Legal built a churn predictor trained on 40 rows

“It's just an Excel replacement.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Honestly? Because the automation sends an email asking someone to do it manually. Started as Suppliers_new_new.csv with a script attached.

Built by:

Petra, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

an old laptop in the server room

Authentication:

permissions are managed by copying another user's account

Deployment:

restarted manually every Wednesday

Responsible:

Anja, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2032.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €208k per year, 3 accidental connections, 9% chance of becoming business critical.