CRM migration

Migrate from Synerise to Twenty CRM

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Synerise and Twenty CRM. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Twenty CRM.

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Synerise

Source

Twenty CRM

Destination

Twenty CRM logo

Compatibility

83%

10 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Synerise and Twenty CRM.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

4-8 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Synerise to Twenty CRM is a platform-type migration: Synerise is an AI-first behavioral marketing platform built around Profiles, Events, and real-time automation; Twenty CRM is an open-source CRM built around People, Companies, Opportunities, and Tasks. The structural gap means Synerise's behavioral event stream (product.view, transaction, added-to-cart) has no direct Twenty CRM equivalent — we transform Events into CRM activity records (Tasks, Notes) that preserve the timeline against the right People or Company record. Synerise's Brickworks schemas (arbitrary custom data structures) map to Twenty's custom objects with schema fields recreated before import. Immutable custom attribute names require a pre-migration audit and conflict resolution. Automation workflows, AI recommendation configurations, and visual similarity models do not migrate; we deliver written inventories for the customer's admin to rebuild.

Field-level fidelity

Every standard and custom field arrives verified.

Schema-aware mapping

AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.

Relationships preserved

Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.

Full activity history

Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.

Attachments & notes

Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.

Why teams make this switch

Two sides of the same decision

Leaving

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Synerise

What's pushing teams away

  • Building dashboards and reporting views requires starting from scratch every time — the flexibility that enables creative reporting also creates significant time investment for common visualization needs.
  • Custom attribute names cannot be renamed or deleted after creation, which creates technical debt for organizations that evolve their data model over time.
  • Pricing is entirely custom and opaque — no public per-seat or per-feature tiers, requiring lengthy sales cycles and making cost predictability difficult for growing teams.

Choosing

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Twenty CRM

What's pulling them in

  • Top open-source CRM on GitHub with 40.6K stars, giving teams full source code access and infrastructure ownership without per-feature licensing surprises.
  • Free self-hosting under AGPL-3.0 means unlimited users and custom objects for the cost of cloud infrastructure alone, typically $20–100/month.
  • Pricing page explicitly mocks competitors for charging add-on fees for API access, webhooks, and workflows — transparency that resonates with RevOps teams burned by Salesforce.
  • Unlimited custom objects and fields with no price impact, letting teams shape the data model to their business rather than forcing business into rigid schemas.
  • Modern TypeScript/React/PostgreSQL stack means developer-led teams can extend, self-host, or integrate without fighting legacy architecture.

Object mapping

How Synerise objects map to Twenty CRM

Each row shows how a Synerise object lands in Twenty CRM, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.

Synerise

Profile

maps to

Twenty CRM

Person

1:1
Fully supported

Synerise Profiles are the primary customer identity unit and map directly to Twenty CRM's Person object. Default attributes (email, firstName, lastName) map to standard Twenty Person fields. Custom profile attributes require a pre-migration audit to identify conflicts with Twenty's reserved field names. Synerise's reserved attribute names cannot be used as custom field names on Twenty either — we cross-reference and rename before import. The profile.assigned-to-company event must be processed to link each Person to the correct Company record.

Synerise

Company (profile-linked)

maps to

Twenty CRM

Company

1:1
Fully supported

Synerise has no standalone Company object — company data lives as profile attributes or schema records in Brickworks. We extract company information from the profile.assigned-to-company event and any Brickworks company schema records, then create Company records in Twenty before Person import so the relationship is satisfied. Company names, domains, and industry codes from Synerise map to standard Twenty Company fields.

Synerise

Event (transaction)

maps to

Twenty CRM

Opportunity

1:many
Fully supported

Synerise transaction events contain line items, totals, and timestamps. We aggregate transaction events per profile into an Opportunity record in Twenty, mapping the transaction total to Opportunity Amount and the transaction timestamp to Opportunity Close Date. Each profile may have multiple transactions; we create one Opportunity per transaction event, preserving the historical record rather than rolling into a single aggregate.

Synerise

Event (behavioral)

maps to

Twenty CRM

Task or Note

1:1
Fully supported

Synerise behavioral events (product.view, added-to-cart, page.visit, custom events) have no direct Twenty CRM equivalent. We transform events into Task records with a custom eventType field carrying the original Synerise event name, a custom metadata JSON field storing event properties, and the original event timestamp as Activity Date. High-frequency events (page.visit, product.view) may exceed practical CRM record counts — we scope event inclusion with the customer and recommend segment-based filtering or sampling for large event histories.

