How do we migrate from UiPath to Sola without disrupting production automations?

Most teams running UiPath in production are looking for a way to modernize their automation stack without risking outages, missed SLAs, or a flood of tickets from the business. The good news: you don’t need a big-bang rewrite. You can move from UiPath to Sola with a phased, low-risk approach that keeps your existing bots running while you stand up AI-native, agentic process automation in parallel.

Quick Answer: You migrate from UiPath to Sola by running both platforms side-by-side, starting with a small pilot process, then progressively rebuilding and cutovering high-value workflows while keeping UiPath as a safety net. The key is to treat migration as an incremental, workflow-by-workflow project—prioritizing resilience, dual-run testing, and clear rollback paths so production automations never go dark.

Why This Matters

If you’re relying on UiPath today, those automations are woven into real operations—claims get paid, invoices get reconciled, orders get keyed in, filings get submitted. A brittle or rushed migration can mean delayed revenue, compliance risk, and a support fire drill.

Migrating to Sola is about more than “swapping tools.” It’s about moving from static scripts and if-then flows to agentic process automation that can adapt when UIs, data formats, or business rules change. Done right, you end up with a more resilient automation layer—without forcing the business to pause work, retrain every operator, or rip-and-replace existing systems.

Key Benefits:

• Zero-downtime transition: Run UiPath and Sola side-by-side, with dual-run testing and controlled cutovers so production SLAs stay intact.
• Less brittleness, more resilience: Replace fragile UI scripts with Sola’s AI-native bots that use LLMs and computer vision, reducing maintenance when screens or data change.
• Shift ownership to operators, not consultants: Let ops analysts, compliance leads, and billing teams rebuild and extend workflows visually—without waiting on RPA specialists.

Core Concepts & Key Points

Concept	Definition	Why it's important
Side-by-side orchestration	Operating UiPath and Sola in parallel, routing specific workflows to each platform during migration.	Lets you modernize without disrupting existing automations, and gives you a safety net for critical processes.
Agentic process automation	Sola’s approach: record a real user doing the work once, then let a bot run the process across browser/desktop apps with LLMs and computer vision.	Replaces fragile, rule-heavy scripts with adaptive bots that can handle UI and data variation and learn from user feedback.
Dual-run and phased cutover	Running a workflow in both UiPath and Sola, comparing outputs, and then gradually switching traffic to Sola.	Reduces migration risk, surfaces edge cases early, and ensures parity before you decommission UiPath bots.

How It Works (Step-by-Step)

At a high level, a safe UiPath → Sola migration has three phases:

1. Plan and prioritize workflows to migrate.
2. Rebuild in Sola using recordings + the Visual Workflow Editor.
3. Run dual, cut over gradually, and decommission UiPath bots.

1. Plan: Map and Prioritize Your UiPath Footprint

You don’t migrate “UiPath” generically; you migrate specific workflows that matter.

1. Inventory your existing automations

   • List all UiPath processes: name, owner, systems touched, triggers, frequency, and downstream dependencies.
   • Pull UiPath Orchestrator data to identify:
     • Run frequency and volumes.
     • Failure rates and common error types.
     • Business-critical SLAs and time windows (e.g., EOD posting, weekly billing).

2. Classify by criticality

   • Tier 1: Revenue- or compliance-critical (claims submission, billing reconciliation, regulatory filings).
   • Tier 2: Operationally important but less time-sensitive (order entry, vendor onboarding).
   • Tier 3: Nice-to-have automations and small utilities.

3. Choose your first candidates Target workflows that are:

   • Operationally meaningful but not the single point of failure for your business.
   • Painful to maintain in UiPath (fragile UI selectors, frequent changes).
   • Good fit for Sola’s strengths:
     • Multi-app, UI-based tasks (15 tabs open, shared drives, internal web tools).
     • Document-heavy workflows (invoices, forms, PDFs).
     • Processes with exceptions that require interpretation, not just rules.

This gives you a pilot set where Sola can show value quickly, without risking core production.

2. Rebuild: Turn Real Work into Sola Bots

Sola is AI-native automation—record a process once, turn it into an agentic bot that runs across desktop and browser apps.

1. Record the actual process

   • Have the subject-matter expert (e.g., billing analyst, legal ops lead) record themselves doing the work end-to-end.
   • Include:
     • Realistic edge cases (missing fields, odd formats, ambiguous data).
     • Navigation across all systems: browser apps, thick clients, spreadsheets, shared drives.
   • Sola uses LLMs and computer vision to:
     • Interpret clicks, keystrokes, and screen context.
     • Infer what each step does (e.g., “open policy in system A,” “cross-check amount in system B”).
     • Generate a first-pass workflow automatically.

2. Refine using the Visual Workflow Editor

   • Open the generated workflow in Sola’s no-code, visual editor:
     • Name and group steps logically (e.g., “Fetch claim details,” “Validate coverage,” “Update ledger”).
     • Add conditional branches where business rules apply.
     • Configure data extraction from documents using AI-powered document understanding.
   • For more complex environments:
     • Compose workflows that call internal APIs, services, or other Sola bots.
     • Set up triggers (API calls, schedules, events from your systems).

3. Embed resilience from day one This is where you deliberately build something better than what you had in UiPath:

   • UI robustness: Sola uses computer vision to interact with screens, making bots more resilient to minor UI changes than brittle selectors.
   • Data transformation: Use Sola’s data transformation to clean, normalize, and structure messy inputs so downstream steps don’t break.
   • Error handling: Configure real-time error handling:
     • Retry logic for transient failures.
     • Reasonable fallbacks when fields are missing or formats change.
     • Clear escalation paths to a human operator, with context.

