Legal built an invoice matcher

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Because the supplier portal needs 31 clicks and two approvals to approve a €40 purchase. Built in one weekend and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Tobias, someone from Procurement

Build time:

5 hours 10 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

the security model is "nobody knows this URL"

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

a vendor whose support contract expired 14 months ago

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

security is handled by the fact nobody knows it exists

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2031.

Age: 160 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 77 users, 16% chance of becoming business critical.