Imogen by Mechanical Orchard

Built by the creators of Pivotal Labs, Imogen is an end-to-end platform for modernizing mainframe applications safely, reliably, and without disruption. Through Mechanical Orchard’s behavior-first approach, Imogen accelerates modernization in a way that is fully trusted, continuously verified, and free of the risks that plague traditional methods. Unlike traditional “lift and shift” or code transpilation approaches, Imogen uses actual data inputs and outputs to determine system behavior, which serves as the specification for an AI-powered incremental rewrite that results in equivalent behavior in modern, cloud-ready code.

By capturing data flows, Imogen makes visible batch job behavior and their interdependencies throughout the modernization process, helping teams make better decisions on where to start and how to make the fastest progress. This visibility is what enables Mechanical Orchard to modernize quickly while maintaining a high degree of certainty and safety throughout the process.

Imogen can then rewrite the mainframe rapidly to the exact behavioral specifications, balancing AI-generated code with humans-in-the-loop supervision to validate logic and optimize architecture. Each new workload is tested against real historical inputs to confirm that it produces identical behavior to the original. Because workloads go into production incrementally, user patterns and business operations aren’t disrupted and each successfully rewritten workload builds increasing confidence in the success of the modernization effort. This incremental, verified path is what allows Mechanical Orchard to accelerate modernization without introducing risk.

The new code is cloud-native by design, clean, and easier to maintain, which makes it far easier and faster to change, giving organizations a modernized foundation they can trust to evolve.

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