About Solanko

Thirty years of keeping the lights on. Now building what comes next.

Solanko Consulting is JK Grafe's practice: one senior engineer, a bench of working AI agents, and three decades with the systems a business can't afford to break.

The story

Three chapters, one rule: modernize without losing what works.

The IBM i years

JK spent three decades inside IBM i and AS/400 systems: RPG and CL that ran real businesses, from orders and inventory to invoices and payroll, for companies that could not afford a bad night. It teaches one lesson above all others. The system that runs the business deserves respect, not a rewrite fantasy.

Python, cloud and models

He extended that work into Python, cloud infrastructure and machine learning: converting what needed converting, leaving alone what did not, and mentoring in-house teams into the modern stacks so the knowledge stayed where it belonged.

Working agents

Then the tools changed. JK started building AI agents to run his own company: its infrastructure, its security, its website, its lead pipeline. They did real work, as long as a human set the rules and stayed accountable. That is what Solanko sells today.

We don't just convert. We evolve.

Solanko today

One human lead. A bench of agents. A company that runs on them.

Before an agent goes near a client, it has already been working inside Solanko. Our infrastructure, security-key rotation, website deploys, certificate monitoring and our entire lead pipeline are operated by agents we built, and supervised by JK every day.

Meet the bench IBM i modernization

Company facts

The short version.

Legal entitySolanko Consulting, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
Founder and principalJK Grafe. He scopes the work, reviews the changes, and is the person you call.
What we doWorking AI agents and IBM i modernization for civilian and defense contractors.
How we workA senior human lead with a bench of specialized agents. Every agent works under a named human who is accountable for the outcome. How we work →
Our own agentsLola, Cola, Argus and Rola run Solanko's own operations: infrastructure, the lead pipeline, monitoring and client work.
Contactjk@solanko.net · (239) 518-6118 · Signal via the contact page.

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