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Migrate your data and platform without the cutover chaos.

Inventory source objects, map schemas/configuration, generate migration transformations and tests, and leave cutover to accountable engineers.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$18,000
fixed-scope pilot
Specialist opportunity
launch posture
Strong durable demand
market signal
data-and-platform-migration-assistant
// inventory assets
input: Source schemas/config
step: propose mapping
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
CTO, CIO, VP Professional Services
The champion
Migration Program Director, Solutions Architecture leader, Data Engineering manager
Day-to-day users
Migration engineers, consultants, customer implementation and QA teams

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Migrations require repetitive discovery and mapping, hidden dependencies appear late, and manual scripts lack coverage and provenance.

Who feels it

Migration engineers, consultants, customer implementation and QA teams

Trigger to act: A platform deprecation, cloud move, acquisition, or customer migration program creates a large repeatable backlog.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$264,000
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 30 migrations/year × 80 engineering hours removed × $110 loaded hourly cost = $264,000 annual capacity. Defect avoidance needs measured pilot evidence.

The outcome, plainly: Inventory source objects, map schemas/configuration, generate migration transformations and tests, and leave cutover to accountable engineers.

Mapping coverage
Test pass
Reconciliation accuracy
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A Code-aware agent + deterministic validators. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, with no invented data.

01
Inventory assets
02
Propose mapping
03
Identify unsupported object
04
Generate transformation
05
Create reconciliation tests
06
Run in sandbox
07
Explain discrepancies
08
Assemble cutover checklist
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Source and target APIs/databases
Schema/catalog
Code repository
ETL/orchestration
Sandbox environments
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateData/application owners approve mappings, transformations, data-quality exceptions, security treatment, and production cutover/rollback.
Action · only after approval
Assemble cutover checklist
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra, selected on the client's code/security golden set; deterministic scanners, policy rules and tests remain authoritative; use a smaller model for labeling only. Read-only tool adapters; sandboxed execution; static analysis / test framework.

Inputs
  • Source schemas/config
  • Target model
  • Sample data
  • Mapping rules
  • Transformation code
  • Dependency graph
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

Data/application owners approve mappings, transformations, data-quality exceptions, security treatment, and production cutover/rollback.

What it will never do
No unattended production migration or cutover
No deletion
No assumption that generated mapping preserves business meaning
No untested transformation
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
Mapping coverage
Test pass
Reconciliation accuracy
Manual hours
Defects after cutover
Unsupported object discovery
Rollback readiness
Data loss rate
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
InformaticaFivetran/Hightouch servicesAWS DMSAzure MigrateGoogle migration toolsSystem integratorsCustom scripts
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

Source and target APIs/databasesSchema/catalogCode repositoryETL/orchestrationSandbox environmentsTest and reconciliation frameworkProject tracker
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$18,000
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$42,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$68,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

50–500 repositories or 5,000–50,000 code/test tasks per month plus CI compute.

$600–5,200
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,400/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your source and target APIs and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a person’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. Data/application owners approve mappings, transformations, data-quality exceptions, security treatment, and production cutover/rollback. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no unattended production migration or cutover; no deletion; no assumption that generated mapping preserves business meaning; no untested transformation.

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $600–5,200 per month (50–500 repositories or 5,000–50,000 code/test tasks per month plus CI compute), plus a $2,400 per month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. The client needs an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from Informatica?

Tools like Informatica, Fivetran/Hightouch services, and AWS DMS are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it is live, and how do we prove it works?

This is a specialist opportunity. We baseline mapping coverage first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope: the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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