Notes from the practice of moving regulated data
How migrations actually succeed: reconciliation practice, cutover discipline, commercial structure, and an honest account of what AI changes. Written for the people who own the deadline.
Why we named a data migration company after a bird
The bar-tailed godwit flies Alaska to New Zealand non-stop. That's the whole pitch.
Anatomy of a migration evidence pack
What your compliance function actually needs after the data moves — line by line.
Fixed price is not the same as cheap
Why regulated buyers should distrust cheap — and distrust day rates almost as much.
What AI actually changes about migration cost
The honest version: where the 3–5× is real, and where a human still signs.
The wealth consolidation wave is a migration programme wearing an M&A costume
Every acquisition is a back-book migration. Serial acquirers should industrialise it.
Re-platforming the core without losing a decade of loan history
The new platform is the easy part. The old data is where lenders get hurt.
MGAs: three policy admin systems is not a growth strategy
Acquisition-born system sprawl, bordereaux friction, and the consolidation window.
Bad data quality is a finding, not a surprise
Why we assess before we quote, and why that protects you as much as us.
The cutover weekend, hour by hour
Uneventful cutovers are engineered, not lucky. Here's the shape of a boring one.
Operational resilience and Consumer Duty are data projects in disguise
Two regulatory regimes quietly created budgeted, deadlined data work at the mid-market tier.