Bob the BuilderAI

Bob the BuilderAI is an AI-powered enterprise modernization platform built using IBM Bob to transform legacy business workflows into production-ready microservices. Enterprise teams often spend weeks manually analyzing legacy systems, extracting business logic, designing APIs, implementing backend services, writing tests, creating documentation, and preparing deployments. Our platform automates this entire modernization lifecycle through intelligent AI orchestration. Using IBM Bob’s repository-aware reasoning and multi-step workflow capabilities, Bob the BuilderAI analyzes legacy workflows and converts them into fully functional microservices with minimal human intervention. The system performs service boundary analysis, backend architecture generation, API design, automated testing, documentation generation, and deployment packaging through a coordinated multi-agent pipeline. For our proof of concept, we focused on an inventory management modernization scenario where the platform transforms legacy inventory logic into a deployable node js-based microservice with PostgreSQL integration, OpenAPI documentation, Docker support, CI/CD workflows, automated test coverage, and operational runbooks. Unlike traditional code-generation tools that only produce isolated snippets, Bob the BuilderAI demonstrates how AI can automate complete enterprise engineering workflows. The platform significantly reduces repetitive development effort, accelerates software modernization, improves developer productivity, and helps organizations modernize enterprise systems faster while maintaining production readiness and engineering quality.