Procurement built a lead scoring system

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Mainly because the workaround has onboarding documentation. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Tobias, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

an Access database called Budget2026.csv with 12 linked tables

Authentication:

the password policy requires one uppercase letter and optimism

Deployment:

running in a region 8 time zones away from its users

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2025 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

IT was informed. IT has chosen peace.

Future disaster:

It will become a works council agenda item.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 633 days ago · original builder left 224 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 792 users, 4 departments depend on it, nobody owns it.