Mechanical Orchard @mech_orchard
Mechanical Orchard is a tech company de-risking legacy modernization—one workflow at a time. Our goal? Help our clients adapt, compete, and win in their market. mechanical-orchard.com San Francisco, CA Joined November 2022-
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We’re proud to announce that we’ve appointed @edwardhieatt as our Chief Customer Officer. As we continue working with IT leaders from large organizations, his new appointment will ensure the continued success of our customers.
Started today as CCO at @mech_orchard. Let's use fresh techniques and AI tooling to make breakthroughs in the biggest unsolved challenge in enterprise tech: modernizing the oldest of legacy applications. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…
We're in CB Insights' AI 100, an annual list of the 100 most promising AI companies globally. Finalists were chosen based on CB Insights’ data on deal activity, industry partnerships, team strength, investor strength, and more. @mech_orchard is in the DevOps category.
How often are mainframe modernization programs really effective? Occasionally? Rarely? Never? Maybe the @mech_orchard folks are on to something. I like this @thenewstack story from @jkriggins that looks at what Rob and team are doing differently. thenewstack.io/finally-platfo…
.@KentBeck is discussing his latest book—'Tidy First?'—tomorrow (Friday, March 15th) at 3pm PT. We had some last-minute cancellations, so a handful of tickets are still up for grabs. RSVP now to avoid disappointment (limit 2 tickets per person): link below.
@lennysan At Mechanical Orchard we've built an internal tool that allows us to present mainframe dependencies to non-eng teams, which allows them to understand & prioritize efforts more effectively. It has successfully bridged conversations! @mech_orchard
“Continuous modernization doesn’t have to be disruptive. We’re proving that it isn’t.” Our founder and CEO, Rob Mee, weighs in on our Series A funding announcement. Companies no longer have the luxury of choosing between stability and agility: they need both. @EMERGENCYCAP
Exclusive: Pivotal founder Rob Mee is back with a new startup. By using AI to try to wean big businesses off of mainframes, Mechanical Orchard already reached $10 million in revenue and profitability in 16 months. Now it's raised a $24 million Series A. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
Big news this morning! 🌳🌳🌳🌳 We're so excited to partner with Mechanical Orchard as they move the global economy from mainframes (yes, they're still dominant) to the cloud with the help of AI! It's a fascinating story... more below. And you can find them at @mech_orchard and…
Big news this morning! 🌳🌳🌳🌳 We're so excited to partner with Mechanical Orchard as they move the global economy from mainframes (yes, they're still dominant) to the cloud with the help of AI! It's a fascinating story... more below. And you can find them at @mech_orchard and…
@SouthwestAir Until now. Rob Mee and @mech_orchard are leveraging GenAI to get critical apps into the cloud and help harden our economy. In 1 year since founding, they're past double digit recognized revenue and profitable. We at @emergencecap are thrilled to partner with them on this journey.
A sixteen month-old company that's already profitable in the AI space, AND does a modest series A round? What kind of wizardry is this? I'm impressed that Rob, @KentBeck, and the @mech_orchard team are solving (mainframe) modernization in a new way. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
At Mechanical Orchard, we start small but move fast. We pick a component and replicate its behavior and business logic in the cloud. One critical piece at a time, we de-risk the process of #legacymodernization.
Weaving AI into everything we do, @mech_orchard helps companies de-risk and accelerate the transition from legacy systems to state-of-the-art cloud applications. We work with one component at a time, each with a proven fallback method––limiting risk to the running system overall.
