Your COBOL still processes $3 trillion daily. The average COBOL developer is 58. We bridge the gap — understand, stabilize, then modernize, on your timeline.
Your COBOL still processes $3 trillion daily, and the average COBOL developer is 58. We bridge the gap between the systems that run your business and the people left who understand them.
Who we serve — banking · insurance · government · manufacturing · science:
220–250B lines in production; 95% of ATM transactions, ~43% of US banking, and 70%+ of Fortune 500 systems run on COBOL.
ECMWF, MeteoSwiss, and NICAM weather models plus aerospace and HPC workloads; 20+yr code still carrying production.
The IBM i backbone for banking, insurance, manufacturing, and distribution.
Firmware, embedded systems, drivers, and bootloaders — the layer everything else stands on.
DoD, aviation, and air-traffic control; top-3 safety of 26 evaluated languages; usage doubled in 20yrs.
Windows business software and internal tooling; maintenance load persists.
Mainframe back offices of banks and insurers.
AI and research pockets, and the Emacs engine.
| Metric | Legacy | Modern |
|---|---|---|
| Average age | ~58 COBOL · ~70 RPG | ~32 |
| Annual retirement rate | ~10% | <2% |
| New entrants / year | <2,000 | tens of thousands |
| Time-to-hire | 90+ days | 30–45 days |
| Compensation | $86K–$150K | $110K–$200K+ |
Over 80% of IT budgets in some IBM i environments go to maintenance, not innovation.
| Language | Rank | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Fortran | #11 | 1.24% |
| Pascal/Delphi | #13 | 1.08% |
| Assembly | #16 | 0.89% |
| Ada | #17 | 0.85% |
| COBOL | #20 | 0.78% |
| RPG / PL/I / Lisp | — | outside Top 20 |
| Cohort | Avg age |
|---|---|
| Modern engineering | ~32 |
| COBOL | ~58 |
| RPG | ~70 |
A structured audit of critical codebases, documentation gaps, and single-point-of-failure dependencies.
SLA-driven maintenance for COBOL, RPG, Fortran, and PL/I systems, with response-time commitments and escalation tiers.
AI accelerators analyze code and generate documentation for 60–80% discovery savings — human expertise remains central, human-led throughout.
For firms whose last RPG or COBOL expert is nearing retirement: we extract and systematize undocumented business logic before it walks out the door.
Access to a vetted network of legacy specialists, including structured retiree-return engagements.
IBM Z/COBOL · IBM i/RPG · HPC/Fortran · embedded Ada/Assembly.