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AI-accelerated migrations

Your aging app doesn't have to be a liability.

Access databases from 2008. Custom web apps from 2014 nobody can maintain. The quoting, ordering, or job tracking your team still runs by hand in spreadsheets. We move your data into a modern stack, reproduce your business logic, and automate the manual work behind it. Weeks, not months. $250 to $500/month, plus the developer who maintains it.

Get My 1-Page Migration Plan How it works

Owner-operated. You work directly with the developer. • .NET on Azure, your code stays yours

What gets modernized
  • Microsoft Access databases (any version since Access 2003)
  • Custom .NET / WebForms / classic ASP apps
  • Aging WordPress sites with plugin sprawl
  • FileMaker / Filemaker Pro databases
  • Java / PHP / Ruby apps from before the framework died
  • Anything custom that "the developer who built it isn't around"

Sound familiar?

Six versions of "we should have replaced it years ago."

The original developer is unreachable

Left the company. Retired. Out of business. The phone number on the old invoice is dead.

The framework is end-of-life

No security patches. No vendor support. Increasingly hard to find a developer who'll touch it.

Security patches stopped years ago

Every month you keep running it is another month of compounding risk you can't quantify.

Your data is locked in a format only one tool reads

Access .mdb files. FileMaker. A custom binary format. Nobody has built a clean exporter, and nobody will.

Adding a feature is a major project

A change that should take an afternoon takes two weeks. Quotes from agencies start at $20,000.

Hosting is on a server you forgot about

Maybe a closet PC. Maybe a Rackspace bill. Maybe a former employee's AWS account. You're not sure who could log in.

How AI changes the economics

Legacy migrations used to be a 4-month, $40,000 agency project. Current AI tooling collapsed three of the four expensive parts.

Pulling data out of legacy formats

Access, FileMaker, custom binary, ancient SQL schemas. AI tools read schemas and generate type-safe extraction scripts in hours, not weeks.

Reproducing business logic

A working app and the source code (if it exists) are enough. AI tools translate Visual Basic, classic ASP, old PHP into modern .NET in days.

Regenerating content from source material

PDFs, Word documents, internal manuals — your existing source material can drive the new web content automatically. ATP's website rebuild ran on this exact pipeline.

Reverse-engineering when there's no documentation

When the original developer is gone and there are no specs, AI tooling can read the running database and the UI to infer how the system actually works. Faster than any human consultant.

The fourth part — testing the migrated system, validating data integrity, and running both systems in parallel — is still hands-on work. That's where Hurrah's involvement matters.

And once it ships, someone has to keep it running. Here's what happens after the person who built it moves on.

Modernizing the system is step one. Automating the work behind it is the point.

A new site or app is the visible part. The real cost is usually the process behind it: the quoting, ordering, job tracking, billing, or reconciliation your team still runs by hand in spreadsheets or an old database. We build that process into the modern system and automate the manual steps, then put AI on your own data so it answers from your documents and drafts the paperwork you assemble by hand.

EZ replaced spreadsheet-and-group-text ordering with a store wired to live inventory and got 15+ hours a week back. The same pattern works whether your process lives in spreadsheets, an Access database, or on paper.

Real proof

Two clients who modernized aging systems. Different shapes, same pattern.

TAG Auto Group

Multi-location auto body group

Access database to searchable web app
Before: Eight years of past estimates across multiple body-shop locations locked in an aging Microsoft Access database. Looking up a customer's prior estimate took 30 minutes of digging through shared files.
What we built: Migrated all eight years of estimate data into a modern SQL Server schema. Built a searchable web app on .NET that any TAG location could open in their browser. Old Access database archived read-only.
Result: Estimate lookup went from 30 minutes to 10 seconds. The Access database was retired. No data loss across the migration.

Advanced Training Products

Compliance training, multi-year client

Aging website rebuilt from existing PDFs
Before: After two years on their custom compliance app, ATP asked us to rebuild their public website too. The existing site was outdated and the content was scattered across hundreds of internal compliance PDFs.
What we built: A new website on the same monthly subscription, with built-in SEO tooling and AI-generated web content pulled from the same compliance PDFs the team was already producing internally. How teaching AI your own files works.
Result: One subscription now covers their internal compliance app, their public website, and the AI tooling that feeds both.
Read the full migration story

Common questions

The objections we hear most often about legacy migrations.

Yes. We've migrated Microsoft Access databases, aging SQL Server schemas, MySQL/PostgreSQL exports, FileMaker, and even spreadsheets used as databases. The migration process pulls your data out of the legacy format, normalizes it, and lands it in a modern SQL Server schema you fully own. Nothing gets lost.

That's actually the most common case. We work from whatever exists: the running app, the database, screenshots of how it's used, the source code if it's around, and source documents like PDFs or Word files. AI tooling makes reverse-engineering business logic from a working system dramatically faster than it used to be.

Weeks instead of months. The same migration that would have been a 4-month, $40,000 agency engagement two years ago is now a 4-to-8 week project that fits inside our $250 to $500 a month subscription. AI tools have changed the economics of legacy work more than any other category.

No. The migration is non-destructive. Your existing system keeps running until the new one is ready. We migrate in stages, validate every record, and run both systems side-by-side before cutting over. If something doesn't match, the migration doesn't ship.

It retires gracefully. We archive the source data and keep a read-only copy accessible for as long as you need it (typically a year). The old hosting goes away, the old licenses get cancelled, and the new app on our subscription replaces all of it. One bill, one phone number.

No. We can start with the most painful workflow and replace it first while leaving the rest alone. Many clients modernize in phases: data migration first, then the most-used screens, then secondary workflows. Each phase ships independently and reduces the cost of the legacy system.

Free 30-Minute Audit. You Walk Away With a 1-Page Plan.

30-minute call about your aging app or database. You walk away with a written 1-page assessment naming the top 3 things to migrate first and their rough ROI, whether or not we work together.