4. Configure orchestration, governance, and visibility

   • Define roles and permissions via Sola’s role-based access controls.
   • Set up environments (dev / test / prod) as appropriate.
   • Ensure logging and audit trails are enabled:
     • Sola provides real-time visibility and audit logs per workflow run so you’re never in the dark.

3. Run Dual, Cut Over, and Decommission UiPath Safely

Once your first workflows are rebuilt in Sola, you move into dual-run and cutover.

1. Dual-run phase

   • Keep the UiPath bot running as-is.
   • Run the Sola bot in parallel for the same inputs:
     • In some cases, you can feed the same queue into both, but only let one write to production systems.
     • In others, you’ll mirror a subset of real cases into a non-destructive environment for Sola.
   • Compare:
     • Output parity (fields, decisions, downstream records).
     • Timing (latency, throughput).
     • Error patterns and exception handling.

2. Analyze discrepancies

   • Where Sola and UiPath differ:
     • Confirm whether UiPath was actually correct, or if Sola is catching genuinely bad data.
     • Encode clarified rules into Sola’s workflow or adjust prompts/logic.
   • Use this phase to:
     • Capture previously undocumented exceptions.
     • Tighten governance (e.g., add approvals for high-risk branches).

3. Gradual cutover

   • Start by routing a small traffic slice to Sola:
     • E.g., 10–20% of non-critical queue items, specific clients, or specific product lines.
   • Monitor:
     • Real-time logs in Sola.
     • Error rates and downstream KPIs.
     • Feedback from operators and business teams.
   • If stability holds:
     • Increase Sola’s share of traffic in phases until it owns 100% of that workflow.
   • Keep UiPath on standby for a defined period:
     • Clear rollback plan: if metrics cross thresholds, revert traffic to UiPath while you fix and retest.

4. Decommission UiPath bots over time

   • Once a workflow is stable on Sola, document:
     • Scope, triggers, and dependencies.
     • Monitoring dashboards and alerting.
     • Runbooks for handling exceptions.
   • Disable or retire the corresponding UiPath processes.
   • Repeat the cycle for the next set of workflows, starting with the next-highest value/maintenance pain.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Trying to “translate” UiPath scripts 1:1 into Sola:
  Sola isn’t a visual transcription of your old RPA flows; it’s agentic automation informed by real user behavior. Use the migration to simplify and harden the process instead of copying every legacy branch.

• Big-bang migrations of your most critical bots:
  Don’t start with the process that closes your books or files your regulatory reports. Begin with high-value but non-catastrophic workflows, prove out the migration pattern, then scale.

• Ignoring operators and subject-matter experts:
  If migration is driven purely by IT or external consultants, you’ll rebuild the same brittle abstractions. Involve ops analysts, billing teams, and legal ops early—they’re the ones Sola is designed to empower.

• Underinvesting in monitoring and rollback:
  Every cutover should have clear success metrics, real-time logs, and a documented path back to UiPath if needed. “We’ll just watch it” is not a migration strategy.

Real-World Example

Imagine a logistics company using UiPath to handle order entry and shipment updates:

• Today, a UiPath bot:
  • Pulls orders from an email inbox and a legacy portal.
  • Copies details into an internal TMS.
  • Updates customers in a separate carrier portal.
• It breaks every time the partner portal UI shifts or a carrier modifies field labels. Ops spends hours babysitting selectors, and small changes require RPA specialists.

Migrating to Sola:

1. An ops analyst records the real process once—logging into email, downloading attachments, parsing documents, navigating the TMS and carrier portals.
2. Sola turns that recording into a workflow, using computer vision to interact with both the TMS and carrier sites and AI-powered document understanding to parse order documents.
3. The team refines the flow in the Visual Workflow Editor, adding branches for different carrier types and data transformation for inconsistent formats.
4. They dual-run UiPath and Sola for a subset of orders:
   • UiPath stays the system of record initially, Sola runs in parallel for comparison.
   • Discrepancies surface a few unspoken exception rules, which are added into Sola.
5. After two weeks of clean dual-run, they route 25% of new orders to Sola directly. Monitoring shows:
   • Fewer failures after minor portal changes.
   • Faster processing times.
6. Within a month, 100% of traffic is on Sola; the UiPath bot is kept as a fallback for a short period, then decommissioned.

The result: less firefighting when UIs change, fewer dependencies on RPA specialists, and an ops team that can adjust the automation themselves as carriers and requirements evolve.

Pro Tip: During dual-run, have Sola log not just outputs but also how it handled ambiguous cases—those logs become a powerful knowledge base for tightening rules, training staff, and documenting your true process (not just what’s in the spec).

Summary

You can migrate from UiPath to Sola without disrupting production by treating it as an incremental, workflow-first transition—not a massive rewrite. Start with a clear inventory, prioritize the right candidates, and lean into Sola’s strengths: record-once bot creation, adaptive UI interaction via LLMs and computer vision, and robust orchestration with real-time visibility and audit trails.

Run UiPath and Sola side-by-side, dual-run to validate behavior, then gradually shift traffic with clear rollback paths. Over time, you replace brittle, consultant-heavy RPA with AI-native automation that your own operators can build, adapt, and govern—so critical workflows run faster, smarter, and at scale, without putting production at risk.

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