Payrollin'

About Payrollin'

The nationals are coming for your clients. Consolidation is crushing margins. And if you're not keeping up with the latest in the payroll and HR industry, you're going to get left behind. Welcome to Payrollin'. The no-BS podcast for independent payroll bureau owners and leaders who are done getting squeezed by ADP, Paychex, and the private equity machines swallowing up the industry. Hosted by Matt Vaadi, founder of guHRoo (a PEO) and Outsourced Scale (offshore staffing for payroll providers), this show delivers the strategies you need to survive — and thrive — while the middle collapses around you. Every week, you'll get: → Industry intel on the billion-dollar deals reshaping payroll → Proven tactics to scale past the 7-figure barrier → Real talk on margins, pricing, and profitability → Strategies to compete without killing your bottom line → Guests who've sold, scaled, or disrupted the status quo Whether you're fighting margin compression, exploring industry partnerships, or figuring out how to scale without sacrificing service, this podcast cuts through the corporate speak and gives you actionable pathways forward. Because if you're not specializing in a niche or adding serious value beyond commoditized payroll, you're racing to the bottom. Subscribe to Payrollin' and join 1,000+ payroll industry professionals who get the Wednesday newsletter breaking down what's happening in the industry — and what it means for your business.

Publisher

WRKdefined Podcast Network

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jul 2020

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

20 of 92 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   AI Bots Made Simple: How to Automate Real Work

   Matt Vaadi explains how to build and orchestrate AI bots to automate real work, saving businesses significant time and resources.

2. 

   17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Simple Guide to Choosing a CRM in 2026

   Matt Vaadi shares his expert framework for selecting the ideal CRM, emphasizing process over features to ensure team adoption and avoid costly mistakes.

3. 

   2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How to Start an ASO (Payroll Bureau Guide)

   Matt Vaadi shares insights from his 12 years of experience on when and how payroll companies should launch an ASO, detailing client numbers, pricing, and essential services.

Inside a recent episode

AI Bots Made Simple: How to Automate Real Work

Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So you're going to start to hear this term a lot in AI and orchestration layer. So effectively, what this means is it's a decision maker that sits over top of a set of skills or bots. So in another environment, I'm going to show you later, I have one bot that sits over top of my five to ten bots and it orchestrates which bot to lean on to do the thing. With Claude's skills, this is the same thing. So inside of, again, our delivery process of how we deliver our service, we have skills built out for each stage of delivery. So now we have a bot that sits over top of it called the orchestration layer that reads and says, hey, which of these things needs to take place based on where the client is in their engagement with us? […]

Who has been a guest on Payrollin'

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Chris Clark
• Matt Wilson
• Clarke Lyons
• Brittany Hodak
• Alan Stein Jr

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

230,180

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

61

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

82

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