Synerise

Catalog

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Object: Product

1:1
Fully supported

Synerise Catalogs are product/item feeds managed in the Data Modeling Hub. We export catalogs as CSV or JSON and recreate them as a custom Product object in Twenty CRM with fields for item ID, name, description, price, and any custom catalog attributes. Product images from Synerise Catalogs are exported as URLs and stored as custom fields; the actual image files do not transfer.

Synerise

Segment

maps to

Twenty CRM

Person custom field or Tag

lossy
Fully supported

Synerise Segments return true/false membership flags per profile. Complex segment logic (multi-condition rules, behavioral triggers, AI-driven segments) cannot be reproduced automatically. We export segment membership as boolean or multi-select fields on the Person record. Simple static segments map cleanly; AI-driven behavioral segments are documented as segment_type='ai_behavioral' in the export for manual rebuild in Twenty.

Synerise

Brickworks Schema

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Object

1:1
Fully supported

Brickworks schemas are arbitrary record structures defined in Synerise's Data Modeling Hub. Each Brickworks schema becomes a separate Custom Object in Twenty CRM. We extract schema field definitions (field name, type, constraints) and recreate them in Twenty Settings → Data Model before importing schema records. Brickworks record IDs map to custom object UUIDs in Twenty. Schema relationships (foreign key references between Brickworks schemas) map to Twenty lookup fields on the custom objects.

Synerise

Campaign

maps to

Twenty CRM

Task or Note (audit log)

1:1
Fully supported

Synerise Campaign definitions — email, SMS, push, WhatsApp — are exported as configuration JSON. Twenty CRM has no native Campaign object in its standard data model. We export campaign configurations including audience rules, templates, and scheduling, and document them as a written Campaign Inventory for the customer to rebuild using Twenty's Workflow builder or an external email tool. Active campaign state (in-flight drip sequences) does not migrate.

Synerise

Tag

maps to

Twenty CRM

Person custom field (text)

1:1
Fully supported

Synerise profile tags are exported as comma-separated strings per profile. Tags map to a custom text field on the Person record in Twenty CRM. If the customer uses a defined tag vocabulary (fewer than 50 distinct tags), we recommend a multi-select picklist custom field instead for cleaner filtering and reporting in Twenty.

Synerise

Automation Workflow

maps to

Twenty CRM

Workflow (manual rebuild)

1:1
Fully supported

Synerise Automation Workflows are exported as JSON node graphs (triggers, conditions, actions). Fire-and-forget execution semantics mean workflow state cannot be preserved across cutover. We deliver a written Workflow Inventory documenting every active Synerise workflow with its trigger type, conditions, actions, and recommended Twenty Workflow equivalent. The customer rebuilds workflows in Twenty's Workflow builder post-migration.

Synerise

AI Recommendation Config

maps to

Twenty CRM

Configuration document (manual rebuild)

1:1
Fully supported

AI recommendation configurations (personalized, visual similarity, top items, last seen) are trained on Synerise's proprietary Cleora.ai embedding model and product catalog feeds. Only the recommendation rule configuration transfers. Visual similarity model weights are not exportable. We deliver a written Recommendation Config Inventory documenting all model configurations for manual rebuild in the customer's preferred recommendation tool.

Synerise

Owner

maps to

Twenty CRM

Twenty Member (User)

1:1
Fully supported

Synerise Owners are resolved by email match against Twenty CRM Members. Owners must be provisioned in Twenty Settings → Members before Person or Company import because OwnerId is a required reference on most objects. Any Synerise Owner without a matching Twenty Member goes to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before import resumes.

Gotchas + challenges

What specifically takes care here

Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.

