// Migration & takeover
Switching is expensive.
Staying is more expensive.
The real reason companies stay with a vendor they have outgrown is switching cost — the audit, the parallel running, the fight for your own credentials. So we structurally remove those costs. About a third of our business starts exactly here.
// Switching costs we cover
Takeover audit credited back
The 1–2 week technical audit (from $7,500) is credited in full against any follow-on project — effectively free if you proceed.
Parallel-running costs absorbed
While old and new systems run side by side during cutover, we absorb the duplicated infrastructure cost on our side for up to 60 days.
Access-recovery work included
Recovering domains, accounts, and credentials from an uncooperative vendor is included in migration projects — not billed as change requests.
Exit-cost offset
Early-termination fees from your current provider? Document them and we discount the equivalent (up to 10% of the migration project) off milestone one.
Terms applied per engagement and written into the SOW — ask and we will show the math before you sign anything.
// How a migration runs
Never a big-bang weekend
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Audit
We inventory what exists — code, infrastructure, accounts, contracts — and rank the risks. You get the honest map before committing to anything bigger.
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Secure ownership
Domains, cloud accounts, and repositories move into your name first. Whatever else happens, nobody can hold your business hostage again.
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Stabilize
Monitoring on, backups verified and restore-tested, deploys reproducible. The floor stops creaking before any renovation starts.
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Migrate incrementally
Strangler-fig pattern: one capability at a time behind a routing layer, each slice shipping value on its own. No big-bang weekend.
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Decommission & save
The old system shrinks until switching it off is an anticlimax. Old invoices stop; the difference usually funds the migration within a year.
The engineering behind this is documented honestly in “The big-bang rewrite is how legacy systems win” — and proven in the HelioPay migration: $40M/month re-platformed with zero minutes of downtime.
// Common starting points
Another agency or dev shop
The most common: relationship soured or outgrown. We handle the handover professionally — drama is optional and we decline it.
A departed internal team
The engineers left, the system stayed. We stabilize first, document everything, then staff a roadmap or hand to your next hires.
Legacy on-prem / datacenter
Server-room to cloud with the strangler pattern — and the hardware decommissioning checklist nobody thinks about until the end.
Outgrown SaaS / no-code platform
The tool that got you here cannot get you there. We extract your data and workflows into systems you own.
Freelancer dependency
One brilliant person who is also a bus-factor of one. We absorb the system without disrespecting the work.
Hyperscaler bill shock
Sometimes the migration is within the cloud: re-architecture and FinOps that cut the bill 25–40% — see the cost review.
Get the honest map first
The audit tells you what you actually have — sometimes the verdict is “keep it.” Either way you stop deciding in the dark, and the fee is credited if you proceed.