GAPVelocity AI, the AI modernization business unit of Growth Acceleration Partners, has announced VELO for VB6, an agentic AI platform that converts Visual Basic 6 applications into Blazor and C# .NET applications for Microsoft Azure. Delivered today as a managed service, the platform provides beta-ready code at a price agreed before work begins, with self-service availability planned for November.
The launch addresses the critical challenge of legacy application modernization, where business-critical VB6 applications still in production contain decades of embedded business logic that organizations cannot afford to lose during migration to modern cloud-native architectures.
VELO for VB6 is an agentic AI modernization platform designed to transform legacy Visual Basic 6 applications into modern Blazor and .NET applications optimized for Microsoft Azure. Unlike basic code translators, the platform carries forward business rules embedded in decades of VB6 code while delivering modern, maintainable cloud-native applications.
Built on Microsoft Foundry, VELO applies a purpose-built modernization methodology that inventories the application, maps its target architecture, converts the code, and validates the result against the original behavior.
VB6 modernization requires more than translating individual files. It means untangling dependencies across forms, modules, ActiveX controls, and data access code while maintaining a coherent application architecture.
VELO addresses this complexity through specialized AI agents that work together to analyze application dependencies, preserve critical business logic, and ensure architectural coherence in the modernized Blazor and .NET output. The platform ensures that .NET Blazor advantages over VB6 are fully realized, including improved performance, security, and Azure cloud integration.
The team behind VELO built the original Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio. Through its ArtinSoft and Mobilize.Net heritage, GAPVelocity AI brings decades of migration experience and more than a billion lines of modernized legacy code to the platform.
This heritage enables a fixed investment model, where customers receive a price agreement before modernization begins, reducing risk for enterprises undertaking legacy application transformation initiatives.
GAPVelocity AI will demonstrate the platform in "From VB6 to Blazor: See AI Modernization in Action," on September 16 at 11:00 a.m. ET. To request a free assessment or sign up for self-service early access.
“Every VB6 application still in production is there because it does something the business cannot live without,” said Darryl Worsham, General Manager of GAPVelocity AI. “VELO carries that business logic forward and gives customers a fixed investment price before the work begins.”
About GAPVelocity AI
GAPVelocity AI is the AI modernization business unit of Growth Acceleration Partners (GAP). Its VELO platform uses purpose-built AI agents to modernize legacy applications for Blazor, .NET, and Microsoft Azure. GAPVelocity AI is a Microsoft Solutions Partner.
