AI businesses
You build with AI or sell it. Tell us what customers actually pay for and what turned out to be hype.
A virtual podcast
Tell your business story on Best of Business.
Chad Tennent and Seth Scrimo talk with AI businesses, local businesses and everything in between. What's working, what isn't, and what you'd do differently if you started over.
Apply to be a guest
Takes about 5 minutes. Recorded over video, from wherever you are.
Who we want on the show
Local businesses
The shop, the contractor, the gym, the restaurant. The owners who keep a town running.
Everything in between
Agencies, online stores, service businesses, side projects that turned into real ones.
Size doesn't matter. A first-year business with a good story beats a big one with a boring one. Wins and losses are both welcome.
About Chad and Seth
We've both built businesses from nothing, and we've both lost some along the way. That's why this show asks about the losses too.
The tech side
Chad Tennent
I started Woosh Delivery in Wooster and grew it to 14 locations across Ohio before I sold it in October 2025. I also built a transportation company to 17 full-time employees, then shut it down when the subsidies it leaned on ran out. Today I run Scroll Theory Media: websites, Google visibility and the systems that turn interest into booked work.
The systems side
Seth Scrimo
I served 10 years in the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve, then helped run gyms across the Midwest as a regional director. In 2019 I started Scrimo Fitness as a one-person operation. In 2025 it was voted the People's Choice winner for best gym in Wooster. I also created Best of Wooster, Best of Orrville and The Wayne Wire.
Together we run Entrepreneurs United
A free community for owners who want to grow, with a weekly Zoom call every Thursday. It started in Wooster, Ohio, and it's open to owners anywhere.
joinentrepreneursunited.com Our Skool community: AI Business Builders Room
Stuff we've done
Chad
Woosh Delivery
A local delivery service started in Wooster that grew to 14 locations across Ohio. Sold in October 2025.
Seth
Scrimo Fitness
Started in 2019 as a one-person operation. Thousands of people coached since. Voted People's Choice for best gym in Wooster in 2025.
Seth
The Wayne Wire
Local news that keeps Wooster and Wayne County connected, with more than 25,000 active readers. Seth also created Best of Wooster and Best of Orrville.
Chad
Scroll Theory Media
Fast websites and Google visibility for local owners. scrolltheory.media
Chad
Swoop Transportation
Grew to 17 full-time employees, then closed on purpose when the subsidies ran out. The lesson: know your real numbers.
Both
Entrepreneurs United
A free community for business owners, with a weekly call every Thursday. Join free
Tools Chad built
For web designers and small agencies who sell websites to local businesses.
InstaBuild
Show a prospect their new website before the first call. It builds a private one-page preview from their own Google listing, photos and website, then checks it before you share it.
Grader Pro
The three-page printout that gets you the meeting: the owner's website score, their Google Maps next to the rival's, and both websites side by side, with your name and number on every page.
What you get
- A real conversation about your business, not a sales pitch.
- The episode and short clips posted on the channels Chad and Seth already post on.
- A link back to your business with your episode.
How it works
- 1
Apply
Tell us about your business below.
- 2
Pick a few times
Choose some days and times that work for you.
- 3
We confirm
We pick one of your times and send you a video call link.
- 4
We record
A laptop or phone with a camera is all you need.
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Chad and Seth read every application. If it's a fit, you'll get an email with one of the times you picked and a video call link.
While you wait, come hang out in our Skool community, AI Business Builders Room.