I Just Sold my first ICM Folder system!

Last month I was speaking with a friend who works for an engineering firm in Australia about ai, and all the cool things we can do with it these days, and he mentioned that he was trying to push to get a monthly newsletter out to their team to inform them of upcoming professional development courses and workshops. Of course it takes a lot of time to manually search the relevant websites, and put together a newsletter, etc. so no one has done it. I asked a few more questions about the tools they use, and then went and built out a small, structured ICM folder system, with the exact same blueprint that we have been learning in here and using for the competition building.

I then made a loom video showing how it worked, and then emailed it to him along with the fully company branded email that it output.

It was near the end of financial year at the time, so they were a bit busy, and he said he'd get back to me.

Today, 1 month later, he came back and accepted my quote of $600, which includes 2 rounds of revision.

To get the draft up and tested, it took me probably about 4 hours, and then there will be another few hrs in finalising it (with the revisions). In reality I probably undersold myself, but this is a side project at the moment (I run a cafe, not an ai consulting business...yet!), and I was excited to have the opportunity at a real client to test against.

Let me be clear, I'm not selling a fancy Ai loaded website or app or anything...

It is literally 5 folders, with a top level claude.md file, instructing claude co-work (or claude ai or code - or any other Ai tool that can follow structured instructions with a renaming of the claude.md file) on exactly what to do.

This is exactly what Jake has been teaching here, and it will stand the test of time. As Anthropic updates their interface, and Open Ai starts to take over claude or another better tool comes along, this ICM folder system will continue to do its thing. It may need some tweaks along the way, but it's not going to need it's whole codebase updated or anything, because it's all plain language, english instructions.

Thanks

@Jake Van Clief

and this whole community for making Ai make sense and accessible for a non-coder/developer like me!

LFG!

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I Just Sold my first ICM Folder system!