Compliance built a meeting cost calculator nobody asked for

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Sarah, Compliance

Reason:

Mainly because the licence costs €49 per named user. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Sarah, a key account manager

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Access, because the database was already there

Database:

a production snapshot from September because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the app is secure because it has a padlock icon

Deployment:

deployed from Lukas's laptop

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Word document with tracked changes still enabled

Security situation:

the certificate expired 209 days ago

Future disaster:

It will make an audit take 5 extra weeks.

Age: 3.6 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 695 users, alive 188x longer than intended, €104k per year.