Imports and migration

When cleanup uncertainty needs guided review

Some cleanup work is ordinary migration preparation, but cleanup uncertainty needs guided review when it starts changing confidence, scope, or whether the migration question can still be answered safely.

Who this is for: Church teams trying to tell the difference between expected cleanup preparation and cleanup uncertainty that already needs a more serious review path.

Last reviewed 2026-04-30 · Source of truth: broader help library · Languages: en, es

Article metadata

Product area: imports and migration

Owner: Migration and import workflows

Parity reviewer: Bilingual launch review

Retrieval-ready: Yes

What to expect next

Separate visible cleanup tasks from the cleanup uncertainties that could still change launch confidence or migration scope.
Escalate when cleanup questions have become consequence-heavy enough that broad help no longer gives a safe answer.

When cleanup is still normal preparation

Cleanup is still more ordinary when your team is identifying duplicate records, incomplete fields, or export formatting questions that are visible but not yet changing the real migration decision.

That kind of preparation can still be consequence-aware without pretending every detail is already solved.

When cleanup uncertainty needs a narrower lane

Move into guided review when cleanup uncertainty now affects stakeholder confidence, likely scope, reporting meaning, or whether your church can judge migration readiness honestly from the current information.

The point is not to dramatize cleanup. It is to avoid letting vague reassurance stand in for a real decision boundary.

Escalation path

If cleanup uncertainty now changes whether your church can evaluate migration safely, route it into guided review instead of relying on broad reassurance.

Related next steps

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