Girofella Demolition Co. — est. whenever your system was.
Admire nothing. Smash everything.
Girofella: consultancy and execution, migrating legacy software to autonomous, agent-built systems.
Every exhibit: moved — or movable.
Which wing are you from?
Another wingTHE HALL OF HORRORS
Swing three times. Watch what the agents catch.
Each plinth holds a real species of legacy system: mainframe batches, interface spiderwebs, god classes with forty thousand opinions. Swing, and the exhibit shatters into the code it always was. Nothing is wasted — agents net every shard, pin down what the old code truly did, and rebuild it module by module until parity is proven. This is the service in miniature: Girofella does precisely this, with the same agents and the same nets, to estates like yours.
The Permanent Collection
exhibits on arrival · hammer provided at the door
Each plaque tells the truth about one aging system: the pain as it runs today, and — once the agents have rebuilt it — the outcome a migration of this kind is built to reach. The full stories live in the exhibit list below.
— the curator, waxing the mainframe
Pick an exhibit. Take the hammer. Three swings and it's rubble.
THE METHOD CLOISTER
Five steps, woven in wool. Each one is checked against what your system really does.
Before you smash another exhibit, the cloister shows how it is done properly: the five-step Girofella method, woven in wool because our founders believed durable work should look like it takes years. The work takes months; the wool is traditional.
The Security Wing
The first question about agents on a core system is where they run and what they can see. Plain answers:
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Where the agents run
Inside your environment, or on infrastructure you approve. Nothing runs on our machines unless you ask for that.
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Does your code leave your network?
It does not have to. The agents can work entirely inside your boundary; anything that crosses it is agreed with you first, in writing.
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Who decides
People do. Every module waits for sign-off from your team before it replaces anything, and you can stop the work at any gate.
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What is recorded
Every agent action, test run and decision is logged with what changed and who approved it, so your auditors can follow the trail end to end.
We do not claim certifications we do not hold. Ask us for the detail your risk team needs.
THE GALLERY OF BASEMENTS
32 exhibits, each with a pain plaque and an outcome plaque.
32 industries, 32 exhibits, and every frame holds a kind of system that is still running somewhere tonight. Read the pain plaques first; they are accurate and slightly tragic. The figures on the outcome plaques are artist's reconstructions, like the dinosaurs: what a migration of this kind is built to reach, not results from a named client. Start with whichever pain plaque you recognise as your own.
THE GIFT SHOP OF REBUILT MODULES
Take home what a migration actually leaves behind.
Every demolition leaves something behind, and we would rather you carried it home than left it in a skip. The shelves are stocked with what a Girofella migration actually produces: parity suites, living documentation, agents on permanent watch. Prices in gilt tokens; no refunds on proven behaviour.
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The Parity Suite
Every behaviour the old system had, pinned under glass. Includes the bugs the business had grown fond of.
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Living Documentation
The map that redraws itself. Never again ask a retiring contractor where anything is.
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Agents on Watch
The 24/7 shift, bottled. They watch, test, repair and improve; you sleep.
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Nine Hours, Compressed
The nightly batch, former tenant of a mainframe window, reconstructed as a forty-minute sport.
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The Receipts
Every characterization test, every parity report, every human checkpoint. Signed, shelved, heavy.
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Strangler Fig, Potted
For systems that should be outgrown, not smashed. It envelops the old branch by branch and composts it into documentation.
THE CURATOR'S OFFICE
Commissions taken. Pity is free.
Past the gift shop the curator keeps a small office with one blotter and an unreasonably good quill. Commissions begin here, as a walkthrough of your estate rather than a pitch. He will ask what the system actually does; nobody has ever known, and it is entirely fine. Girofella is here for the businesses that run on systems nobody can retire: we plan the migration and we carry it out, down to the last agent.
The first conversation is a walkthrough of your estate, not a pitch. Girofella is consultancy and execution: we map what you have, pin its behaviour with characterization tests, and rebuild it piece by piece into autonomous, agentic software — your signature on every gate, no big bang, no surprises.
Hours: while your system is awake. Closed during the nightly batch — the curator watches that one personally.