Built internal ops tools with AI and never hired a developer, how has nobody been talking about this!
Spent way too long thinking this was just how small companies had to run.
At 10 people the setup was whatever the founder threw together early on, sign offs over email, a budget sheet nobody really trusted, onboarding docs that were always like 6 months out of date, plus a couple other things nobody had ever bothered to automate.
Was messing with an AI tool one weekend and somehow ended up building some of this stuff myself, started with a vendor approval flow and a spending tracker, then a new hire checklist so people would actually stop ignoring the onboarding doc.
Took maybe three weeks total for those 4 and the part I didn't expect was how easy it is to just go change something now instead of waiting on whoever used to handle it.
Still haven't figured out how to handle the ones that need more than one person to approve though.
Anyone else end up building this kind of stuff without hiring someone technical?