Summary
Industry
Media & Entertainment
Use Case
Legacy System Modernisation & Cloud Migration
Platform
Serverless Cloud Architecture (AWS)
Technology Stack
AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, DynamoDB
Client
NDA
About the client
humaniseAI’s Talent team worked with a provider of accounting software for film production companies, whose own clients include major studios and production houses. The client’s platform still ran on Clarion, an ageing language that was starting to limit both performance and security as the business grew.
The challenge
Growth was exposing the limits of a decades-old foundation.
Core infrastructure ran on Clarion, a legacy, hard-to-scale language
Authentication was weak, leaving sensitive financial data exposed
Internal processes lacked structure, causing scope and resourcing issues
Growing traffic was starting to degrade performance during peak periods
Budget constraints ruled out simply adding more infrastructure to the problem
What we did
humaniseAI’s Talent team modernised the platform’s foundation, not just its interface.
Rebuilt authentication on AWS with multi-factor and role-based access control
Added a data access layer with better queries and database indexing
Introduced caching and connection pooling to hold up under peak traffic
Validated and sanitised data inputs to close off injection vulnerabilities
Moved the backend to a serverless AWS architecture to cut infrastructure cost
Results
Faster Data Retrieval: Cut information retrieval time down to 0.2 milliseconds
Stronger Security: Multi-factor and role-based access closed off major vulnerabilities
Lower Infrastructure Cost: Serverless architecture cut costs while adding headroom
Built to Scale: The new architecture scales automatically with demand
Modernised Foundation: A legacy Clarion system became a maintainable, current stack
Takeaway
humaniseAI’s Talent team took a legacy system built on a language most engineers have never heard of, and turned it into infrastructure that scales on its own.