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Synerise gotchas

High

Immutable custom attribute names cause migration mapping failures

High

Active automation workflow state cannot be preserved at cutover

Medium

5GB file and 10M record export caps require chunked migration planning

Medium

Visual similarity AI recommendations require full model retraining

Low

Reserved attribute names cannot be used in custom field creation

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Twenty CRM gotchas

High

Import order is enforced and critical

High

Export limited to 20,000 records and visible columns only

Medium

Soft-deleted records count toward uniqueness and trigger restores

Medium

API rate limits cap at 200 req/min on Organization tier

Low

No native email sequences — follow-up cadences require external tools

Pair-specific challenges

  • Behavioral events require explicit transformation to CRM activities

    Synerise's behavioral event model (product.view, added-to-cart, transaction, custom events) has no direct equivalent in Twenty CRM, which models customer interactions as Tasks and Notes. We transform events into Task records with the original event type stored as a custom field and event properties as JSON metadata. High-volume event streams can exceed practical CRM record counts — a single active profile with two years of behavioral history can generate tens of thousands of events. We scope event inclusion with the customer during scoping and apply segment-based filtering or date-range cuts for large histories. Skipping this step results in either silent event loss or a migration that produces an unmanageably large CRM database.

  • Brickworks schemas require manual schema recreation in Twenty

    Synerise Brickworks schemas define arbitrary custom data structures with field names, types, and constraints. Twenty CRM supports custom objects but requires the schema to be recreated manually in Settings → Data Model before any data import. We export Brickworks schema definitions and field types, but the schema itself must be entered into Twenty's UI or API before migration. If a Brickworks schema references another Brickworks schema via foreign key, the target custom object and its fields must be created first. Failing to sequence schema creation correctly causes import failures on lookup resolution.

  • Immutable Synerise custom attribute names can conflict with Twenty conventions

    Synerise does not allow custom attribute names to be renamed after creation. During scoping, we audit every custom attribute name in the source workspace and cross-reference against Twenty CRM's reserved field names and naming conventions. If a conflict exists, we flag it during scoping and the customer decides: create new correctly-named attributes in Synerise and run a reconciliation export, or accept the naming mismatch in Twenty CRM. Attributes with special characters, spaces, or Synerise-reserved names require explicit handling before import.

  • Active Synerise workflows have no recoverable state at cutover

    Synerise workflows are fire-and-forget by design — the workflow continues as soon as an action node fires without waiting for completion. This means in-flight workflows at migration cutover have no recoverable state. Any drip sequences, time-decayed offers, or multi-step nurture paths active at cutover will have gaps during the re-activation window. We export workflow definitions as JSON and deliver a written Workflow Inventory with a rebuild guide, but workflows must be re-activated manually in Twenty after migration. Time-sensitive automation logic (time-decay, day-of-week routing, recency-based scoring) requires explicit documentation for the admin to reproduce.

  • Visual similarity and AI recommendation models do not transfer

    Synerise's visual similarity recommendations are trained on product images using its proprietary image embedding model. This model is not exportable — only the recommendation configuration (thresholds, item feed reference, display rules) transfers. We document all visual similarity configurations in the migration manifest and flag that the destination platform must train its own equivalent model before recommendations resume. If the customer relies on Synerise's AI recommendations for product discovery or personalization, they need a separate ML engineering effort post-migration to reproduce equivalent behavior in their new stack.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Synerise to Twenty CRM data migration

  1. Discovery and schema audit

    We audit the source Synerise workspace across all API domains: Profile Management API for customer identity records, Data Management API for schemas and catalogs, Automation Hub for workflow definitions, Campaigns API for campaign configurations, and AI Recommendations for model configs. We extract the complete custom attribute registry, Brickworks schema definitions, segment rules, and catalog structures. We pair this with a Twenty CRM scoping call to understand the target object model requirements, custom object count, and team size. The discovery output is a written Migration Scope covering record counts, schema mapping, event transformation strategy, and automation inventory.

  2. Brickworks schema and custom object design

    We design the destination schema in Twenty CRM. This includes creating custom objects for each Brickworks schema, defining custom fields on People and Company for Synerise custom attributes, configuring picklist options for segment membership, and setting up lookup relationships between custom objects. Schema creation happens in Twenty Settings → Data Model first — Twenty requires fields to exist before import. We deploy the schema design document to the customer's Twenty instance and validate before any data extraction begins.

  3. Export and staging transformation

    We export data from Synerise in CSV and JSON format using the Behavioral Data Hub export function and API endpoints. Exports are chunked where required by Synerise's 10M profile and 5GB file limits. We run all exports through a transformation layer that applies the object mapping rules: Profile to Person, Company event to Company creation, transaction events to Opportunity records, behavioral events to Task records, Brickworks records to custom object records. Deduplication checks run against the export set. Staging output is validated against source record counts before loading.

