A distributor needed its verified product catalog pushed into a product information system. The reasonable-looking move was to write the records and move on. The catalog had been cleaned and confirmed over months and was ready.
We probed the destination before writing anything to it, and the destination was not empty. It already held product records created months earlier by the platform's own support team: an archived mirror of the client's previous website content, under a different brand, a different SKU convention, and an older set of identifiers. Every record in it was flagged archived, which is why nobody had noticed it.
Nothing in that mirror overlapped the real catalog. A create-everything push would have succeeded, reported success, and left the client with two disconnected product sets inside the system meant to be their single source of truth. The cleanup would have cost more than the migration.
We also found that the attribute schema already configured in the destination had been built for website marketing fields and was missing the specification fields the actual products need, which changes the shape of the work before it changes any code.
The client's confirmed catalog is treated as final and never overwritten. New items are added incrementally against it. The push reconciles against what is already there rather than assuming an empty target.
The migration was not the hard part. Checking whether the destination was what everyone assumed it was, before writing to it, was.
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