Facility Services built a contract deadline reminder bot

“It has a padlock icon.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Mainly because the vendor quoted 7 months and one workshop. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Nadia, the management assistant

Build time:

5 hours 32 minutes

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

Airtable on Jens's personal plan

Authentication:

the production token is in the onboarding document

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

a 63 minute screen recording

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will outlive two reorganisations.

Age: 4.8 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 87 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 29x longer than intended, nobody owns it, the builder has left.