Tech Brew Ride Home (Portfolio Profile) Hypercubic.AI
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Nov 15, 2025 Discover how a seed-stage company is tackling the legacy code crisis faced by Fortune 500s. They share staggering statistics about aging mainframe systems and the critical loss of expert knowledge. Learn about their innovative crawl-walk-run onboarding approach, which includes transforming complex code into readable documentation. The episode highlights the digital twin concept, known as the Hyper Twin, which replicates expert insights and evolves continuously. Finally, hear about their motivating origin story and ambitious goals in the ever-evolving tech landscape.
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Legacy Systems Remain Core Infrastructure
- Many Fortune 500 firms still run critical systems on mainframes and COBOL built decades ago.
- Hypercubic focuses on understanding and modernizing these systems while preserving institutional knowledge.
Scale And Aging Talent Create Risk
- Mainframes and COBOL are pervasive with massive codebases still active across industries.
- Many experienced COBOL engineers average about 55 years old, creating imminent knowledge risk.
It's Institutional Knowledge, Not Just Code
- The core problem is not just code but the institutional knowledge in subject-matter experts' heads.
- Losing those experts means losing implicit processes and company-specific ways of operating.