High-friction codebases are the silent killers of engineering roadmaps. While your business demands more features, your team is taxed by systemic complexity and "voodoo code" that no one dares to touch. Tikal’s AI-Powered Tech Debt Resolution is a governed solution that uses AI to refactor, decouple, and evolve core systems, without freezing your delivery pipeline.
This is Tikal’s end-to-end solution for Engineering leaders who need to reclaim engineering capacity and modernize continuously. Using the Strangler Fig pattern accelerated by AI, we map the legacy architecture, prove the transformation on a live module, then embed a squad of AI-native engineers directly into your engineering team to execute the migration at scale.
The solution is built on the agentic-sdlc-spec-kit and the team-ai-directives repository, which encode architectural governance as strict, version-controlled AI directives. We deploy AI-powered static analysis for system mapping, automated refactoring agents for code transformation, and AI-generated test suites for 1:1 logic parity validation. Every migration runs through the Strangler Fig pattern, fully integrated into your existing CI/CD pipeline on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Reclaim 40% of your engineering capacity by turning tech debt into high-velocity leverage.
Modernize core systems incrementally while your team keeps shipping new features, every sprint.
Map velocity killers and voodoo code using AI-driven static analysis, before touching legacy code.
Design a target architecture built around your business needs, not just to adopt new syntax.
AI generates behavior-driven test suites anchored to the original system, ensuring 1:1 logic parity.
Compress multi-year evolutions into months using AI refactoring agents for transpilation and logic extraction.
AI decodes legacy logic so your engineering leads fully own and maintain the new architecture.
Tikal's AI-Powered Tech Debt Resolution solution is a structured, continuous process designed to resolve high-priority debt and build a modern baseline, without stopping delivery.
We use AI to map the codebase, expose velocity killers, and measure cognitive load. We design an evolutionary target architecture (e.g., Angular to React, Monolith to Microservices) and encode all rules into the agentic-sdlc-spec-kit.
We isolate a high-friction legacy module and run a live modernization sprint. AI generates behavior-anchored tests before touching voodoo code. Refactoring agents handle transpilation and logic extraction, and we validate logic parity in production.
Once the POC is validated, Tikal's AI-native Squad embeds directly into your engineering team on retainer. Legacy modules are continuously migrated using AI agents while your developers keep shipping, with knowledge transfer and test generation built into every sprint.
Once the process is established, Tikal's AI-native Squad leads full-scale migration execution - from AngularJS to React, PHP to Node.js, monoliths to microservices, and beyond.
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