FridAI - ChatGPT Did My Taxes?!

Dave and Shannon open Casual Friday with a Shopify nod, then spotlight listener David’s “vibe-coded” Replit app for high-school sports. His web iPad tool tracks scoring, fouls, streaks, and biggest leads, exports structured summaries to an AI project, and let him publish recaps before leaving the gym. The hosts urge productizing it as a simple SaaS for local media and parents, noting how low-code iteration unlocks niche, high-value workflows.

Listener Ian contributes a prompt to reduce ambiguity in text communications—analyze likely interpretations, confirm intent, then offer two clearer rewrites—which sparks a broader discussion about using AI to keep customer-service tone friendly over SMS. Shannon then explains how he used ChatGPT for tax prep: export a Gmail “receipts” label via Google Takeout, auto-extract 2024 transactions, categorize them, cross-check with credit-card summaries (dedupe, find misses), and organize 1099s/K-1s for his accountant—plus a “what am I wasting money on?” audit to cut subscriptions. They close by inviting listeners to send their own AI workflows to feedback@businessbrain.show.

• 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #693 for Casual FridAI, October 17, 2025
  • October 17th: National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day
• 00:01:16 David-Replit vibe-coded me an app I wanted!
  • 00:08:00 Ian-FridAI-Here’s a prompt to help reduce communication ambiguity
  • PROMPT: Analyze my text for possible interpretations. Rank them by likelihood based on how most readers would understand the wording. Ask me to confirm which meaning I intend. Then, provide two alternative rewrites that eliminate ambiguity while preserving my tone: [paste text here]
• 00:10:00 Beware of customer service handling via text. You have to go over the top to be friendly.
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• 00:15:17 Shannon: ChatGPT Did My Taxes
  • Google Takeout
  • Is this a prison decision or a penalty decision
  • Upload your credit card statement to ChatGPT and ask it, “what am I wasting my money on? Be harsh. Tough love.”
• 00:23:55 Business Brain 693 Outtro
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