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This week: no more ownerless automations
Last week I kept running into the same problem wearing different outfits:
- A webhook still firing at an integration that had been dead for months
- An automation nobody could actually claim
- A user I'd disabled but never fully pulled out of a workflow
None of it was loud.
Nothing crashed.
It was just still running, quietly, because closing it out wasn't specifically anyone's job.
The fix turned out to be the same boring thing every time: put one name, not a team, on every live automation and integration. If nobody's name is on it, it isn't owned; it's just forgotten and still running.
So that's my focus this week.
Going account by account and doing the unglamorous part:
- One named owner per live workflow, no exceptions
- Every outbound webhook checked against whether the other end still exists
- Anything nobody will claim gets flagged for a real decision instead of being left alone
It's not exciting work.
It's also the difference between finding these things yourself and having a client find them first.
What's running in your accounts right now that nobody would admit to owning if you asked them directly?
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