Introduction
For most enterprise tech leaders, the hesitation around modernization is about proof, not belief.
They already know legacy systems are holding them back. They understand the upside of Gen AI. But what they don’t have is visibility into how their systems will behave, what kind of lift is required, or whether the promised benefits will materialize in their context.
That’s why the first step matters more than anything else.
At Legacyleap, we’ve designed that step to remove risk entirely through a zero-dollar assessment that’s built to uncover what’s hiding inside legacy systems. Not just technical debt or surface-level issues, but structural insights that inform the entire modernization journey from code comprehension to architectural drift, from documentation gaps to component-level opportunities.
It’s not a trial. It’s not a sales artifact. It’s a real engagement, scoped to give your team the clarity to move forward or the confidence to wait. Either way, you win.
What the Zero-Dollar Assessment Actually Covers
The zero-dollar assessment is a structured, hands-on diagnostic that runs directly on your codebase. It’s designed to extract deep context, generate technical and functional outputs, and surface modernization pathways, without any upfront investment or long-term commitment.
The process is simple:
An enterprise provides a small application along with its source code. The platform ingests this code and runs a deep structural analysis. Within days, your team receives a working model of the system, including architectural drift reports, modernization maps, and system-level documentation.
Unlike tools that run static scans or generate slide decks, this assessment produces real artifacts. Things your teams can read, review, and act on.
This initial, cost-free engagement provides a powerful glimpse into the platform’s capabilities and, more importantly, delivers actionable insights back to the enterprise.
“It’s not a report. It’s a working model of your system. You can see what’s broken, what’s outdated, and what’s modernizable in a real business context.”
And because it runs entirely inside your cloud, your source code never leaves your perimeter. No LLM drift. No data leakage. Full control, from start to finish.
What You Get: The Technical and Functional Outputs
A zero-dollar assessment delivers real system artifacts your team can use from day one. You’ll typically walk away with:
- End-to-end architectural maps
- Flow-level documentation across technical and business layers
- Comprehension summaries for legacy modules
- Microservices candidate mappings
- Drift and complexity reports
- API-level dependency visualizations
- Security posture snapshots and risk indicators
These are live, generated outputs produced by the same engine that powers full modernization.
But what makes them valuable isn’t just the data. It’s how they immediately enable action across your teams.
The real power of this assessment isn’t just in the artifacts it produces, but in how those artifacts become immediately usable across teams.
- Architects can explore complete system blueprints, understand how services interact, and map modernization paths without relying on tribal knowledge.
- Developers no longer have to reverse-engineer legacy components. Each module is documented, visualized, and backed by comprehension outputs.
- Engineering leaders receive clear signals on risk hotspots, anti-patterns, and modernization prioritization, all backed by structural analysis.
- Business and product stakeholders gain visibility into workflows and logic embedded in code, enabling alignment between modernization and real-world impact.
- Security and compliance teams get auditable documentation, data flow visibility, and traceability reports generated automatically and continuously.
“We built this to create trust. Not just in the platform, but in the decision to modernize. Once you see the artifacts, the conversation shifts from ‘if’ to ‘how soon.’”
Every output is navigable, explainable, and reviewable. And the review session ensures your team walks away with a shared understanding of the system and what’s possible next.
The assessment ends with a review session where your team walks through the findings with our engineers for a shared view of what your system actually looks like and what’s possible next.
What It Looks Like in Practice
One of the earliest systems we assessed belonged to a global product firm running a critical VB6 application, over 15 years old, undocumented, and tied into downstream billing and compliance systems. No one on the team could confidently explain how the code worked, what the edge cases were, or whether modernization would break things downstream.
They didn’t want a proposal. They wanted proof.
We ran the zero-dollar assessment over two weeks. The output included:
- A full system comprehension map
- Detailed flow-level documentation
- Drift reports showing where logic had diverged from expected behavior
- Microservices candidate analysis
- Architecture mapping from VB6 to modern .NET
- API-level dependencies and risk hotspots
That assessment became the foundation for a focused pilot, a scoped modernization plan, and a long-term partnership. Because once the unknowns were mapped, modernization became a matter of execution, not hesitation.
Why This Works for CXOs
What delays modernization in the enterprise is system opacity. Leaders don’t need persuasion. They need visibility into what’s running, what’s at risk, and what can be changed safely.
That’s exactly what the zero-dollar assessment delivers.
It generates the clarity needed to move forward from your own systems. Architecture maps, documentation, dependency tracking, and transformation blueprints. All produced inside your cloud. All grounded in your environment.
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“This is how we get past ‘we don’t know what’s in the code’, by showing it to you, clearly, safely, and on your terms.”
It reframes the conversation because once you understand the system fully, the question is no longer if you should modernize, but how you’ll move ahead.
And once that clarity is established, leaders can scope roadmaps, budget resources, and sequence phases with confidence.
And that decision can start with a single system, a scoped assessment, and zero risk upfront. Get your $0 modernization assessment today to get started!
