The CTO’s Strategic Blueprint to Prioritize Modernization, Cut Technical Debt, and Reclaim 80% of Your Maintenance Budget.
Transition from an exhaustive, unfocused effort to targeted, surgical modernization. Specially designed for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and IT Leaders managing complex, high-stakes portfolios.
Build a defensible evaluation system that scales with your team — not with oversight.
Most enterprises treat legacy systems as a technical problem. In reality, it is a governance leak:
The average enterprise loses $370M annually due to legacy inefficiencies.
Every year to modernization projects that simply never cross the finish line.
Up to 80% of IT budgets are tied to maintenance, leaving almost no room for strategic growth.
Report that technical debt has caused the cancellation or delay of business-critical projects this year.
Download this guide to move beyond generic checklists and implement a defensible, evidence-based roadmap
Learn to identify systems for deliberate deferral so your best engineers can focus on innovation.
Use the Exposure Model to rank systems by revenue dependency and incident frequency rather than "perceived" effort.
Use AI to map undocumented "invisible" dependencies that manual inspection can no longer scale to find.
Implement Bounded Change to modernize without increasing the "blast radius" or destabilizing production.
We provide the specific criteria for objectively deciding what to modernize today
How much revenue is tied to this specific system?
Does your stability rely on just one or two individuals?
What is the actual Change Failure Rate and MTTR of this component?
Does this system impact your 2026 regulatory and audit obligations?