IBM i expertise · AI fluency · Applied consulting

Consultants who understand both worlds.

Careers in IBM i. Deep work in AI. We help your team make sense of what's coming out of the AI world — what's real, what's ready, and how any of it applies to the systems actually running your business.

01 · IBM i

Careers at the architecture, solution-design, and integration level — across financial services, insurance, and government.

02 · AI

Deep work in neuro-symbolic architectures, agent design, and compiler-verified generation. Not theoretical.

03 · TRANSLATION

We help your team separate AI signal from noise, and apply what's actually ready to the systems you run.

Why this takes both

Most consultants live in one world. Your problem lives in the space between them.

The AI vendors don't really know IBM i. The IBM i specialists aren't building with AI. We've spent careers in IBM i at the architecture and solution-design level — and we went deep into AI specifically to understand how these two worlds actually fit together.

Neuro-symbolic architectures, agent design, formal guardrails, compiler-verified generation. We did the work because our clients' systems are the ones where AI failure isn't acceptable. When your team is trying to figure out which of the hundred things launching each month is worth paying attention to — and how any of it applies to a platform the LLM vendors don't speak — we can help them separate signal from noise.

The IBM i side

Platform architecture. High-availability design. Integration strategy. The constraints of systems that can't afford to be wrong.

The AI side

Applied work in the techniques that make AI safe to run in enterprise environments — not the consumer demos.

The problem

The AI market is loud. Your IBM i is quiet.

Every few months, new "AI-powered" modernization tools appear — each promising to transform your legacy codebase with minimal risk and maximum speed. The cloud giants are aggressive because your workloads are a multi-billion-dollar revenue opportunity. Some of what's out there is genuinely useful. A lot of it isn't. And none of it is built by people who actually understand your platform.

Rigidity

Traditional parsers

Excessive manual effort. Struggle with complex legacy. Slow, brittle, specialist-heavy.

Hallucination

Pure LLM solutions

Models invent variable names, drop fields, and produce code that compiles but quietly means the wrong thing.

Continuity

Retiring workforce

The developers who built your RPG and COBOL are leaving. The logic lives in their heads — not in documentation.

Why your team needs a bridge

The cloud platforms and AI vendors don't understand your platform. Your IBM i specialists don't track what's shipping in AI every week. Someone has to sit between those two worlds and help your team decide what's worth adopting — and where the risk is worth the return.

How we think about it

Neuro-symbolic. Symbolic first, neural second.

One example of what "understanding both worlds" looks like in practice. Symbolic techniques give deterministic understanding of your code. AI handles the parts that genuinely require judgment. Neither layer does the other's job — and this is the lens we bring to any engagement, not a product we sell.

LAYER 01
Deterministic

Symbolic Layer

Haskell · Abstract Syntax Trees · Formal logic

A high-assurance parser reads your RPG and COBOL into a structured map of the program. Control flow, data structures, and dependencies are captured exactly. Anything that can't be resolved with certainty is flagged as Unknown — not guessed.

Why it matters: a solid, deterministic foundation before any AI is allowed near the code.
LAYER 02
Adaptive

Neural Layer

Fine-tuned models · LLMs · Pattern recognition

AI is brought in only where ambiguity was flagged. A specialist model recognizes patterns (naming conventions, UI cues, common idioms). A generative model produces the artifact the engagement calls for — constrained by the structure the symbolic layer already locked in.

Why it matters: AI only solves the problems it's actually good at. It isn't allowed to improvise on the rest.
Precision

Symbolic constrains what neural can do. Neural extends what symbolic can understand.

Continuity

The method reads logic directly from the code — not from institutional memory that's about to retire.

A concrete example

A pipeline we built to prove it out. Four layers, four jobs.

We built this to show what "both worlds together" actually looks like in code — not on a slide. It's the engine behind audits, API work, and agent foundations. Symbolic layers bookend the neural layers: a sandwich architecture for systems you can't afford to get wrong.

