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Fix My Business

Fix My Business

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Business problems feel overwhelming because you're trying to fix everything at once. Fix My Business cuts through the noise by answering one real question per episode—giving you clarity, a clear diagnosis, and one action you can take this week. Hosted by author and entrepreneur Scott Todd, this show isn't about theory or motivation. It's about solving the actual problems that keep business owners stuck: revenue up but profit down, marketing that doesn't work, chaos that won't stop, and the constant feeling that you're one step behind. Scott left a Fortune 300 VP role to build multiple seven-figure companies. His book, Fix This Next for Real Estate Investors (releasing January 2026), introduced the Investor Priority Pyramid (IPP)—a framework for knowing exactly what to fix next when everything feels urgent. Now, he's bringing that same diagnostic approach to business owners across every industry. What makes this show different: Every episode starts with a real question from a real business owner. Scott diagnoses the actual problem (not the surface symptom), explains why it's happening, and gives you one clear move to make progress this week. No 10-step plans. No vague advice. Just: here's what's wrong, here's why, here's what to do. You'll learn how to: -Identify the real problem hiding underneath the chaos -Use frameworks like the Investor Priority Pyramid (IPP), the Survival Trap, and the Scaling Trap to understand where you're stuck -Fix margin erosion, cash flow issues, and operational breakdowns -Build systems that let your business run without running you -Move from grinding for revenue to printing profit Scott's background spans over three decades in corporate leadership (Fortune 300 executive in IT, operations, and finance) and entrepreneurship (Landmodo, Passion IT Group, and other ventures). He thinks like an operator, not a guru. His frameworks—IPP, the Freedom Number Formula, ACRE, and the DREAMS Framework—translate complex strategy into simple, repeatable actions. This show is for: -Business owners working harder but taking home less -Entrepreneurs stuck in the Survival Trap (revenue grows, chaos grows faster) -Operators who want clarity on what to fix first when everything feels broken -Anyone tired of motivational advice who wants tactical, diagnostic problem-solving Each episode includes: -The Question: A real problem from a real business owner -The Diagnosis: What's actually wrong (the thing you can't see on your own) -The Action: One move you can make this week to fix it If you're ready to stop guessing and start fixing, this is your show. Scott Todd is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, and author of Fix This Next for Real Estate Investors (January 2026). He's the creator of the Investor Priority Pyramid™ and the Freedom Number™ framework. Through his companies, writing, and this podcast, he helps business owners escape overwhelm and build businesses that operate without consuming their lives. Learn more at ScottTodd.net.B. Scott Todd Direction Economie Management Management et direction
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  • My AI Agent Found $4,200 I Didn't Know I Was Losing

    My AI Agent Found $4,200 I Didn't Know I Was Losing
    Oct 8 2026
    My AI agent just found me $4,200 a year in payroll fees that I didn't know I could negotiate. Now, mind you, that $4,200 is from one vendor. And honestly, I wasn't even looking for that. I was looking at something completely different. So if I'm here to tell you that I'm surprised about something, I'm happy that I just found $4,200. Let me explain what's going on.Welcome to Fix My Business, the show that helps you fix your business. I'm your host, Scott Todd. I have built multiple seven-figure businesses after leaving my Fortune 300 VP job. And today I want to walk you through two of the experiments that I've been running on this channel. And I'll kind of give you some updates because I can't stand when people run experiments or they tell you something they never get back to you. So here we go. Experiment number one.I talked about it in last week's episode, and it was using AI to do my bookkeeping. And I told you at the time that I was running parallel systems, my CPA versus AI. Which one was gonna battle it out? And essentially I'm happy to report to you that the September run, if you will, was smooth for well, both of them. I mean, the CPA did what the CPA does.And the AI does did what the AI did. Now, here's the difference. My C EPA has years and years of experience with knowing how to code my transactions. And so the rules are built in. Whereas AI needed help more frequently with coding the transactions. But here's the thing. Every day, Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. or thereabout, I would get an a message from myAI bookkeeper who would say, Hey, here's yesterday's transactions. How should I code them? And in the beginning, I needed to give a little bit more, but by the end of the month, it was really doing a great job of suggesting what the coding should be. So it became less and less of like, hey, code it over here versus just scanning it and saying you're good to go. And then it started to pick up on some.Scott Todd (02:29.698)well-established rules like, hey, when we get revenue into the bank account, well, then that's just revenue. when we have certain expenses like payroll, boom, it just hit the payroll. When we paid our VAs, it knew their names and it hit them as well. And it just started even not even recommending anything to me. It just did it. And so at the end of the month, when I compared the revenue and expenses from the CPA and the AI, what happened wasThe revenue and the expenses aligned. It matched as you would expect that it would. Okay. Now, there were some transactions that were coded differently. The CPH coded them one way, the AI coded the other. And I don't really believe that that is a deal breaker. And the reason it's not a deal breaker is because it's not necessarily that the coding has to be exact and precise. So when I say coding, what I mean is.That if I spent the money on software, that it's coded software, or if I spent the money on travel, that it's coded travel. It helps a great deal, especially if you're comparing year over year, or you're comparing different transactions, or you're looking at different categories. That's important. But at the end of the day, the most important part is that the revenue and the expenses total the exact amount, right, of profit, right? That's what we're looking for. Now, here are some of the differences though.First of all, the AI agent got me my financial statements much faster than the CPA did. In fact, I had the financial statements on the first day of the month from the AI. And it was well after that that I got them from the CPA. So the human involvement of looking at it faster to me was through the AI. Clearly, the lower cost option is the AI. The AI, I don't really know what it cost me.Because I'm just on a subscription and it's using like my grok bot subscription for 200 bucks a month. And clearly that was just some fraction of it, but way less than what I spend with my CPA. But the one clear difference that I found was the thing that kind of surprised me the most. And that was the fact that my AI agent began suggesting to me cost savings.Scott Todd (04:54.796)Now, some of them I just dismissed. Like, yeah, no, it's good. I'm I'm okay with this subscription, but it began to look at my subscriptions. And then it brought to my attention something that I was really surprised about. And here's what it was. I pay my payroll company. I have multiple businesses, so they each have their, they each have a payroll account with this company. And I pay them a fee every time we run payroll.So I think on one company it was like $140 a month. And the other was a hundred, I'm sorry, $140 per pay period times 26 pay periods. And on the other company, it's like 106 times 26. That was what we were paying. And the AI looked at that and said, Hey, I think you have a cost savings here. And I was like, What do you mean? And they said, it said, Hey, there is a lower tier plan.that you're avail that you qualify for if you're not using these other ...
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    17 min
  • I'm Testing an AI Bookkeeper Against My CPA. Here's the Setup.

