The Person Who Knows Power Automate built an audit evidence portal

“The quarter ends Friday.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Officially because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "manual step". With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Daniel, a field technician

Build time:

2 hours 2 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

booleans stored as "yes", "no", "Y", "N" and occasionally "maybe"

Authentication:

the production token is in someone's shell history

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

Sarah, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

production secrets are in Git history

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 175 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 175 days ago · original builder left 68 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €446k per year, 45% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.