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Replace your Access database, and get ready for AI

Your Access file runs the business, next to spreadsheets and email, and the person who built it may be gone. We write down how your company really runs around it, in an Operating Manual (your SOPs, roles and rules in one place), show which fixes and AI uses pay off, and rebuild it as one connected web system, ready for automation and AI.

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Operating Manual · 1.4 Credit holdIllustration

An order is held for approval when the customer's open balance plus the new order is over their credit limit, unless the order is under $250.

Given customer C-0207 with a $10,000 limit and $9,400 open. When a $900 order is entered. Then the order is held for approval.

Found in Orders.accdb, form frmOrderEntry, BeforeUpdate event.Owner check: Right / Wrong / Not sureApproved by you

From one Access file to a business ready for AI

  1. 01

    We map how your company really runs

    We read every table, form, query, macro and report, then follow the work around the database, into the spreadsheets and inboxes next to it. Your Operating Manual writes it all down in plain words.

  2. 02

    We show where the money is

    The Opportunity Map ranks every task worth fixing, automating or handing to AI, such as orders typed twice or reports built by hand, by what it saves a year and what it costs to build.

  3. 03

    We rebuild it as one connected system

    The database, the spreadsheets around it and the email chains become one web system your team opens anywhere, with logins, dashboards that flag problems early and a record of every change.

  4. 04

    It becomes the base for AI

    With your work and data in one well-described place, automations and AI agents plug in safely, one at a time, each measured against what it saves.

See a finished Business X-Ray

Is Microsoft Access being discontinued?

No. Access is still part of Microsoft 365. What ends is support for each boxed version, and without support there are no more security fixes.

Access 2016 and Access 2019 lost support on 14 October 2025. Support for Access 2021 ended on 13 October 2026.

If your database runs on one of those versions, or on one old PC nobody wants to touch, it is a good time to write down how your business runs on it, before anything changes.

See every end-of-support date

What happens to each part of your database

In the old system
What it becomes
Tables and relationships
One well-described database, with your data cleaned, moved and every count and total checked.
Forms and their checks
Web screens with the same checks, each written down first in your Operating Manual.
Queries
Written down with worked examples, then built into the reports and dashboards of the new system.
VBA modules and macros
Read line by line. Each action is written down for you to confirm, then automated in the new system.
Reports
Live dashboards, and the same reports without the rebuild by hand.
Linked Excel files and exports
Mapped, then connected, replaced or built in.
The email around it
Approvals and hand-offs inside the system, with a record of every change.

Access to a web app: your options

  1. 01

    Move it to a low-code app builder

    Good when You already pay for an office suite that includes one, and the database is small and simple.

    Watch for Users may need extra paid licences, and VBA does not carry over, so every step has to be found and rebuilt by hand. The spreadsheets and email around it stay as they are.

  2. 02

    Buy an off-the-shelf product

    Good when Your process is standard and a product already does it.

    Watch for You change how you work to fit the product, and your special rules may have no place to go.

  3. 03

    Rebuild it with us

    Good when The way you work is yours and it matters. You get the Operating Manual and the Opportunity Map first, then one connected system that automation and AI can plug into.

    Watch for It takes your time too, about an hour a week to answer questions and check the manual.

If an off-the-shelf product fits you better, the X-Ray says so. You keep the Operating Manual either way.

Questions

What does AI-ready mean for an Access database?

Your data in one well-described place, your steps written down and every change recorded, so automations and AI tools have something reliable to work on. An Access file on one PC gives them none of that.

Will we lose any data?

No. We clean the data, move it, then compare counts and totals table by table. Any gap is listed and fixed before you switch.

Do we still need Microsoft 365?

Not for the new system. It runs in any browser, with logins, roles and a record of every change, hosted where you choose.

What does it cost?

Start with the free AI Readiness Check, about 3 minutes, for an estimate on screen. The Business X-Ray is $2,900 for one database with up to 20 screens and reports, or $5,900 for a larger setup. A small database is rebuilt for $7,500 all in, the X-Ray included. Larger setups go phase by phase, from $20,000 a phase.

How it works

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