Who we are
Built by practitioners. For practitioners.
Project Wrecked is run by a small collective of senior AI and enterprise consultants with more than twenty years in the field between us. We came up through Salesforce, CRM, and enterprise delivery — and now spend our days scoping, shipping, salvaging, and post-morteming AI projects. Implementations of every size, more than a few rescued while already on fire, and between us we've made most of the mistakes so you don't have to.
That's why this place runs on evidence, not opinion. The archive collects what actually goes wrong. The Wreck Index turns it into numbers. The Bot Ledger publishes who reads us — including the machines, which now account for most of our traffic. Even our Kit Bag is being handed over to a practitioner survey, so our tool opinions get corrected by data too. We'd rather show the receipts than ask you to trust us.
Supporting this
This is a pet project run by one person in the evenings. Everything on it is free and stays free: no paywall, no advertising, no affiliate links, and nothing for sale. The datasets cost a little to run and a lot of evenings to maintain.
If something here saved you time, you can buy me a coffee. If your company gets commercial value from one of the ledgers, sponsoring a dataset keeps it running and gets you a line of credit on the page.
Neither buys any influence over what the data says. If a sponsor ever disliked a number, the number would stay and the sponsor would go. That is the whole basis on which this is worth reading.
The pitch
Every consultant, developer, PM, or BA has a story. The launch that went wrong. The client who changed everything at 5pm on a Friday. The "quick tweak" that consumed six weeks. The stakeholder who disappeared exactly when you needed them.
We built this place so those stories have somewhere to live. Not as complaints — as a record. The digital delivery equivalent of war stories around the campfire. Funny in hindsight. Maybe instructive. Always cathartic.
The rules
Everything here is anonymous. No real names, no company names, no identifying details. The point is the story — the pattern, the chaos, the moment where everything went sideways — not the blame.
Stories are reviewed before they go live. We're not interested in axe-grinding or personal attacks. We're interested in the universal experience of digital work going wrong in all-too-familiar ways.
Read the guidelinesWhat we make
Five public datasets, a handful of free tools, and a lot of writing. The Wreck Index counts how projects actually end. The ledgers track who reads this site, what the model market is doing, what it is quietly retiring, and what tries the door at night. wreck-watch catches deprecated model IDs before your build does.
There used to be a shop here: fifty templates, proposals, rate calculators, playbooks. We retired the lot in July 2026. Almost nobody bought them, which was fair enough, and a rack of paid templates sat badly on a site whose whole argument is that most consulting advice is unevidenced. Selling the cure alongside the diagnosis is exactly the move this site exists to be rude about.
So it is all free now, and it stays free. The writing is worth more given away than sold, the datasets are yours to cite, and this is a pet project rather than a business. If it saved you time you can buy the author a coffee.
The tone
We're cynical, but not bitter. Funny, but not cruel. We're on the side of the people doing the work — the ones shipping the things, managing the chaos, and writing the post-mortems at 11pm.
If that's you: welcome. You're not the only one. Grab a cuppa (or a whiskey) and stay a while.
Across Salesforce, CRM strategy, enterprise delivery, and everything in between. We've seen most of it.
No names. No companies. The knowledge is what matters — not who's holding it.
Every number here comes from something that actually happened, and every tool from a problem that actually annoyed us. Nothing invented for the purpose of having something to publish.
A growing community of practitioners who share stories, compare notes, and pass on what the formal career path never quite covers.