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Turn modernization from a gamble into an advantage

Modernize Your Mainframe — On Your Terms

Element is the modernization platform that lets you understand, customize, and transform your legacy systems into modern, maintainable architectures you fully own.

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Challenges

Your enterprise logic is locked in a legacy tool

Many organisations still run critical operations on Mainframes, the logic is business-gold. But the surrounding code, the developer flows and toolchain support? That’s falling apart.

Talent familiar with Mainframe is shrinking.
Release cycles are rigid, costs are rising.
Changes become high-risk or impossible.
Solutions

Transform. Don’t abandon

With Element you can transform your mainframe — taking it and turning it into modern architectures you can own.

Analyse your existing infrastructure and dependencies.
Map business logic, data flows and technical structure.
Create modern, human-readable code aligned with your enterprise stack.
Deliver systems that let your teams move with agility, clarity and confidence.
How It Works

From locked to live – here's the path

1

Discover & Audit

Deep dive into your Mainframe footprint.

2

Map & Visualise

Business logic, dependencies, bottlenecks surfaced.

3

Refactor & Generate

Produce modern code, testable and documented.

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About us

Built by engineers who’ve done this before

Element is founded by a team with hands-on experience in large-scale legacy modernization — from IBM i and RPG to Mainframe. We've built automated tools that analyse, document, and refactor decades-old systems into modern stacks.

We partner with enterprise engineering teams to make legacy migration predictable and transparent — no outsourcing, no black-box consultancy.

Alexander Wiener

Alexander Wiener

Co-Founder & CEO

Information Systems graduate from TU Munich with deep experience in COBOL, Assembly, and Edge AI. Worked on Mainframe Modernization at Knorr Bremse as Working Student.

Lukas Marienfeld

Lukas Marienfeld

Co-Founder & CTO

Serial founder and former CTO at Sphericon. Expert in building AI code-generation agents, developer platforms, and scaling SaaS products to 6-figure revenue.

Ready to transform your Mainframe?

Schedule a demo and see how Element can unlock your Mainframe, reduce tech debt, and accelerate your enterprise modernization.

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