A SQUADRA, a technology consultancy specialized in supporting companies in their digital transformation journeys, announces the launch of Genius, a multi-purpose platform powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and developed to optimize workflow and accelerate the development cycle of platforms and digital solutions that the company creates for clients. With an investment of R$ 20 million, supported by BNDES, Genius brings a structured, integrated, and secure approach focused on generating value for the core of the client’s business across various sectors, such as finance, telecommunications, utilities, logistics, among others. Combining advanced technology and human expertise, Genius offers a collaborative and intelligent environment that helps SQUADRA specialists transform complexity into simplicity in projects designed for companies.
In a collaborative and self-guided manner, the platform manages multiple projects simultaneously, such as creating modern solutions, modularizing systems with evolutionary architecture, reducing application complexity, among others, integrating different user profiles like designers, developers, architects, and managers, and creating a conversational digital environment that organizes and accelerates the improvement of the business’s digital ecosystem.
The solution will be used across different fronts and is already driving legacy system modernization projects carried out by SQUADRA through Legacy Modernization by Genius, which uses intelligent tools to extract value from organizations’ legacy applications, document the implicit knowledge of these systems, and reintegrate it in a useful, accessible, and modern way into new applications.
“Many companies today were born in the digital world, but most still live under the pressure of legacy systems and avoid touching these assets due to fear of operational failures, which also hinders innovation,” says Romulo Cioffi, Executive Director of Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, and Operations at SQUADRA. According to the executive, the decision to start applying Genius in legacy modernization is based on the high degree of criticality and complexity of these systems. “We are offering a safe and efficient way for technological modernization, supporting corporate growth by updating technologies, reorganizing application structures, and preserving business rules with a productivity gain of up to 40% compared to traditional modernization methods,” he says.
Through a structured semantic analysis process, Legacy Modernization by Genius maps the entire legacy ecosystem of companies, identifying where improvements can be applied, and delivers responses aligned with the client’s core business, enhancing precision in processes and decisions, reducing errors, and improving the quality of development initiatives. Each project generates a set of updated digital information that serves as a basis for future evolutions, turning systemic knowledge into reusable assets to reorganize complex architectures and simplify them. All this while keeping business logic intact and data 100% internal, updated, governed, and secure.
Legacy Modernization by Genius uses its network of specialized intelligent tools, which operate together, to accelerate migration to more modern environments and applications with precision. Among the functionalities are automated code analysis, which identifies obsolete sections and improvement points; business rule extraction, which recovers implicit knowledge supporting critical processes; automated test and simulation generation, ensuring changes do not compromise operations; and code refactoring, which reorganizes and simplifies complex sections without altering their original function.
Additionally, the solution also includes dependency analysis, covering modules, functions, services, and data that need to be integrated during execution, as well as generating technical documentation. With a high degree of customization per client, these tools are configured and created specifically according to each organization’s technology. With this solution, SQUADRA promotes hyperproductivity through automation of repetitive tasks, process optimization, and intelligent resource usage, providing greater operational efficiency, lower costs, faster delivery, and increased reliability.
Legacy Modernization by Genius is already being used in various projects. In the logistics sector, for example, SQUADRA used the solution to conduct an in-depth analysis of a legacy system responsible for managing a client’s train circulation. The solution was essential for exploring existing code with advanced features like semantic analysis. This enabled the quick identification of key concepts, flows, and operational rules, fully preparing the team to safely and accurately migrate to a more modern environment. This approach accelerated legacy understanding, optimizing analysis time and providing greater clarity in migration planning, allowing code generation that would take six months to be completed in 30 nights.
“We believe Artificial Intelligence only makes sense when applied with purpose, driven by real business problems and not technological trends. That’s why we follow the principle of ‘Value First, powered by AI,’ guiding our decisions with a focus on impact and concrete value,” says Alcebíades Araújo, AI Specialist at SQUADRA.
