Mid-Market Salesforce Escape Hatch That Migrates Custom Fields and Flows, Not Just Records

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Small businesses around 15 employees are getting crushed by Salesforce per-seat pricing but stay locked in because nobody offers a credible migration path that preserves custom fields, Apex, validation rules, and automations. Existing migration tools (Trujay, Import2) move records but punt on the workflow layer, leaving teams to either pay forever or lose years of business logic in a re-platform.

builder note

Don't build another CRM... build the unbundling tool. An LLM agent that reads Salesforce metadata, classifies each automation by type and intent, and outputs a migration plan plus generated code for HubSpot/Attio/Pipedrive. Charge a one-time $5-15K migration fee per company. The destination CRMs will partner with you because you're solving their #1 sales blocker.

landscape (3 existing solutions)

The CRM market is full of destinations and full of record-movers. Nothing reverse-engineers Salesforce's automation layer and rebuilds it on a target stack with parity validation.

HubSpot Sells the destination but offers no real automation-mapping tooling. Teams hire consultants to manually rebuild flows.

Attio Modern, cheaper destination CRM, but explicitly markets itself to greenfield teams. Migration is left as an exercise to the user.

Trujay / Import2 Moves records, contacts, and accounts. Does not handle Apex, flows, validation rules, or custom object relationships, which is where the real lock-in lives.

sources (1)

reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/1szbjvi/sale... "stay and accept Salesforce will keep raising prices, or migrate and pray nothing breaks" 2026-04-29

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