Context
A 5-year-old Salesforce org had accumulated 1,200+ custom fields, 340 workflow rules (200 inactive), and a page layout that took 8 seconds to load.
The Hidden Debt
Technical debt in Salesforce is invisible until it causes pain: slow page loads, confused reps who can't find the right fields, and automation conflicts when legacy workflow rules fire alongside new Flow rules. Nobody had audited the org in 3 years.
What SADE Did
SADE ran the org health audit: exported all custom field metadata, filtered for fields with 0 usage in the last 365 days (847 fields), cross-referenced with active page layouts to identify safe deletes, and exported inactive workflow rules for review. Provided a phased cleanup plan: delete null-usage fields in sprint 1, deactivate redundant WFRs in sprint 2, migrate active WFRs to Flow in sprint 3.
The Outcome
Page load time dropped from 8.2s to 1.9s after sprint 1. Reps reported finding the fields they needed on first scroll (vs. searching previously). Sprint 2 deactivated 200 workflow rules with zero business logic loss.
Live Artifact — Org Health Dashboard
Salesforce Org Health — Pre/Post Cleanup
sf-org-health-check · metadata/CustomField__c · 5-year-old org
1,247
Custom Fields
847 unused = 68% can be deleted
340
Workflow Rules
200 inactive = 59% ready to deactivate
24
Page Layouts
8 oversized (>50 fields/section)
156
Apex Classes
23 with 0% test coverage
Cleanup Impact — Page Load Time
→
+31 point improvement in org health score.
Sprint 1 alone recovered 76% of the gain
by eliminating unused field metadata.