How do you build internal tools without developers?
The internal-tools gap
Every team needs small tools: holiday requests, purchase approvals, equipment, onboarding. They are too specific for an off-the-shelf product and too small to justify engineering time, so they end up in spreadsheets and chat threads.
Tools teams build first
- Holiday management with manager approval and a team calendar.
- Purchase approvals by amount.
- An IT asset register and internal tickets.
- Onboarding checklists with an owner for each task.
- A simple CRM or a campaign tracker.
What makes it work without developers
The hard part of an internal tool comes after the first version: access, data, changes and keeping it running. Bunbird handles hosting and keeps the app running, and every change is saved as a version you can go back to. When the process changes, whoever owns the tool asks for the change in the chat.
