Field notes from a frozen platform

Currnt, unpacked.

Currnt — originally Expertboards, then Convetit — was a B2B expert-network and market-research platform that ran from ~2015 until its codebase was frozen in December 2024. A SailsJS monolith on a single application host, a 15M-row outreach engine, a 33-controller internal admin, and a homegrown HTTP queue keeping the whole thing moving. This site is the archaeological record: what was built, how it fit together, what was sunset, and what was still planned the day the lights went out.

15M prospects in the CRM

314 MySQL tables MySQL 5.5

140 GB production data

62 scheduled cron jobs

177 email templates

Dec 2024 codebase frozen

Tour the system

Start with the bones, or jump straight to a surface that interests you.

Bones Architecture Two hosts, a SailsJS monolith, MySQL 5.5 + Elasticsearch 2.4, Redis, and a custom HTTP queue called dispenserd orchestrating a Supervisord-managed worker fleet. Surface area Product domains Six product domains (A–F) plus Corporate, mapped to ~80 user flows and a 2,278-line routes file. Each gets its own page with route table and headline flow. The interesting parts Feature deep-dives Two standalone tours: the 15M-row CRM and outreach engine, and the AI co-facilitator cron that wrote promotional content for a privileged author account. What was let go Sunset features Eight features that had budget once and then didn't: an engagement marketplace, MetaMask auth, Gnosis Safe payouts, Calendly, Lusha, Zoom, an NDA flow, Rev.com transcription. The arc Timeline Expertboards (2015) → Convetit (2016) → Currnt (2020) → frozen December 2024. Plus the trail of dormant domains. Calibrated Security postmortem A measured look at what an unmaintained nine-year-old stack looks like under audit: EOL versions, plaintext secrets, weak password hashes, ambient API tokens.

Four ways into the codebase

Currnt rendered itself through four distinct surfaces, each with its own conventions and audience.

A Public web Marketing site, blog, board catalog, signup, login. Sails views served from the same monolith. Corp Corporate Client-branded sub-experiences for enterprise customers running their own advisory boards. B–F Treehouse The internal back-office. 33 controllers, 8 pillars, the actual seat of operations. API Mobile + Service APIs REST endpoints used by the iOS app and a thin layer of service-to-service integrations.

Codebase frozen. System dormant. Story preserved.