It takes stern, consistent, unyielding leadership to rewire the organizations… A good place to start is by aligning authority with responsibility, where “consequences flow towards those who make decisions.” @KentBeck leaddev.com/process/what-d…
A bit late, but sharing my experience while at AI Engineer Summit: In Search of AI @aiDotEngineer linkedin.com/pulse/search-a…
pair programming is very high leverage — you don’t just get the immediate task done, but also teach someone to be able to do it themselves
XP for remote teams: great in theory, but how does it work in practice? From Chicago to Miami our teams pair across two time zones, vertically. From @danpodsedly following on from @KentBeck's latest post. #remotework #remoteteams #extremeprogramming mechanical-orchard.com/post/here-mean…
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80.2M Followers 174 Following There's space for everybody. ✨ Verification: https://t.co/8nok3NP4PWStarted today as CCO at @mech_orchard. Let's use fresh techniques and AI tooling to make breakthroughs in the biggest unsolved challenge in enterprise tech: modernizing the oldest of legacy applications. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…
@lennysan At Mechanical Orchard we've built an internal tool that allows us to present mainframe dependencies to non-eng teams, which allows them to understand & prioritize efforts more effectively. It has successfully bridged conversations! @mech_orchard
Build. Run. Innovate.
In 16 months, we've grown from strength to strength, deepening our relationships with our clients while maturing our go-to-market strategy. We recently had a rethink on how we wanted to present ourselves: visually, tonally, and creatively. Here are some elements of our new look.
@rseroter @KentBeck @mech_orchard It’s a pivotal moment for AI 😎
@alexrkonrad Great article. My only note is it fails to mention Rob Mee is objectively speaking, the nicest person in tech. ❤️ Good things happening to good people.
@alexrkonrad Their achievement of profitability in just 16 months is remarkable and signals a promising future for the startup.👍🏻
@alexrkonrad “Rob mee, yes we’re wiring to a rob mee”
Another point I found interesting in this story: Mechanical Orchard's valuation of $95M, nearly 4x its seed round, still looks downright small compared to AI model hype. Good price for @emergencecap, or a sign that the market really only pays a premium for pure AI right now?
As @Forbes' cloud reporter, I wrote about Pivotal and Mee several times last decade, including at its 2018 IPO. Now his startup Mechanical Orchard is taking on a huge, unsexy market: 67% of the Fortune 100 still call mainframes their core IT platform! forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
Big news this morning! 🌳🌳🌳🌳 We're so excited to partner with Mechanical Orchard as they move the global economy from mainframes (yes, they're still dominant) to the cloud with the help of AI! It's a fascinating story... more below. And you can find them at @mech_orchard and…
Exclusive: Pivotal founder Rob Mee is back with a new startup. By using AI to try to wean big businesses off of mainframes, Mechanical Orchard already reached $10 million in revenue and profitability in 16 months. Now it's raised a $24 million Series A. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
Article I wrote at @mech_orchard on "How to Make Your AI Less Flaky" linkedin.com/pulse/how-make…
@SouthwestAir Until now. Rob Mee and @mech_orchard are leveraging GenAI to get critical apps into the cloud and help harden our economy. In 1 year since founding, they're past double digit recognized revenue and profitable. We at @emergencecap are thrilled to partner with them on this journey.
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A bit late, but sharing my experience while at AI Engineer Summit: In Search of AI @aiDotEngineer linkedin.com/pulse/search-a…
pair programming is very high leverage — you don’t just get the immediate task done, but also teach someone to be able to do it themselves
At Mechanical Orchard, we’re strong proponents of XP and pairing for the benefits they provide. Recently, we’ve devoted more time to understanding how to best pair program with an AI companion. Thoughts from @ostinelli mechanical-orchard.com/post/can-ai-pl… #chatgpt4 #GenerativeAI #tdd #xp
One hat at a time: change the behavior of the system or change the structure. Changing both introduces too much wiggle. My employer @mech_orchard changes the structure of vintage code first. Once the foundation is firm we can discuss next options. mechanical-orchard.com/post/features-…
Tech pullback-- * Bad news. Retirement recedes 3-5 years. * Good news. (Don't intend to minimize the pain of layoffs but) lots of great folks coming available just as LLMs reshape the solution space of computing. Things that used to be prohibitively expensive just got cheap.
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