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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #6: THE RESEARCHER 🏆
🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. ---- 🇺🇸 Quick note first. This post is going up Today because we took Memorial Day off yesterday. To keep things fair, you've got until Sunday May 31st at 12:00 PM EST to submit. Same week of build time, just shifted. ---- 📋 THE CHALLENGE Build a folder-based AI researcher for a specific topic or industry. You pick the domain. This week's deliverable is one researcher folder that someone could drop into a Claude project and use as their personal research partner for whatever domain you've built it for. ---- 🎯 PICK YOUR DOMAIN The domain is yours. Pick something specific. Pick something you'd actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - 🏦 M&A activity in one industry (fintech, healthcare, defense) - ⚖️ Court cases in one area of law (employment, IP, immigration) - 🧬 Scientific research on one health condition or treatment - 🏘️ Real estate market dynamics in one city or asset class - 🥊 Competitive intelligence for one product category - 📜 Historical research on one period, place, or movement - 📚 Academic literature in one specific subfield - 📋 Regulatory developments in one sector - 📰 Journalism research on one beat (climate tech, AI policy, biotech funding) The more specific, the better. "Research assistant" is too broad. "M&A research analyst for early-stage fintech deals in the US and Europe" is right. ---- 🗂️ THE METHODOLOGY If this is your first comp, welcome. Here's what you need to know: This week (and every week) you're learning interpretable context methodology. Folders as architecture. Each file does one job well. Your researcher is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who the researcher is, what domain they cover) - 📐 rules.md (how they research) - 💬 examples.md (what good looks like) - 📚 reference/ (frameworks, source lists, key concepts) - 📖 README.md (how to use it)
7 likes • 3d
Local Pack Researcher — a competitive intelligence analyst for the Google local pack. Local search is full of confident people selling guesses. This is built to do the opposite. Hand it a trade and a town — "HVAC in Roseville," "roofers in Boise" — and it won't recite the 200 ranking factors at you. It refuses to research until it knows the job (pitching a prospect? diagnosing a client who slipped? sizing a new market?), it's honest that it can't see your live pack — Google personalizes by location, so it tells you exactly what to screenshot instead of hallucinating rankings — and it weighs every claim by a source tier: the actual pack you captured (Tier 1) beats a cross-market study (Tier 3) beats some agency's "300% more calls" blog post (Tier 5). Three things it does that a chatbot won't: - Scopes before it researches. Two or three sharp questions first — the exact query a customer types ("ac repair near me" ≠ "hvac installation roseville"), whose position you're analyzing, what you've already pulled. It turns you into a data source instead of guessing. - Separates signal from proximity. The top shop might be winning because it sits two blocks from downtown, not because of anything you can copy. It names that confounder before crediting reviews or categories — because you can't move a building. - Ends with the pattern, the gap, and an honest difficulty read — not a competitor-by-competitor list. What the winners share, the open lane nobody's filling, and whether that pack is realistically crackable. Most useful for agencies and freelancers prepping a prospect pitch, diagnosing a client who dropped, or sizing a new trade before sinking time into it. The repo includes a worked teardown of a real Roseville HVAC pack — the proximity catch, the honest "this isn't even your money query" caveat, and the 90-day read. The landing page has an interactive toggle so you can feel the difference between a summarizer and a researcher in one click. ----- Live demo: https://rbart87.github.io/Local-Pack-Competitive-Intelligence-Analyst/
0 likes • 17h
@Ruby Sparks fantastic! Let me know how it works out for you!
13d •
Companies want to hire from Clief Notes. So we're building this.
Been sitting on this for a few weeks and figured it's time to show you. 👀 Over the last month, three companies have reached out asking the same thing. How do we hire people from Clief Notes. They've seen what folks here are building with ICM and they want that on their teams. Not LinkedIn AI experts. Not Coursera grads. People who can actually ship. So we're building it. 🛠️ talent.eduba.io Heads up, that's a demo. No real backend, no signups, no live data. Click around and you'll see what the full thing is going to be. A private platform where you list yourself with a real portfolio, companies browse, and they request an intro through us. We make the intro. You take it from there. Few things worth knowing. 🔍 Every profile gets reviewed by the Eduba team before it goes live. The quality bar is the whole point. 🔒 Companies don't see your last name, your employer, or your contact info until we make a formal intro. You can block your current employer too, plus five more companies if you want. Nobody you don't want seeing you sees you. You can list as actively looking, open to offers, or not looking. Passive welcome. Honestly most of the strongest people we've trained are employed and plan to stay that way until the right thing shows up. That's fine. Sit on the platform, see what comes through. 💰 When a placement happens you get a $500 to $1,000 bonus after 90 days in the role. On top of whatever you negotiate. We pay you for staying. This is why the community matters. Companies aren't asking us for resumes. They're asking us for the people who already get it. ICM, agent architecture, knowing when not to use AI. That's not on a LinkedIn profile. Go click around. Tell me what's missing, what's confusing, what you want to see when the real thing ships. We're already building it. 🚀
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This is so cool! Count me in!
25d •
40-prompt par: fork the codebase, ship the Mario Kart twist
Working multiplayer mini-golf game. Lobby codes, real-time ball sync, Cloudflare Durable Objects on the back, Discord Embedded App SDK on the front, three holes, emotes. It runs. That's the floor. Now I'm handing it to you. The challenge. Fork the repo. Add a Mario Kart style twist: one player's action affects another player's ball. Banana peel, ink cloud, magnet, kraken grab, putter-jam. Pick your mechanic. Ship it as a functional multiplayer build. Par: 40 prompts. Every message you type to your AI of choice counts as one. Manual edits are free. Reading code is free. Tool calls inside a single prompt are free. The number is the messages. Rules in the README. Log every prompt to PROMPT_LOG.md in your fork, honour system, lowest count under par wins. → github.com/PUSHINGSQUARES/pirate-putty The reason for 40 is not the code. The interesting work is the brief. You can't brute-force this. You have to think before you type, batch the asks, design the mechanic on paper, then deliver the spec in fewer, denser prompts. That is the skill. The game is the proof. HAVE FUN!!! //A<3
1 like • 24d
@Ari Evergreen love this! stupid question: before any code is written, if I'm forcing claude to ask questions for clarity, do my responses count as prompts?
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25d •
I interviewed a Chief AI officer
NLP Logix was founded in 2011 so if you wanna talk about being in AI before it was cool this company did it. Matt, the Chief AI officer sat down with me and chatted over what matters in the ai age. Check it out! (and go leave a comment on the YouTube video if you have time please!) They are looking at showing up to one of the next High Teas so keep an eye out for that announcement!
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So cool - thanks Jake
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Apr 28 •
Each dot is 3.2 million people.
📊 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.
3 likes • Apr 28
The echo chamber is a real thing - being inside of an environment and bouncing ideas off of like minded people, feeling like everyone in the world is doing the same, only to realize it is a minority. I love the feeling of being in this community and people pushing into the next level of productive work and creative projects. It is hard to ‘keep up’, but it’s all relative. Until I’ve created a system/business of my own that allows me to do this full time, I’m relegated to being and feeling half-in/half-out. But I will grind on and stop at nothing to leverage this knowledge to achieve my short term and long term goals. Thanks again Jake.
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