Three People From Finance built a lead scoring system

“It's only temporary.”— Sofia, Three People From Finance

Reason:

Allegedly because the spreadsheet has 112,938 rows and 78 tabs. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Sofia, a key account manager

Build time:

4 hours 4 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a vector database because somebody said RAG

Authentication:

the security model is a locked office door

Deployment:

running on port 8080 in production

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 58 slides

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will turn out to be the only system that knows the real numbers.

Age: 9.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 281 users, 40% chance of becoming business critical, alive 109x longer than intended.