Dualboot Partners is a product development firm that builds and modernizes software with measurable business impact. With expertise spanning healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and more, Dualboot helps organizations transform their technology while accelerating time-to-value. As part of our commitment to innovation, we built 3PO—a proprietary AI-powered platform—to eliminate one of the biggest roadblocks in modernization: the discovery phase.
Legacy modernization has long been a slow, manual process—especially for enterprises grappling with years (or decades) of outdated code and fragmented documentation. Traditional discovery approaches often take months and require extensive SME involvement, which can delay or stall transformation initiatives altogether.
To address this challenge at scale, Dualboot created 3PO: a platform that turns legacy chaos into clarity, making modernization faster, smarter, and significantly more achievable.
The opportunity
Modernizing legacy systems is often viewed as too complex, expensive, or risky to pursue. The discovery phase—intended to define how a legacy system works, what features it includes, and how it integrates with surrounding tools—is notoriously difficult.
For most organizations, this phase involves months of manual effort from senior engineers, business analysts, and SMEs. Codebases often span hundreds of thousands of lines, lack documentation, and have been patched over the years without centralized tracking. Diagrams are outdated, user stories don’t exist, and tribal knowledge disappears when key employees leave.
Without clear documentation or confidence in the system’s structure, development teams struggle to define requirements—causing rework, missed deadlines, or total project abandonment. This bottleneck is the single biggest reason modernization initiatives stall before they begin.
Impact: Without a better approach to discovery, businesses struggle to start—or even justify—modernization projects. Valuable engineering resources are tied up for months. In some cases, legacy dependencies pose real business continuity risks. The inability to quickly, accurately, and affordably understand complex legacy systems keeps organizations stuck on outdated platforms.
The solution
To unlock stalled modernization efforts, Dualboot designed 3PO with a clear mission: deliver clarity on legacy systems 4–8x faster than traditional methods.
The platform utilizes agentic AI to analyze multiple legacy inputs—codebases, screenshots, and supporting documentation—automatically generating structured outputs, including system maps, technical summaries, and user stories. These outputs are accessible to development tools and AI coding agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This reduces handoff friction and streamlines the replatforming process.
Implementation
To turn the vision of fast, intelligent modernization into reality, Dualboot engineered 3PO as a modular, AI-powered system that blends deep technical insight with scalable enterprise tooling. The modernization accelerator follows a phased, repeatable approach:
- Asset Analysis: The platform ingests and analyzes diverse system inputs—source code, image files, and documentation—capturing relevant business logic and technical structure.
- AI-Powered System Documentation: Using advanced LLMs, 3PO generates feature lists, technical maps, workflows, and user stories up to 50x faster than manual methods.
- Requirements Extraction: The platform identifies critical requirements and dependencies, presenting them in a development-ready format.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): All inputs and outputs are available to AI coding agents (e.g., Cursor, Copilot), which enables more accurate code generation.
- Human-in-the-Loop Oversight: Dualboot operators supervise the AI and review/refine outputs to ensure high-quality, usable results that accelerate implementation.
“3PO turned one of the hardest parts of modernization into a solved problem. What used to take months now takes weeks—and we’ve made it repeatable, scalable, and ready to power AI builds.”
Ben Gilman
CTO, Dualboot Partners
The impact
By simplifying traditional discovery, 3PO enables teams to accelerate modernization, mitigate risk, and scale confidently into future development.
- 10x faster system documentation, replacing months of manual effort with AI-generated, business-level insights in just days.
- Up to 5x acceleration in discovery-to-build readiness, streamlining planning cycles, and clearing modernization backlogs.
- Up to 90% reduction in engineering hours required for system analysis and documentation, enabling leaner teams to drive transformation at scale.
