Fix My Business
B. Scott Todd
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I Spent Months Building an AI Agent. Here's the Part Nobody Talks About
Business owners are wasting massive amounts of time building AI agents when they should be figuring out what their business actually needs.Scott isn't anti-agent—he has them in his business. But…
How to Grow as a Leader
Two scenarios: Your team won't stop asking questions. Or you're solo and think this doesn't apply. It does.The nine-year employee story: A longtime team member messages: "I gave a refund, they got…
The Five-Year Filter: How I Decide What Deserves My Time
The paradox of business ownership: infinite choices, finite time. Every decision changes the trajectory of your business. Most business owners don't have a filter.Scott's filter: Would me in five…
Meet Arlo: 5 Ways I'm Using an AI Agent Across My Businesses
Arlo Zephyr is Scott's first AI agent. Built on OpenClaw. Named by Scott's wife. Last name comes from Zephyr Hills, Florida.Tool vs. Team Member: Most people think of AI as a tool—ready to use like a…
Build Session: Applying SCALE to a Real Lead Response Process
Scott walks through a live build session with Chad Coffman, a land investor whose lead system broke when volume spiked. Instead of stopping production or ignoring the problem, Chad triaged it—kept…
Clarify the Flow: How to Audit a Process Before You Automate
Most people see a broken process and think "I'll automate it." That's a mistake. You're locking in the problems—baking in the traps, the patches, the operational debt.It's like a blown car speaker.…
The Traps Never Leave (And Why Patches Make It Worse)
The four traps—Control, Variability, Memory, Visibility—never go away. You can minimize them. You can manage them. But you can never fully eliminate them. They're baked into every process.When…
The Visibility Trap: Why the Data You're Missing Is More Dangerous Than the Data You Have
Why do your customers buy from you? Not what you think—why do they actually choose you? Why do your employees work for you? What do they actually think?If you hesitated on either question, you're in…
The Memory Trap: Why Calendar Reminders Are a Symptom
How many calendar reminders do you have right now? How many Post-it notes? How many to-do lists? Every single one of those is a failure point waiting to happen.Scott shares his own memory trap…
The Variability Trap: Why Your Business Feels Chaotic Even When Everyone's Busy
Starlink raised prices and cut data. Customers were furious. They opened support tickets. And what happened next was a mess.Some customers got large refunds and personal phone calls. Others got their…
The Control Trap: Why Everything Comes Back to You (And How to Escape)
A woman takes a four-week vacation to Ghana. No laptop. The room erupts in applause. Scott sits there thinking: "Is this what we're celebrating now? Taking a vacation?"But here's the reality: 67% of…
The Four Traps That Keep Business Owners Stuck
You captured the frictions. Post-it notes on the wall. You know what's broken. So why don't you fix it?The Resistance. Steven Pressfield calls it the invisible force that stops you from doing work…
The One Thing You Need to Know What to Fix Next
Every business has problems. You can't fix them all at once. But most business owners don't have a system to capture what's broken—so they walk past the same problems every day without seeing…
The AI Starting Point: How to Actually Begin Without Wasting 100 Hours
70% of a room raised their hands when asked if they're exploring AI. But most of them are doing it wrong—starting with tools instead of systems.Scott tells the Dr. Ryan story: a physician who spent…
Why AI Is Making You Busier, Not Freer
If you've added AI tools and feel busier than ever, it's not in your head. Researchers followed 200 employees at a tech company for 8 months after AI rollout. Expected: faster work, shorter hours.…
Why Your Team Is Sabotaging Your AI Tools
44% of Gen Z workers admit to actively sabotaging their company's AI strategy. They're submitting bad output on purpose. Leaking data into public tools. And 29% of ALL workers are doing this.The easy…
OpenClaw Lessons Learned: Don't Build on Rented Land
Back in January, OpenClaw made AI agents accessible using existing subscriptions. Then on Good Friday, Anthropic sent an email: your subscription won't work for third-party tools anymore. Starting…
I've Been Trying AI for Months and Nothing Has Stuck—What Am I Missing?
"I've Been Trying AI for Months and Nothing Has Stuck—What Am I Missing?"Robin asks: "I've tried ChatGPT, some automation tools, things my team suggested. Nothing has stuck. We're not saving time.…
My Ads Are Good But I'm Not Getting Leads—What's Wrong?
Joe asks: "I have a team producing marketing copy, but I'm not getting responses. I think the ads are good. We use ChatGPT with our avatars loaded, but the marketing channels aren't producing…
Everyone's Talking About AI Agents and I Don't Know Where to Start
Rebecca asks: "I'm in a mastermind group and everyone is talking about AI agents. I don't even know where to start. It's making me wonder if I'm going to be able to keep up because people have such a…
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Fix My Business has published 65 episodes since October 2025, covering topics in Business, Entrepreneurship.
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