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Velx Explorer – Discovery and Knowledge Extraction

Overview​

The first component of Velx is called Velx Explorer. It provides advanced automated system discovery, business rule extraction, architectural reconstruction, and AI-enhanced documentation generation for complex legacy and distributed systems.

This module serves as the foundation of the modernization lifecycle by transforming opaque legacy environments into structured, searchable, and visualized knowledge assets.

Velx performs deep static and structural analysis across multi-language codebases to reconstruct system topology and internal dependencies.

Capabilities​

Velx performs deep multi-language parsing across enterprise codebases, and is language independent: whether your project includes COBOL, Java, C#, PL/SQL, and other commonly used legacy and modern languages, ingestion is possible. The platform generates detailed reports that serve as the structural foundation for advanced analysis. You can explore different outputs, such as tech debt reports (with tips on how to solve them), C4 diagrams and more. The platform conducts both control flow and data flow analysis to understand how logic propagates through the system and how data moves across components.

The platform extracts cross-module dependency graphs to reveal structural relationships between services, libraries, and subsystems. It automatically discovers API definitions and interface contracts, identifying both internal and external communication boundaries. In addition, Velx maps configuration artifacts and runtime environment dependencies to provide a complete view of operational context. The system also detects integrations with external platforms, databases, messaging systems, and third-party services. Structural weaknesses such as circular dependencies, tight coupling, and architectural bottlenecks are identified and flagged.

Business rules, entities, business key concepts, and flow diagrams are extracted and documented as well, ensuring technical and non-technical users understand a system fully.

Reports are available at multiple levels of precision: repository-level, module/folder-level, and file-level. This means you can obtain design artifacts and code summaries for every aspect of your repository.

All generated artifacts are traceable to their original source locations, ensuring transparency, reproducibility, and enterprise-grade auditability. All artifacts are queryable through the Velx Explorer chat interface.

Generated Artifacts​

  • Executive system summaries
  • Technical architecture documentation
  • Code summaries (file-level, module-level, system-level)
  • Tech debt analysis
  • API documentation
  • Domain model documentation
  • Data dictionary
  • Refactoring recommendations

All AI outputs are context-grounded and reference underlying source components, allowing you to generate accurate documentation, reduce modernization risk, and build modernization strategies based on the real behavior of the system.