Kairos · v4.2Enterprise Modernization Intelligence · GA

From COBOL to cognition.
Modernize legacy systems with semantic intelligence.

COBREV reconstructs decades of enterprise business intelligence embedded inside legacy systems and transforms it into traceable, verified, modern architectures. Built on the KAIROS multi-model orchestration platform.

99.2%+
Behavioral equivalence
Independently verified across production deployments.
14.2M
Lines reconstructed
Trailing 90 days across deployed installations.
6-pass
KAIROS orchestration
Pre-analysis · BLD · conversion · tests · CTO · QA fidelity.
0
Production incidents
Post-cutover regressions across all production deployments.
— The enterprise reality

A trillion-dollar layer of business logic, frozen in time.

Every major bank, insurer and federal agency still runs on COBOL systems written decades ago — encoding business rules that no one alive fully understands. Modernization isn't a tooling problem; it's a knowledge reconstruction problem.

01
220B
LINES OF COBOL

Still in active production across Fortune 500 enterprises and federal agencies.

02
63%
RETIRED BY 2030

Of the mainframe engineering workforce. The institutional memory leaves with them.

03
71%
UNDOCUMENTED

Of business rules embedded in COBOL exist nowhere except the source code itself.

04
$18M+
PER PROGRAM

Average modernization cost for a single core banking subsystem — most projects fail.

05
7y
AVERAGE TIMELINE

For a manual rewrite. Most enterprises restart 2-3 times before delivering.

— The COBREV intelligence engine

Nine stages of semantic reconstruction.

Not a transpiler. A complete cognition pipeline that recovers what the code means, validates the meaning against runtime behavior, and emits a modern architecture you can trust.

.cob input
COBOL Source
P · 02
Semantic Analysis
P · 03
BLD Extraction
P · 04
BPD / BPMN
→ output
Modern Arch.
— Layer 01 · Cognition
Semantic understanding

Recovers types, business rules, decision trees, 88-level conditions and implicit edge cases. The source code is parsed, the meaning is reconstructed.

— Layer 02 · Orchestration
Multi-model KAIROS

Six specialized AI passes orchestrated with deterministic contracts. Reasoning models, semantic analyzers, and validators with contradiction detection.

— Layer 03 · Validation
Fidelity scoring

Runtime equivalence validation. Formal proofs. Sandboxed property fuzz. Auto-correction loops. Every output ships with a signed audit bundle.

— KAIROS orchestration platform

Multiple models, one verdict.

KAIROS coordinates reasoning engines, semantic analyzers and deterministic validators across each pass — with contradiction detection, correction loops, and confidence scoring built into the substrate.

KAIROSv4.2.7REASONINGReasoning engineSEMANTICSemantic analyzerVALIDATORFormal proverFIDELITYFidelity scorerPARSEStructural parserCONTRADICTIONReconciler
P1
Structural parse · deterministic
ANTLR4-grade dialect detection. COPYBOOK + JCL graphs walked transitively before a single line is reconstructed.
deterministic · 100% coverage
P2
Semantic analysis · business logic
Business rules, decision trees, 88-level conditions, implicit edge cases — extracted into a typed intermediate.
semantic indexer · rule coverage 99.4%
P3
Reasoning · transformation
Reasoning engine maps source semantics to target architecture. Decimal arithmetic preserved at PIC precision.
deep reasoning · depth: high
P4
Formal proof · validation
Mathematically verified equivalence. ∀ inputs in the source PIC envelope, output relations hold — or the counter-example surfaces.
SMT-based · ∀ provable
P5
Contradiction reconciler
When models disagree, the reconciler returns to source ground truth. No silent overrides. No black-box decisions.
ensemble vote · audit-logged
QA
Fidelity scorecard
Ten-category independent fidelity scoring. Auto-fix on findings below threshold. Signed proof bundle on every output.
10-cat scorecard · WORM-retained

“This is not code conversion.
This is enterprise system cognition.

— AS-IS INTELLIGENCE

Live system understanding

Continuous semantic indexing of the live mainframe. Every program, every dependency, every dataset binding — queryable in natural language.

— RULE RECONSTRUCTION

Business logic recovered

Every formula, decision tree, 88-level condition and implicit rule extracted with provenance. Searchable, exportable, owned by the business.

— TRACEABILITY

End-to-end mapping

Every line of generated target code traces back to a source paragraph, an extracted rule, a verified contract. Regulators don't have to ask.

— DEPENDENCY GRAPH

Cross-system topology

COPYBOOK transitive closure. JCL dataset bindings. DB2 schema dependencies. CICS transaction graphs — modeled as a single queryable graph.

— GOVERNANCE

Modernization governance

Approval gates per module. Threshold-bound auto-ship. Human review with full context. Audit trails retained WORM for the life of the system.

— RUNTIME VALIDATION

Equivalence at runtime

Shadow execution against live mainframe traces. Property fuzz tests synthesized from PIC clauses. Discrepancies fail the build — not the cutover.

— Enterprise trust

Engineered for the regulator in the room.

Every output produces a signed, immutable proof bundle. Every decision is auditable. Every human-in-the-loop checkpoint is logged. Modernization without governance is just risk transfer.

99.41%

Fidelity median

Independent 10-category fidelity scoring across structural coverage, business logic, control flow, runtime stability, and production readiness.

∀ ⇒ ≡

Deterministic validation

Formal theorem proving over the full PIC envelope. For every input that the source accepts, the target produces an equivalent output — or the proof returns a counter-example.

100%

Audit traceability

Every target line cites a source paragraph. Every business rule cites a decision tree. Every approval cites a reviewer and a timestamp. Nothing is undocumented.

WORM

Audit retention

Signed, immutable logs retained for the life of the system. RSA-4096, HSM-resident keys. No COBREV access required to verify.

3-layer

Verification stack

Formal · Structural (AST diff against KIR) · Behavioral (8,192-case property fuzz). Three independent checks before a single PR is merged.

HITL

Human-in-the-loop

Below-threshold outputs surface to a reviewer with full context, full proof, full diff. No silent overrides. No black-box decisions.

— The mission

Preserve the intelligence.
Transform the architecture.

Schedule a one-hour technical review with the COBREV engineering team. We'll walk through your modernization estate, deploy a sandboxed pilot against your hardest 50 kLOC, and deliver a verified target with a complete proof bundle in 14 days.