Cognizant & Cognition save 37% at Odyssey Logistics
Wed, 7th Oct 2026 (Today)
Cognizant and Cognition have put an autonomous AI engineering project into production at Odyssey Logistics, delivering a 37 per cent net cost saving, according to Odyssey.
The project rebuilt parts of Odyssey's transportation management platform, moving them from legacy Microsoft Access and Visual Basic for Applications forms into cloud-native software. A seven-person Cognizant team used Cognition's AI software engineer, Devin, to convert legacy components and generate tests, deployment pipelines and documentation alongside the code.
Odyssey is a multimodal logistics provider with a freight network of more than USD $3 billion, serving industrial customers across chemicals, metals, food-grade products and other specialised markets. It is developing its OdysseyONE platform to support order intake, execution, visibility and lifecycle management across its network.
The latest phase consolidated order intake and the full shipment lifecycle onto that platform. The workflow logic had to be preserved during the migration, while the budget and delivery timeline left little room for a conventional rewrite.
According to the companies, delivery throughput rose by roughly one-third compared with a conventional approach. The current phase is now live, and the wider programme is continuing.
Cognizant and Cognition have worked together since 2024 and began a dedicated AI engineering collaboration in January 2026. The arrangement combines Cognition's Devin software with Cognizant's engineering teams, which review and approve code changes before they are merged.
Cognizant said it has trained more than 3,000 associates on the Devin platform. It said its internal use of the system has cut the time needed to reach release-ready code by more than 50 per cent and increased the speed of greenfield development by five to six times.
Broader rollout
The companies said they have built a broader set of joint services around the software. These include a modernisation and upgrade service designed to automate conversion, templating, migration, testing and fixes at scale, as well as a quality engineering service that uses Devin to identify test coverage gaps and help generate test cases.
They also pointed to a Frontier AI Cyber Defence offering built on a Devin-based setup. Cognizant leads the solution and delivery model, giving clients a single delivery partner, the companies said.
Before starting the transportation management platform redevelopment, Odyssey tested the approach on a separate legacy application. That earlier project was completed 21 days after kickoff, the companies said, helping persuade Odyssey to apply the same model to a larger production system.
Tarun Kumar, Americas Head, Software Engineering Group, Cognizant, said software engineering is shifting rapidly as autonomous agents take on more development work.
"Software engineering is changing faster than anything I have seen in my career," Kumar said.
"Autonomous agents change the economics of modernization and what an enterprise can realistically do. As an AI Builder, our work aims to put that capability into the systems businesses depend on every day. What Odyssey is doing is a preview of how enterprise engineering will run," he said.
For Odyssey, the project is part of a broader effort to apply AI in targeted operational areas rather than treat it as a stand-alone technology initiative.
"Modernization only matters if it changes the business outcome," said Maneet Singh, Chief Information Officer and Chief Digital Officer, Odyssey Logistics. "For us, this was about moving faster without compromising discipline. Cognizant and Cognition helped us turn a complex legacy rebuild into a practical, governed path to production, with clear accountability around every change. That is the model we are applying more broadly across Odyssey now: use AI where it creates measurable value, keep people in control of the decisions that matter and make technology a driver of business performance, not just an IT project."
Art Levy, Vice President Global Partnerships, Cognition, said the Odyssey project provides a commercial example of how autonomous AI engineering can be used in enterprise modernisation programmes.
"Our customer Odyssey directly proves the business case for autonomous AI engineering. Enterprises can move faster without giving up quality, and a complex modernization becomes a governed, repeatable path," Levy said. "With Devin working alongside the engineering team, the budget and people that would have gone into a year-long rebuild go toward strategic work that drives the business. Together with Cognizant's world-class enablement, we make that possible at massive scale."