Joe Gebbia, the nation’s first-ever chief design officer, is planning to reshape federal government websites. Calling for delightful websites, the new America by Design initiative calls on agencies to modernize the interfaces that serve everyday citizens. Signaling a new era for government websites, agentic AI may provide the key to unlocking the rapid transformation required to meet this challenge.

The Foundation: A Brief History of USWDS

The cornerstone of this transformation is the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS). Launched in 2015, USWDS was created to provide a shared set of design tools and user interface (UI) components for federal agencies. According to the USWDS history, the project was born from the need to reduce design debt and create a consistent appearance across federal websites. Beginning with a small library of buttons and forms, USWDS eventually evolved into a robust ecosystem used by hundreds of federal projects to ensure accessibility, mobile-friendliness, and trust.

The Product Mindset: Meeting User Expectations

Modernizing federal applications is about more than meeting a set of requirements. Service delivery experts know delivering a delightful user experience requires a fundamental shift in strategy. At Karsun, we advocate for a Product Mindset.

Users expect a seamless experience. Government applications should work across devices. They should meet evolving expectations such as the integration of chatbots. A Product Mindset asks delivery teams to consider not only users’ needs today, but also their future needs. It builds in feedback loops to continuously track and ensure expectations are met. Its modernization and digital transformation that delivers applications designed for every next, ensuring they remain resilient and adaptable using not only design best practices but secure, modular, digital architecture.

ReDuX: The Bridge to the Future

Bridging the gap between legacy systems and delightful, yet compliant, interfaces is a monumental task. This is where the ReDuX platform provides a revolutionary AI-powered solution.

ReDuX uses agentic AI to ensure modernization efforts align perfectly with user intent. By taking user demos as an input, ReDuX analyzes real-life behavior to craft functional requirements that reflect how people actually use a service.

Today, ReDuX incorporates the USWDS among its input during code generation. This ensures that every line of code produced adheres to federal design standards by default. Furthermore, because ReDuX can ingest any reference material provided, it is future-proof. When USWDS evolves to the next era of web standards, ReDuX can meet the challenge, optimizing applications to new standards as they emerge.

The path to better service delivery doesn’t have to be slow. With the power of agentic AI and a Product Mindset approach, federal agencies can transform applications faster than ever before.We invite you to learn how ReDuX can help your agency deliver delightful websites that honor the mission and respect the user. Let’s build the future of federal digital services, together.

For the last decade, microservice architecture has been king. Breaking down massive, monolithic applications into small, independently deployable services revolutionized how we build and scale software.

But what’s the next step?

We’re on the verge of the next major evolution, one that infuses our systems with intelligence. We’re moving from a world of reactive microservices to one of proactive micro-agents.

This isn’t just a change in buzzwords. It’s a fundamental shift from building systems that wait for commands to building systems that understand goals.

The Now: The Reactive Microservice

First, let’s look at the microservice as we know it.

A microservice is like a specialist at a desk with a phone. It’s an expert at one specific task such as checking inventory, processing a payment, sending an email. It’s highly efficient, but it’s also dumb. It does absolutely nothing until someone calls its API and gives it a very specific, rigid command.

• It’s Reactive: It waits for a request.
• It’s Task-Oriented: It executes a single, well-defined job.
• It’s Unaware: It has no concept of the “bigger picture” or the user’s ultimate goal.

All the smart logic for coordinating these services lives elsewhere, often in a central “Orchestrator” service or hard-coded into the application’s front-end. If the payment service fails, the orchestrator must have pre-written, rigid logic to handle that specific error.

The Next: The Proactive Micro-Agent

Now, imagine that same specialist, but instead of just giving them a command, you give them a goal.

This is the micro-agent. It’s an intelligent, autonomous entity that has an objective and the power to decide how to achieve it.

• It’s Proactive: You give it a goal (e.g., “Get this order shipped”), and it decides the steps.
• It’s Goal-Oriented: It understands the “why” behind a request, not just the “what.”
• It’s Context-Aware: It can plan, execute, and even handle errors dynamically.

If the payment agent fails, the checkout agent doesn’t need to follow a rigid script. It can reason about the problem. It might decide to try an alternative payment method, or it might call the notification agent to ask the customer for a new card, all without human intervention.

