I’m located in San Diego and I think it would be cool to do a get together and talk about our a.i. projects in the real world! Who’s in? I’m happy to organize something

I build software alone-ish. No team, no engineering department — just me-ish, a set of ideas, and a lot of moving parts. And the hardest thing about building alone-ish isn't the code with AI friends. It's holding the whole shape of a project in your head without dropping pieces. Cadence is my voice studio I've dreamt about a million times. Text to speech, voice cloning, effects, the works. But taking it from "it runs" to "it competes with the best free tools out there" — that's a big, messy pile of work. Where do you even start? (Not that I'm claiming it competes, but the obsession to compete got me to this point) That's where ICM came in. Interpretable Context Methodology. It's an idea from Jake Van Clief, and it's almost stubbornly simple. Your folders are the architecture. Plain markdown files carry the instructions. Numbered stages, one after another, and a single agent that reads only the file it needs, exactly when it needs it. No orchestration code. No framework to wrestle with. If I want to change the plan, I open a text file and I change the words. That's it. So I broke the entire Cadence build into stages. Audit first. Then capture, effects, long form audio, a new engine, an agent server, the polish pass. Each stage is a contract — what goes in, what comes out, and a gate where I stop and review before anything moves forward. And that's the part that actually helped. Nothing gets lost. Nothing runs away from me. Every step is something I can read, edit, and approve in plain English, even without a coding background. ICM didn't just organize the work. It gave me the controls. It turned a job that felt overwhelming into something I could actually steer, one clear stage at a time. That's how Cadence gets built. Folders, markdown, and a method that finally made sense. I know many of you already have your own version, but for those of you who haven't assembled one yet... You can use this one until you do. All the dependencies are open-source and my build is on Github. My super sexy voice from the explainer video not included.

Got recognized at my company's Sales all-hands meeting — highest win rate on the sales team. The post-demo follow-up skill I built is one of the things behind it. What I didn't say at the time: this community is directly in the DNA of how I built it. A few specific shoutouts: @Bas Rosario — you made me feel like my perspective was worth sharing before I felt ready to share it. That's part of why I'm writing this at all. @Curtis Hays — your worldview doc idea sent me down a rabbit hole. I now have a WRAP protocol that mines for doctrine candidates after every session. Patterns graduate after 3 occurrences. It runs itself. @Ari Evergreen — brief over prompt changed how I think at the input level. I now have a queryable Notion database of company case studies that my follow-up skill pulls from directly. Your briefing framework is in the architecture. @Jake Van Clief — ICM is the foundation. Everything else sits on top of it. For anyone reading this - Who in this group has had the biggest influence on how you organize your workflows or folder structure? Trying to understand who else I should be learning from.

i am not massively narcissistic (come on, where is the spell check when i need it). i might be a little drunk. at least i might sound so. i wanna give Claude to my team. but with myself in it. example (very simple example): my son (who started to work with me) keeps asking for having all company details like VAT no. of all our companies, register no. to the company register, phone numbers, names of our contractors, ... in one place, up to date of course. !!! that's gold when it comes to certain contacts and details AND it has to be handled with way more care than he (or anybody else in my team for that matter) might think. but ok, if i do that, then not only with full transparency but also with notes and whatever i might figure out in the process. example (a bit more complex): well, there are 1.000 ..... but let's say i give them Claude along with my "CLAUDE.....-files". that's MY BRAIN. not that i am that arrogant to think that i am the hero of the century, but that is my "OPINION" ... as Jack put it. .... help me think of it for a minute @Ari Evergreen @Bas Rosario @Mira Bradshaw @Ruben Aguirre ... @guy with the hat that i cant find right now. so i better get that right. let me sum up what i am doing. 1. i am a real estate developer. i got 50 units, houses and apartments under construction in a market that couldn´t be more challenging, though i like challenges and i am on the doorstep of open doors if i get that right now. 2. i am building my own full scale numbers tool. i call it like that because every other term creates a bias thats not helpful. 3. i have a little programming skills (which brought me here (and i mean everything i am doing, marketing and numbers stuff) and a solid graphical education (by practice and an amazing old school teacher (which will hate me for using the term "old" for him) and i just wanna say that i am that peaky that i keep throwing out social media mangers and graphic agencies. - not a good thing) 4. i will have a CEO for my company from 1st of July on which should give me space for point 3. so i can provide a solid base - numbers, reports, calculations for new projects (which is a little miracle in the market i am operating in right now) AND marketing wise, social media, .... 5. i do have some client interactions, if sales needs me to be the "shining star" or the "bad cop" 6. i don´t know how to scream out louder for some help....

What does everyone use to create markdown files with? I use LibreWolf as my text software and it doesn't. I know you can hand create in Notepad but I know there has to be a better option. I noticed that GPT seems to balk sometimes. I have it output the language for review, and then have it generate the md file. Last time I did, it mentioned that it doesn't exactly copy the review copy, just uses a summary of it. That didn't make much sense. Suggestions please.