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Agency charged $22k to "migrate" my client's workflows to a new system. I did it in 38 minutes during lunch.
Agency charged $22k to "migrate" my client's workflows to a new system. I did it in 38 minutes during lunch.
Same workflows. Same functionality. Different timeline.
THE SITUATION
Client's existing platform shutting down in 60 days.
Agency quote:
- Full system migration: $22,000
- Timeline: 6-8 weeks
- "Careful planning required"
- "Complex data mapping"
- Phased rollout approach
Client panicking.
THE CALL
Client: "Can you migrate workflows faster?"
Me: "How many workflows?"
Client: "17 active workflows"
Me: "What do they do?"
Client lists them:
- Lead routing
- Email sequences
- Data syncing
- Report generation
- Standard automation stuff
Me: "I'll have them done today"
Client: "The quote or the migration?"
Me: "The migration"
THE MIGRATION
Started at 12:15 PM.
Ordered a sandwich.
Workflow 1: Customer intake - 2 minutes
Workflow 2: Payment processing - 3 minutes
Workflow 3: Report automation - 2 minutes
Ate my sandwich between workflows 7 and 8.
Workflow 17: Done at 12:53 PM.
All 17 workflows rebuilt.
All tested with client's data.
All running in new system.
Total time: 38 minutes.
THE AGENCY'S APPROACH
Week 1-2: Discovery and mapping
Week 3-4: Development environment setup
Week 5-6: Workflow recreation
Week 7: Testing phase
Week 8: Deployment and monitoring
What they were actually doing:
Manually rebuilding each workflow node by node.
What I did:
Described each workflow to Skada AI.
Generated instantly.
Deployed.
THE COMPARISON
Agency timeline: 6-8 weeks
My timeline: 38 minutes
Agency cost: $22,000
My cost: $6,500
Client saved: $15,500 and 7 weeks
THE TEST
Client: "They all work?"
Me: "Run your normal operations"
Client processes:
- 14 new leads
- 8 payment transactions
- 3 automated reports
- 22 email triggers
Everything executed perfectly.
Client: "This is actually faster than our old system"
Me: "Yeah, new workflows are optimized"
THE AGENCY'S RESPONSE
Client called to cancel.
Agency: "You can't migrate that fast"
Client: "Already done"
Agency: "Impossible without our planning phase"
Client: "Everything's running"
Agency: "There will be issues"
Two months later: Zero issues.
THE REFERRAL
Client's business partner had same problem.
Different platform migration.
23 workflows.
His agency quote: $28,000, 10 weeks
Built all 23 in 52 minutes.
He paid $7,800.
His message: "I was dreading this for months"
MY MIGRATION BUSINESS NOW
Average project:
- 19 workflows per client
- 43 minutes average build time
- $7,200 average fee
- Typical agency quote: $24,000
- Typical agency timeline: 7 weeks
Pipeline:
- 6 migrations scheduled next month
- All systems shutting down or upgrading
- All clients quoted 6+ weeks by agencies
- Total build time estimate: 4.5 hours
THE REAL ADVANTAGE
Migrations aren't hard.
They're just tedious when done manually.
Agency method:
- Screenshot old workflow
- Recreate each node
- Reconnect everything
- Hope it works the same
My method:
- Look at what workflow does
- Describe it in plain English
- Generate new version
- Deploy
THE PATTERN
Agencies profit from:
- Long timelines
- Complexity theater
- Migration "expertise"
I profit from:
- Speed
- Simplicity
- Results
Client gets:
- Working system
- 90% cost savings
- Zero stress
CURRENT RECORD
Largest migration:
- 47 workflows
- Completed: 2 hours 11 minutes
- Agency quote: $65,000, 14 weeks
- Client paid: $16,000
- Savings: $49,000
Client's quote: "Thought I'd have to shut down my business during migration"
Who else thinks migration shouldn't require months of planning?
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Agency charged $22k to "migrate" my client's workflows to a new system. I did it in 38 minutes during lunch.
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