That was the tipping point. Within a month, GreenLeaf had twenty-two “citizen developers.” A floor manager built a shift-scheduling app. The HR intern built a digital onboarding checklist. The head of refrigeration built a temperature-logger that saved them $40,000 in spoiled dairy.
Gerald stared at the prototype. His first instinct was defense— shadow IT, security risk, governance —but the data was encrypted. The user roles were defined. The audit log was clean. Betty Blocks had handled all of it. That was the tipping point
“Who built this?” Gerald whispered.
That night, he attended a webinar his daughter had forwarded: “Build Apps Without Code: Betty Blocks for Business Leaders.” The speaker was a woman in a bright yellow sweater who kept using a strange phrase: democratizing application development . The head of refrigeration built a temperature-logger that
