An External Consultant built a procurement savings dashboard

“We'll add authentication later.”— Lukas, An External Consultant

Reason:

Mainly because Friday at 17:31 seemed like a reasonable time to deploy. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Lukas, an intern

Build time:

4 hours 29 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a Map().

Authentication:

the production token is in the onboarding document

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

Anja, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will make an audit take 2 extra weeks.

Age: 5.9 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 843 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €470k per year, 99 users, alive 103x longer than intended.