PARIS and NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CAST, a leader in software mapping and intelligence technology, today announced the launch of ‘Ask CAST’ for CAST Highlight clients. The new capability gives IT leaders and their broader teams conversational access to trusted insights about their software portfolios, helping them move faster on critical initiatives such as reducing technical debt, speeding modernization, strengthening security, and deploying AI.
As enterprise software estates balloon in size and complexity, IT teams are under unprecedented strain to deliver results without waiting weeks for specific information and analysis. ‘Ask CAST’ allows them to hold expert-level conversations and build plans with their AI assistant grounded in CAST’s 100% deterministic data. With the facts in-hand, teams can swiftly identify opportunities, prioritize actions, and accelerate outcomes.
“Instant answers enable instant action,” said Greg Rivera, VP of Product at CAST. “Whether it’s a strategic priority or an urgent threat, an executive decision or a complex project, ‘Ask CAST’ removes the friction that historically slows everyone down. With CAST, you can do it right, and you can do it right now.”
‘Ask CAST’ works seamlessly in the digital environments where IT work happens. It’s available in Microsoft Teams, AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Google Gemini, as well as other tools that support the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Its conversational interface requires no training, allowing users to investigate options and find the shortest path to progress within their existing workflows and tools.
Using ‘Ask CAST’, CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects, and their organizations can:
- Simplify portfolio decisions by exploring where applications can be consolidated, retired, or transformed without creating unacceptable business risk.
- Speed technical debt reduction by locating the debt creating the most business risk, comparing remediation options, and determining the best sequence of work.
- Accelerate modernization by identifying which applications to address first, uncovering blockers, estimating effort, and evaluating cloud readiness.
- Advance AI initiatives by determining which applications are best suited for agentic augmentation and which changes will deliver the greatest returns.
Teams can now conduct deep conversations around topics such as:
- Which applications are the best candidates for AI augmentation?
- Where is our most critical technical debt, and what can we eliminate now?
- Which applications should we modernize first, and what could slow us down?
- Where are we exposed to new vulnerabilities, and what should we fix first?
- Which applications could we move to the cloud with the least effort?
Ask CAST is available to CAST Highlight clients now.
About CAST
Businesses move faster using CAST to understand, improve, and transform their software. Through semantic analysis of source code, CAST generates insights, 3D maps, and call graphs for executives, technologists, and AI to navigate inside individual applications and across entire portfolios. This intelligence enables companies to steer, speed, and report on initiatives such as technical debt, modernization, and cloud. As the pioneer of the software intelligence field, CAST is trusted by the world’s leading companies and governments, their consultancies and cloud providers. See it all at castsoftware.com.
