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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.
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Who's here? Drop your intro.
Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.
🏁 Foundations 2.5 Check-In
This one breaks down orchestration. Vote below, then pick one AI tool you actually use and tell us in the comments: can you identify which part is the model and which part is the routing layer around it?
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No sales page could ever describe this
I have been here since pretty much the beginning. I upgraded as soon as I saw the folder structure system. Not because it was new to me, (I had been doing something similar already.) But the way Jake explained it, the language he put to something I had been feeling but could not articulate, that was the moment I knew I just needed to see where this thing goes. What has happened since has genuinely blown me away. Not just the value Jake and the team bring, which is real and consistent. But the way the community has come together in a way that no sales page could ever describe and honestly, no one would have predicted. Here is what I know now that I did not know then: Premium is where the concepts stop being concepts. The Foundation stuff is good. It gives you the map. But Premium is where you actually learn to drive. Worked examples, production-grade templates, real-world depth. The difference between knowing how something works and knowing how to make it work for you. VIP is something different entirely. I have been in a lot of communities. A lot. And I have paid a lot of money to be in some of them. We are talking well over ten times the cost of a full year of VIP. And I did not get out of those what I get out of this. Most of them have one of two problems: either the value only exists when the founder is in the room, or the “inner circle” is just a room full of people performing expertise at each other. VIP here is neither of those things. What actually happens is a group of people who are genuinely good at different things, sitting in a room together, looking at what you are building and telling you what they actually see. No gatekeeping. No pretending. Just, “here is what I notice, here is what I would check, here is what worked when I tried something similar. Someone brings a compliance question and the person with the compliance background speaks up. Someone is stuck on positioning and the person who has been through it three times says the thing they actually needed to hear.
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