Dog Shelter Team built an AI chatbot for an undefined reason

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Bastian, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Officially because the workshop produced a Miro board with 50 sticky notes. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Bastian, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a folder called DATABASE

Authentication:

the current password ends in 5

Deployment:

last successfully deployed 411 days ago

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2023 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will be mentioned in an audit finding using the words "material weakness".

Age: 48 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 48 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, €10k per year, 8 users.