Your situation
The board has set an AI deadline. The data it needs lives in logic nobody can move fast.
The strategy says AI on the company's data by a date. The data is produced by a warehouse built on SQL Server, Teradata or Hadoop, through logic that nobody has documented, and every AI initiative is waiting on "the migration". Novuz converts that logic to Databricks, Fabric or Snowflake by rule, proves every object so the AI runs on numbers finance trusts, delivers pipelines your agents can operate, and gives you the price and the timeline in three business days.
What is happening
What is actually happening?
The AI program has a sponsor, a budget and a date; the migration it depends on has none of the three because nobody can size it. The platform team is being asked for a timeline before anyone has counted the estate. The honest answer, "we do not know how big it is", is not an answer the board accepts.
The cost of waiting
What does waiting cost?
- The AI deadline arriving with the data still on the old platform.
- AI built on data whose lineage nobody can defend to the audit committee.
- A migration started in a hurry, by hand, with the proof planned for later, producing pipelines that will have to be made agent-operable all over again.
In three business days
What does the estate assessment give you?
- The number the board is asking for: how big the estate is and what the conversion costs, fixed.
- The dead code, so the migration is smaller than feared.
- A first domain chosen for what the AI program needs first.
- A reconciliation approach that makes the data defensible, not just moved.
Honest fit
Who should not do this?
- Organizations whose warehouse is already on a modern platform; the blocker is elsewhere.
- Oracle-only or mainframe estates, which we do not convert.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is Novuz an AI tool?
The conversion is rule-based, so the same input gives the same output every time; the small share rules cannot resolve is reviewed and approved by an engineer. That is what makes the result auditable, which is what the board's AI will need. What is agentic is the access: your orchestrator or agents can drive the platform through its APIs, and the pipelines it delivers can be exposed as MCP tools your agents call.
How fast is a first domain?
Five to six weeks after the assessment, up to 1,500 objects, live in your environment with the equivalence guarantee.
What do we tell the board next week?
The assessment date, and that the number follows three business days after it.
Sources and further reading
- McKinsey & Company, "Tech debt: Reclaiming tech equity," October 2020: CIOs estimate tech debt at 20 to 40 percent of the value of their technology estate, and 60 percent say it has risen
- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Technical Debt Management Tools, May 2026: by 2027, 80% of technical debt will be architectural
Written by Debjani Dhar, Co-founder and CEO, Novuz · Technical review: Ted Ghose, Co-founder and CTO, Novuz
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