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Because of the Amazing support you all gave for the first Round Wylder (my step daughter) made it into the second round! You can vote once a day and some days are 2x votes ! I would love love love if any of you support her going to work with some of the best animal rescues in the world to just cast at least one free vote if you can! You can vote here! Not Ai related so sorry for that ! Wylder | Junior Ranger
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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #3: THE SPECIALIST 🏆
💰 $325 CASH PRIZE 💰 That's a full year of Premium. Win this and your membership pays for itself. 📋 THE CHALLENGE You just got hired again. Different client this time. Meet Sarah, a freelance copywriter who's drowning in context-switching. 📎 Download the full client brief attached to this post. Short version: She works with three types of clients (SaaS founders, ecommerce brands, local service businesses) and starts from scratch every project. She doesn't need another tool. She needs a system. Your job is to build her a folder-based AI specialist she can drop into any Claude project. The folder IS the deliverable. 🗂️ THIS WEEK YOU LEARN ICM Up until now, comps have been "build a thing." This week you utilize the methodology taught throughout the community. 🧠 Folders as architecture. That's it. That's the whole concept this week. Your specialist is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who they are) - 📐 rules.md (how they respond) - 💬 examples.md (what good looks like) - 📚 reference/ (source material) - 📖 README.md (how to use it) Drop the folder into a Claude project. Claude becomes the specialist. Reusable. Shareable. Portable. 🎯 PICK YOUR SPECIALIST Don't pick copywriting. That's Sarah's example. Pick something YOU would actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - A salary negotiation coach - A meal planner that knows your dietary restrictions - A code reviewer for your stack - A real estate market analyst for your city - A technical recruiter screener - A grant writer for nonprofits in your space The more specific, the better. "Marketing expert" is not a specialist. "B2B email expert for enterprise SaaS targeting CFOs" is. 💼 WHY THIS ONE LANDS ON YOUR RESUME Real talk. Winning a comp in a Skool community doesn't get you a job by itself. But shipping a working folder-based AI specialist with a clean README and a public repo? That's a portfolio piece.
Big Win! Using ICM Cut my co-worker's manual task from 2 days to a few minutes and getting an upgrade to Max
TLDR: My co-worker has been manually extracting data from 100s of files one at a time and manually managing files for years. This is a longterm client with set workflow. Usually takes him 2 days and I set up a workflow that will do it in a few minutes. Showed my boss and CEO and got the ok to get a Claude MAX seat. Context: I'm a sound designer and work at a post-production audio studio that also does games. The post engineers work on a lot of projects that require manual setup. They were griping at lunch about how they have to open hundreds of text files to find 1 single line of data that they need during their edit session and then manually qa it against the session when it's setup. It sounded like hell to me so I asked if they wouldn't mind showing me what they have to do and they literally manually open each folder, find the text file, write down on a piece of paper the number and then enter it by hand in the computer later. I spent 10 minutes and described to claude what I needed a python file to do. It gave it back to me and the script was able to extract the data they needed in seconds. But that got me thinking, I know there's a python library that works with Pro Tools (our audio editing software), and the current weekly contest is about making a specialist... COuld I make a specialist in Protools Python scripting that can tailor workflows to any engineer? So I spent about 4 hours speccing an ICM folder that specializes in Python Scripting for Pro Tools. Brought it to work today and --- it didn't work -- immediately at least. IN practice discovered there were errors in the documentation for the python library, so we had to fix the documentation. But after that was able to create a contained python script anybody could run and showed my co-workers and ceo. They were super excited about the possibilities and when I asked if I could go ahead and get a Claude Max subscription they said yes immediately. Might also be showing the wider company the setup and what's possible next Monday. Was totally worth staying up all night yesterday to get this out 🤣
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