Mechanical Orchard Releases Imogen Platform Improvements

Mechanical Orchard's latest release lowers the risk and shortens the timeline of mainframe modernization enough that organizations running aging yet critical systems can now afford to replace them.

• Highlights include integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Transform to automate verification based on production data flows and pipeline engineering that turbocharges the speed of rewriting legacy applications
• New strategic partnership with Leidos brings Imogen to U.S. federal governmental agencies

Today, software company Mechanical Orchard announced the Summer 2026 release of Imogen, a mainframe modernization platform that rewrites applications based on their behavior, not just their code.

Platform improvements include automated verification based on production data flows through an integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Transform, and a new build pipeline, verified continuously against the legacy system's real behavior, that sharply increases the speed of getting modernized code into production. New partner Leidos, an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial organizations, is also supporting the company's efforts to reach more customers, faster.

A faster path from assessment to migration

Imogen now integrates directly with AWS Transform, pairing two complementary capabilities to address the hardest problem in mainframe modernization: knowing that new code will work in production.

Tools using business rules extraction, like AWS Transform, are powerful ways to make decades of COBOL logic visible and understandable. But business logic only captures part of what a legacy system does: runtime behaviors and dependencies rarely surface, yet they're critical to successful processing.

That's why behavioral replication is so important. Mechanical Orchard builds a synthetic replica of the legacy system's production data flows and runs new code against it transaction by transaction, surfacing the runtime behavior that business logic alone doesn't capture, before any of it reaches production.

Commenting on the integration, Edward Hieatt, Mechanical Orchard COO, said, "Verification has always been where a lot of the risk sits in modernization: cutting over is a big bet when you can't be sure the output won’t break what’s working. By bringing in business rules extracted by AWS Transform into Imogen, enterprises can innovate on a foundation that works the same in modern code as it did in the legacy system, which is by far the safest way to reimagine it."

Turbocharged speed to production

This release also marks the general availability of Mechanical Orchard's autonomous build and verification pipeline, which eliminates the need for human code review without compromising on rigor. Because verification is automated and independent at every step, security and compliance requirements are enforced programmatically rather than left to human inspection. The result is a pipeline that is not only faster than manual approaches, but more secure by design.

This dramatically accelerates delivery of production-ready and behaviorally equivalent code. At current customers, rates are regularly exceeding 10,000 lines of code per engineer per week, with a clear path to further accelerating by an order of magnitude.

New partner: Leidos

Mechanical Orchard has also entered a strategic partnership with Leidos, an industry and technology leader with a long-standing focus on modernizing mission-critical systems for the U.S. federal government.

The partnership brings Imogen's behavior-based approach to federal agencies running aging mainframe systems, pairing Mechanical Orchard's modernization platform and engineering with Leidos's scale and standing across defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies.

Edward continued, "The new platform release has some great developments for customers — support for a broader range of mainframe technologies, improved efficiency of verification for delivery teams, and incredible speed to verified, production-ready code. Our new partnership with Leidos is also a sign of growing customer demand for behavior-led modernization, and we look forward to sustained momentum over the coming months."

About Mechanical Orchard

Mechanical Orchard builds software that helps organizations modernize their most critical legacy systems without breaking what's already working, and without the disruption that has made conventional modernization so costly and risky. Its Imogen platform automates both code generation and verification, eliminating the bottleneck that stalls other AI-assisted approaches and delivering production-ready modern code without the verification delays that slow conventional and AI-assisted methods alike.

Founded in 2022 and backed by GV, Emergence Capital, Fin Capital, and MongoDB, Mechanical Orchard works with banks, insurance companies, retailers, manufacturers, automakers, and healthcare organizations. The company is based in San Francisco.

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