The CEO's Assistant built an AI policy generator generated by AI

“It's only temporary.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because the process requires signatures from 9 people. With a logo generated at 23:02.

Built by:

Daniel, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

sessionStorage, because localStorage felt too permanent

Authentication:

anonymous users are mapped to "default admin"

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Invoices_Q3_use-this-one_old.xlsm

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

a 112 minute screen recording

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 16:12.

Age: 7.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 2281 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 188x longer than intended, €76k per year, nobody owns it.