Rebuild the software that keeps your business in motion

Bring your legacy systems up to speed—without interrupting production

Built to last —but too long ago

Decades-old software run so much: supply chains, dealer networks, warranty products, financing. Those systems have gone the distance; now it’s time to open the road to new services, smarter operations, and faster innovation.

Recreate and Deliver

Based on our learnings, we build a perfect replica of this component in a secure cloud environment where it’s subject to rigorous performance and functional criteria before it goes live. Now this component is modern, tested, instrumented and well understood. Most importantly, it’s ready for innovation—while running smoothly with the rest of the legacy system.

Repeat and Innovate

The process iterates with the next component until the entire system has deployed into the cloud environment. Each subsequent component could take progressively less time through applying our AI tools and organizational learnings.

Because we only work with a single component at a time, each one has a proven fallback method. This profoundly limits the risk to your living, breathing system at any given time.

Drive change without hitting the brakes

Mechanical Orchard’s Imogen modernization platform rewrites mainframe systems into modern code that’s ready to hit the road when you are, without disrupting what’s already running.

About Imogen®

The conventional modernization model relies on large teams, a patchwork of vendor tools, some of which use AI, and a sequence of phases — analysis, code transpilation, then a long, uncertain stretch of integration and regression testing. After what are often years of effort, success hinges on a single, high-stakes moment to see if everything actually works. Most of the time, it doesn't.

Instead of focusing on code, Imogen captures how individual workloads actually behave — through real data flows — and rewrites that behavior into modern code. By creating a rapid loop of generation and validation against actual production data as each workload is rewritten, Imogen eliminates the long, uncertain integration phase that has defined — and derailed — conventional modernization efforts.

Rather than applying generative AI directly to code translation, Imogen first builds a precise behavioral specification from the running system, then applies a closed loop of rapid code generation and verification against those specifications. The result is software that is audit-quality, idiomatic, and genuinely ready for what comes next — not just syntactically modern.

While the methodology works for any legacy system, our data capture technology is optimized to automate the modernization process for the following mainframe technologies.

OL

Easytrieve

PL/1

Assembler

CICS

IMS

ISAM

IDMS DB

DB2

VSAM

IDMS ADS

Automotive enterprises regain flexibility to adapt to government regulations, market incentives, and uncover new sources of aftermarket revenue—all without the cost and risk of a massive system rewrite.

Imogen for industries

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Playing in picture-in-picture

The Mechanical Orchard approach reduces risks

The Mechanical Orchard engagement approach is designed to reduce risk and demonstrate meaningful progress at every step.

The Exploratory Workshop

What is the most critical business application? What's connected to it?

The Pilot -

Can it be done? What will it take? Build initial roadmap

The Steel Thread

Get to production Address risk early Validate the approach

Accelerate -

Tune for speed Clear remaining risks Tackle remaining mass Make future change easy

1. Exploratory Workshop

In the Exploratory Workshop, we will learn about you, your business, and your biggest pain points when it comes to your legacy system. The goal is to understand the most impactful path forward to show success early and often. Together, we’ll identify the best starting point for modernizing—it could be a system component or a single workflow. We’ll gather the information we need to identify the top risks associated with modernizing this particular component and get a sense of the degree of complexity.

"During our exploratory workshop, Mechanical Orchard identified, inventoried, and ranked current and potential future risks of the system, along with recommended strategies for mitigation in the modernization process."

2. Pilot

The goal of the Pilot is to deliver the component or workflow selected in the Exploratory Workshop as working software in a test environment. As part of this, we’ll interview key stakeholders, review documentation and user manuals, and use various tools to get a deep understanding of the system, its behavior, and its context.

3. Steel Thread

In the Steel Thread phase, we’ll deliver the selected component or workflow into production—only after all of us are confident it’s performing well enough to cut over into the cloud. This cloud environment is fully provisioned and secure to your specifications, and works hand-in-hand with the legacy environment to minimize disruption.

4. Accelerate and Innovate

By the Accelerate and Innovate phase, all major risks have been identified and addressed. At this point, we tackle the remaining mass of the overall system, continually tuning for speed. Our Pollux equivalence monitoring system ensures that each incremental component meets or exceeds existing performance and functional requirements before it’s deployed into the cloud.

Your new legacy starts here.

We believe that every company deserves to realize their vision, free of constraints from the past. Our team's technology, and experience can help them move into this evolving version safely, reliably, fearlessly.