The Secret Sauce: AI as the Reasoning Engine

What makes this shift possible? Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs).

An LLM acts as the brain or the reasoning engine for the agent. It’s what gives the agent the power to understand a complex goal, break it down into steps, and orchestrate the tools needed to get it done.

In this new model, your old microservices don’t disappear. They become the “tools” in the agent’s toolbox.

• The PaymentService (a microservice) is just a tool.
• The PaymentAgent (a micro-agent) is the intelligent “brain” that knows when and how to use that tool.

A Tale of Two Checkouts

Let’s look at a simple e-commerce example to see the difference in action.

The Future is Autonomous

Microservices were about decentralizing tasks. This was a huge step forward.

Micro-agents are about decentralizing decisions.

This is the logical and necessary next step for building systems that are not just scalable, but truly intelligent, resilient, and autonomous. The specialists in our architecture are finally getting the promotion they deserve. They transition from order-takers to problem-solvers.

This blog is part of our ongoing series spotlighting our enterprise modernization experts. This edition’s featured author is Hari Narayanan, a Solution Advisor and Architect in the Karsun Innovation Center. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

Join Karsun Solutions on LinkedIn for more from our Enterprise Modernization Experts. To start building with your own autonomous agents check out GoReDuX.ai. For more on our approach to modern software development check out our solutions https://karsun-llc.com/solutions/.

A contractor supporting a critical mainframe modernization project for a state government agency, faced a significant challenge. Tasked with migrating a legacy COBOL system, the contractor’s initial pilot migration attempt using AWS Blu Age could not fully meet customer requirements. The tool could only output Java and not meet the new requirement for Python or C#. Furthermore, the migration lacked traceability, making it impossible to validate. This contractor engaged Karsun Solutions, which leveraged its AI-powered ReDuX modernization platform. Using Agentic AI capabilities powered by Amazon Bedrock, ReDuX automatically analyzed the legacy system and generated the required C# programs, Summer Batch Core workflows, and MS SQL Server tables, delivering the 100% traceability needed to successfully complete the pilot.

About the Customer

The customer was one of three vendors awarded a contract for a cloud services project for a state government agency. This project’s goal is to modernize a core business system by converting legacy mainframe code to Python or C# while moving to a cloud-based platform.

Customer Challenge

A state government agency initiated a high-priority project to convert its legacy system to a modern, cloud-based platform. The state’s primary goals were to enhance security, improve flexibility, ensure data redundancy, and lower long-term maintenance costs.

The project was structured in two phases: a competitive part one pilot awarded to three bidders, followed by a part two award for the full system conversion given to a single winner from the pilot. The customer team was tasked with migrating a subsystem for the pilot, as it was the least entangled with other subsystems.

The customer’s initial modernization attempt hit two critical roadblocks. First, the agency’s requirements evolved. After initially preferring Java, the state later specified a preference for Python or C#. This immediately put the team’s approach in jeopardy, as AWS Blu Age can only create code in Java. Second, they were unable to show file-level COBOL program traceability to modern programs. This made validation and future maintenance impossible in the mind of the customer. Failure to solve these challenges would result in a failed pilot and disqualification from the lucrative part two of the contract.

The Partner Solution

The pilot contract was explicitly for cloud services. The state agency sought the enhanced security, flexibility, and redundancy that a cloud-native solution provides. The successful solution embraced this by using a suite of AWS-native services. Additionally, Karsun used its AI-powered modernization platform, ReDuX, to solve complex traceability problems in legacy systems and could output modern C# code, directly meeting the new requirements.

The ReDuX platform rapidly analyzed the system and generated a fully modernized, traceable equivalent.

