I'm seeing three different formats for builds, but I'm not very experienced, so correct me if I am wrong. - Standard product: Everyone uses essentially the same software—like Canva or Trello. Customers may adjust settings, templates, colors, or permissions, but the underlying product remains the same. - Configurable product: The core software is standardized, while each business selects its workflows, roles, terminology, templates, branding, and integrations. - Custom software: The tool is built or substantially modified for one client’s processes, systems, or regulatory requirements. So, what do you build? And, what are you listing on Ledger? I promise, I'm nobody's competition. I'm just trying to understand what works, why it works and where you show your work.

A question for those using ICM to provide software or consulting services: When you work with multiple customers, does one ICM system support all of them, with separate customer configurations, requirements, data, and outputs? Or do you create and maintain a separate ICM structure for each customer or software product? I’ve been thinking about this through the way I create my own products. I reuse many of the same standards, checks, scripts, and production methods, but different product types may still need different schemas and workflows. A devotional is not built exactly like a prayer card set, even though they share part of the same underlying system. I’m curious whether software providers (or consultants) approach this similarly. Do you maintain a common core and adapt it for each customer, keep every customer implementation completely separate, or use some combination of the two? I’m still learning how others structure this, so I would genuinely appreciate hearing what has worked for you—and where separation becomes important.

I recently moved to the Seattle area after living in a small town, and I’d love to start meeting more people from this community in real life. Are there any Jake Van Clief community members in Seattle or the surrounding area who would be interested in grabbing coffee, meeting for lunch, or putting together a small local meetup? It would be great to connect, exchange ideas, and get to know some of you beyond the online community.

Have been fiddling with ICM, Hermes, GSD, BMAD, taskMaster etc. They all sound perfect and logical on their own but feel "out of control" somehow so put it inside of ICM. I tried to make sense of them all and cook up an ICM here: .icm/ ├── CLAUDE.md # Upgrade safety gates, rollback hooks, and CLI routines ├── .icm.env # NEW: Central environment vars feeding variables to scripts │ ├── 00-gsd-wave-governor/ # CONTEXT & SPREAD CONTROL │ ├── contract.md # Rules: Blast-radius mitigation, branch naming, strict file locks │ └── active_wave.md # Tracks the current migration delta and target files │ ├── 01-discovery-and-party/ # LEGACY ANALYSES & DEBATE │ ├── contract.md # Rules: Analysis must document side-effects before code editing │ ├── codebase_discovery.md # Static analysis logs, dependency graphs, and tech debt maps │ ├── 00-party-room/ # BMAD Party Mode: "Refactor vs. Wrap" architectural battles │ │ ├── system_prompt.md # Personas (Winston/Arch, John/PM, Safety-QA Specialist) │ │ └── migration_consensus.md # Binding agreement on the upgrade strategy & fallback path │ └── 01-feedback-loops/ # Regression and breaking change post-mortems │ ├── 02-taskmaster-decomp/ # MIGRATION STEP DECOMPOSITION │ └── todo/ # Micro-tasks focused on localized refactoring steps │ └── 03-bmad-assembly-line/ # IMPLEMENTATION & REGRESSION TESTING │ ├── 01-architect-spec/ # BMAD Role: Designing code deltas & backward compatibility │ ├── 02-dev-workspace/ # BMAD Role: Executing precise, isolated modifications │ └── 03-qa-sandbox/ # BMAD Role: Core regression suite, smoke tests, validation

Hey y’all! I’m a former Army guy who spent 10 years in the military, and ever since getting out, I’ve wanted to get serious about learning AI. The problem is that there’s so much noise out there that it’s easy to spend all day learning about AI without ever becoming good at actually building anything. To make matters worse, I’m still not entirely sure what I want to build yet 😂 I guess thats why I ultimately joined this community. I’m currently working through the Foundations course in the classroom, and I’m also a VIP member. Full disclosure, though lol I still don’t really know how to navigate Discord or the Skool community so I will definitely be attending the onboarding call this week. I joined the community about a month ago or so. But I’ve been inactive recently because life decided to life for a little while, but things have settled down and I’m ready to start showing up, learning and putting in the work. That brings me to the 12-week cohort… Has it already started? Can I still join the waitlist? And how do I decide which track is right for me? Right now, I’m leaning toward the Technical cohort because I want to become genuinely skilled with Claude Code and coding—not just learn how to prompt an AI and hope for the best. I guess my long-term goal is to understand how these systems actually work, use ICM as an engineering methodology, and eventually become capable of building durable AI systems and products myself. Ideally, that leads to employment, my own business, or both. My only hesitation is that I’m still very much a beginner, so I’m not sure whether the Technical track is the smartest place to start or whether I’d be jumping into the deep end wearing combat boots. My wife also owns a med spa, and I’d love to eventually use what I learn to help improve and grow her business. I don’t know exactly what that looks like yet (ie marketing systems, automations, internal tools, lead generation, or something I haven’t thought of) but I’m hoping the process will help me figure that out.