Solutions
Move forward with structural certainty.
Every migration starts with the same question: what breaks if we change this? Axiom Refract answers it with evidence — dependency graphs, blast radius data, and a prioritized plan computed from your actual codebase structure.
The fear is rational. The paralysis isn't.
Teams delay migrations because they're afraid of what they don't know. That fear is justified — most migration failures come from incomplete understanding of the system. But the answer isn't to wait. It's to get the data.
We'll break something critical.
Without a dependency graph, you're right — you probably will. With blast radius data, you know exactly what “breaking something” means for every file you plan to change.
We don't know what's safe to remove.
Axiom Refract identifies dead files, dead functions, and orphaned database tables. These are code paths with zero inbound references — provably safe to remove. Start there.
The estimate will be wrong.
Estimates fail because they're based on incomplete information. A migration plan built on dependency graphs, centrality metrics, and blast radius calculations gives your estimates a structural foundation instead of gut feel.
Nobody understands the legacy system.
That's exactly the problem Axiom Refract solves. The architecture is computed from the code itself — AST-parsed, dependency-mapped, zone-clustered. The system's structure is documented whether anyone on the team understands it or not.
Axiom's migration plan.
Dead Code Removal
Start with what's provably safe. Axiom Refract identifies files and functions with zero inbound references — code that exists but is never called. Removing dead code reduces surface area, simplifies the dependency graph, and eliminates maintenance burden on code that serves no purpose.
Recoverable lines of code quantified.
SPOF Mitigation
Single points of failure are files where a single change cascades across the system. Axiom Refract identifies every SPOF, quantifies its blast radius (direct dependents, transitive dependents, affected zones), and prioritizes them by structural risk — not by how recently someone complained about them.
Blast radius and affected zones per SPOF.
Ghost Method Resolution
Symbols called but never defined are ticking time bombs. The migration plan includes every ghost method, its call site count, and likely source — so you can resolve phantom references before they become runtime failures in production.
Call sites per ghost method, prioritized by exposure.
Evidence-Based Refactoring Priorities
Not all refactoring is equal. Axiom Refract ranks refactoring candidates by composite score — combining centrality, complexity, dependency count, and SPOF status. The files that benefit most from refactoring surface first. The ones that are fine stay off the list.
Composite risk score per refactoring candidate.
Evidence, not opinion.
Most migration plans are built in spreadsheets by the most senior engineer who remembers how the system was supposed to work. Axiom Refract's migration plan is computed from the code itself — every dependency, every call path, every structural risk is quantified.
The plan is available in the web viewer for interactive exploration, in JSON for programmatic consumption, and via MCP so your AI agents can factor migration risk into every code change they suggest.
You still make the decisions. But now those decisions are based on structural evidence, not institutional memory.
Get a migration plan based on evidence, not guesswork.
Upload your repository. Axiom Refract computes dead code, SPOFs, ghost methods, and refactoring priorities — then delivers a sequenced migration plan you can actually execute.