Comprehend Design Partner Program

Help shape Comprehend on a real mainframe application

We are seeking two to three enterprises to evaluate Comprehend against real application workloads. Selected design partners receive early access, direct collaboration with the founding team, and a voice in how Comprehend evolves.

Evaluation Shape

Know what goes in, what comes out, and who reviews it

Each evaluation is scoped before work begins. We agree on the application boundary, source inputs, success criteria, schedule, and review cadence rather than promising a fixed duration before understanding the estate.

Typical inputs

Source files and supporting definitions for the agreed application scope
Relevant copybooks, JCL, transaction definitions, schemas, and schedules when available
A technical sponsor and application SME who can review findings
Success criteria, access controls, and a review cadence agreed before the evaluation begins

Evaluation deliverables

An application baseline covering the agreed programs, jobs, data stores, interfaces, and business capabilities
AI-assisted business-rule findings with supporting source references
Dependency, data-flow, and batch-flow maps for the agreed scope
A findings log that records what SMEs validated, corrected, or left open

Comprehend produces candidate findings and supporting evidence. Customer SMEs remain responsible for reviewing, validating, or correcting those findings before they inform modernization decisions.

What Design Partners Receive

Early access to Comprehend
Evaluate Comprehend on a defined portion of your mainframe estate, deployed in your cloud tenant with your approved AI models.
Agreed success criteria
We define what a successful engagement looks like for your program before we start, and measure against it.
Direct collaboration with the founding team
Work directly with the people building Comprehend, with a short path from feedback to product decisions.
Influence on Comprehend priorities
Help shape the application intelligence capabilities and workflows that matter most to your team.

What We Ask

A technical sponsor and application SME
A representative application family or clearly defined scope
Approximately 1 to 2 hours per week to review findings and provide feedback
Success criteria agreed before the evaluation begins

Who We Are Looking For

Financial institutions, insurers, government agencies, and telecom operators with a live mainframe estate that need reliable application understanding before making modernization decisions. We are especially interested in banking and payments applications.

Start a Comprehend design partner conversation

Tell us briefly about your organization and the mainframe application or application family you need to understand. Our team will follow up within two business days to schedule an introductory conversation.