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Runwork for CTOs

Empower your organization to build internal tools without engineering bottlenecks

Your engineering team should be focused on your core product, not building one-off internal tools. Runwork lets business teams build the tools they need while maintaining the security, compliance, and governance standards you require.

The Challenge

  • Internal tool requests constantly compete with product roadmap
  • Business teams blocked waiting for engineering bandwidth
  • Shadow IT and spreadsheet sprawl across the organization
  • Off-the-shelf SaaS tools don't fit your workflows
  • Maintaining legacy internal tools drains engineering time

The Runwork Solution

  • Business teams build their own tools, engineers stay on product
  • Unblock teams in hours instead of waiting for sprint allocation
  • Replace spreadsheet chaos with governed, scalable applications
  • Custom tools that match exactly how your organization works
  • AI maintains and updates tools as requirements evolve

What You Can Build

Operations Dashboard

Real-time visibility into company metrics, KPIs, and operational health.

Employee Onboarding

Automated workflows for new hire setup across IT, HR, and team-specific tasks.

Approval Systems

Expense approvals, procurement requests, and PTO management with proper routing.

Customer Success Tools

Internal dashboards for tracking customer health, renewals, and escalations.

Data Pipelines

Pull data from multiple sources into unified views without custom ETL work.

Compliance Tracking

Monitor certifications, training completions, and audit requirements.

Key Features for This Use Case

Apps Data Integrations Workflows Automations APIs

A Day in the Life

8:00 AM — Morning reports. Before your first meeting, the overnight digest lands in your inbox: system health metrics, deployment status, and any incidents. The scheduled report aggregated this from your monitoring tools automatically—no engineer compiled it.

10:00 AM — Tool request. The customer success team needs a dashboard to track renewal conversations. Six months ago, this would have gone to your backlog (priority: low). Now they describe what they need to the Work Assistant and have a working dashboard by end of day. Your engineers never hear about it.

1:00 PM — Security review. The new HR onboarding system built by the ops team—is it secure? You check the audit logs: proper authentication, role-based access configured, all data operations logged. The authentication and compliance infrastructure was built in from the start.

3:00 PM — Integration request. Sales wants their commission calculator connected to the CRM. With traditional development, this is a sprint's worth of work. With Runwork's integration platform, they configure it themselves—read from Salesforce, calculate with their rules, write back the results.

5:00 PM — Engineering focus. You review the sprint board. Zero internal tool requests. The team is 100% focused on the product roadmap. Business teams are self-sufficient with their operational tools. That's the win.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Runwork reduce engineering burden for internal tools?
Business teams build their own tools using natural language instead of filing engineering tickets. The Work Assistant generates applications, workflows, and integrations from descriptions. Engineers stay focused on product while business teams are unblocked within hours instead of waiting for sprint allocation.
What security and governance controls does Runwork provide?
Enterprise-grade security is built in: SSO integration, role-based access control, immutable audit logs, and data encryption. All applications inherit these controls automatically. CTOs can review what business teams build without worrying about shadow IT security gaps.
Can Runwork integrate with our existing systems?
Yes. Runwork integrates with 3,000+ tools including your CRM, HRIS, ERP, and custom systems via APIs. Business teams can build applications that read and write to existing systems without engineering involvement. Data flows between systems securely and automatically.
How do we maintain control over what business teams build?
Workspaces provide organizational boundaries. Role-based permissions control who can build what. Audit logs track all changes. You maintain visibility and governance while empowering teams to solve their own problems. No uncontrolled spreadsheet sprawl or shadow IT.

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