1. Agentic Analysis: First, Karsun used its ReDuX Blueprint tool. This tool, which is powered by Amazon Bedrock, applied GenAI models to analyze the system, including COBOL programs, JCL, and DB2 database tables. This process created a comprehensive and fully documented map of the legacy system’s architecture and business logic.
2. Automated Transformation: With this detailed blueprint, Karsun’s ReDuX Code Companion used agents to automatically transform the legacy application. The modernized solution consisted of:
   • Agentic Analysis: First, Karsun used its ReDuX Blueprint tool. This tool, which is powered by Amazon Bedrock, applied GenAI models to analyze the system, including all COBOL programs, JCL, and DB2 database tables. This process created a comprehensive and fully documented map of the legacy system’s architecture and business logic.
   • Automated Transformation: With this detailed blueprint, ReDuX Code Companion used agents to automatically transform the legacy application. The new, modernized solution consisted of:
     • Modern C# Application: C# programs were generated for every COBOL program. Verifiable, one-to-one mapping solved the traceability problem. This new application is hosted on .NET Core containers over the AWS EKS service or on EC2 instances.
     • Cloud-Native Batch Processing: Summer Batch Core workflows were generated for every JCL, converting all mainframe batch processes into cloud-native, serverless workflows.
     • File Storage: Application files are now stored in AWS S3.
     • Angular Front-End: A new user interface in Angular precisely mimicks the flow of the original mainframe green screens, such as the menu and work order creation screens.
     • MS SQL Server Tables: Every legacy DB2 database table was migrated to a new table in MS SQL Server.

Results and Benefits

Karsun’s AI-powered ReDuX platform successfully delivered a modernized pilot application that met all of the state’s requirements, rectifying the failures of the initial attempt. The primary benefit was the achievement of 100% traceability for the entire application stack.

The key success metric was the one-to-one mapping of legacy assets to modern, cloud-native code, all made possible by the GenAI analysis from AWS Bedrock:

• Every COBOL program was converted to a corresponding C# program, now running in .NET Core containers on AWS EKS or EC2.
• Every JCL was converted to a Summer Batch Core workflow.
• Every DB2 table was migrated to an MS SQL Server table.

This provided the customer with a complete, verifiable, and maintainable modern application, allowing them to successfully complete the pilot.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions modernizes enterprise systems enabling agencies to make the next technological advancement their next opportunity to elevate mission capability. Solutions are tailored to meet agencies’ unique needs and optimize operations. These solutions adapt and stay relevant to current trends while using secure, digital architecture built to last. It is a proven modernization partner whose expertise elevates agency capabilities and ensures every next opportunity is within reach.

Learn more about Karsun’s Cloud Solutions.

In a blog published shortly after its annual re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced AWS Transform composability. This co-innovation initiative empowers AWS Partners to create specialized modernization AI agents for industry-specific mainframe workloads. As part of the initiative, AWS announced 11 initial co-innovation partners. ReDuX from Karsun Solutions is a member of this inaugural cohort.

AWS Transform composability enables AWS Partners, including Migration and Modernization Competency Partners and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), to create differentiated transformation solutions by integrating their specialized AI agents, tools, knowledge bases, and workflows with AWS Transform. This collaboration provides customers with access to targeted, specialized solutions tailored to their unique modernization needs.

AWS Transform Composability Benefits 

By integrating partner capabilities, the AWS Transform composability initiative offers significant business value by dramatically improving the speed, accuracy, and specialization of complex mainframe modernization projects.

Cost Savings from Accelerated Modernization

By leveraging specialized AI agents and automation from AWS and its partners, organizations can reduce mainframe modernization timelines from years to months. The increased precision and time savings gained from automating complex, industry-specific tasks translate directly into substantial cost reductions, with reports indicating average cost savings of 30-40% compared to traditional, manual modernization approaches.

Preservation of Critical Business Logic through Specialization

The initiative allows partners (like Karsun’s ReDuX) to build agents that recognize and handle highly technical or industry-specific patterns in legacy mainframe code. For instance, enterprise organizations working with Karsun can leverage the Government Competency Partner’s 15+ years working in highly-regulated industries. Working with specialized partners ensures greater accuracy in code transformation, preserves critical, implicit business rules that generic tools often miss, and ultimately results in a modernized cloud-native application that is both technically sound and functionally equivalent to the mission-critical legacy system.

In addition to these benefits, partner tools, such as Karsun’s ReDuX platform, bring unique insights into the modernization process. As a result, teams can proactively identify risks and eliminate technical debt early. This upfront intelligence leads to a significant reduction in rework and testing cycles, accelerating delivery and increasing confidence in the final, compliant, and scalable cloud solution.

