Mechanical Orchard is an AI-native technology company founded in 2022 that specialises in modernising legacy mainframe systems. The company has raised $50 million in funding led by Alphabet's GV and targets Global 2000 companies and government agencies across financial services, insurance, retail and the public sector.
The company's core offering is Imogen, a proprietary platform that uses AI-enhanced reverse engineering to migrate legacy systems to cloud-native environments without operational disruption. Rather than attempting wholesale rewrites, Imogen analyzes individual system components to understand their behaviour, recreates them precisely in modern cloud code, and deploys changes incrementally into production. Each stage includes fallback mechanisms to limit risk and enable continuous modernisation.
Mechanical Orchard was founded by Rob Mee, former CEO of Pivotal Labs, and includes founding members of that organisation. The team combines decades of software development expertise with capabilities in reverse engineering, software replication, cloud migration and iterative deployment practices.