Istari Labs

An AI research lab deployingintelligent systems at scale

Capabilities

Capabilities

Codebase Modernization

Legacy systems are dead weight. They’re slow, expensive to maintain, and impossible to hire for. We rip them out — COBOL, FORTRAN, old Java monoliths — and replace them with modern, maintainable code that your team can actually work with. Full rewrites or incremental migrations. Zero downtime. Shipped continuously. The end result is a codebase that moves at the speed of your mission, not the speed of your technical debt.

Autonomous Engineering

AI is a force multiplier. By leveraging agentic coding tools, 10x engineers become 100x engineers. But a force multiplier on mediocrity is still mediocrity — the tools are only as good as the engineers wielding them. Our AI agents plan, write, test, and deploy code end-to-end in production. We complete projects in a fraction of the time it would take a traditional government contracting team. Every output is tested, reviewed, and production-grade. This isn’t copilot-assisted development. This is autonomous execution with human oversight.

Custom AI Systems

Off-the-shelf AI tools solve generic problems. Your problems aren’t generic. We build AI systems purpose-built for your operations — contract review, logistics optimization, intelligence analysis, maintenance scheduling, whatever the bottleneck is. Trained on your data. Integrated into your workflows. Deployed on your infrastructure. They get better the longer they run because they’re learning from your operations.

Enterprise Integration

We don’t ask you to rip and replace your stack and we don’t sell you a platform. We work directly within your existing tools, workflows, and compliance requirements — no lock-in, no multi-month onboarding cycles. Just immediate, compounding improvements to the systems you already rely on.

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