Elevated Capabilities: Enhanced User Insights with ReDuX

One of these enhanced capabilities includes ReDuX’s unique emphasis on user behavior during legacy system analysis. Its agents deliver novel insights into user behavior and intent by combining analysis of the legacy system with user experience artifacts.

The agents then organize complex data into functional requirements, actionable user stories and automated test scripts. This behavioral and functional insight is essential for complex systems modernization, ensuring that the modernized system maintains functional equivalence while meeting the current needs of its users.

By integrating their specialized tools like ReDuX into the AWS Transform ecosystem, partners can build composable transformations that combine their proprietary expertise with AWS’s intelligent automation, accelerating modernization timelines and reducing risk for customers. Visit GoReDuX.ai to learn more.

If you followed us on LinkedIn on Halloween 2019 you may remember our Karsun “Zombie Slayers” pledged to eliminate a common legacy system scourge, dead code. Six years later our zombie code toolkit has expanded to include artificial intelligence (AI). The ReDuX AI-powered modernization platform and its Blueprint Lenses help our agile teams identify threats early and address their presence as part of the modernization process rather than risking cascading issues after deployment.

Three Zombie Code Threats

Zombie code typically refers to sections of source code in a software project that are no longer used or needed but still exist within the codebase. These unused code segments may have been part of previous versions of the software or were once essential but have become obsolete due to changes in requirements, design, or functionality. This creates system scar tissue that further complicates and constrains modernization efforts.

We identified three threats that still haunt enterprise teams today: dead weight code, living dead code, and vulnerable dead code. 

1. Dead Weight Code is not related to any application functionality. Its lack of function leads to resource drain. Remediating this non-functional code siphons away developers’ time and energy creating rework and technical debt.
2. Living Dead Code is dormant code that retains the ability to be activated. Perhaps it supports a feature no longer used by the system. However, this code poses a direct risk because it can negatively impact system output when activated by mistake. In 2019 we recounted Knight Capital’s catastrophic loss of $440 million in 30 minutes. This code woke up a dead zombie method, which incorrectly generated orders, flooding the stock market with trades.
3. Vulnerable Dead Code consists of old libraries or packages. Vulnerable dead code introduces security risks because these old components have known security issues that are easy targets.

Identifying Dead Code with AI

Over the past six years we have honed our zombie fighting skills building the ReDuX platform. Accelerating modernization with AI, the ReDuX platform begins by providing in-depth legacy system insights. This not only helps Karsun agile teams design better modern systems, it helps us identify zombie risks early so they do not impact development later. 

The first step in our process is building a Blueprint of the legacy system then diving deeper with Blueprint Lenses. Legacy subject matter experts (SMEs) upload documentation, codebases, schema and other materials into ReDuX. Using AI ReDuX agents identify the relationships between system code and components. These agents then create several views, or lenses, to understand the system better. 

For instance, a team viewing their system in ReDuX could view their API calls, scroll through requirements and compare the code citations to ensure accuracy. As part of this process they can also identify orphan code. Thus beginning the dead code analysis process.

Addressing Zombie Code Threats with System Blueprinting

Here’s how we use AI-powered Blueprint agents to address the three types of zombie code.

1. Dead Weight Code is addressed using AI to generate system requirements. By matching those requirements with specific sections of code we can also determine when code exists that does contribute to meeting these functional requirements. By only extracting functional equivalents, rather than automatic conversion, we can then abandon this type of zombie code in the legacy system graveyard. 
   
2. Living Dead Code is addressed with AI by speeding up the discovery process. Now legacy SMEs can focus on the work of understanding how every component of the legacy system interacts with internal and external components. And, by fully generating system business rules and business logic they have a clearer picture of potential unintended consequences of living dead code.
   
   Teams can then proactively determine the code and system functionality they will extract from the old system to build the new system. More importantly they can do this incrementally, preserving the old system to build new components one functional slice at a time. This provides an additional backstop against living dead code.
   
3. Vulnerable Dead Code is also targeted by extracting only the code we need. Further by focusing on functional equivalents we can modernize to optimize. Using AI code companion agents for development, we replace these libraries with modern architecture that is secure by design.

