Aerial was not designed on a whiteboard. Each module exists because a live replatform needed it, and each one earned its keep on a client platform before it had a product name.
First product
What it is
The product behind the method.
Migrations stall on the mechanical work: inventorying thousands of pages, rebuilding components, moving content, checking nothing broke. Aerial is that work, turned into software. It was built inside real replatforms, hardened on production platforms, and is the reason work that used to run across quarters now runs in weeks.
Content leaves the legacy platform through a neutral intermediate format, not a point-to-point script. New sources and new targets are added without rebuilding the toolchain.
Aerial does the mechanical lift. What moves, when, and how stays with senior engineers who have run replatforms before. Every output is reviewed before it is load-bearing.
Extraction that used to take a team months runs in days. The repetitive lift is compressed at every stage, and the saved time goes into the work that needs human attention.
The five modules
Five modules, one spine.
Each module maps to a stage of the Banyan Method's five-stage spine, so the toolchain and the method move together. Discovery, Build, Transfer, Parallel, Sovereignty: one module carries the lift at each stage.
01
Platform auto-extract
Builds the content inventory and component map of the existing platform in days, not months. Senior engineers validate the map before anything depends on it.
Banyan stage: Discovery
02
Component generator
Produces component shells, templates and integration scaffolding to specification on the target platform. Reviewed, not handwritten.
Banyan stage: Build
03
Migration engine
Moves content out of the legacy platform through a vendor-agnostic intermediate format and into the new one, with structure and references intact.
Banyan stage: Transfer
04
Parity monitor
Compares old and new platforms in real time through the parallel window, so regressions surface before users notice them. This is what makes the parallel period trustworthy rather than hopeful.
Banyan stage: Parallel
05
Cutover orchestrator
Sequences the switch and the post-switch monitoring, on the client's signal rather than a vendor schedule. The moment of cutover stays yours.
Banyan stage: Sovereignty
The Aerial pipeline Five modules in sequence, each carrying one stage of the Banyan Method. The cutover point carries the one lime mark
Fig 1 · The Aerial pipeline Five modules in sequence, each carrying one stage of the Banyan Method. The cutover point carries the one lime mark: the switch happens on your signal, not a vendor schedule.
Aerial and the Banyan Method
Aerial is the toolchain. The Banyan Method runs it.
The two are designed together and most often run together, but they are not the same thing. The method decides what good looks like: parallel running, the client controlling the switch, sovereignty at the end. The toolchain makes the method fast.
Aerial is the toolchain
Five software modules that do the mechanical lift of a migration.
The Banyan Method runs it
The five-stage spine: parallel running, and the client choosing the moment of switch.
Senior engineers keep the judgment
What moves, when and how is decided by people who have run replatforms before.
Output is reviewed, not typed
The tooling produces; the engineers approve. Nothing is load-bearing unreviewed.
Where it applies
Built for the platforms we actually meet.
Aerial moves platforms onto modern content platforms and off the legacy ones that have been holding programs hostage. The intermediate format means the list below grows without the toolchain being rebuilt.
Magnolia
Target platform. Implementation and migration by a validated Magnolia partner.
Contentful
Target platform. Composable, headless platforms built on partner accreditation.
Legacy CMS
Source platforms. Ageing platforms with content worth keeping and risk worth leaving.
TeamSite era
Source platforms. TeamSite and other OpenText-era platforms, extracted cleanly.
Route to market and platform partners
Available via AWS Marketplace · listing in progress
AWS Advanced Consulting Partner
Magnolia
Contentful
Questions
Frequently asked questions.
Is Aerial a product or a service?
A product, and TBSCG's first. Aerial is a licensed toolchain with a roadmap and a release cadence. Most clients meet it inside a Banyan Method replatform, run by the practice that built it, but it can also be licensed for a migration program your own team runs.
Does Aerial replace the engineers?
No. The five modules do the mechanical lift: extraction, generation, transfer, comparison and sequencing. Senior engineers decide what moves, when and how, and every output is reviewed before it is load-bearing. Output is reviewed, not typed.
Which platforms can Aerial move?
Aerial moves platforms onto Magnolia and Contentful, and moves them off legacy CMS platforms including TeamSite and other OpenText-era platforms. Content travels through a vendor-agnostic intermediate format, so new sources and targets are added without rebuilding the toolchain.
How long does a migration with Aerial take?
Weeks rather than quarters. Platform extraction that used to take a team months runs in days, and the repetitive lift across every stage is compressed. The one thing never shortened is the parallel window, which is sized to your risk appetite, because that is where confidence is earned.
Is Aerial on AWS Marketplace?
Aerial is available via AWS Marketplace, with the listing in progress. Procurement runs through the AWS relationship your platform already has once the listing is live. Until then, talk to us and we will set up the route that fits your procurement.
Where next
The toolchain in context.
Aerial rarely travels alone. Here is where it most often joins the rest of the work.
The method it runs
DXP Replatforming The Banyan Method
The wider AI picture
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The five-stage spine Aerial was built for: parallel running, you control the switch.
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