Visual Basic should be dead by now.

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And yet, tens of thousands of VB6 and early VB.NET systems are still running core operations inside banks, government agencies, and Fortune 500s, and they’re all mission-critical. They handle payroll, track licenses, and process transactions. 

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But here’s the problem: nobody knows how they work anymore and they embed the core knowledge that gives businesses a competitive advantage.

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For nearly 40% of VB systems, the original source code is gone. The people who built the systems have retired, the documentation is missing, and the business logic is buried inside tangled stored procedures written two decades ago.

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Welcome to legacy hell, where the IDC estimates $2.5 Trillion is spent globally to maintain legacy systems.

The longer these systems stick around, the worse it gets. They block cloud migration. They drain IT budgets. They introduce security vulnerabilities you can’t patch. Most importantly: they throttle innovation, because you can’t build modern workflows or use AI on a foundation no one understands.

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So IT teams do what they always do in these situations: they patch, they pray, and they pay.

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Why traditional modernization doesn’t cut it

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Conventional modernization methods fall apart when they hit this kind of technical debt. Others can’t trace stored procedures, can’t handle procedural logic, or can’t provide a clear migration path to modern architectures like microservices or cloud-native platforms.

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The result? Sky-high project costs, failed timelines, and systems that remain just as fragile, only now with more layers duct-taped on top.

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Stride 100x was built to change that.

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A modernization tool that actually works

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Stride 100x is the first platform purpose-built to modernize Visual Basic systems at enterprise scale, even when the source code is missing.

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Instead of trying to “rebuild from scratch,” 100x traces the compiled application binaries directly. It sees into the DLLs. It maps the stored procedures. It understands procedural logic and translates it into clean, modular services.

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Our proprietary AI understands how logic flows through compiled apps and legacy databases. It groups related functions into extractable “slices,” auto-generates business requirements, and even produces user stories to align engineering with business goals. It even lets you chat to functional slices to deeply understand the details of its functionality.

It’s not just code conversion, it’s real modernization.

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What does this mean in practice?

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It means you don’t have to spend $10 million and two years trying to untangle a VB system manually. With Stride 100x, teams are seeing up to 60% cost savings at 3x the speed of completion compared to traditional rewrite approaches and they’re delivering modernized systems that are easier to test, secure, and evolve.

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Cloud migration gets an AI. Development teams get unstuck. And leadership finally gets a path forward that doesn’t involve burning everything down.

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Do you have a system no one wants to touch?

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If your organization still relies on a Visual Basic system and you’ve been told it can’t be modernized, you’re not alone. Stride 100x was designed for exactly this: hard-to-reach legacy systems powering critical business functions. We’ve helped clients in finance, healthcare, logistics, and the public sector move from frozen VB codebases to secure, scalable platforms.

No risky rebuilds. Just real modernization, made possible.

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Let’s fix the systems that matter.

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