Six ways to work with us, and two journeys through them.
Some clients move off the legacy platform. Some stay and make it better. Both start in the same place, with an understanding of the estate. The direction is decided, or confirmed, from that evidence, and each step is sized and priced before it begins.
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- Cobra Discovery is the entry point for any estate: understand the estate and the risk. Two to eight weeks, fixed scope.
- Decide the direction. With the findings in hand, decide or confirm the strategy: move off the legacy platform, or stay and improve it. A client can stay now and move later.
- A client that moves continues to Cobra Intelligence (the rule and logic evidence pack, six to ten weeks), then a Cobra Validation Sprint (prove the target path on your own assets, six to ten weeks, fixed price), then Cobra Migration (six to eighteen months, in one cutover or in stages).
- A client that stays continues to Cobra Modernisation: improve the estate without leaving the platform. Three to twelve months, or ongoing.
- Both journeys end in Cobra Sustain, which keeps the modernised estate honest.
What each one is for.
| Model | Intent | Typical duration | Commercial shape |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Cobra Discovery | Understand the estate and the risk. | 2–8 weeks | Fixed scope |
| 2 · Cobra Intelligence | Extract the rules, the logic and the product evidence pack. | 6–10 weeks | Fixed scope |
| 3 · Cobra Modernisation | Improve the estate without leaving the platform. | 3–12 months, or ongoing | Fixed scope or subscription |
| 4 · Cobra Validation Sprint | Prove the target path on your own assets. | 6–10 weeks | Fixed price |
| 5 · Cobra Migration | Move the estate off the legacy platform. | 6–18 months | Fixed price and licence |
| 6 · Cobra Sustain | Keep the modernised estate honest. | Ongoing | Subscription or managed service |
Modernise and migrate each mean several things.
Cobra Modernisation has four parts, bought singly or together: in-place modernisation with a real regression net; an uplift of engineering practice with automated build, test and AI-assisted diagnostics; integration, which opens selected functions to modern services; and knowledge and supportability, which captures why the rules are what they are.
Cobra Migration has four parts: replatform or rehost, which moves the workload as it is; cloud or platform migration; application to package, where Cobra hands the data, the rules and the tests to the package team; and rewrite or re-architecture, where your team or your chosen tooling works from captured specifications and behavioural tests prove the new system matches the old.
Any of them can be delivered in one cutover or in stages, family by family, with legacy and modernised parts running side by side. For a large estate the phased route is the lower-risk one and is our default recommendation.
Start with a slice, or start with Discovery.
Tell us whether you expect to move or to stay. We will suggest the smallest first step that answers your question.