Whether moving away from risky code or outdated components, time is of the essence when trying to outrun zombie code. Providing four times faster delivery with two times less rework ReDuX is an essential tool for our zombie slayer teams. If you’re facing a similar challenge, our AI empowered teams address complex legacy challenges for government organizations and enterprise teams with complex mission-critical applications. Learn more about our capabilities at https://karsun-llc.com/solutions/.

HERNDON, VA, OCTOBER 27, 2025 – Karsun Solutions, a leading technology modernization firm, is proud to announce that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Judewin Gabriel, Lead Cloud Architect, as a 2025 CRN Next-Gen Solution Provider Leader. This CRN list honors solution provider professionals who stand out for their innovative contributions to the growth and success of their organization. 

The annual list spotlights rising-star executives, managers and directors who are 40 years of age or younger and already demonstrate strong leadership capabilities in their roles with solution provider organizations, including technology integrators, VARs, MSPs, MSSPs and IT consultants.

“We are thrilled to celebrate this accomplishment with Judewin,” said Badri Sriraman, Senior Vice President Karsun Innovation Center. “His work on the ReDuX platform has positioned Karsun as an innovative systems integrator with results-driven experience.”

Judewin Gabriel is the Lead Cloud Architect for Karsun’s ReDuX AI-powered modernization platform. Using agentic AI ReDuX accelerates modernization. It analyzes complex legacy systems, translates code, generates requirements, plans migrations, writes code, and tests for functionality. It is a complete digital workforce for creating modern cloud-native applications. Learn more about ReDuX at GoReDuX.ai.

Using ReDuX Karsun teams can now deliver 4x faster with 2x less rework. Its teams provide modern software development, cloud, data, and AI/ML solutions to government agencies and enterprise organizations. It offers specialized expertise in acquisition, aviation, grants management, and fleet management systems modernization. Learn more about its enterprise modernization solutions at karsun-llc.com/solutions.

“The individuals named to CRN’s 2025 Next-Gen Solution Provider Leaders list have set themselves apart as driven pioneers in the early stages of their IT channel journeys,” said Jennifer Follett, Vice President, U.S. Content, Executive Editor at CRN, The Channel Company. “We celebrate their outstanding and inventive impact on their organizations and the broader IT channel. We’re excited to see how they continue to shape and strengthen the channel in the years ahead.”

The 2025 CRN Next-Gen Solution Provider Leaders list is available online at www.CRN.com/nextgen. 

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions modernizes legacy systems enabling government agencies and enterprise organizations to elevate mission capability. IT solutions from Karsun are tailored to meet mission-driven organizations’ unique needs and optimize operations. These solutions adapt and stay relevant to current trends while using secure, digital architecture built to last. It is a proven modernization partner whose expertise ensures every next opportunity is within reach. Learn more at Karsun-LLC.com.

About ReDuX

The ReDuX AI-powered platform expedites the modernization of mainframe and other legacy system applications. Key tools in the platform include its blueprinting agents, which provide deep insights into system structure and behavior, and its transformation agents, which use the outputs from the blueprinting agents to generate code and facilitate incremental migration. These agents also bring enhanced security and privacy, offering project-specific usability by interfacing with various systems, overcome hallucinations noted in large language models (LLMs), and provide proven prompt templates to save developers time and effort. Get started at GoReDuX.ai.

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HERNDON, VA., OCTOBER, 27, 2025 – Karsun Solutions, a leading technology modernization firm, announced that its ReDuX platform has achieved “Awardable” status through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace.

The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is the premier offering of Tradewinds, the Department of War’s (DoW’s) suite of tools and services designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), data, and analytics capabilities.

Karsun’s ReDuX platform accelerates the modernization of mainframe and other legacy system applications using agentic AI. The company’s modern software development, cloud, data, and AI/ML solutions are used by government agencies and enterprise organizations. In addition to mainframe modernization it offers specialized expertise in acquisition, aviation, grants management, and fleet management systems modernization.

“We are excited to join this premier marketplace for procuring AI/ML, data, and analytics solutions,” said Sundar Vaidyanathan, CEO of Karsun Solutions. “We look forward to addressing the DoW’s most significant modernization challenges.”

