AI Software Development
AI integration services for legacy systems
Connecting AI into ERP, core banking, mainframe, and system-of-record environments without inheriting their failure modes
- Duration
- 6 to 12 weeks
- Ladder stage
- Product
- NATIVE stages
- Integrate
The situation
When this engagement is the right one
The system of record decides what is true. AI that writes to it inherits its constraints, its permissions, and its outage behaviour. The integration decision, native or standalone, is a decision with a stated cost, not a default.
You are probably seeing
- The pilot ran on an export and nobody has designed the write path.
- Batch windows make the intended real-time experience impossible.
- A vendor roadmap now controls a workflow you thought you owned.
What we do
The work, in the order it happens
- 01Decide native versus standalone explicitly, with the maintenance cost of each stated.
- 02Design the write path with idempotency and reconciliation.
- 03Inherit permissions rather than reimplementing them.
- 04Bound the blast radius: what happens during an outage, and what queues.
- 05Test against production-shaped data volumes, not sample extracts.
What you get, and keep
- An integration design with the native versus standalone decision documented.
- A production integration with reconciliation and replay.
- Failure-mode documentation and a degradation plan.
Prerequisites
- A named owner for each system of record involved.
- A non-production environment with representative data volumes.
Not included
- We do not modernise the underlying system. We integrate with it and document what it constrains.
Duration and price shape
6 to 12 weeks
From a published figure, scoped by number of integrated systems.
Where this sits in the method
Commercially this is a Product engagement on the Proof, Product, Platform ladder.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
- Native or standalone?
- Native inherits permissions and the vendor roadmap. Standalone gives control and requires you to maintain the plumbing. We price both before you choose.
Related engagements
Work that usually sits either side of this
Next step
Ready to scope ai integration for legacy systems?
Bring the pilots you already have running. The first call is a scoping conversation, not a pitch.