# Mechanical Orchard

> Mechanical Orchard rewrites mission-critical mainframe applications as modern cloud software by observing what the old system actually does, generating replacement code, and continuously comparing both versions before an incremental cutover. Its Imogen platform combines AI automation with test-driven engineering for banks, insurers, retailers, manufacturers, logistics companies, and government agencies that cannot afford a big-bang migration failure.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Rob Mee (Co-founder and CEO), Matthew Work (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Imogen, Free proof of concept, Modernization implementation and operations
- **Notable:** A Fortune 500 retail engagement retired a major global inventory and replenishment system with no reported business disruption; the company says batch cycle time improved 265% and throughput increased 347%., A global manufacturer's targeted warranty modernization moved four batch jobs from JCL to Python and three Db2 schemas to PostgreSQL in about five months versus an original 18-month estimate., Imogen launched in April 2025 with Thoughtworks as its first global partner.

## Products & services

- **Imogen** — An end-to-end mainframe modernization platform that captures production data flows, analyzes dependencies, generates cloud-native replacement code, and continuously verifies behavioral equivalence while old and new workloads run side by side.
- **Free proof of concept** — A vendor-hosted, NDA-covered evaluation against a slice of a customer's codebase that produces an initial behavioral replica and modernization roadmap; the AWS listing describes a target of roughly 100,000 lines of code.
- **Modernization implementation and operations** — Engineering, DevSecOps, cloud deployment, workload cutover, and ongoing operational support delivered directly or with partners such as Thoughtworks and Leidos.

## Achievements

- A Fortune 500 retail engagement retired a major global inventory and replenishment system with no reported business disruption; the company says batch cycle time improved 265% and throughput increased 347%.
- A global manufacturer's targeted warranty modernization moved four batch jobs from JCL to Python and three Db2 schemas to PostgreSQL in about five months versus an original 18-month estimate.
- Imogen launched in April 2025 with Thoughtworks as its first global partner.
- Named a 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Code Assistants.
- Designated Awardable on the U.S. Department of Defense Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace in 2025.
- Added to Google Cloud Marketplace and AWS Marketplace in late 2025.
- Added to Carahsoft's GSA Schedule contract in April 2026.
- Achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification in September 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Mechanical Orchard achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification after an independent audit by Schellman.
- **2026-07** — The Summer 2026 Imogen release added AWS Transform integration and an autonomous build-and-verification pipeline; Mechanical Orchard also announced Leidos as a federal-market partner.
- **2026-07** — Mechanical Orchard reported that its production pipeline was regularly exceeding 10,000 lines of verified code per engineer per week at current customers.
- **2026-04** — Carahsoft added Imogen to its GSA Schedule contract, opening a procurement route for U.S. public-sector buyers.
- **2026-04** — SulAmérica presented with Mechanical Orchard at Google Cloud Next on rewriting a critical system responsible for 30% of its mainframe consumption.
- **2025-12** — Imogen became available through AWS Marketplace.
- **2025-11** — Imogen became available through Google Cloud Marketplace.

## Links

- Website: https://www.mechanical-orchard.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mechanical-orchard
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mech_orchard

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Last updated: 2026-09-26