Karsun Solutions’ video, “ReDuX – AI Accelerated Modernization,” accessible only by government customers on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, presents an actual use case in which the company demonstrates the accelerated modernization of a mainframe application from discovery to delivery. Karsun Solutions was recognized among a competitive field of applicants to the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace whose solutions demonstrated innovation, scalability, and potential impact on DoW missions. Government customers interested in viewing the video solution can create a Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace account at tradewindAI.com.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions modernizes legacy systems enabling government agencies and enterprise organizations to elevate mission capability. IT solutions from Karsun are tailored to meet mission-driven organizations’ unique needs and optimize operations. These solutions adapt and stay relevant to current trends while using secure, digital architecture built to last. It is a proven modernization partner whose expertise ensures every next opportunity is within reach. Learn more at Karsun-LLC.com.

About ReDuX

The ReDuX AI-powered platform expedites the modernization of mainframe and other legacy system applications. Key tools in the platform include its blueprinting agents, which provide deep insights into system structure and behavior, and its transformation agents, which use the outputs from the blueprinting agents to generate code and facilitate incremental migration. These agents also bring enhanced security and privacy, offering project-specific usability by interfacing with various systems, overcome hallucinations noted in large language models (LLMs), and provide proven prompt templates to save developers time and effort. Get started at GoReDuX.ai.

For more information or media requests, contact the Karsun Marketing Team at marketing@karsun-llc.com.

About the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace

The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily awardable pitch videos that address the Department of War’s (DoW’s) most significant challenges in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), data, and analytics space. All awardable solutions have been assessed through complex scoring rubrics and competitive procedures and are available to Government customers with a Marketplace account. Government customers can create an account at www.tradewindai.com. Tradewinds is housed in the DoW’s Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office.

For more information or media requests, contact: Success@tradewindai.com

“Digitized isn’t modernized,” noted new Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia in a recent LinkedIn post. Here he advocates for an upgrade to the U.S. government’s approach to modernization. He argues that while agencies have replaced paper processes, they have largely replicated legacy processes in a new medium without re-engineering workflows. Thus, he calls for shifting from substitution to transformation.

Introducing the Product Mindset for Digital Transformation

That’s a process that goes beyond automating repetitive tasks. In the AI era, it means making data actionable, enabling collaboration and accelerating decision-making, changing behaviors alongside tools. That’s why Karsun uses a product mindset throughout the modernization process. Our teams consider not only project requirements but how users will interact with the modernized system. In fact, with 15+ years delivering software, cloud, and data solutions we have identified several key ways using this mindset enables digital transformation at a level expected by government decision makers.

The benefits of using a product mindset for digital transformation.

• Uses human-centered design (HCD) principles from the beginning. This ensures teams build using functional requirements that consider not only system structure, but user behavior and experience.
• Cloud native solutions, such as those built on microservices, enable secure, adaptable architecture empowering teams to adjust to changing requirements meeting future demands. 
• Applying HCD principles, a product mindset considers the experience of the teams seeking advanced analytics and business intelligence solutions to generate insights and make data driven decisions. This brings fresh data streaming and self-service enhancements, reducing the time to insights from weeks and months to hours and days.

Moreover, each of these benefits not only improves system performance, it limits future rework by addressing potential challenges early while providing the flexibility to adapt to future needs.

AI-Accelerated Digital Transformation

The AI era demands this approach. To be prepared for the agility gains from AI, government agencies and other large enterprises may need to consider using AI to accelerate the transformation to the new systems and processes available as a result of this revolutionary technology.  

We continuously enhance our ReDuX AI-powered modernization platform to accelerate this process. Unlike platforms that automate business rule extraction and transformation, ReDuX AI agents analyze system structure and behavior. After generating a comprehensive blueprint of the legacy system, we generate requirements that address user behavior. With the flexibility that comes from AI instead of automation, agile teams can reimagine their legacy system functionality, adding enhancements. Its transformation agents take inputs from human design teams and solution architects, generating modern, production ready code that satisfies these new functional requirements.

And these agents learn as they complete each functional slice of the modernized application. As the agile team engages in continuous, ongoing feedback with system stakeholders, improving both agents and human team members’ understanding of user needs improve together. Its AI-powered digital transformation that enhances rather than hinders human-centered design.

