CEO Office built a third CRM

“Everyone has admin because roles were slowing us down.”— Olivier, CEO Office

Reason:

Officially because the admin account belongs to somebody who left 14 months ago. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Olivier, a working student

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since July

Authentication:

every employee is an admin because support tickets were taking too long

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

Thomas, who insists they are not the owner

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2025 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for July and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2031.

Age: 4.5 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, alive 18x longer than intended, 20% chance of becoming business critical.