A restaurant technology company needed to move its 13-year-old, iOS-only tablet application to Flutter and extend it to Android and Windows along the way. Coherent Solutions created an AI-driven development plan and delivered a working pilot in about six weeks. The pilot proved an AI-native migration approach on real, production-grade legacy code, while keeping how the app looked and behaved the same for end users.
Client: A U.S. restaurant technology company with a platform supporting multi-location foodservice operations.
Industry: Restaurant Technology.
Challenge: Migrating a 13-year-old, undocumented, iOS-only application Flutter across three platforms, with no visible change to the end-user experience.
Solution: A scoped, AI-driven migration pilot developed with defined SDLC-mapped skills and deliberate human checkpoints.
Outcome: Coherent’s team of two engineers delivered the pilot scoped in about six weeks, 75% faster than the client’s initial pilot timeline. The early pilot delivery cut the full migration's projected timeline from more than two years to about nine months.
Coherent's role: Long-standing mobile development partner, leading the end-to-end development of an AI-native migration pilot. Coherent also brought digital experience and data & analytics expertise to refine the app's user experience and how the client used the app's data.
The client runs a restaurant technology platform and is operating under new ownership following an acquisition. The mobile application at the center of this engagement was built 13 years ago and written natively in Objective-C and Swift for iOS tablets only. Coherent Solutions has served as the client's mobile development team for years and previously delivered a full rewrite of the same application using a traditional development approach.