Written while visiting Wales, where the hedgerows are as winding as the code I was debugging…

Mercury is an AI extension to IBM Rhapsody. Here is what it can do:

Natural Language to Model Generation

Write your requirements in natural language, and Mercury generates a model—not perfect, but a decent starting point. Instead of spending hours creating class diagrams from scratch, describe what you want and Mercury gives you something to work with.

Mercury AI

Reverse Engineering

Mercury can work backwards too. Give it existing code, and it creates models and documentation. For legacy systems, Mercury helps make sense of it—reading code, identifying patterns, creating UML diagrams, and suggesting requirements.

Requirements Traceability

Mercury reads existing requirements documents (including Word) and creates traceability matrices.

Philosophy

The goal is not to replace systems engineers but to give them better tools—like GPS for drivers.

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