The Transformation Team built a supplier scorecard

“The data is mostly public anyway.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because someone said "just add AI". Built in 3 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Petra, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a webhook pointed at someone's ngrok tunnel

Database:

a global JavaScript variable

Authentication:

the firewall rule says "temporary"

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will get SSO after somebody shares the password publicly.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago · original builder left 34 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 50% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left, €4k per year.