For Immediate Release

01 September 2026

Contact: team@yetanalytics.com

As AI coding creates a new class of shadow IT inside ordinary companies, Yet Analytics launches Technical Debt Advisors to help SMBs manage it

Savage, MD—Yet Analytics has launched Technical Debt Advisors, a new advisory service focused on helping small and medium-sized businesses understand and manage the technical and business risks inherent in rapidly built software and AI-assisted coding.

The problem often starts with what Yet Analytics CEO Shelly Blake-Plock calls a “Dave problem.”

Dave built something useful. Maybe it automates quotes, moves customer data between systems, generates reports, or replaces the spreadsheet everyone hated.

Great.

The problem starts when Dave becomes the documentation, support desk, security model, and disaster recovery plan.

AI-assisted coding makes it easier than ever for one capable person to build surprisingly important software without much oversight. Once other people depend on it, that little side project has become infrastructure. Shadow IT used to mean somebody made a spreadsheet or bought an unauthorized SaaS subscription. Now that same employee can build an application.

But companies do not necessarily need to rebuild these systems. They do need to know what they do, where the data goes, what they depend on, who can maintain them, and what happens if the person who built them wins the lottery tomorrow.

“We think there are many Daves running around out there,” said Blake-Plock. “And with the proliferation of AI-assisted coding tools, there are going to be many more.”

The issue is especially pronounced in small and medium-sized companies, including businesses that historically have not thought of themselves as software companies. As AI-assisted coding tools become easier to use, employees across operations, finance, sales, marketing, and other functions are increasingly able to build internal applications themselves.

In one recently published case study, a well-known manufacturing company built nearly 120 internal applications in six months, with more than 140 employees participating in app development and new applications being created at a rate of roughly one every day and a half.

The pace is impressive. It also hints at the amount of risk businesses may accumulate as AI-coded applications become ubiquitous in the workplace. “AI-assisted coding will generate new software in the workplace at a rate even greater than when website development was unlocked for non-technical employees with the rise of tools like WordPress and the eventual WYSIWYG website builders,” said Blake-Plock.

“What it comes down to isn’t whether or not AI writes good code,” said Blake-Plock. “It’s that as AI dramatically lowers the barrier to software creation, companies will accumulate more software than their governance, documentation, continuity practices, and engineering culture are prepared to manage.”

Large enterprises are already attempting to address this challenge through enterprise software platforms and partnerships with major consulting firms. In the SMB and middle-market space, where internal software engineering expertise may be more limited, the environment is far less mature.

And simply running the code back through an AI system is unlikely to solve the problem.

“It’s not enough to say that Claude is going to fix your technical debt problem. Because while Claude might clean up some of your code, it’s not going to change your company’s culture or update your business processes. That’s why we launched Technical Debt Advisors,” Blake-Plock said. “It’s more than dealing with messy code. It’s about enabling people to get the most out of their work. We want to make sure that when companies go all in on AI-enabled code, they don’t end up with an exponential Dave problem.”

Technical Debt Advisors provides fixed-price assessments and practical roadmaps designed to help companies understand technical debt, identify areas of material business risk, and determine what should actually be fixed. The service focuses on issues including maintainability, software architecture, security, documentation, business continuity, dependencies, and AI-assisted development practices.

Technical Debt Advisors is a service of Yet Analytics.

Learn more at technicaldebtadvisors.com.

About Yet Analytics

Yet Analytics develops software, data infrastructure, and advisory services focused on complex software systems, data interoperability, analytics, and emerging technology. The Maryland-based company has more than a decade of experience building and supporting systems across government, defense, education, training, and commercial environments.