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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 #4: THE AGENCY 🏆
💰 $325 CASH 💰 That's a full year of Premium. Win this and your membership pays for itself. But the real prize this week isn't the cash. Keep reading. 📋 THE CHALLENGE You just got hired again. Meet Diana, owner of a 4-person boutique real estate team in Austin. 60-80 transactions a year, mostly residential, mix of buyers and sellers. 📎 Download the full client brief attached to this post. Short version: She doesn't want software. She wants a system she can teach her team to use in a week. Your job is to build the AI operating system for her team. This isn't one specialist. This is a small team of AI specialists organized into a multi-folder ICM architecture, with a clear handoff protocol between them. 🗂️ WHAT YOU'RE BUILDING Last week was one specialist. This week is a team of them. Required folders: 📍 00_orchestrator/ — The router. Where every request starts. Decides which specialist gets the job. 📍 01_lead_qualifier/ — First contact with new prospects. Captures intent, budget, timeline. 📍 02_property_research/ — Deep research on specific properties or neighborhoods. 📍 03_client_communication/ — Drafts emails, texts, follow-ups in the voice of the agent. 📍 04_transaction_coordinator/ — Handles the deal once it's live. Checklists, deadlines, document tracking. Each folder must include: - 📄 identity.md - 📐 rules.md - 💬 examples.md - 🔗 handoff.md (NEW for Week 4 — how does this folder pass work to another folder?) - Plus a root-level README.md explaining the architecture, the typical flow, and how to onboard a new team member. 🔥 WHY THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT Weeks 1, 2, and 3 were warmups. This is the comp where the work you ship genuinely starts to look like the real thing. The handoff protocol is the test. Anyone can build five folders. The hard part is defining what each one needs from the previous one and what it passes to the next one. That's where multi-agent systems actually live or die.
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I come asking for help! (NEW ROUND! VOTE ONCE A DAY PLS)
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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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #3 WINNER ....
Before I get to the who and why, I want to say this plainly. Picking a winner this round was genuinely hard. I went through every submission. Pulled repos. Read identity files. Compared rules.md sections. Every entry did real work. A lot of you shipped something I would happily use, sell, or hand a client tomorrow. I can NOT explain to you how proud I am of everyone participating in these, you make this community worth and it and there is SO much potential for the future from just ONE competition let alone future ones. 💼 That part matters more than the prize. The $325 covers a year of Premium and that's great but... The portfolio piece is the real value here. A public repo of a working folder-based AI specialist with a clean README and receipts is a resume line that hiring managers can clone and test cold in five minutes. It is also something you can charge for. If you built a specialist that solves a real problem in a real domain, you already have most of what you need to license it to a peer in your industry, sell it as a service, or package it as a Done-with-You engagement. A few quick notes on that, because most of you did not realize what you actually built and I want to Highlight a few of you: 💸 @Nicolas Patron Uriburu USD Routing Coach AR could be sold to every Argentine indie consultor I know. Same playbook works for any country with FX restrictions. Subscription service, recalibrated annually, audit-pack included. It is a product. 🔗 https://github.com/Nicopatron/usd-routing-coach-ar 🔧 @Jannetje van Leeuwen RAMS specialist is a service business in waiting. Irish signage contractors will pay for this. Same model works for any trade with a regulatory documentation burden. Plumbing, electrical, fit-out, demolition. Each one needs its own folder. 🔗 https://github.com/JannetjeIQ/rams-irish-signage-installer
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Open Source Models for 'Offline' Use
I want to start off that I may not be using the right terminology here, so bear with me... The more I interact with claude and other LLMs and then interacting with the people/users that are pretty far away from anything on this community (I do share the youtube channel all the time), the more I see an opportunity to find a way to use these open source models to create a 'co-work' that can be used inside a closed environment (offline) for two reasons: no real issue with token usage/cost (other than the set up and build and you can swap out models) and then most ppl that I connect with that want to learn how to use AI they are not able to use claude or some other model bc of IT and security reasons. I guess my question is, does this make sense or what am I missing? I am in the process of building this for myself to see whats possible but would be interested to get others input and thoughts, because I am not from the developer world, but i like it here, ppl are nice :)
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