Your software already runs the business. We make it run the AI age.
CBSI builds new systems, modernizes legacy ones, and puts working AI inside the software your company depends on. One senior engineer-owner: the person who designs your system is the person who writes it.
Four ways we ship.
Every engagement starts by figuring out which of these the problem actually needs. Most blend two or three.
Custom software, end to end
The line-of-business systems your company actually runs on: quoting, scheduling, policy administration, billing. Designed and written by the same senior engineer who answers the phone.
Legacy modernization
That fifteen-year-old system still doing its job doesn't need a rewrite. It needs cloud plumbing, clean integrations, and a path to AI, without losing what took a decade to get right.
AI agents in your existing software
Working AI inside systems you already own: drafting, triaging, reconciling, reporting. Scoped, evaluated, production-grade. Not a chatbot bolted to the side.
Data you can bet the business on
SQL Server architecture, query and index tuning, schema design that ages well, and Power BI reporting for the people who actually have to read it.
We built and operated a multi-state insurance platform.
iComp, CBSI's workers' compensation and general-liability processing system, covered the complete business cycle for carriers, TPAs, and self-insured funds. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner work, tested against Microsoft platform standards.
If you operate insurance software, we already speak your language.
Three things that hold across every cycle.
Built across cycles
Shipped through every platform shift since the LAN: desktop, client-server, web, cloud, now AI. The job hasn't changed. The tools have.
Owner-operator
The senior person designing your system is the same one writing it. No hand-off to a junior consultant after the contract signs.
AI-native by default
We use the AI tooling we recommend, daily, on real codebases. The recommendations are load-bearing in our own work.
Field notes on AI in real software.
Plain-language writing on putting AI into shipping systems. No hype.
Spending more was never the AI strategy
For two years the answer to almost every AI question was to buy the biggest model and approve the budget. That era is closing. Five practices for teams that now have to get the same result for less, and the one number worth reporting.
AI adoption stalls when the team has no memory
Most teams hand out AI coding licenses, call it a transformation, and plateau at thirty percent adoption six months later. The tools are not the problem. The team has nowhere to keep what it learns.
The person who answers is the person who builds.
Mustapha Derzi co-founded CBSI in 1989 and has shipped business software through every platform cycle since, including a multi-state insurance platform and, today, AI agents running in production.
Tell us what you're running.
We take a small number of engagements per year. If what you need isn't a fit, we'll tell you straight, and point you somewhere better.
P.O. Box 77021
Baton Rouge, LA 70879