Intent is extracted, not invented

Legacy systems rarely describe themselves cleanly. Their business intent is distributed across procedures, dependencies, data formats, exception paths, and operational habits. A modernization layer has to read that system before it rewrites it.

A queryable intent model gives engineers and AI systems a shared substrate. Instead of guessing what a program should do from a prompt, the modernization process asks questions of the source itself and carries those answers forward.

The model becomes the control plane

Once the intent model exists, it can guide generation, structure verification, explain evidence, and persist as a baseline. That continuity is what turns modernization from a one-time rewrite into a governed engineering practice.