Legal built an AI chatbot for an undefined reason

“It's basically Power Apps.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because the last 10% is authentication, billing and everything else. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 317 days ago.

Built by:

Chen, a key account manager

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

Supabase on a free tier that pauses in 3 days

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

deployed from Petra's laptop

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 4 months ago

Documentation:

a Slack thread from December

Security situation:

passwords are stored in a spreadsheet for emergencies

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.

Age: 8.4 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 150 users, alive 102x longer than intended, 2 accidental connections.