The Real Bottleneck Isn’t Budget
As an Atlassian Platinum Solutions Partner and a member of Anthropic's Claude Partner Network, Praecipio has reimagined how we deliver migrations leveraging AI. At the center is the Praecipio Intelligence Framework: the knowledge from hundreds of Atlassian engagements, encoded so Claude analyzes your environment for the same patterns our consultants look for. By using the Praecipio Intelligence Framework, Praecipio can deliver more in-depth assessments and efficient migrations for our clients. But for enterprise clients, the long pole in the tent for getting the migration project approved may no longer be budget, scope or choosing the right partner. It's getting the organization to approve an AI-assisted migration.
We saw this firsthand with a recent global enterprise client. Commercial terms were agreed early in the summer. The migration plan was ready. Then the third-party security questionnaire arrived, and the AI questions started. Each round of answers produced a new round of follow-ups. Months later, the AI contract terms were still in redlines.
None of that was a question of whether AI could do the work. It was a question of whether the right people inside the client knew what the AI would touch, had classified the risk, and had signed off. Clients who bring in their security, privacy and legal teams early keep their migration timelines. Clients who wait can end up in security review purgatory.
Inside the Praecipio Intelligence Framework
Let’s dive deeper into the Praecipio Intelligence Framework and its benefits. The Praecipio Intelligence Framework is attended AI, not autonomous AI. It acts only when a consultant directs it, and it's built to reach the same conclusions an experienced consultant would have reached before AI, but with greater depth and breadth. Assessment work that took consultants days or weeks of manual discovery now go much quicker, which frees them for remediation decisions and planning. The findings reflect patterns from hundreds of engagements, not a generic model's best guess. In a recent engagement, a large software company had run its Data Center for nearly two decades and built up heavy customization. The framework took apart plugin code whose authors had long since left and turned it into proposed Cloud-native replacements.
Why AI Expands the Security Review
Sounds great right? Until it comes to the risk assessment that most enterprises require for any vendor. A migration partner without AI tooling generally goes through a standard third-party risk assessment. When AI tooling is on the table, the review can expand to subprocessors, data flows to model providers, and contract riders written specifically for AI. In one of our client's cases, AI came up in nearly every domain of the security questionnaire: data management, cryptography, backup, network security, third-party management, privacy, and the software development lifecycle. Questions that would normally take one pass took three.
The cast changes too. Beyond the migration team and procurement, you can expect global security risk, third-party risk analysts, and legal reviewers. None of them were in the room when the migration was scoped, and all of them will have to sign off.
Five Steps to Save Weeks
In our client's case, it took roughly three months to get from the first security questionnaire to final AI contract terms. If you're planning an AI-assisted migration, these steps can save you weeks.
- Name your AI governance owner and third-party risk owner before the SOW is signed.
- Start the high-risk approval path (senior leadership and legal) as soon as AI is proposed.
- Decide where the AI runs and whose license it uses.
- Share your AI rider, privacy rider and/or security standards with your migration partner on day one.
- Build approval time into the migration plan.
AI can help improve your migration results only once security has approved it. The clients who get the full benefit treat their security team as a partner from the first conversation, not a checkpoint at the end. We've made that easier. Before an engagement starts, Praecipio offers an AI security briefing for your security, privacy and legal teams. It includes our data-flow diagram, prepared answers for your security questionnaires, and the deployment and retention options up front.
If a Data Center to Cloud migration is on your roadmap, and you want to benefit from the efficiency and deep knowledge the Praecipio Intelligence Framework can bring to your migration effort, start that conversation with us now. Together, we'll get your security team to yes before the migration clock starts.
This blog was written by Val Scott, Field CTO at Praecipio.
