Simple · €1,750
- One or two systems moving; everything else stays exactly where it is.
- A single location, one main data source, little to no integration between systems.
- No mailboxes to migrate, or a handful on one straightforward domain.
SOVEREIGN INFRASTRUCTURE · THE MOVE
Move out of the cloud
without breaking your business
Migration is the complete transfer of an existing environment, from rented SaaS and US cloud to infrastructure you own. Your current setup keeps running untouched until we deliberately switch, in a window you approve, with a tested rollback. Simple migrations €1,750, medium €3,750, complex from €7,500, all fixed and excl. btw.
I · THE PROBLEM
“We’d love to leave, but we can’t afford the chaos”
Every company that has been running for a few years is welded to its tools. The CRM holds ten years of client history, the shared drive holds everything else, and half the workflows exist only as muscle memory. Leaving sounds right until you picture week two: invoices not going out, a colleague locked out of their files, a client asking why your email bounced.
That picture is what keeps businesses paying for tools they resent. The vendors know it; switching costs are the product, and every year you wait, the weld gets thicker.
The answer is not courage, it is engineering. A migration done properly is boring: the old environment keeps running, the new one is built and proven next to it, and the switch is a controlled moment with a way back. Boring is the deliverable.
II · WHAT IT IS, CONCRETELY
A controlled transfer with a fixed fee
A migration is executed in the five controlled phases: Discovery & Audit, Architecture & Planning, Migration Execution, Validation & Cutover, and Handover & Retainer. Every step in the runbook has a rollback, and nothing executes without your sign-off. A typical small-business migration runs four to eight weeks from audit to handover; the audit fixes the exact timeline and the exact tier before you commit to anything, and the €850 audit fee is fully credited when you sign within 60 days.
What you hold afterwards
I.Your systemson a server you own
II.Your accountsserver, domains, everything
III.The runbookwritten for your team
IV.A trained teamhandover, not abandonment
V.The old environmentsafely decommissioned
Simple €1,750 · medium €3,750 · complex from €7,500 · excl. btw
Migrations are phased by design. If the audit says the files should move first and the CRM in autumn, that is what the plan says, and each phase leaves you in a stable, documented state. You are never standing on a half-moved environment hoping the second half gets funded.
Indicative, not a calculator: the audit tells you exactly which tier applies, in writing, before anything is signed. As a rule of thumb:
Medium · €3,750
- Three to five systems moving, with some of them already talking to each other.
- Real history: years of records, mixed file types, shared drives with layered permissions.
- A working mailbox count on a standard domain, migrated over IMAP.
Complex · from €7,500
- Six or more systems, or fewer wired tightly together: automations, custom integrations, legacy scripts.
- Large or tangled data: chaotic permissions, undocumented workflows, more than one location or business unit.
- Email at scale, or with shared mailboxes, distribution lists, and retention requirements.
- Scoped and quoted individually after the audit, since “complex” covers real range.
See the full price register for how migrations compare with everything else.
III · A FAIR MATCH
Who this is for, and who it is not for
- Your business runs on rented cloud and you feel the dependency every time a price or a policy changes.
- You have data you would rather not have in an American jurisdiction: client records, legal files, health-adjacent anything.
- You want the move done by someone who plans the rollback before the switch.
- Your core workflow depends on a proprietary feature with no owned equivalent, and you are not willing to work differently. The audit will find this, and I will say it.
- You are happy where you are and only chasing a marginally cheaper invoice. Migration pays back in ownership first, money second.
- You need it done next week. Controlled takes weeks; that is a feature.
IV · WHERE IT SITS
The build for an existing environment
Migration is one of the two builds. It starts where the Audit ends: the audit maps what you have, and its findings become the migration plan and the fixed fee. If you are starting fresh instead, with little or nothing to move, the Stack is the other build. Either way it ends in Managed Sovereignty: phase five hands the environment over, and custodianship keeps it running from there.
If you want to see what specific moves look like in practice, I keep honest pages on the common ones: replacing Google Workspace, replacing Microsoft 365, and replacing HubSpot.
Fair questions
Will our business be offline during the migration?
No. The new environment is built and filled next to your production, which keeps running untouched. The switch happens in a window you approve, usually outside business hours, with a tested rollback if anything is wrong.
How long does a migration take?
A typical small-business migration runs four to eight weeks from audit to handover. The audit gives you an exact timeline for your environment before you commit to anything.
Do we have to migrate everything at once?
No. Migrations are phased by design, and starting with a single system, the CRM, the files, the automation layer, is a perfectly good way to begin. Each phase leaves you in a stable, documented state.
What does a migration cost?
€1,750 for a simple environment, €3,750 for a medium one, and from €7,500 for a complex one, quoted after the audit. All fixed, excl. btw, billed 50% on signing and 50% on go-live, and the €850 audit is fully credited when you sign within 60 days. If scope grows because you ask for more, you get a new fixed number to approve first, never a surprise invoice.
What if something only exists in our current SaaS tool?
Then the audit says so before anything is promised. Some proprietary features have no owned equivalent, and the honest options are to rebuild differently, keep that one subscription deliberately, or accept the loss knowingly. What I will not do is discover this in week six.
What happens after the migration is done?
Handover: documentation, knowledge transfer, and a trained team. The old environment is safely decommissioned only after the new one has proven itself. From there, Managed Sovereignty keeps it running, updates, backups, monitoring, from €150 a month with an exit clause every month.
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