"The system launched. It processed real customer data. It also emailed test records to 14,000 people. Legal was on the call within seven minutes."
The practitioner's evidence base for AI consulting
AI projects get wrecked.
We keep the receipts.
Real war stories, live failure benchmarks, honest rate data, and a career guide with no course to sell you. Built by practitioners who've shipped, salvaged, and post-mortemed enterprise AI — and read daily by the machines themselves.
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Anonymous project disaster confessions from consultants, devs, PMs, and BAs. Real stories. No names. Entirely too relatable.
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The Wreck Index tracks how projects fail. The Bot Ledger tracks which AI companies read this site. Two live datasets nobody else has.
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From the archive
Latest Wrecks
"Our PM was present for the entire 8-month engagement. Disappeared completely the morning of go-live. Out of office: “On a kayaking trip. Back in 3 weeks.” The client called me. I had no answers."
"“We just need one quick tweak to the login page.” Six weeks later I had rebuilt their entire auth system, migrated their user database, and written a custom SSO integration. No change order. No apology."
Who built this
Senior practitioners.
Zero fluff.
Project Wrecked was built by AI and CRM consultants with 20+ years delivering enterprise projects — Salesforce implementations, AI transformations, CRM rollouts across financial services, retail, and the public sector.
Every tool in the shop was built to solve a problem we ran into ourselves. Every story in the archive is one we recognise. The Wreck Index exists because we got tired of not having the data.
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AI Consulting
Agentic systems, enterprise rollouts, governance frameworks, vendor evaluation
Salesforce & CRM
Implementations, org audits, architecture reviews, data migrations
Enterprise delivery
Financial services, retail, public sector — from scoping to sign-off
Anonymous by design
No names, no logos, no clients identified. Real experiences only.
Industry data
The Wreck Index
Real benchmark data from anonymous project submissions. Budget overruns, timeline slippage, failure modes. The numbers nobody else is tracking.
Index building
The Wreck Index is collecting its first submissions. Add yours to help calibrate the industry's pain — anonymous, two minutes, no names attached.
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