That’s not all, we found we can actually use AI for process improvement. In fact, our experts spoke on this topic at the annual CMMI conference in Phoenix, Arizona in 2024. For one customer that netted 4 times faster project delivery with double the improvement in code quality. This success is shared in a recent AWS Case Study. This data-driven approach, built on mature, intelligent AI solutions, is in part why Karsun was appraised at CMMI Level 5 (DEV) for a third time. 

At Karsun we know the power of a mindful approach to digital transformation. This product mindset, now supercharged by AI, is integrated into every aspect of our modernization process.
For more on our approach, discover why our Head of Experience told the Federal Tech Podcast modernization teams need to move on from “checking the box” on customer experience to creating processes that result in true transformation. If you’re ready to start your digital transformation journey today, connect with our team.

Experts from the Karsun ReDuX team recently joined the Fed to Fed podcast. Badri Sriraman and Judewin Gabriel joined Zack Schwartz, former CIO for the U.S. Department of Commerce, and Susan Sharer, CEO of GOVTECH CONNECTS and host of the Fed to Fed podcast. In this new episode, they discussed the use of artificial intelligence agents for rapid modernization. That includes legacy system challenges, overhyped AI, and crafting effective solutions given operational challenges.

An Urgent Need for Rapid Modernization

As they observe, the need for modernization is pervasive across government agencies. Driven by an expectation for faster, more robust, and bigger and better capabilities, today’s agencies demand speed and efficiency. Meanwhile, public expectations, shaped by advancements seen in the news, push government organizations further.

At the same time, federal leaders must balance the rise of overhyped AI solutions. These may not be fully vetted, lack support and fall flat in production environments. How then can systems integrators build trust while providing the rapid modernization solutions government agencies need?

ReDuX: The AI-First Modernization Platform Answer

To meet this demand for efficiency, agility, and accuracy, Karsun Solutions developed ReDuX, an AI-first platform that rethinks how modernization happens. It brings rapid modernization to legacy systems that have evolved over decades and often lack institutional knowledge. Even though this complexity increases risk, ReDuX moves beyond manual assessments to provide transparency and generate high quality, production ready code that requires less rework, speeding time to delivery.

How ReDuX Enables Rapid Modernization

• Multimodal AI agents build knowledge graphs from various inputs, including source code, documentation, schema information, and system demonstrations.
• Agents extract logic (APIs, batch jobs, user flows, calculations) and convert it into human-readable summaries, backed by citations.
• Agile teams review and assess legacy domains, then uncover user behaviors, business rules, data flows, and system architecture.
• Agents and teams translate business requirements into Given-When-Then (GWTs) for behavior-driven development (BDD). 
• Teams reimagine the modernized systems, generating new software capabilities while preserving required functionality and supporting automated testing, ensuring functional equivalence between old and new systems.
• Teams then mobilize agents that take this information and other inputs as they generate purpose-fit, production-ready code.

The result, two times reduced effort, two times improved quality, and four times reduced time to implementation. Moreover, ReDuX takes several steps to improve the trustworthiness of the outputs produced by its AI agents. That includes using human-in-the-loop to validate outputs, automated reprocessing, implementing formal methods that specify software behavior, and active learning. If mistakes slip through, the system enables teams to trigger automated reprocessing based on feedback, making the blueprint agents smarter and more reliable over time.

The Next Evolution: Autonomous AI Agents

Karsun Solutions has a 15-year history of large-scale modernization work for federal agencies, and Redux emerged from this experience. Now the ReDuX team is applying that experience by evolving their platform to use the latest technological development. Autonomous AI agents link together forming a digital workforce capable of handling everything from product user stories to technical and production tickets. These agents learn from feedback, adapt to priorities, and collaborate like a real team. This enables precise, focused micro tools and facilitates moldable development.

Listen to the podcast for a deep dive into their process. Ready to get unstuck? Connect with our team to start your AI-powered rapid modernization journey.

HERNDON, VA., JULY 30, 2025 – Karsun Solutions, a leading technology modernization firm, announced that its AI-powered modernization platform, ReDuX, is now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. This strategic availability provides government agencies and commercial enterprises with streamlined access to this innovative platform. ReDuX is available for purchase at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ewysxj3be4vra.

