diff --git a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/beam/rde/RdeIO.java b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/beam/rde/RdeIO.java
index 2058556f3..240ddd88d 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/beam/rde/RdeIO.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/beam/rde/RdeIO.java
@@ -248,6 +248,9 @@ public class RdeIO {
       // Now that we're done, output roll the cursor forward.
       if (key.manual()) {
         logger.atInfo().log("Manual operation; not advancing cursor or enqueuing upload task.");
+        // Temporary measure to run RDE in beam in parallel with the daily MapReduce based RDE runs.
+      } else if (tm().isOfy()) {
+        logger.atInfo().log("Ofy is primary TM; not advancing cursor or enqueuing upload task.");
       } else {
         outputReceiver.output(KV.of(key, revision));
       }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/env/production/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/env/production/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
index 14fe72328..96d525c3c 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/env/production/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
+++ b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/env/production/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,19 @@
     <target>backend</target>
   </cron>
 
+  <cron>
+    <url>/_dr/task/rdeStaging?beam=true</url>
+    <description>
+      This job generates a full RDE escrow deposit as a single gigantic XML
+      document using the Beam pipeline regardless of the current TM
+      configuration and streams it to cloud storage. It does not trigger the
+      subsequent upload tasks and is meant to run parallel with the main cron
+      job in order to compare the results from both runs.
+    </description>
+    <schedule>every 8 hours from 00:07 to 20:00</schedule>
+    <target>backend</target>
+  </cron>
+
   <cron>
     <url><![CDATA[/_dr/cron/fanout?queue=rde-upload&endpoint=/_dr/task/rdeUpload&forEachRealTld]]></url>
     <description>