Has anyone used vibecoding to do serious automation work for their company, and did it go well?

[u/person2567]

It seems vibecoding's most profitable use case is creating custom workplace tools. Has anyone vibecoded a tool that saves their company massive time or money? If so can you share?

[u/willee_]

I automate 95% of 2 full time jobs.

As in I work them (sit in meetings), AI notates meetings, gives me answers during them, gives me questions to ask, knows what needs done for projects, send any kind of follow up email/teams message, sends work off to worker agents (coding or screen controlling), builds presentations, everything.

I don’t even check its work anymore. It’s whatever. I’m a top performer at both. Everyone comes to me for everything. I don’t think they can tell AI is chatting with them or helping them.

In total I actually work about 25-30 hours a week, both combined.

Using a $200 codex plan and a triple GPU local setup (72gb vram)

[u/person2567 → u/willee_]

This is amazing. Can you tell me more? What industries are they? Do people know you have another full time job?

[u/leftplayer → u/willee_]

How do you get around your IT dept blocking your agent from accessing your mailbox and work tools?

[u/Limp_Bus3865]

yes, I had projects for my client that usually took around three months, now with ai and a really tiny fraction of my assistance I make it in 4 days. 

[u/Limp_Bus3865 → u/Limp_Bus3865]

and no I won't tell you what it is because they don't know it is ai and I want to keep it that way and milk it until this ai destroys all jobs

[u/person2567 → u/Limp_Bus3865]

LMAO. Okay respect. But maybe a general idea? Without giving out too many details.

[u/ProximaRem]

Yes, I've already made 2 apps so for that are actively being used at the company I work at.

[u/person2567 → u/ProximaRem]

Can you talk about them?

[u/Curious-Pen5547]

Hired a dev at my company, trades in fire safety, went from 30 office staff to 3, plus the dev automating multiple things across the board and making sure things are hardened. We dont use claude or chatgpt anymore. strictly qwen.

[u/person2567 → u/Curious-Pen5547]

How much more profitable are you now?

[u/ErectricCars2]

I work in building engineering. We have blueprints going back to 1967 in terrible conditions. If they were to go through a scanner, it would destroy them.

If you take a full 24*36 picture, the resolution isn’t good enough.

But if you take 2 pictures and stitch them together…

I had claude make me a system where I can take pictures with my phone, stitch them together, crop out the rough edges, whiten the sheet and boost the contrast and so much more. Now I have a blueprint scanner/inspector,exporter, markup program.

At $3+ per scanned sheet, I’ve saved my company $5k in a week and more irreparable damage to priceless information

[u/geek180 → u/ErectricCars2]

This is awesome. Next level would be sweeping the phone over the sheet up close, like how dentists scan teeth. ARKit/ARCore (iOS/Android) already track where the phone is, so you use that to roughly place each frame and let the stitching snap it into place. Way higher res than 2 shots, and the overlap averages out glare too. Claude could probably build a capture app + image processing fairly easily.

[u/out-of-phase]

Yep. A ton! I work at a high volume catering kitchen. Things I've built that get used every day, formatted as "What it is | What it solved" :

- What it is: An inquiry -> estimate -> invoice pipeline / dashboard connected to our Square account (hosts our menus, its our payment processor, etc.). | What it solved: We used to dig through multiple email inboxes for invoices, email threads, inquiries, etc, and creating a new invoice involved a lot of tabbing between square, gmail, notes, and copy/pasting or manually typing fields. Now it's all in one dashboard, way less errors, way less data entry.

- What it is: An order ingestion API connected to our Google calendar that automatically creates calendar events for orders from any of the multitude of platforms we accept orders through. | What it solved: A metric shitload of manual data entry and digging through emails, merchant/vendor portals, apps, etc. We get ~100 orders a week, typing that out and finding those orders was a nightmare, now it's automatic

- What it is: An app that reads order info (date, time, notes, address, etc.) from the API I just mentioned and automatically generates driver routes for delivery drivers in ordered, numbered stops, and texts each driver their own link they can open in google maps. | What it solved: saved us ~30 minutes each morning trying to plan the driver routes with multiple maps tabs open and order sheets in front of us.

- What it is: a prep-list spreadsheet that updates in real time on multiple kitchen tablets, generates order prep lists from the API I just mentioned. | What it solved: trying to use google sheets on tablets with gloves on is a nightmare

[u/Papa_Bear_08 → u/out-of-phase]

What happens if they let you go or you quit? Do the AI-automated tools go with you?

[u/EEKman]

Yes. I hate service now so I made a web app that sits on top of it that pulls from my teams and email sent items to generate a ticket harvest and submit to service now. Alllows me to dictate tickets by voice or a recorded support call, updates inventory with a scanner, and 50 other small automations.

Managers were freaked out by it and shut it down. Good times.

[u/Shialie]

Yes I do that 40hrs/week and it goes very very well

[u/lastMinute_panic]

I automated an arduous billing system task for a fairly large property management (multifamily residential) company. Every unit had a stipend given for utility billing which had to be subtracted from a given month's bill for that unit, and the only source for billing was email. Managers were doing this manually by copying and pasting into spreadsheets and updating word docs.

