Let every team build the small tools that never reach the roadmap
At Rokt, an e-commerce technology company, Replit is open to every team for internal tools. The person who led the rollout told Sacra that people, operations and marketing teams build their own small apps.
What they did
It started with one automation-minded team whose results turned them into internal trainers. Now anyone can sign up: the learning team built training exercises and games, operations built a dashboard that collects SQL queries for easier data access, and marketing built event sign-up and mapping tools. Apps sit behind the company's single sign-on.
What happened
The interviewee says the biggest win is tools that save a small team a couple of hours a week, which would never be prioritized by engineering.
Keep in mind
No formal ROI tracking. The main worry is that when a tool's builder leaves, nobody knows how it works, and connecting to tools like Jira had to be built by hand.
Try it with your agent
I run <your team> and want a small internal tool for <the repeated task, for example a training quiz, an event sign-up page or a shared library of report queries>. Keep it simple, require company login, and store data in a basic database. Also write a one-page README explaining what it does, where the data lives and how to change it, so someone else can maintain it if I leave.
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