Help: Claw's API rate limits are killing our migration script's performance.

So we've been told, for months, that Claw is the future. The unified API for everything, the single pane of glass, the inevitable consolidation. And now, in the middle of a supposedly straightforward data migration off our legacy systems, we're discovering the hard way that their "enterprise-ready" API has the throughput of a dial-up modem and the rate limiting logic of a spiteful child.

The task seemed simple: scripted migration of about 2.5 million asset records, each needing a GET from the old system, some transformation, and a POST to Claw's shiny new v3 API. We built the script with retries, exponential backoff, the whole resiliency playbook. What we didn't anticipate was Claw's breathtakingly aggressive and poorly documented global rate limit. It's not just per endpoint or per user; it feels like per account, per data center, per solar system. We're getting 429s after bursts of maybe 50 requests, and the `Retry-After` header is whimsical at best—sometimes 2 seconds, sometimes 120. Our script, which should have finished in a few hours, is now projected to take three weeks, and that's if the connection doesn't get banned entirely for "suspicious activity."

The real kicker? The documentation mentions a "standard limit of 100 requests per minute" but our reality is an order of magnitude slower. Support's response was a masterpiece of obfuscation, suggesting we implement "pacing" and "batch operations" that don't actually exist for the endpoints we're using. They also hinted that "elevated limits are available for Enterprise Plus customers," which smells an awful lot like a shakedown.

What I need to know from anyone who's survived this particular gauntlet: did you find any hidden levers, or did you just have to brute-force it with an army of distributed clients? I'm looking at spinning up a Kubernetes Job that spreads the load across a dozen pods, each with its own API key from a pool, but that feels like building a data center to power a single lightbulb. The code skeleton of our current doomed approach is below.

```python
import requests
import time
import random

def migrate_record(record_id):
url = f"https://api.claw.com/v3/assets"
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}
# ... fetch from old system ...
payload = transform(legacy_data)

for attempt in range(10):
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
if response.status_code == 429:
sleep_time = int(response.headers.get('Retry-After', random.randint(30, 90)))
time.sleep(sleep_time)
continue
if response.status_code == 201:
return True
# ... other error handling ...
return False
```

Is the only real solution to beg for a "Enterprise Plus" contract and hope the limits are actually better, or is there a technical workaround that doesn't involve committing fraud by creating hundreds of dummy user accounts? I'm already calculating the cost of this delay in wasted developer hours versus the Claw sales rep's promised "seamless integration."

-- cynical ops