Free AI-Powered CMS migration: Migrate your website fast

CMS migrations are long, expensive, and risky: months of work, hundreds of thousands of euros, SEO and integrations to rebuild from scratch.

With AI and Jahia, migrating your public-facing site becomes free, visible before you commit to anything, and your subscription drops by up to 50%.

Key takeaways

• The real barrier to switching CMS isn’t the price. It’s the migration: long, costly, and risky.
• Migrating to Jahia is free. You pay for the subscription, not the migration, with savings of up to 50% on your annual subscription compared to your current CMS.
• AI handles 100% of your public content, with no volume limit. Experts finalize the integrations and the specifics. You sign off at every step.
• For regulated industries, migration lands on sovereign hosting, a direct answer to the Cloud Act exposure that comes with US-based platforms.

Migration: a real barrier for large organizations

If you’re shopping for a new CMS, you already know where the real sticking point lies. It isn’t the license fee, it’s the migration.

Rebuilding a corporate website ties up your teams (marketing, technical, and communications) for six to eighteen months, sometimes longer. Moving thousands of pieces of content, preserving SEO, carrying over custom development, URL redirects, and integrations with your CRM, ERP, or e-commerce: a full replatforming quickly runs into several hundred thousand euros, and remains a project no one takes on lightly.

That’s often what pushes the decision back, sometimes for years, even when the existing platform no longer fits.

What AI really changes

AI doesn’t make migration magic. It’s a technical exercise that demands method and human review. Any promise of a "fully automatic, effortless" migration is a red flag.

What it does change is the moment of proof. Running this migration ahead of any sales conversation and then presenting it was already technically possible. But the time and cost involved made it hard to justify for a mere demonstration. AI shifts that balance: it delivers a faithful result in a short timeframe, which makes the exercise realistic, and therefore something you can actually offer. The original site on one side, its Jahia version on the other, with an objective measure of how faithfully it was reproduced. The conversation now moves to scope, contract, and price. It comes down to a single phrase: accelerated by AI, guided by experts.

What "free" means, exactly

A free offer is only worth anything if its scope is clear. Migrating your site to Jahia is free.

AI takes over your entire public website: pages, components, public assets, SEO metadata, structured data, internal links, and navigation. With no volume limit, even across multi-site, multi-brand, or multi-country setups. This is the heaviest part of any migration, and it’s exactly the part handled for you.

The more specific elements stay in human hands: CRM, ERP, or e-commerce integrations, authenticated content, business logic, security and access rules, final SEO validation, redirects, and go-live. Jahia’s experts handle these with you, step by step.

The platform subscription itself remains paid, and often lighter than your current CMS (the offer points to savings of up to 50% on the annual subscription).

Proof before commitment

This is the heart of the approach. A migration tool that shows the work in progress: you see your site before and after, you measure the quality achieved. A first working result appears in a few days, versus several months before, with no obligation. The source site is never altered: a parallel Jahia instance is produced alongside the existing one.

On top of that come contractual commitments, not slogans: go-live, timelines, scope matched feature-for-feature against the existing CMS, and costs.

Sovereignty: a core concern for regulated sectors

For banking, finance, insurance, or mutual insurers, where data is hosted isn’t an architectural detail. It’s a compliance requirement.

Yet leading platforms like Adobe Experience Manager or Sitecore are US-based and often hosted in American datacenters, which can expose data to extraterritorial regulations such as the Cloud Act. Migrating to a sovereign solution, hosted in Europe, changes the nature of the debate: it’s no longer just about features, but about the control an organization retains over its data.

Speed has become a deciding factor

Renewal cycles often span three years, and the right window to consider a change falls between eighteen and nine months before the deadline.

Before AI, a replatforming easily took twenty-four months, decision included: deciding to migrate meant deciding too late, because the window simply didn’t exist. Bringing the timeline down to a few months reopens it. A team can watch its site migrate during the pre-sales phase, then plan for a lower budget as early as the current fiscal year.

The limits, stated plainly

There’s no size or volume limit, and the approach holds up at very large scale. The timeline, however, stays proportional to the size of the site: the larger it is, the longer the processing takes. The offer covers websites and authenticated portals alike. On a portal, part of the value lies in its third-party integrations: complex business customizations are scoped and estimated during the assessment.

For twenty-five years, holding on to a CMS you no longer like was the safest choice, for lack of a credible alternative. AI, used with discipline and under human oversight, removes most of the risk. It doesn’t promise magic. It simply makes migration visible, measurable, and something you can commit to, before you sign anything.

To see what a migration would look like for your own site, explore the Free AI-powered CMS migration and request a free assessment.