AI/works™ Redefines Agile with Next-Gen AI-Driven Development

The launch of AI/works^TM, a new agentic development platform that sets the standard for modernizing legacy systems and creating new industrial-grade technology products and platforms in the AI era, was announced by Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that combines design, engineering, and AI to drive digital innovation.

The platform enables to develop better technology while significantly enhancing the cost-effectiveness of developing, maintaining, and running enterprise-grade technologies.

Many of the techniques that characterize contemporary software delivery, such as Agile, microservices, and continuous delivery, have been influenced by Thoughtworks for decades.

By combining requirements improvement, dynamic automated specification generation, agentic code generation and testing, and legacy system comprehension into a single platform designed for complex corporate environments, AI/works^TM carries on that legacy into the AI era.

Industry-wide use of AI is growing, but many businesses are still constrained by the disconnect between AI aspirations and legacy system realities. AI/works^TM is designed for the hybrid environments in which businesses function, whereas new agentic platforms frequently presume clean-slate architectures or limited productivity gains.

These entities are combined into a single, uninterrupted flow by AI/works^TM. Modernization cycles that used to take years can now be finished in months, with considerable cost savings and dramatic time-to-market improvements, all while producing higher-quality code, according to our first group of clients working on AI/works^TM.

The platform works well with top ecosystems including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake and supports Thoughtworks’ 3-3-3 delivery model, which offers a route from concept to production in 90 days. AI/works also facilitates deep mainframe regeneration through a partnership with Mechanical Orchard.

“Every CEO and CIO I meet is trying to unlock AI value inside the reality of their existing systems, not in idealized greenfield environments,”

said Mike Sutcliff, CEO of Thoughtworks.

“AI/works™ is built for those conditions. It understands the systems organizations have, accelerates the systems they need next and keeps everything current as the landscape shifts. The magic comes from the combination of the platform and our deeply talented technologists. Together they deliver results with speed and confidence.”

AI/works^TM interprets legacy programs and transforms them into structured specifications enhanced with industry, security, and regulatory context using AI-enabled reverse engineering. Agentic workflows that produce production-grade code, automated tests, and deployment pipelines are guided by these criteria.

As needs change after deployment, the platform constantly regenerates impacted components, minimizing the need for manual patching and preventing extensive rebuilds.

The field of agentic engineering is rapidly becoming competitive. Although a number of significant companies are joining the market, the majority of solutions concentrate on speeding up new code rather than addressing the fundamental issues that businesses encounter.

“AI/works™ stands out because it addresses the entire lifecycle, from understanding and renewing legacy systems to building what comes next,”

said R “Ray” Wang, CEO at Constellation Research.

“This sets a new bar for the category.”