Expense Management built a shift planner that emails PDFs

“The AI understands the code.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because the dropdown contains 385 options. Built in 8 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Miriam, an intern

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps and one mystery webhook

Database:

MongoDB where every document has a different schema

Authentication:

the shared account belongs to Lukas, who left 2 months ago

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the tenant ID comes directly from the query string

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 96 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 50 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, €16k per year, 8 users.