Using ReDuX, agencies can rapidly ramp-up their legacy modernization journey using agentic AI for every step of the software lifecycle from discovery to delivery. These agents create a 360 degree view of the legacy system, integrate structural and behavioral insights, extract functionality, then use that information as the platform orchestrates a digital workforce that accelerates the work of the agile teams engaged in modernization initiatives. Learn how ReDuX solves difficult modernization challenges at GoReDuX.ai.

“We are thrilled to see this platform developed in-house by our Karsun Innovation Center now available to the commercial market through the AWS Marketplace,” said Sundar Vaidyanathan, CEO of Karsun Solutions. “This strategic expansion makes our cutting-edge modernization capabilities accessible to a broader range of organizations, empowering them as they enhance their capabilities and meet their mission.”

Now available for both modernization teams and the enterprise organization they support, ReDuX is on the AWS Marketplace as a flexible Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering for immediate deployment or as a self-hosted solution for organizations requiring greater control over their infrastructure.

“Acquiring ReDuX via the AWS Marketplace is ideal for public sector teams looking to quickly access products that will accelerate the modernization of legacy systems,” said Badri Sriraman, Senior Vice President, Karsun Innovation Center. “For those teams modernizing systems written on COBOL, Assembly, Natural/ADABAS, or other outdated codes, this offers the opportunity to get unstuck without the long, protracted procurement processes.”

ReDuX on AWS Marketplace: Benefiting the Government Buyer

Purchasing modernization products via the AWS marketplace gives government agencies key benefits:

1. Accelerate procurement cycles with transactions in days rather than months, improving responsiveness to mission needs. The AWS Marketplace offers vetted software solutions. Agencies can acquire bundled solutions that include both software and implementation services through AWS Partner sellers. This supports end-to-end delivery without the need for separate RFPs or fragmented contracts, reducing acquisition risk and accelerating delivery timelines.
2. Built-In governance enables better tracking of software investment and usage across teams. AWS Marketplace provides centralized billing, license management, and reporting features in addition to tools for governance and access control. Using these resources, government customers can maintain tighter control over shadow IT and gain insights into utilization patterns to inform future acquisition strategies.
3. Access a diverse and modern vendor ecosystem for streamlined collaboration. Using AWS Marketplace, federal agencies can access thousands of commercial and public-sector-focused solutions across categories like zero trust, AI/ML, DevSecOps, data analytics, and legacy system modernization.
4. Flexible licensing and cost control align software spending with actual usage and mission tempo while reducing waste. AWS Marketplace supports pay-as-you-go models, term subscriptions, and enterprise license agreements. Customizable private offers enable negotiation of pricing, terms, and conditions tailored to government buyers.

Customers may also procure legacy modernization professional services directly through the AWS Marketplace at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ovm4yupjljktk.  This offers an ideal pathway for government entities to engage with Karsun’s team of over 300 enterprise modernization experts, ensuring successful implementation, integration, and optimization of ReDuX within their unique environments. Karsun experts have 15+ years of experience delivering large-scale modernization projects. Learn more about the organization’s modern software development, AI, cloud and data solutions at https://karsun-llc.com/solutions/.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions modernizes legacy systems enabling government agencies and enterprise organizations to elevate mission capability. IT solutions from Karsun are tailored to meet mission-driven organizations’ unique needs and optimize operations. These solutions adapt and stay relevant to current trends while using secure, digital architecture built to last. It is a proven modernization partner whose expertise ensures every next opportunity is within reach. Learn more at Karsun-LLC.com.

About ReDuX

The ReDuX AI-powered platform expedites the modernization of mainframe and other legacy system applications. Key tools in the platform include its blueprinting agents, which provide deep insights into system structure and behavior, and its transformation agents, which use the outputs from the blueprinting agents to generate code and facilitate incremental migration. These agents also bring enhanced security and privacy, offering project-specific usability by interfacing with various systems, overcome hallucinations noted in large language models (LLMs), and provide proven prompt templates to save developers time and effort. Get started at GoReDuX.ai.