BotMan AI uses knowledge graphs for legacy modernization
SiliconANGLE Devony Hof
BotMan AI is using knowledge graphs to modernize old software. It aims to give AI the missing piece: context, not just code.
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Legacy modernization usually sounds like a code problem. BotMan AI is treating it like a context problem instead, building an AI-powered migration pipeline that maps an application’s dependencies, business logic and data models into a knowledge graph before anything gets rebuilt.
Founder and CTO Alejandro D’Andrea says the point is not to translate old code line by line. The company is re-architecting systems, including ones built on Delphi, Visual Basic and Oracle Forms, and it says the whole application is ingested at once and migrated fully autonomously. That graph then becomes the memory layer for the rebuild.
D’Andrea’s argument is simple: agents don’t fail because they lack intelligence, they fail because they lack context. If a system already knows how code, data and rules fit together, the agent does not need to be briefed from scratch every time it takes on a task.
He gave a legal-document example. Once relationships are created between a document and the project, loss or lawsuit it connects to, that work only has to happen once. After that, any agent assigned a task can pull the relevant links from the graph without rediscovering them.
BotMan also uses entities to tie unstructured information together. A person, project or product can anchor messages and documents that would otherwise sit in separate corners of the system. In D’Andrea’s telling, that helps the software figure out where a new piece of information belongs and what else it should be connected to.
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This is the part of AI people keep skipping: context is the product, not the garnish. Anyone selling “just let the model figure it out” is basically handing a new hire a pile of boxes and a smile. Knowledge graphs are old-school enough to be unfashionable, which is usually a good sign.
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