Every business has money leaking out of it. Most owners just learn to live with the drip. I spent nearly $20,000 a year on bagged ice. For a while I just paid it — it's ice, what are you gonna do? Then I bought an ice maker for $2,000. Paid for itself in a month. Simple fix, massive impact. That got me thinking: where else am I bleeding cash? I started looking at every subscription, every service, every system I was paying for. Not to cut corners — to cut the fat. ### QuickBooks Three accounts, $150/month. Built my own. Now I save the money and understand my books better than I ever did. ### CRM $300/month from the usual suspects. Rebuilt the whole thing with Claude, a SendGrid account, and Twilio. Does everything the big guys do. Costs peanuts. ### Booking Engine Captain Jack — my AI booking assistant — connects to my real-time calendar, knows FWC season rules, checks NOAA weather for your trip date. I don't babysit it. It just works.…