  4. Member provisioning and owner reconciliation

    We extract every distinct Synerise Owner referenced on Profiles, Companies, and Engagement records and match by email against the Twenty CRM Members table. Members must be invited and active in Twenty before any Person, Company, or Opportunity import because OwnerId is a required reference. Owners without a matching Twenty Member go to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision. Migration cannot proceed past this step until all Owner references are satisfied.

  5. Staging migration and reconciliation

    We run a full migration into the customer's Twenty CRM instance using production-like data volume. The customer reconciles record counts (Persons in, Companies in, Opportunities in, Tasks in, custom object records in), spot-checks 25-50 random records against the Synerise source, and validates relationship integrity (Person linked to correct Company, Opportunity linked to correct Person and Company). Any mapping corrections happen here. Sign-off on the staging migration gates production migration.

  6. Production migration and cutover

    We freeze writes to Synerise during the cutover window, run a final delta export of any records modified during the migration period, and load data into Twenty CRM in dependency order: custom objects first (with no external lookups), then Companies, then Persons with CompanyId resolved, then Opportunities with PersonId and CompanyId resolved, then Tasks and Notes with PersonId and CompanyId resolved. We run post-migration validation against source record counts and relationship integrity. We deliver the Automation Workflow Inventory and AI Recommendation Config Inventory as written documents for the customer's admin to rebuild. We support a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Synerise

Source

Strengths

  • Proprietary AI stack — TerrariumDB, BaseModel.ai, Cleora.ai — built entirely in-house with no third-party AI vendor dependencies.
  • Real-time event processing with sub-50ms latency from capture to profile enrichment to automated action.
  • Massive API surface — 900+ endpoints across 15 API domains — covering every major data object with batch support on key endpoints.
  • Flexible schema builder (Brickworks) enables arbitrary custom data structures without platform limitations.
  • Behavioral Data Hub consolidates catalogs, schemas, item feeds, and profile data in one central repository.

Weaknesses

  • Custom attribute names are immutable after creation — a design constraint that causes technical debt and migration complexity.
  • Dashboard and reporting views must be built from scratch each time — no pre-built templates for common marketing metrics.
  • Pricing is fully opaque and custom-quote-only with no public tier structure, making competitive evaluation difficult.
  • Workflows operate on a fire-and-forget model — action completion does not gate workflow progression, which can cause race conditions in complex automation chains.
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Twenty CRM

Destination

Strengths

  • AGPL-3.0 open-source license with full source code on GitHub — no vendor lock-in, no sunset risk.
  • Unlimited users and unlimited custom objects on self-hosted, with no feature gating based on headcount.
  • REST and GraphQL APIs available on all paid tiers, not locked behind an enterprise add-on fee.
  • MCP server and webhooks shipped as standard features, not premium upgrades.
  • Modern PostgreSQL-backed data model that developer teams can query, extend, and self-host.

Weaknesses

  • Recent v1.0 release means limited production hardening compared to CRMs with multi-year operational track records.
  • No native email sequencing or sales engagement tools — follow-up cadences require a separate platform.
  • No native two-way email sync or inbox integration, requiring third-party connectors for full activity logging.
  • Self-hosting 'free' pricing hides real infrastructure and DevOps costs that stack up over time.
  • Workflow automation is functional but lacks the complexity needed for sophisticated multi-step sales motions.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard CRM migration. 1 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

B

Overall complexity

Standard migration

Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Synerise and Twenty CRM.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    1 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

  • Field mapping clarity

    C

    Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.

  • Timeline complexity

    B

    8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.

  • API constraints

    B

    Synerise: Not publicly documented in the developer documentation.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    A

    Synerise exposes a bulk API — large-volume migrations stream efficiently.

Estimator

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Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.

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Most migrations land between four and eight weeks for workspaces under 50,000 Profiles, fewer than 10 Brickworks schemas, and under 200,000 behavioral event records. Migrations with complex Brickworks schemas (10+ custom objects with multi-level relationships), large event histories (over 1M events), or extensive segment logic requiring manual rebuild move to ten to sixteen weeks because of schema recreation, event-to-activity transformation, and multi-pass data reconciliation. The Brickworks schema design phase alone can take one to two weeks if schema complexity is high.

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