Which of Your Domino Applications Will Run in Nomad? Find Out Before the Scoping Call

Every conversation about modernizing a Domino estate arrives at the same question, and almost nobody can answer it: which of these applications will actually run in HCL Nomad, and which will need work first?

It is rarely a skills problem. It is that the estate is two decades deep, the developers who wrote most of it have long since moved on, and the only reliable way to find out has been to open every NSF by hand. So the answer tends to arrive as a scoping quote — access, someone's time, a statement of work — before anyone has looked inside a single database.

We think that order is backwards. So we made the first pass free.

What Nomad.Services does

Nomad.Services is a browser tool that analyzes a single Domino database and returns a migration viability assessment. You drag in one .nsf or .ntf file. No account, no credit card, no call.

In seconds the free preview returns:

• Forms and Views counts

• Java Agents and LotusScript Agents counts

• A migration viability grade

That is the whole interaction. There is no form to fill in before you see the result.

Reading the grade

The viability grade is the part worth understanding, because it is what makes the output useful rather than merely interesting:

• A — Ready to migrate. No blockers detected.

• B — Migration with caveats. It will move, but something needs attention first.

• C — Significant changes needed. Plan remediation before you migrate.

One grade on one application tells you something. Ten grades across ten applications tell you considerably more. Run the tool across a representative slice of your estate in an afternoon and you have a distribution rather than an impression — and a distribution is something you can put in front of a steering group. The C's show you where the remediation budget needs to go. The A's are the applications you can start moving this quarter, while the harder ones are still being scoped.

That reframes modernization from one large, unquantified project into a sequence of much smaller decisions, which is usually the difference between a plan that gets approved and a plan that stays on the roadmap.

What the free preview includes, and what it does not

We would rather be straight about the boundaries than have you discover them mid-evaluation.

The preview is genuinely free and genuinely does not require an account. Counts and a viability grade, returned in seconds.

The detailed report does require an email. A magic link opens the fuller version, which adds per-form risk flags, complexity scores, and a downloadable PDF.

The free preview runs in a shared environment. Send a sanitized or non-production copy of your database. There is a separate isolated, authenticated environment for production-style data — talk to us if that is what you need.

Your file does not stick around. Analyzed and deleted within 15 minutes, never stored, TLS encrypted in transit.

The preview accepts files up to 100 MB, one at a time, and works on Firefox, Edge, and Chrome. Plenty of production databases are larger than 100 MB. If yours are, email sales@nomad.services and we will work out the right way to look at them — that conversation is free as well.

What comes after the grade

If the result is interesting enough to pursue, there are three routes, in increasing order of commitment:

• A free 30-day trial puts your database in front of you actually running in HCL Nomad, with cross-platform testing. No credit card.

• The Conversion Audit, $200, produces a compatibility scorecard with every blocker identified, an effort estimate, and a remediation roadmap for that application.

• An Enterprise engagement covers full application modernization, architecture consulting, and migration planning and execution with a dedicated team.

The free tool is not a lead magnet pretending to be useful. It is the genuine first step of the same process, and if the grade comes back A, you have your answer and you owe us nothing.

Start with the one you are least sure about

The instinct is to test the simple application first. Resist it. The database you are least confident about is the one your entire migration plan quietly depends on, and it is the one where a five-minute answer is worth the most.

Nomad.Services is operated by Prominic.NET and built on the Moonshine.dev platform. Questions: sales@nomad.services or +1 (217) 356-2888