Tar your program directory
Whatever your programs live under — the whole tree, including any customisations and overlay directories. Source only.
Free report · No card, no sales call
Find out what runs.
Before you decide anything.
Send us a tarball of your programs — programs only, no data. We run them through the same parser that has already digested 5,079 programs and 536,000 lines of production Business Basic, and we send back exactly what parses clean, what needs attention, and what your migration actually involves — your corpus inventoried program by program, scoped before you commit to anything.
Nobody has ever been able to answer this for you. Now it takes a minute.
What it costs
Nothing. There is no card, no trial clock and no salesperson attached to it.
01 How to send it
One command, and you're done.
Your programs are text. They're a few megabytes. Everything sensitive — your customers, your orders, your pricing — lives in the data files, and we don't want those yet.
Upload it
Straight through the browser. If it's easier to send another way, or you'd like an NDA in place first, say so and we'll arrange it.
Read the report
Program-by-program results, every third-party and legacy integration inventoried, and exactly what your migration involves — scoped before you commit to anything.
02 What comes back
A real answer, not a brochure.
Every program, named individually
A line per program. Not a percentage — the actual list, so your developer can look for the one they're worried about.
The language surface you use
Which verbs, functions and terminal mnemonics your code actually leans on — the real shape of your shop, read out of your own source rather than a manual.
Every integration, inventoried
Third-party and legacy code, written decades ago by people who have long since left. The assessment inventories every one and says what each needs.
Your printing and output
Forms, spoolers, pre-printed stock, the label printer in the back. The report says what you actually run, so output gets engineered against that rather than inheriting forty-year-old constraints.
The reports your business runs on
Native SQL over your own keyed files, key-index aware, so a lookup stays a lookup at 2 ms. The query shapes you depend on come out of your assessment and get built into your migration.
What a migration would involve
Shape and effort, from your corpus rather than a generic estimate — including the custom work your shop needs, scoped before you commit to anything.
03 Your source code
We know what you're handing over.
Thirty years of your company's business logic is not a lead magnet. Here is exactly what happens to it.
Within 90 days, always
Your upload is removed within 90 days whether or not we ever speak again. Only anonymous aggregate counts survive it.
Not with anyone, for any reason
It is not used to train anything, not shown to another customer, and not passed to a third party.
You keep every right to it
Uploading changes nothing about ownership. We receive only the narrow permission needed to parse it and write your report.
If you'd prefer
Ask before you upload and we'll sign one. It's a normal request and it doesn't slow anything down.
04 Before you ask
The four questions everyone has.
Q1Do you need our data files?
No. Not for the report, and not until much later. Programs are text and they're small; your data files are enormous and full of your customers. We only need those once you've decided you want a system stood up in parallel — and by then there's usually an NDA and a signed assessment in place.
Q2What if some of our programs are encrypted?
That's common — most sites have a handful of vendor-supplied programs nobody has touched in years. The report inventories them by name rather than silently skipping them, and says what each one needs. Some come back from the original vendor, some turn out to be long out of use, and the rest get scoped into your migration like anything else. It's rarely the obstacle people expect.
Q3Is this actually free, or is it a sales call in disguise?
Actually free. The parse is automated, so it costs us close to nothing to run — which is exactly why we can give it away. You'll get the report whether or not you ever reply to us. If you want to talk afterwards, the report will have given you much better questions to ask.
Q4What about the parts of our system nobody else has?
That is the normal case, and it is the work. Forty years of a business writing its own software means custom print paths, an integration somebody wrote in 1998, a report the whole company runs on. The report inventories all of it and scopes exactly what your migration involves — built against your corpus by the engineers who wrote the engine, not handed to a partner network.
Takes a minute
Send us your programs.
No card, no clock, no salesperson. Just the answer you haven't been able to get.
Prefer to talk to a person first, or need an NDA in place? Email hello@uniquebb.com and we'll sort it out.