SQUADRA invests R$1.42 million in the Genius AI platform to accelerate digital transformation projects

THE SQUAD, a technology consulting firm specialized in supporting companies on 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 digital platforms and solutions the company creates for its clients. With a BRL 20 million investment, supported by BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank), Genius offers a structured, integrated, secure approach focused on generating value for the core of the client's business across various sectors, including finance, telecommunications, utilities, and 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 the projects developed 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. It integrates different user profiles, including designers, developers, architects, and managers, creating a conversational digital environment that organizes and accelerates the improvement of the business 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. This utilizes intelligent tools to extract value from organizations' legacy applications, document the implicit knowledge within 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 altering these assets for 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 begin applying Genius in the modernization of legacy systems is based on the high degree of criticality and complexity of these systems. “We are offering a safe and efficient way for technological modernization that supports the growth of corporations, updating technologies, reorganizing the application structure, and maintaining preserved 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 areas for improvement, and delivers solutions aligned with the client's core business. This boosts process and decision accuracy, reduces errors, and elevates the quality of results in the development initiative. Each project generates an updated set of digital information that serves as a basis for future evolutions, allowing systemic knowledge to become reusable assets for reorganizing complex architectures and simplifying them. All this while maintaining intact business logic and ensuring internal data remains 100% updated, governed, and secure.

Genius' Legacy Modernization uses its network of specialized intelligent tools, working together, to precisely accelerate migration to more modern environments and applications. Features include automated code analysis, identifying obsolete sections and areas for improvement; business rule extraction, recovering the implicit knowledge underpinning critical processes; automated test generation and simulations, ensuring changes don't compromise operation; and code refactoring, reorganizing and simplifying complex sections without altering their original function.

Furthermore, the solution also includes dependency analysis, including modules, functions, services, and data that need to be integrated during execution, as well as generating technical documentation. With a high degree of client customization, these tools are configured and created specifically according to each organization's technology. With this solution, SQUADRA promotes hyper-productivity through the automation of repetitive tasks, process optimization, and intelligent resource use, providing greater operational efficiency, lower costs, faster delivery, and increased reliability.

Genius' Legacy Modernization is already being used in several projects. In the logistics segment, for example, SQUADRA used the solution to perform an in-depth analysis of the legacy system responsible for managing train circulation for a client. The solution was essential for exploring the existing code with advanced features such as semantic analysis. This allowed for the quick identification of key concepts, workflows, and operational rules, leaving the team fully prepared to safely and accurately migrate to a more modern environment. This approach accelerated the understanding of the legacy system, optimizing analysis time and enabling clearer migration planning, allowing code generation that would have taken six months to be completed in 30 nights.

“We believe that Artificial Intelligence only makes sense when applied purposefully, driven by a real business problem and not by technological fads. That's why we follow the principle of 'Value First, powered by AI,' guiding our decisions with a focus on impact and tangible value," says Alcebíades Araújo, AI Specialist at SQUADRA.