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Ananya Gupta

Founder & Creative Director, Naarigis

Naarigis
Fashion & LifestyleIndustry
AI-assistedPeople workflows
Self-hostedFull data ownership

Naarigis

AI in the migration workflow

Naarigis is an advisory firm that moved from Workday to a self-hosted NEXEN HR instance. Ananya Gupta led the migration. He had already become an NEXEN HR expert implementing it for enterprise clients.

His approach was unconventional. Instead of mapping fields manually, scripting transforms, and validating data step by step, he handed the job to agentic AI tools with a brief: where the employee data lives, the GitHub repo for the target platform, and the Railway deployment. Start, and only return if something breaks beyond a 70% confidence fix.

It worked. This is AI-assisted iteration in practice: not AI as a product feature, but as part of implementation work, compressing what would typically be weeks into something one person can oversee without being the bottleneck.

Ownership

Self-hosted means control

The dedicated cloud setup means Naarigis owns the full stack: zero vendor lock-in to their employee records, predictable commercial pricing, and full control over how the system evolves. The migration was fast because of AI; the result is durable because they have full data sovereignty and infinite customizability.

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