Procurement built a meeting summariser that joins every meeting

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Priya, Procurement

Reason:

Officially because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". Started as Budget2026.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Priya, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Power Apps, licensed to one employee

Database:

an API that returns CSV

Authentication:

there is one account called "admin" and nobody knows who owns it

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Daniel understands

Responsible:

Olivier, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 13 days ago · original builder left 37 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, the builder has left, 12% chance of becoming business critical.