This talk will address the question of what to do when out-of-the box solutions to automation and integration tasks are unavailable or uneconomical. To illustrate this problem, Marton will present case studies from projects where unorthodox engineering solutions were used. These include the creative use of browser macros, web-scraping, URL-generation, low-code tools and/or a combination of these. This presentation is for anyone who is interested in new ways to solve old problems, or who is ever stuck trying to figure out how to automate tasks or make two systems talk to each other.