I Stopped Buying SaaS for RevOps. I Built What I Needed on Harper Instead.

TL;DR: A non-engineer RevOps leader, replaced a manual, error-prone reporting process by using OpenAI Codex to build and deploy a fully automated, production-grade Growth Weekly Digest application on the Harper platform. I run commercial operations at a startup. That means Salesforce administration, deal desk, forecasting, pipeline management, contract workflows, and a dozen other things that keep our revenue engine running. I am not a software engineer. My day job is operations. Last month, I built and deployed a production internal application that pulls live data from Salesforce and Slack, generates AI-assisted commentary, routes it through a multi-role approval workflow, and publishes a weekly growth digest for our entire company. It has eight database tables, five user roles, three external integrations, a scheduler with leader-node election, retry logic, CI/CD with automated testing, and it runs on a scaled Harper Fabric deployment. I built it in a few days using OpenAI Codex as