Size
A product-by-product inventory of what maps cleanly, what needs configuration and what must be built. No forgotten scope.
Price a platform migration from the code, not from a workshop.
Moving a book of business from one insurance platform to another is usually estimated by interview. Cobra mines the code on both the source and the target system, extracts every product, rule and lifecycle stage with the line it came from, and compares the two through the ACORD industry standard.
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- Each system is mined from its own code: products, rules and lifecycle stages, each with the line it came from.
- Each system is mapped once to the ACORD industry standard.
- The gap register is read off the standard: what maps cleanly, what needs configuration, and what must be built.
- A third system joins with one new mapping, not a new comparison per pair.
What it gives you
Size, price and plan.
Price
The gaps roll up through a transparent effort and cost model into a defensible range, with every driver shown.
Plan
The same gaps become a prioritised, sequenced set of work packages that a delivery team can start from.
Why rule-based matters
Same inputs, same answer, every time.
The analysis is produced by fixed, rule-based transformations over parsed source and live configuration. It is not a statistical model’s best guess. In a regulated migration that difference is commercial.
- Repeatable. The same codebase gives the same gap register every time.
- Auditable. Every rule and every gap links to the copybook, condition, control-record value or program line it came from.
- It reports an unknown as unknown. A rule-based extractor cannot invent a rule that is not in the code. When it cannot map something, that is a finding.
The analysis does not assume a direction. It does not presume that you will migrate to, from or onto any particular platform. Each system is mapped to the standard once, and can then be compared with any other.
Maturity: a working proof of concept with a real evidence base. The engine has mined insurer product configurations and projected a live insurance product to the ACORD standard with every rule traced to source.
See it explained
Watch the discovery and gap analysis walkthrough.
A short video on how Cobra reads an estate from the code up to produce an evidenced product-and-rule catalogue and a gap register.