We migrate LMSes by reading APIs, not by rebuilding courses.
Four principles decide every project we take. They're also the four reasons most LMS migrations fail or run twice as long as quoted.
Extract via API, don't rebuild by hand.
Most LMS migration "services" are wrappers around manual labor — an admin clicks through your old platform, takes notes, and recreates each course on the new one. The work is slow, the fidelity is lossy, and the price scales with hours rather than outcomes. By the time they're done, your enrollment dates are estimated, your quiz scoring is approximated, and your videos have been re-uploaded to whatever CDN the agency was familiar with.
We don't do that. We extract directly from your source platform's API — Thinkific's GraphQL, LearnWorlds' REST v2 — and import programmatically into your destination. The unit of work is a record, not an hour. When we say zero data loss we mean every enrollment date and every quiz answer carries through byte-for-byte, because the data was never typed by a human.
Fixed price, written down before we start.
Hourly billing on a migration project is an alignment problem. Every hour the agency spends resolving an edge case is an hour you pay for. Every hour they hit a wall and abandon a feature is an hour you also pay for. The only way to win is for the agency to be slow and you to not notice.
We quote a fixed total before any work begins. The deposit is 50% of the floor of the matched tier — taken via Stripe, refunded in full if we can't deliver the scope on staging. The remaining balance is invoiced after you sign off on staging. If we underestimate, that's our problem, not yours.
The math is on the pricing page; the methodology is on the case study.
We say no to platforms whose APIs are inadequate.
The most common question we decline is "can you migrate me from Teachable?" or "from Kajabi?" The answer is no, and for a reason we won't paper over: their APIs do not expose lesson-level content or video URLs. There is no extraction path that preserves what a customer paid for. Anyone who quotes you a Teachable or Kajabi migration is either re-typing your courses by hand or telling you something convenient.
We'd rather lose the deal than ship a fake one. The full technical reason is on the site — including the API call we tried, the field that returned empty, and how Thinkific solves the same problem with a single GraphQL field.
Self-host the protected layer; don't rent it.
Vimeo at $65/month per seat with a 240-uploads-per-year cap is not a video strategy for a course business. Wistia is the same shape, slightly different price. Both make you a tenant of an expense line that scales with your library, not with your revenue.
We migrate course videos to your own AWS S3 bucket with layered protection — basic for free previews, player-locked for the main library, per-student signed cookies for high-stakes courses where account sharing matters. Storage runs about $4-15/month for a typical catalog. Protection is layered, not DRM-grade — but DRM-grade is overkill for educational content and costs an order of magnitude more per video served. The full layer-by-layer breakdown →
We wrote those down because they're easy to violate when a quote is on the table. If you've talked to other agencies about an LMS migration and something on this page contradicts what they told you — that's the conversation worth having. Email us or book a 15-minute call.