Report – Everest Group & R Systems: Agentic AI 2026 – The Midmarket Playbook for Scale
Grounded in data from ~200 mid-market enterprise leaders.
“Speed, without architectural judgement, compounds risk.”
Modernizing legacy systems isn’t a translation problem, it’s a design decision. This point of view makes the case against AI-based code conversion, arguing that lifting and shifting legacy code into a new stack only reformats technical debt rather than eliminating it. Instead, the EXIQO Greenfield-First methodology rebuilds systems with architectural intent, understanding legacy behavior first, then designing what comes next with clarity and the capacity to evolve.
AI maps the system, but engineers guide the process. Logic, dependencies, and risks are surfaced automatically, then validated by human experts before any change begins.
One agent builds. Another validates. Together, they ensure every outcome is accurate, consistent, and aligned with intended behaviour.
Complete visibility into your system before modernization begins, so nothing is hidden and no surprises emerge later.
Everything is mapped before anything changes, so what you see upfront is exactly what runs later.
What’s in your system gets documented and preserved, so nothing critical is lost along the way.
Up to 60% less manual variation, fewer unexpected issues, and results that stay consistent across delivery.
Licensing often accounts for ~25% of total IT spend. We focus on reducing that cost from the start.
AI helps accelerate the work, but key decisions stay with trained agents. Human checkpoints at every critical step.
Clean-slate architecture means no inherited constraints. The system grows with you, not against you.
Grounded in data from ~200 mid-market enterprise leaders.
EXIQO™, the AI Studio by R Systems combines enterprise context,…
RSI is a trusted software engineering and digital transformation services partner to global enterprises navigating technological change. RSI enables technology companies, SaaS platforms, and enterprises to solve real-world challenges, accelerate time to market, and scale AI-driven innovation across the full software development lifecycle and business automation. With proven AI fluency at every layer of the technology stack, RSI helps clients not only adopt AI, but operationalize it, embedding intelligence into products, platforms, and processes. RSI’s AI Studio, EXIQO, brings together AIEV-trained engineers (RSI’s proficiency-based certification framework across AI, to drive engineering velocity) and the enterprise-ready Optima AI platform to orchestrate and deliver AI-led transformation.