    I'm Testing an AI Bookkeeper Against My CPA. Here's the Setup.
    Oct 1 2026

    For the month of September, Scott has been running an AI bookkeeping agent in parallel with his existing accounting system and team. Nothing has been cut over. At month end, he's comparing both sets of financials.

    The setup, in five steps:

    Bank feed. BankSync.io (~$7/month) pulls daily transactions from connected accounts via Plaid.

    Daily ingest. At 8am, Stu — Scott's bookkeeping agent — grabs the prior day's transactions, filters out anything already processed, and ingests what's new.

    The queue. New charges wait to be categorized. Nothing posts automatically.

    Human confirmation. Stu proposes a category and the rule it believes applies. Scott confirms or corrects. Only then does it post to the ledger.

    Portability backup. The ledger copies to Dropbox, so the books can move to whatever agent platform comes next.

    The rule: The agent doesn't spend money and doesn't post anything unconfirmed.

    A second test inside the test: Grok recently released a Grok Finance plugin with read-only bank access — also via Plaid. Scott is comparing it against BankSync to see if both produce the same result, since Grok Finance is free.

    On the CPA question: The accounting team isn't going away. The CPA still oversees the work. The question is whether the low-level coding work can move, freeing people for higher-value work.

    Currently running three companies through the system. More advanced land-investing accounting is being tested separately — Accounting for Land Investors students should watch their class LMS.

    Before you try this: Vet any repo you connect to your financial data. Check the maintainer, the update history, and what the code does with your information.

    Got a business question? Ask Scott here: scotttodd.net/ask
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    12 min
  • Another New AI Agent Dropped. Here's the One Thing It's Actually Good At

    Another New AI Agent Dropped. Here's the One Thing It's Actually Good At
    Sep 22 2026

    Meta released a new AI agent framework called Muse. There will probably be another one next week, and another the week after. If you try to rebuild your business around every new agent, you'll get whiplash and never get traction.

    Scott's approach: Don't chase them. Learn what each one is good at, and use it for that.

    What Muse does well: It's tightly integrated with Facebook and Instagram. Scott gave it a link to a Chipley, Florida property on Landmodo (0.66 acres, owner financed, $200 down, $229/month). Muse pulled the photos and details, drafted a Facebook Marketplace listing, and asked for approval before posting.

    What Muse doesn't do: It's a single "God mode" agent. You can't build multi-agent workflows the way you can with Grokbot or Hermes.

    The bigger opportunity: Connect Facebook Messenger, then have Muse check for new messages every 30 minutes during business hours and auto-reply with your next step, like a link to your website.

    Coming up: Scott plans to have his Grokbot agents hand new listings to Muse automatically, and he'll map that workflow out on a future episode.

    The takeaway: Check out Muse if you sell on Facebook Marketplace. But don't build your whole business on it.

    Got a business question? Ask Scott here: scotttodd.net/ask
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    13 min
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