I'm a build the parachute on the way down kind of guy. Unfortunately a needed trait for entrepreneurship. I try to follow the process on the front end for a clean ICM setup but I catch myself wanting to just jump. I tell myself, we've got enough altitude, parachute is decent enough, let's just build the rest on the way down! Project starts great then it starts to lose steam. Working inside the workspace feels less efficient. Some context is sticking. Others aren't and harmony is out of sync. That's why I built this ICM-audit skill. Just ran it now mid way through a build. It basically scores your ICM compliance and recommends restructuring. Hopefully this is helpful for my fellow ready, fire, aim folks.

Welcome to Ari’s Space. Think of this as your always-open support thread inside Clief Notes. If you have a question, feel stuck, need direction, want feedback, or just need a little clarity, drop it here. This space is for: - Questions about Clief Notes or ICM - Help applying what you’re learning - Feedback on your ideas, content, offers, or next steps - Accountability nudges - “Am I thinking about this the right way?” moments - Anything you’d usually wish you could ask me directly No question is too small. If it matters enough for you to ask, it belongs here. I’ll be checking in regularly and answering as much as I can. Use this thread like an AMA that never closes. Drop your question below whenever you need support with. Welcome to Ari’s Space. <3

Locked in for the next 5 days only. Ends May 5th at 10:00 AM EST. No exceptions. 🎉 Premium: $27 → $14/mo 🎉 VIP: $97 → $67/mo The closest you'll get to our original launch pricing. We're doing this because the community has shown up for us, and we want to show up back. 🤝 🔥 Already a member? Read this carefully. To lock in the new rate, you need to: 1. Cancel your current plan 2. Resign under the new price That's the only way the system can apply the new rate. We have way too many members for manual refunds, so we can't refund anyone who just signed up at current pricing. But the savings stack month over month, so if you plan to stick around (and you should 😁), the math works out fast. 🚫 A few ground rules: Please do not DM myself or Jake about pricing, exceptions, or extensions. We love you, but we're a small team and we need to stay focused on building. Everyone gets the same window. Everyone gets the same deal. If you miss it, you miss it. We'll do more things for the community down the road. ⏰ The clock: 🟢 LIVE NOW 🔴 Locks May 5th, 10:00 AM EST - Premium gets you The Vault and Afternoon Tea calls. - VIP gets you The Drawing Room, High Tea, and bespoke folder builds from Jake himself. If you've been on the fence, this is the moment. 🚀 Tag a friend who needs to be in here. Let's make Cinco a movement. 🎊 🌶️🌶️🌶️

📊 You've probably seen this chart floating around LinkedIn and Twitter Each dot is 3.2 million people. ⬜ Grey is the 84% of humans who have never used AI 🟩 Green is the 16% who have used a free chatbot 🟨 Yellow is the 0.3% who pay for one 🟥 Red is the tiny sliver who use AI coding tools Most of the people sharing it have not actually said what it means. So here it is. 🔁 We live inside an algorithm. Mine shows me AI all day. Yours probably does too. Every reel, every post, every podcast clip, every ad. The feed makes it feel like the whole world has moved on without you and you are sprinting to keep up. Inside Clief Notes that feeling gets louder. You log in and see people building agents, shipping side projects, automating their inbox, talking about Claude Code and MCP servers like it is normal. In this room, it is. Step outside and almost nobody is doing any of it. 6.8 billion people have never opened a chatbot. Plenty of the ones who did opened it once, asked it something dumb, got a dumb answer, and decided the whole thing sucked. They are not coming back this year. Maybe not next year either. 🪖 When I was in the Marine Corps I never felt like I was doing anything special. I was surrounded by other Marines. Everyone around me could do what I could do. The standard was the standard. It was not until I left and stood next to people who had never served that I understood. The thing I thought was ordinary was rare. I just could not see it because I was inside it. That is what is happening to you in here. If you feel behind in this community, that is the right feeling to have. It means you are standing next to the people pushing the edge. Step outside this room and the thing you are calling behind is so far ahead of where most of the world is sitting that they cannot see you from where they are. And do not forget. The thing you built last week, the workflow you set up this morning, the conversation you just had with Claude. A version of you from two years ago would have paid good money to do any of it.

Update from the floor at eMerge Americas 2026 in Miami. Before I drove down, I built every exhibitor at this conference their own custom landing page. One person, 3 days, 372 unique sites, each one tuned to a specific company's stack, brand, and AI posture. Forget the logo-swap template thing. Each page is real research. Every site has: - A Big-4-grade read on the company (filings, leadership moves, where AI actually shows up in their stack) - Their brand kit pulled live from their own site (logo, color palette, typography, voice) - A specific thesis on where Eduba fits inside what they already have - Matching case studies from our book of work, routed by vertical - Our 60/30/10 rule applied to their stack, showing exactly where traditional code, rule-based logic, and AI each belong in their environment - My Calendly at the bottom When I walk up to a booth, I already know the company. They already have a page. The conversation starts three beats ahead of where it normally starts. ——— The part nobody is talking about yet. 372 pages is the headline. The bigger unlock was what came after. Once every exhibitor had a page, I fed the whole list back through the folder system and had it score each company across a tiered rubric I wrote: deal size fit, stack readiness, decision-maker presence on the floor, vertical match to active Eduba case studies, and signal strength from their recent moves. Out came three tiers: - Tier 1 (hit first, hit hard): companies where the thesis is strongest and the buyer is likely walking the booth - Tier 2 (warm pass): worth a 5-minute stop, drop the page link, follow up - Tier 3 (skip or graze): acknowledge, move on Then I asked it to build me a walking game plan. Booth numbers, floor map, tier order, clustered by physical location so I wasn't walking the same aisle twice. Morning route, afternoon route, with buffer built in for the Tier 1 conversations that were going to run long.