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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8845731" data-attributes="member: 18">I'm a &quot;legal engineer&quot;, not directly a software dev (though sort-of - I use a lot of products for building rules-based automation solutions and even apps - mostly low-code stuff), and I work with devs literally every day. So if you're trying to argue I don't know enough, sorry, that's bollocks. I do. This is just a database with a rules-system attached. Legal tech is absolutely chock-full of these. Automation is chock-full of these. And yes I work with companies who are rebuilding systems that were poorly designed. Sheesh that was the entire focus of my meeting earlier today.EDIT - I should also note that back when they used to communicate, the Beyond team were not shy about discussing how their product worked and its limitations and future needs, so this isn't &quot;in the dark&quot; guesswork or something.What is possible is that they simply lost the vast majority of people who understood how the system worked and how to make the changes/improvements they were planning. That would sadly not be unprecedented.Which leads to of course one of two situations:1) A bunch of new people have to try to work out how it works - which is helped if there's good documentation etc. but that's not always the case.or2) The new people simply build another system whilst maintaining the existing one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8845731, member: 18"] I'm a "legal engineer", not directly a software dev (though sort-of - I use a lot of products for building rules-based automation solutions and even apps - mostly low-code stuff), and I work with devs literally every day. So if you're trying to argue I don't know enough, sorry, that's bollocks. I do. This is just a database with a rules-system attached. Legal tech is absolutely chock-full of these. Automation is chock-full of these. And yes I work with companies who are rebuilding systems that were poorly designed. Sheesh that was the entire focus of my meeting earlier today. EDIT - I should also note that back when they used to communicate, the Beyond team were not shy about discussing how their product worked and its limitations and future needs, so this isn't "in the dark" guesswork or something. What is possible is that they simply lost the vast majority of people who understood how the system worked and how to make the changes/improvements they were planning. That would sadly not be unprecedented. Which leads to of course one of two situations: 1) A bunch of new people have to try to work out how it works - which is helped if there's good documentation etc. but that's not always the case. or 2) The new people simply build another system whilst maintaining the existing one. [/QUOTE]

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