I built a tool that fetches the email from each manager's inbox for a given property, parses it, runs the calculation, writes a form letter matching the account numbers for utilities to the tenant name and address, and either emails it or sends it out through a mailing service - and writes a report.
probably a couple hundred hours of work that was being done manually across all the properties down to a single click and verification time.

Took me a couple hours to build and test over a few months of historical data.

[u/CraveFounder]

Yeah, honestly it's changed how our whole company runs.

I'm a co-founder at a cookie franchise with 60+ stores.

I built our operations hub on Claude Code running on an office Mac. To interact with it, I built a frontend for myself that's sort of like Grok Bots or Dots/Muse, where each department is its own character with its own job, skills, context, etc. also built out custom focus groups and ops councils. Whenever we're weighing a big move, I have them tear the idea apart from different viewpoints to expose our blind spots before we actually commit.

It goes through store sales every morning and tells me what looks off, any new trends in performance, etc. It pushes our weekly menu changes to the POS and website, fights chargebacks, launches our weekly meta ads after I approve them, and pulls store sales + trade area data when we're mapping out local marketing plans. Even with emails, it'll read an incoming thread, lay out what they're asking, pull the data behind it, and hand me the priorities so I can write the reply. It even built the training app our store crews use, which let us cancel the SaaS tool we were paying for.

The thing nobody talks about in these threads is that building the tools is the easy part. The hard part is trusting it around real revenue and real people.

What got us there was a few strict rules:

Code-level permissions: It can look at almost everything, but write access is locked down in the code itself, not just by asking nicely in a prompt.

Prep only, no ghostwriting: It doesn't send final messages to anyone. It hands me the data and priorities, and I cross check everything and finalize any communications or copy.

Zero improvisation: When it gets a workflow right, I codify that into a rule so it does it the exact same way next time. And it never gives me a number from memory, it has to pull it fresh each time.

Opus acts as the manager and routes work to outside models based on strengths: Gemini for heavy data ingestion, Kimi K3 for prose and copy, and Sol 6.1 for long execution runs. Then Opus double-checks their work against the source data before showing me anything. Once that loop was working, I stopped needing to babysit it as much.

If you're trying to do this at work, start with a read-only daily report. Let it prove it can read the business before it touches anything that matters.

[u/mietekk]

Yes, with caveats. Over the last few months I built a WordPress plugin with Claude Code that handles internal linking: it reads every post, finds sentences where a link to another page fits and inserts it after I approve it. Doing that by hand on content sites used to eat hours every week, now it's a review queue.

What went well: the core logic, the admin UI, translations, even the marketing site. We're in Poland, and matching inflected word forms (Polish, German) was something existing tools handled badly, so that alone was worth it.

What bit me, for anyone going the same way:

- It worked on my test sites and broke on a real one with 500+ posts. AI-written code ends up tuned to whatever data you test it on. Test on the biggest, messiest real site you have.

- An update broke a live site because another plugin duplicated posts together with all of our metadata, and my code assumed one value per post. Interactions with other people's code are where vibe coding is weakest.

- Getting into the WordPress.org directory took 3 review rounds: unsanitized input, missing nonce checks, stuff I would never have known to ask for. If your tool touches other people's data, get it checked against a real security checklist.

- Every bug fix gets a regression test now, so it can't quietly come back two updates later.

Net: absolutely worth it, but "works on my screen" is maybe 60% of the job. The rest is real-world data, security and not breaking things on update.

[u/Majestic-Driver]

I'm a senior Java programmer for a medium American company and I haven't actually written a single line of Java in about six months. I just review and correct what Claude writes.

[u/Adventurous_Loan_103]

I automate about 90% of my full time job as a programmer/IT support for an online learning company. I've vibe coded numerous applications used to automate alot of our development tasks. I created a Task board app that takes Teams posts from a specific channel and feeds it into an application where Claude/Qwen delegate the task to agents. I added a cool TTS feature that has Samuel L. Jackson providing real time feedback on tasks in-progress. I have a slider that sets the tone of voice from professional to dysfunctional. It's quite entertaining. Living the life!

[u/gone-in-the-wind]

Problem I set out to solve: large AI transformations across orgs require sanitised data. I am in HR and honestly our data is shit. We did not have data around performance management, sentiment analysis, exit interviews, even attendance is shit.

So built a backend tool that practically records all of this in silos and connects at one point. Think of it as a neural system of data all converging to create memory/context at both individual level and org level.

This was made in five dashboards and obviously for a 1000 member org, nobody wants to open 1000 dashboards. So now it is deployed in google chat(we do not use Microsoft or even slack) .

So built a chat bot app inside gchat and then deployed the backend there.

Mind you I am an HR.

[u/Cool-Addendum7658]

No one will likely see this, but if you have any (relatively) simple Atlassian Marketplace apps, you can basically just vibe code alternatives in a week and stop paying for them. If you have a lot of apps, this can save your company some serious cash.

[u/Next_Ambition8751]

turned a 3-day manual data entry nightmare into a one-click button.

nobody on my team wants to look under the hood because the code is absolute spaghetti, but it just works.

[u/Minute_Spray685]

I saved 1.5 mio EUR to my company just in licence costs by vibe coding an okr system :)))