// WHY WE BUILT THIS
We built the tool
we wished we'd had.
We're a small consulting team that has spent years on the inside of data migrations — the kind where the source system is fifteen years old, nobody left on staff can explain how three of the tables relate, and “the mapping” lives in someone's spreadsheet with a column called notes_FINAL_v3.
So we built the tool we wished we'd had. Migration Analyst exists to do the unglamorous, easy-to-skip work up front:
Draw the ERD that was never documented.
Most legacy systems we've worked with have no current schema diagram. We generate one from the actual database, not from out-of-date documentation.
Turn tables into a domain map.
Raw schemas make sense to a DBA and nobody else. We surface a conceptual view so business stakeholders can sanity-check what's actually being moved.
Flag PII before it becomes an incident.
We identify likely personal or sensitive fields early, so privacy and security conversations happen at design time, not after go-live.
Give you one surface to map source to target.
Replacing the spreadsheet-and-Slack-thread approach with something reviewable, testable, and exportable.
Migration Analyst is still early — we're running it with a small number of teams as controlled pilots while we sharpen it against real migrations. If your legacy system has no ERD, an unknown PII footprint, and a mapping spreadsheet nobody fully trusts, that's exactly the problem we set out to solve.
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