About

We migrate the software running 8,000+ enterprises.

Oracle Forms still processes an estimated $3.2 trillion in business operations every year. The platform is 40 years old, the developers are retiring, and every modernization path on offer is broken. DEX Elements exists to fix that.

The story

DEX Elements was founded in 2024 to solve a problem we have watched fail for 25 years. Oracle Forms is the operational backbone of pharma, defense, finance, manufacturing, and public sector software. It is also a dead end. Oracle has stopped investing in new features, the developer pool is aging out, and the two paths customers are usually offered, a rewrite from scratch or a migration to Oracle APEX, both lose. Rewrites overrun budget by an order of magnitude and take down business logic that nobody documented. APEX keeps the customer locked into Oracle licensing forever.

We started DEX because the third path, a faithful migration that preserves every trigger, every LOV, every PL/SQL block, and lands in modern TypeScript with no vendor lock-in, did not exist as a product. So we built it: a parser, a runtime, a JSON descriptor layer, and the governed AI generation that sits on top.

The team

Anna Kowalska

Head of Product

Doctor of Law. Brings the enterprise compliance and procurement expertise that decides whether a modernization project ever leaves the pilot stage. Translates regulatory requirements into product constraints before the first line of code is written.

Rafal Cieplak

CTO and Co-founder

25 years of engineering, including time inside Oracle. Built the DEX framework and the migration engine that parses .fmb files into JSON descriptors. Has seen every flavor of legacy modernization fail from the inside, and built DEX as the answer.

Maciej Radzikowski

CEO and Co-founder

15 years scaling complex software platforms across B2B SaaS product and growth. Runs commercial, fundraising, and go-to-market. Spends most of his week with CIOs whose Oracle Forms estate is older than half their staff.

What we believe

  1. The best modernization is invisible to end users. If a controller logs in on Monday morning and notices that the application is faster but otherwise familiar, the migration worked. Re-training thousands of users is not a feature.
  2. AI is only useful when it is auditable. Free-form code generation is a liability in regulated environments. Every artifact DEX produces is a structured JSON descriptor that a human can read, diff, and approve.
  3. Compliance should be a generation property, not a review chore. SOX, GxP, HIPAA, and 21 CFR Part 11 controls belong in the framework. If the framework cannot produce a non-compliant output, the audit shrinks from months to days.
  4. Code ownership is non-negotiable. Customers get the source. Forever. No runtime royalties, no per-seat licenses on the generated application, no second migration in five years to escape us.

Where we are going

Through 2026 and 2027 we are focused on two products that share one engine: the Oracle Forms migration service that pays the bills today, and the DEX SaaS builder that lets enterprise teams generate new internal applications inside the same governed framework. We are raising a seed round to scale the migration team and put the SaaS builder in front of design partners. If you want the deck or the technical paper, we will send them.

Get in touch

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