📣 Update (8/3/26): Comp 10 Rules Added, Submissions Due by 8/8 11:59 PM, Winner Announced 8/15 --- What this thread is: I’ve seen a number of people either not know competitions are going on or know how to find them so here is a quick single source thread where you can get to them all. I’ll keep this updated as new challenges are released. See the current challenge as well as all past challenges below! Format for community challenges: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/how-competitions-work-from-now-on?p=84912d60 Weekly leaderboard competition: Alongside the biweekly challenges, there is a weekly leaderboard challenge where the member at the top of the 7 day rolling leaderboard wins a free upgrade to their membership. This winner is announced on Mondays typically. @Joshua Hubbard has gone another step further and created a thread linking to all competition entries. Link here: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/the-competition-archive-every-entry-every-week-every-link?p=bd752987 --- Current Challenge: Competition 10 The Challenge 💪 - Build a full folder-based diagnostic auditor that tells you why something is broken. Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-10-the-diagnostician?p=367505f3 Good luck everyone! --- Past Challenges Competition 1 The Challenge 💪 - Build a brand voice document for a pet grooming business Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/first-ever-weekly-competition-is-live?p=90f50bf9 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-1-winner-ian-barriopedro?p=0501b57e

A few days in. Starting to see where the Clief Notes AI is actually becoming useful. Some of you are using it to figure out where to start. Others are asking specific questions and getting pointed back to lessons or drops they didn’t even know existed. And some are basically using it as search: “Have we covered this before?” That last one alone saves a lot of scrolling. @Anthony Brady shared a really good example of how he’s been using it. He said the agent has been helping him find the right lessons, figure out where to go next, and actually apply the material to what he’s building. He’s even been pushing it with harder questions, and when it doesn’t know something, it tells him instead of just making something up. What I really liked was how he described using the tools together: The agent helps him navigate. NotebookLM helps him go deeper. And Decster keeps him moving through the course, completing assignments, and staying active in the community. That’s exactly what we want this to become. Not another AI tool you open once and forget about. Something that actually helps you use everything already inside Clief Notes and keep moving forward. We’ve also caught a few questions where the agent could’ve pointed somewhere better. Keep sending those. The more you use it, the better we can make the experience. This thing should get more useful as we see how you actually use it. If you haven’t tried it yet, start simple. Ask it the next question you would normally post in the community. Have you tried it already? If not, comment “Navigator” and I’ll send you access to it.

Hey Clief Notes fam! 👋 I’m Anthony and I’m stoked to be here. 🙋 A little about me: I’m a UGC creator and creative strategist. I’m also starting to build out more work with local businesses around content, websites, and eventually AI systems and workflows. 🎯 My current goal: Build my UGC and local business work into something consistent that I can actually make a living from, while learning enough about AI that I understand what I’m building instead of just throwing prompts at different tools. 💪 What I’m currently building/working on: Right now I’m focused on getting better at UGC and creative strategy, building out my local business services, and figuring out where AI can actually make those workflows better without forcing it into everything. 🤔 My biggest struggle or question right now: Honestly, I’m just trying to get this whole system working in a way that actually helps me build my UGC business and my local business work. That’s really what I’m here to figure out. Excited to keep learning and see what everyone else is building. 🚀

Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.

I started with one CLAUDE.md, but as I’m building more things, it makes more sense to separate different types of work instead of trying to make one file cover everything. My setup: UGC Revenue - brand research, scripts, creative strategy, portfolio work, client work, and everything around creating content for brands. Local Business - websites, content, creative strategy, and eventually AI and workflow services for local businesses. What each context includes: UGC Revenue - how I research brands, how I approach scripts and creative, what a finished piece should look like, and the rules I follow when I’m working on client or portfolio content. Local Business - information about the business, what their website or content actually needs to accomplish, how I scope the work, and eventually the systems and AI workflows I build for them. I’m separating them because even though there is some overlap, they’re different kinds of work and Claude needs different context depending on what I’m doing. One fact, one location - I don’t want the same rate, rule, or decision sitting in three different files. If something changes, I want to update it once and know Claude is reading the right version. Clean sessions - if I’m working on UGC, I want that conversation focused on UGC. If I’m working on a local business, I want that project focused on that business instead of dragging unrelated context into it. Team consistency - right now this mostly means keeping the different AI tools I use working from the same information. Later, if I bring more people into the workflow, they should be able to follow the same setup without me having to explain everything from scratch. The first thing I want to test is running a similar research task in both projects and seeing whether the context actually changes the direction Claude takes. If the UGC project thinks more about creative angles and the Local Business project thinks more about the business and what it needs, then the separation is doing what it’s supposed to do.