
Modernization creates the foundation. TrackFrame helps activate it.
Not every modernization engagement requires TrackFrame. The immediate priority is rebuilding the systems and experiences creating the greatest constraint.
When the modernized platform will support multiple AI-enabled workflows, TrackFrame™ can provide reusable orchestration, business context, permissions, approvals, evaluations, monitoring, and operational visibility across them.
Modernize + AI makes critical systems ready. TrackFrame helps the business build and scale intelligent work on top of that foundation.
Explore TrackFrame™What changes
Come out faster, more capable, and ready to evolve.
Faster releases
Reduce the time and risk required to improve the platform, introduce features, and respond to business needs.
Better operations
Remove manual workarounds, improve coordination, and give teams more reliable systems for completing critical work.
Stronger customer experiences
Create faster, clearer, more useful digital experiences connected directly to the services and information customers need.
Accessible data
Make trusted operational information easier to use for reporting, decision-making, automation, and AI.
Lower technical drag
Reduce brittle dependencies, recurring maintenance problems, release risk, and the cost of working around outdated architecture.
A practical path to AI
Create the data, services, workflows, experiences, and controls required to add intelligent capabilities over time.
Modernize what matters first
Build the platform your business needs next.
You do not need to replace every legacy system at once.
VBT can help identify the constraint creating the greatest business impact, define a phased modernization path, and determine where AI can accelerate the rebuild or create value in the resulting platform.