INPUT
RPG / COBOL
SYMBOLIC
01
Super-Linter
NEURAL
02
Specialist
NEURAL
03
Creative
SYMBOLIC
04
Feedback Loop
OUTPUT
Logic you can build on
Audit findings
API endpoints
Agent tools
Modern code (Rust / C# / Java)
01
Symbolic
THE GATEKEEPER

Super-Linter

A Haskell parser reads your RPG and COBOL into a structured map of the program — an Abstract Syntax Tree. Known logic (control flow, data structures, dependencies) is captured deterministically. Anything that can't be resolved with certainty is flagged as Unknown, not guessed.

Why it matters

A solid, deterministic foundation before any AI is allowed near the code. No "garbage in, garbage out."

02
Neural
THE PATTERN RECOGNIZER

Specialist

A small, fine-tuned model looks only at what was flagged. It reads intent — naming conventions, UI cues, structural patterns — to resolve ambiguity deliberately. The kind of decision-making that usually needs a developer to review line-by-line.

Why it matters

Automates the judgment calls that normally depend on a specialist who's been in the code for years — and may be close to retiring.

03
Neural
THE TRANSLATOR

Creative

Once the code is fully understood and tagged, an LLM generates whatever the engagement calls for — an API endpoint, a tool signature for an agent, a refactored module, or modern equivalent code. The LLM is working against a strict specification, not improvising.

Why it matters

LLM speed and syntax fluency, applied only after the logic is strictly defined. Errors drop, variables are preserved.

04
Symbolic
THE AUTOMATED TESTER

Feedback Loop

The compiler judges every output. If compilation fails, the error is fed back to the model for self-correction — reinforcement learning from compiler feedback (RLCF). The loop runs until the output is syntactically correct and every original variable is accounted for.

Why it matters

Automated self-healing. Final deliverables are complete and compile — not "probably correct."

Differentiator 01

Haskell orchestrator

A high-assurance language manages the workflow. Stability at the core of the system.

Differentiator 02

Semantic separation

Business logic is automatically distinguished from UI code — one of the harder problems in IBM i modernization.

Differentiator 03

Zero-hallucination goal

The compiler checks every variable. AI can't quietly drop fields or invent names.

Engagements

Three ways we help your team. Pick the one that fits.

Take them independently, or in sequence. The right starting point depends on where your team is today and where the pressure's coming from.

01 · ADVISORY

AI-Integration Audit

We use the pipeline to map your RPG and COBOL programs and identify where AI would deliver practical value — claims review, pricing analysis, customer-service summarization, risk scoring. You leave with a prioritized plan your team can act on, plus a documented read of what's actually in the code.

ModelFixed-fee advisory
Timeline4–6 weeks
02 · ENGAGEMENT

Intelligent API Engineering

APIs built without the experts in the room. Your RPG and COBOL runs as it always has. We read it, wrap it, and layer AI on the response — so modern applications receive finished insights, and the institutional knowledge lives in the API layer instead of in a few peoples' heads.

ModelProject-based
Timeline8–16 weeks
03 · STRATEGIC
Flagship

Autonomous Agent Architecture

We structure your IBM i logic so it can serve as a reliable foundation for enterprise AI agents. Formal guardrails prevent hallucination in production. Your team governs and extends the architecture over time — with the method, not a vendor, at the core.

ModelRetainer-based
Timeline12+ months
Outcomes

What changes after we engage.

01

Logic you can actually see

Your business rules are parsed, documented, and exposed. No longer trapped inside green-screen layers or a shrinking pool of specialists' heads.

02

AI outputs you can trust

Compiler-verified. Variable-accurate. Formally constrained. Your governance and audit teams get artifacts that hold up to review.

03

Knowledge that doesn't retire

The logic encoded in your IBM i is captured, documented, and exposed as code — not as tribal knowledge that leaves when a senior developer does.

04

A system that's no longer a black box

Changes to your IBM i environment are understood, tested, and documented before they go in. Continuity risk comes down over time, not up.

Start a conversation

Tell us about your IBM i.

Share a bit about your environment and the problems you're trying to solve. We'll come back with a candid view of what's realistic and where we'd focus. No obligation, no sales process.

What to expect
  • 01 30 minutes with a senior consultant. You describe your environment and what you're trying to solve.
  • 02 We share an honest perspective on what's realistic and where our method applies.
  • 03 If there's a fit, we scope an engagement. If not, we'll tell you that too.