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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Go check out 📚Navigating The Course to see how to get around and what's here. 2. Start with The Foundation. 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 join in on our Biweekly competitions and win some real cash. ⭐ Competitions Mega Thread 5. If you are wanting to dive into the masterminds, grab all the past templates, artifacts and resources. Upgrade and head into the The Vault for Premium and The Drawing Room (VIP) for VIP 6. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #11: THE CARTOGRAPHER 🏆
🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ ($4,750 Seat) Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. 📋 THE CHALLENGE This is a weird one, and you may feel lost at first. But it's up to you to make a map for those who come after and if there is no map, you must get lost to make one. Build a folder-based cartographer that can walk a body of work and leave a map a later reader can wander and show what that map is. The later reader is often an AI. Sometimes it is a new person. Same map. Same job. Not why it failed. Not how to fix it. Not a tour of how the week goes. What the nouns are. How they move. What else moves if you touch one. What is live, what is leftover, and what is a ghost with a name and no wiring. This week's deliverable is one cartographer folder someone can drop into a Claude project, point at a real body of work, and get back a map a cold reader can enter without reading the whole thing. 🎯 PICK YOUR TERRITORY Pick a body of work you have actually been inside. Something a new person or a cold model would get lost in. Something someone will change, not something you will only describe. A few sparks: 💻 A repo you own. Even a small one. The map is for the next developer, or the next session, that has never seen it. 📂 A client delivery folder a VA or a contractor has to inherit next month. 🧩 A Make, GHL, or n8n pack someone else will edit without you on the call. 📒 An Obsidian or Notion vault a collaborator has to add to without breaking the spine. 🧾 The live records behind how a job gets quoted, approved, and invoiced in your shop. The files. The objects. Not the story of a bad month. 🎓 A course or L&D library someone will update after you. 🏭 The asset and work-order objects in a plant system you actually touch. The more specific, the better. Maps how our business works is too broad. Maps the five objects a new hire has to understand before they touch the invoicing folder is right. 🧠 WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY LEARNING ICM has six forms. You have been living in the first ones. Pipeline. Coach. Editor. Diagnostician.
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About the Clief Notes AI
The Clief Notes AI is a part of the community that we launched, it's meant to be more than a simple AI tool, use it to take advantage of what we provide here at Clief Notes. You can DM it questions, ask for guidance on the course material and so much more. Looking for an uncommon question's answer? Ask it, you might find a post from 3 months ago which answers it that you wouldn't find before without a lot of friction. The AI is a real account on Skool; Username: @clief-notes-agent-8459 Link to the profile: https://www.skool.com/@clief-notes-agent-8459 It's legitimate. It's part of this community's software and it was added to the member list on purpose. To be clear about what it will never do. It will never ask you for money, for card or bank details, or for your login. If any account using that handle ever does one of those things, it isn't this agent. Screenshot it and send it to a moderator the same day.
COMMUNITY COMPETITION MEGATHREAD 🏆
📣 Update (8/15/26): Comp 11 Rules Added --- What this thread is: I’ve seen a number of people either not know competitions are going on or know how to find them so here is a quick single source thread where you can get to them all. I’ll keep this updated as new challenges are released. See the current challenge as well as all past challenges below! Format for community challenges: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/how-competitions-work-from-now-on?p=84912d60 Weekly leaderboard competition: Alongside the biweekly challenges, there is a weekly leaderboard challenge where the member at the top of the 7 day rolling leaderboard wins a free upgrade to their membership. This winner is announced on Mondays typically. @Joshua Hubbard has gone another step further and created a thread linking to all competition entries. Link here: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/the-competition-archive-every-entry-every-week-every-link?p=bd752987 --- Current Challenge: Competition 11 The Challenge 💪 - Build a workflow that walks a system and leaves behind a map for those that follow. Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-11-the-cartographer?p=48566e59 Good luck everyone! --- Past Challenges Competition 1 The Challenge 💪 - Build a brand voice document for a pet grooming business Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/first-ever-weekly-competition-is-live?p=90f50bf9 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-1-winner-ian-barriopedro?p=0501b57e Competition 2
Been here for some time
Hey Clief Notes fam! 👋 I'm Ali, been here for some time, read the ICM paper, watched Jake's videos and I love them. But I have yet to get it. I feel that for many use cases we don't need an agent whether using ICM methodology or any other way to build agents. ICM seems to be a simple idea but is hard to explain and everyone is trying to explain it (like monad tutorials). I guess I am not getting it because as Jake often says in his shorts and videos "You don't need all of that", I haven't tried that "that" that I am still unable to get it.
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